Until 1800, cookery was so dangerous that it was the second commonest cause of death among women (after childbirth). Their skirts caught on the open fires of the hearth. Deaths were dramatically reduced by the invention of the closed range by George Bodley in 1802.
It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. GEORGE BURNS
It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. GEORGE BURNS