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Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View PostSalymap, you not thye only one! My wife iss till walking around wearing her fleece!
Looks like a day for the trusty Berghaus tomorrow ."The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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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.
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Richard Tarleton
Originally posted by vinteuil View Post... 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????????
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.....
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Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Postthe 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)
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Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View PostI 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.....bong ching
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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!
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