Hahahaha...this is hilarious!
In between Sheffield events, I'd like to post some historical information for the amusement/entertainment of any readers of this blog. Tony Robinson (he who played the role of Baldrick in the Blackadder TV series) hosted this very interesting show...
When the Romans invade in AD 43, they impose their way of life and also create some truly terrible job vacancies that just have to be filled.
Some 400 years later, when the Romans are becoming a distant memory, Anglo-Saxon England is able to offer a whole new range of miserable ways to make a living. Not a people to be outdone in the misery stakes, the Vikings, too, are no strangers to uncomfortable, dangerous and all-round grim working conditions.
This first video has a bit of introduction that got cut off from the following one:
Ya know, working in the mines REALLY generates a new appreciation for the unions and guilds, eh?
Holy crap - LOL - and they're handling that without gloves...
Hah! Stomping in poopy!
That bog-ore thing looks nightmarish.
"...bits of the forest too." Um, yeah!!
Oh GAWD those FISH! The SMELL!
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