I can confirm that our local SM is down to its last few packets of loo roll!! Although I am very concerned about what the next few months will bring, it did make me chuckle to think that out of everything, a Brit’s priority is loo roll!
Until the 17th. century all published work believed the earth was flat. More recent evidence suggests otherwise. There are still doubters.
Also untrue:
"With extraordinary few exceptions, no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the Earth was flat," historian Jeffrey Burton Russellwrote in 1997. "A round Earth appears at least as early as the sixth century B.C. with Pythagoras, who was followed by Aristotle, Euclid, and Aristarchus, among others in observing that the earth was a sphere." By the first century A.D., "the sphericity of the earth was accepted by all educated Greeks and Romans."
Nor did this situation change much with the advent of Christianity. While between two and five early popes denied the sphericity of the Earth, the vast majority of people disagreed. "The point is that no educated person believed" the Earth was flat, Russell notes.
Waiting to be served at the one Co-op till that was open this morning - a queue of three men, each holding just one item - a jumbo pack of toilet rolls. 😁
As gardeners we should be growing dock leaves, which, if I remember correctly, take the sting of a nettle away and are also quite useful for wiping your bum.
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"With extraordinary few exceptions, no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the Earth was flat," historian Jeffrey Burton Russell wrote in 1997. "A round Earth appears at least as early as the sixth century B.C. with Pythagoras, who was followed by Aristotle, Euclid, and Aristarchus, among others in observing that the earth was a sphere." By the first century A.D., "the sphericity of the earth was accepted by all educated Greeks and Romans."
Nor did this situation change much with the advent of Christianity. While between two and five early popes denied the sphericity of the Earth, the vast majority of people disagreed. "The point is that no educated person believed" the Earth was flat, Russell notes.
https://www.newsweek.com/even-middle-ages-people-didnt-think-earth-was-flat-420775
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.