Oh yes ! I frequently find myself astonished that I've reached the age I have considering all the Health & Safety guidlelines I've crossed over the years.
We eat wild food, drink the wild waters, clamber over muddy banks, wipe our hands on our clothes and still eat lunch
We handle timber, plants, rocks, animals, and open fires, we make things, we get calouses and we get cuts that heal and busy immume systems, a few heartstopping moments when the scree slope slips away underfoot
or the water gets a bit hairy when out in a boat
But we're 'alive' not cocooned in plastic bubblewrap to live some sterilised existance until we're incapable of doing anything but living zombiefied with tubes in every orifice.
Sorry, that'll be the day's rant over then
cheers,
Toddy
P.S. This isn't a rant against health and safety, especially when it concerns other folks, I just get tired of almost having to justify doing things that H&S,( or maybe it's other people's percerption of it), claim is really risky and dangerous.
M