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entitled "SALT" |
It had been a busy morning shopping at our local supermarket the bags of shopping was very heavy to carry home so I was pleased to reach my front door and just as I open the door to put my shopping bags on the floor I was greeted by my two little doggies jumping up to greet me knocking my bag fill of shopping to the floor and at the top of my bag was a big carton of salt that the top came off and the salt went all over the doggies what a mess to clear up I had to bath both dog's and vacuum the floor. After clearing up and getting back to normal I sat down with a cup of hot tea and started to wonder how present -day workers would feel if, at the end of the week they were handed a bag of salt for they labours. Not very pleased, I imagine!
Yet the soldiers of the Roman legions were paid partly in salt and the very word "salary" comes from "solarium," meaning "soldier's salt money".
Wars have been fought over salt. One of the reasons the Romans came to Britain was that they had been told the country was rich in it. Some of the first known roads were built to transport salt, and bars of salt were once used as currency in Ethiopia. Yes, salt is one of the commonest yet most important minerals in the world.
Why do I mention this? Just because it strikes me from time to time that I and perhaps some other people,take too many everyday blessings for granted one of the commonest yet most important minerals in the world.