Wasn't there Pytheas? Didn't he (allegedly) visit the British Isles and circumnavigate them - but his writings were lost. Back in 2007 someone (forget his name) thought they'd discovered Pytheas' City of Apollo down near Stonehenge. Google'd it - here .... https://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/1638952.lost-city-found-at-stonehenge/
Just heard that a friend's daughter was towed to Gordano services on the M5 yesterday when her car broke down and waited SEVEN hours to be recovered back to her house which was only about 20 odd miles down the M5 anyway. I think the chap went off duty and forgot to tell anybody to pick her up!
@Lizzie27. We went West bound on the A30 on Saturday, Both the east bound lanes were at a crawl for as far as we could see, I would imagine by the time they’d got to the M5 a lot would need to call the services, probably a few flat packed caravans as well, one past us must have been doing 80. Mph. Others not quite so fast😀 We got off at the earliest opportunity and took the scenic route.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
English are English when they win / British when they lose .All other home nations are British when they win
I think the reference is that Andy Murray is British when winning but a plucky Scot when he's lost.
Norn Ireland is included with team GB. The full team name is team Great Britain and Northern Ireland. If you watch opening ceremony when the teams march out that is what they call our team.
Just listened to the discussion re the Lambeth report. To even try to excuse the abuse by blaming it on the feud between the Gov and Lambeth council just seems so inappropriate. It sounds more like a Jed Mercurio plotline for Line of Duty about systematic child abuse ignored by the authorities.
Then they followed it up with a minister talking about the Gov's plan to put offenders in 'chain gangs' to be seen to be paying their dues to society .... can someone tell me whatever happened to those fraudsters who basically caused the banking crash in 2008? Did they end up in high vis jackets being shamed made to work in public? Maybe ditto for insider trading MPs and their families who made money out of Covid trading? Or ex prime ministers who tried to use their influence to lobby members of the cabinet? Or... Why do these schemes always seem so one sided to me?
Think I'll get back to reading The Midden (other books are available) by Tom Sharpe (other authors - although not many as funny) as at least he makes me smile about the injustices.
Just listened to the discussion re the Lambeth report. To even try to excuse the abuse by blaming it on the feud between the Gov and Lambeth council just seems so inappropriate. It sounds more like a Jed Mercurio plotline for Line of Duty about systematic child abuse ignored by the authorities.
Then they followed it up with a minister talking about the Gov's plan to put offenders in 'chain gangs' to be seen to be paying their dues to society .... can someone tell me whatever happened to those fraudsters who basically caused the banking crash in 2008? Did they end up in high vis jackets being shamed made to work in public? Maybe ditto for insider trading MPs and their families who made money out of Covid trading? Or ex prime ministers who tried to use their influence to lobby members of the cabinet? Or... Why do these schemes always seem so one sided to me?
Think I'll get back to reading The Midden (other books are available) by Tom Sharpe (other authors - although not many as funny) as at least he makes me smile about the injustices.
or the woman at the Post Office who was given a gong even when she's sacked the guy who said their system was wrong and innocent people were called thieves and had their lives ruined. Or just Dido Harding for ALL her failings : NO, she's made a Dame
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Ain't that the truth. All other nations are definitely either Scottish, Welsh or Northern Irish when they lose.
We got off at the earliest opportunity and took the scenic route.
Norn Ireland is included with team GB. The full team name is team Great Britain and Northern Ireland. If you watch opening ceremony when the teams march out that is what they call our team.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Or just Dido Harding for ALL her failings : NO, she's made a Dame