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Message:: [QUOTE="daveydempsey, post: 600334, member: 22"]As an aside. There's tons of blue and white shards in the fields near me. You can walk across freshly ploughed fields and find it every couple of feet. I did some research as to why this was. In Victorian times and before, people used to throw broken pottery and glass down the outhouse hole. (the toilet) (no sewers)There was no rubbish /trash collections in those days. The sewage(called night soil, human excrement collected at night from buckets, cesspools, and privies was used as manure.)used to be collected and taken outside the city and spread across the fields. Those fields became quite fertile and ideal for many crops. In this area the top soil is bagged up and sold back to people in the city to put on their gardens which mainly consist of clay and chalk. So when you pick up those shards of blue and white just think about where its been <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie51" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie51" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> What comes around goes around.[/QUOTE]