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Curmudgeons' Corner 3. I blame it on the scapegoat🐐

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Obelixx said:
    @Hostafan1 - surely a similar flying time to the Gambia??

    @wild edges - is this your new mission in life?  
    Gambis is 6 hours, Goa is nearer 11 if you fly direct , we used to fly to Mumbai and get a connection
    Devon.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    And there's me thinking Gambia was more like 8 and New Delhi 10 and a lot closer to the TM than Goa.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    The other plus side of The Gambia is that it's due South , so no time difference.
    Devon.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Obelixx said:
    @wild edges - is this your new mission in life?  
    I like to think of it as more of a vendetta. >:)
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I hate it when news stories say things like archeologists are 'racing against the clock' to study a site threatened by coastal erosion. Maybe racing against a calendar but you've probably got a few decades of breathing space before it falls into the sea.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    I’m baffled why reporters ask for precision ‘Tell me exactly what happened?’ ‘Where exactly were you standing?’ but all they get in reply is vagueness.
    Rutland, England
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    wild edges said:
    I hate it when news stories say things like archeologists are 'racing against the clock' to study a site threatened by coastal erosion. Maybe racing against a calendar but you've probably got a few decades of breathing space before it falls into the sea.
    Nope ... they’re definitely racing against the clock around here 

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=np3nkffPO84

    I recommend The Easternmost House by Juliet Blaxland

    https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/book-the-easternmost-house-by-juliet-blaxland-1-5996678

    Her house was the view from my parents’ bedroom window. 

     




    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    It's only racing against the clock if you ignore the decades of erosion leading up to your house hanging off the edge of a cliff though. We all ignore the odd problem in the house and hope it goes away but it's not like that's a dripping tap that needs a new washer. :#
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    But folk on the East Anglian coast were told they had several decades left before they needed to worry ... then off shore dredging and coastal protection work further up the coast increased the rate of erosion ... but I thought we were talking about archaeology ... these Norfolk sites are disappearing in front of our eyes 
    https://heritagecalling.com/2016/07/18/discovered-by-disaster-6-astounding-archaeological-finds-from-environmental-change/

    😊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Dovefromabove said:
    But folk on the East Anglian coast were told they had several decades left before they needed to worry ... then off shore dredging and coastal protection work further up the coast increased the rate of erosion ... but I thought we were talking about archaeology ... these Norfolk sites are disappearing in front of our eyes 
    https://heritagecalling.com/2016/07/18/discovered-by-disaster-6-astounding-archaeological-finds-from-environmental-change/

    😊 
    titter titter @ Booby's Bay
    Devon.
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