What were you doing all summer long?"* asks the poem, but the days where we would all go out into the fields and gather food for the darker, colder days and nights are long behind us, still, the idea of planning ahead echoes in trying times and so perhaps now more than ever.

In the UK, consumers suffering the effects of inflation have been buying their food in bulk to economise and they are making simpler meals. It could be inferred that wrapped up in their thoughts about what to cook for dinner is a desire to return to simpler times, but that genie is so far out of the bottle, he's put it on AirBnB.

Yet, through continual adaptation to the complexities of modern problems, industry is ceaselessly working towards solutions and as history can evidence time and time again, when the gauntlet is thrown down to scientists and researchers they answer and answer with vigour.