Spain have called up Ebola now

[Jake]

[Rich]

:tumbleweed:

[Pat Vegas]

Usually in the run up to an election. or where some sort of Military action taking place.

[Rich]

[Berni]

by David Cameron to distract attention from the election and the bombing of ISIS?

Clearly the PM has some mad biological warfare skillz.

[Brentwood]

[Classic Jorge]

I think the war thing is just a coincidence but now you come to mention it :sherlock:

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

Avon, the River River.

[Classic Jorge]

I followed the trent on Google maps yesterday, what the f**k is that river about? I meanders around half of the country

[Berni]

[Pat Vegas]

[Ashberto]

These river rivers get everywhere.

[Supermac1976]

[Berni]

mountain and asked the locals what it was called, only for them to reply 'A mountain' (I like to think they would shrug and look bemused by the stupidity of the question at this point). And the name would stick.

So one has to assume that the same thing applied with the Avon and the Thames. Just goes to show that, as Conrad put it 'This, also, has been one of the dark places of the earth'.

Mind you, I think he was talking about Gravesend at that point and I'm not sure that isn't still one of the dark places of the earth. http://www.awimb.com/images/smiley_icons/ohwell.gif

[Ashberto]

It is the geographical equivalent of an Onomatopoeia.

[Ashberto]

I was researching Hackney Brook last night, which starts in North Islington, and found a superb map from 1893. Lots of detail, and includes Elthorne Road. I can post you the info tonight if I remember.