Re: Speaking as someone who breathes air...
"As a born and bred country bumpkin, still resident in my ancestral village, I'm finding it increasingly difficult to snaffle up the pure unadulterated air of yore"
Would that "air of yore" be the the coal smoke that followed on from the introduction of the railways? Because before that it was all wood fires unless you had turbary rights.
BTW I too live in my native village. I quite like the wood smoke from my neighbour's wood-burner.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
