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[eighthobstruction]

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But I was trying to be serious - I still want an answer as to why our ancestors ever bothered to struggle north of the Loire....


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Possibly they were offered a Time Share up north by a very chatty young person offering them wine and raffle tickets....then got trapped there....

[Petrushka]

Salymap, you not thye only one! My wife iss till walking around wearing her fleece!

Had my fleece on today, very windy yet again!

Looks like a day for the trusty Berghaus tomorrow .

[marthe]

[QUOTE=salymap;308846]Thank you for that S_A. I'm used to going to local shops in trousers and jacket while everyone appears to be dressed for the beach. I never realised how fat people are now. Very few seem to care either [/QUO

"How fat people are" saly, you should spend a day in downtown Newport gazing at the tourists, then you'll see "how fat peope are." Better yet, you'll see how inappropriately dressed they are. At the moment, it's far too cold to be wearing shorts and bikini tops! We see all kinds here including British tourists who wear socks with sandals. Actually, the tourists from across the pond are really very polite and well behaved. By far, the most interesting tourists were a family from Alaska whose matriarch was wearing drain-pipe jeans in hot pink, stilletto heels and a wonderful beehive hairdo. She was far more interesting than the ladies from Virginia whose ancestors had Chippendale chairs and tables.

[gurnemanz]

Nice weather today - three sets of mixed doubles over lunchtime with some like-minded fellow oldie players - most enjoyable despite niggling back-ache.

[Richard Tarleton]

... it so often is.

I often wonder why people choose to live there

On a slightly more serious note : I have often wondered why our prehistoric ancestors, as they trolled north from Africa, ever bothered to go north of the Loire.

Why????????

I suppose...the trouble was, there was always the pressure of people coming along behind you, who might have come to the same conclusion. There was always competition for the prime sites, and at the same time the search for something better. This sort of imperative lay behind the successive westwards waves of nomadic tribes from Asia, the ever-eastwards expansion across the Pacific of the Polynesian peoples (who did not even have the luxury of knowing they were going to reach land)....The primeval forests of N Europe were probably quite inviting, both to hunt in and clear bits of....

Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel has some relevant chapters.

PS Ultimately it's down to resources (divided by population), together with climate...
Our prehistoric ancestors moved from warm to cooler climes, whereas the westward waves of nomads took place largely within similar latidudes. As for the Americas, these were inhabited from N to S (see Diamond on "Clovis sites" etc.) - 8000 miles in 1000 years, an average of 8 miles a year, from cold, to hot, and back to cold.....

[Serial_Apologist]

the ever-eastwards expansion across the Pacific of the Polynesian peoples (who did not even have the luxury of knowing they were going to reach land)

... and who one imagines would have been troubled by the thought of dropping off the edge when they reached the horizon!

[eighthobstruction]

I suppose...the trouble was, there was always the pressure of people coming along behind you, who might have come to the same conclusion. There was always competition for the prime sites, and at the same time the search for something better. This sort of imperative lay behind the successive westwards waves of nomadic tribes from Asia, the ever-eastwards expansion across the Pacific of the Polynesian peoples (who did not even have the luxury of knowing they were going to reach land)....The primeval forests of N Europe were probably quite inviting, both to hunt in and clear bits of....

Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel has some relevant chapters.

PS Ultimately it's down to resources (divided by population), together with climate...
Our prehistoric ancestors moved from warm to cooler climes, whereas the westward waves of nomads took place largely within similar latidudes. As for the Americas, these were inhabited from N to S (see Diamond on "Clovis sites" etc.) - 8000 miles in 1000 years, an average of 8 miles a year, from cold, to hot, and back to cold.....

yes, movement of herds of animals too.... 'heat' is not all it is cracked up to be without 'dwellings', so unconscious search for the 'temperate' is apparent....

[Serial_Apologist]

Surprising that no one thus far has commented on the heatwave the forecasters have in store for us from Friday until the middle of the month - they reckon; so I won't, save to say that tonight is likely to be the last substantial rain for the bulk of the UK, with another lot, less heavy, coming on Thursday, mainly for the North and Scotland. After which, everywhere except for the NW margins of Scotland is likely to be completely dry for some time to come. Brummie Simon is at pains to point out that this is the first occasion on which the Azores High will have spread its benevolence across the country since 2006. He also says we are an inch down on the averages in rainfall totals, nationwide, so far this year. Posters might like to remind themselves where they store their hosepipes!

[mercia]

a hosepipe ban will surely follow (?)

[Serial_Apologist]

a hosepipe ban will surely follow (?)

Wouldn't surprise me in the least!

[salymap]

a hosepipe ban will surely follow (?)

A fox chewed my last hosepipe. Shan't get another. It hasn't rained here today.

[Tevot]

"Liam Fox ate my hosepipe" A good tabloid headline - no ?

[amateur51]

"Liam Fox ate my hosepipe" A good tabloid headline - no ?

[Tevot]

and you thought it was only Michael Gove who could wreak havoc with your Summer ! ...

[Serial_Apologist]

and you thought it was only Michael Gove who could wreak havoc with your Summer ! ...

By Gove he's got it!