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Ash
06-02-2016, 01:41 PM
wd the Walbrook :bow:

vid:
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2016/jun/01/2000-year-old-handwritten-tablets-go-on-display-in-london-video

words:
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/01/tablets-unearthed-city-glimpse-roman-london-bloomberg
Sir C
06-02-2016, 01:43 PM
wd the Walbrook :bow:

vid:
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2016/jun/01/2000-year-old-handwritten-tablets-go-on-display-in-london-video

words:
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/01/tablets-unearthed-city-glimpse-roman-london-bloomberg

I can't tear my eyes from her wart :-(
Ash
06-02-2016, 01:48 PM
I can't tear my eyes from her wart :-(

Oh dear.

There was I thinking for a moment you might have developed a teeny bit of interest in Roman London or lost rivers. :-(
Sir C
06-02-2016, 01:51 PM
Oh dear.

There was I thinking for a moment you might have developed a teeny bit of interest in Roman London or lost rivers. :-(

Oh, I'm fascinated by Roman London and lost rivers. It's just that her apparently prehensile wart is too distracting.
Ash
06-02-2016, 02:03 PM
Oh, I'm fascinated by Roman London and lost rivers. It's just that her apparently prehensile wart is too distracting.

Do you know the wonderfully-named Quaggy, btw? Not exactly lost, but runs by your old school, and like the Kid Brooke, a tributary of the Ravensbourne. We walked the Wandle on Saturday. Croydon to Wandsworth via Carshalton, and almost entirely through parkland, much of it very beautiful.
Sir C
06-02-2016, 02:05 PM
Do you know the wonderfully-named Quaggy, btw? Not exactly lost, but runs by your old school, and like the Kid Brooke, a tributary of the Ravensbourne. We walked the Wandle on Saturday. Croydon to Wandsworth via Carshalton, and almost entirely through parkland, much of it very beautiful.

No, I am entirely unaware of the splendid-sounding Quaggy. I shall investigate further.

How far was this stroll?
redgunamo
06-02-2016, 02:06 PM
It's just somebody's bar-bill :hehe:

Well done, the brewery.


wd the Walbrook :bow:

vid:
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2016/jun/01/2000-year-old-handwritten-tablets-go-on-display-in-london-video

words:
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/01/tablets-unearthed-city-glimpse-roman-london-bloomberg
Ash
06-02-2016, 02:12 PM
No, I am entirely unaware of the splendid-sounding Quaggy. I shall investigate further.

How far was this stroll?

Well, by the time we'd walked onto Putney Bridge tube, which turned out to be closed, and then onto the Fulham Road for a bus, about 17 miles.
Ash
06-02-2016, 02:13 PM
It's just somebody's bar-bill :hehe:

Well done, the brewery.

Bar bills ARE documents, reg. We have a whole cupboard full of them at work from our bars.
Luis Anaconda
06-02-2016, 02:16 PM
Bar bills ARE documents, reg. We have a whole cupboard full of them at work from our bars.

Mine are practically books on their own
The Jorge
06-02-2016, 02:17 PM
Mine are practically books on their own

Some are quide liderally your Magnum Opus
redgunamo
06-02-2016, 02:17 PM
Bar bills ARE documents, reg. We have a whole cupboard full of them at work from our bars.

True. Mine are certainly ancient history anyway.
Sir C
06-02-2016, 02:29 PM
Well, by the time we'd walked onto Putney Bridge tube, which turned out to be closed, and then onto the Fulham Road for a bus, about 17 miles.

Good Lord. I ran 8 miles on Monday, which seemed quite a long way to me.
Ash
06-02-2016, 02:34 PM
Good Lord. I ran 8 miles on Monday, which seemed quite a long way to me.

Running 8 miles is a very long way indeed. Did you do it all at once? Walking isn't even vary tiring for the first ten or twelve miles.
Sir C
06-02-2016, 02:36 PM
Running 8 miles is a very long way indeed. Did you do it all at once? Walking isn't even vary tiring for the first ten or twelve miles.

I did 5 in the morning and then, feeling energised all day, a further 3 in the afternoon. I shouldn't really do distances like that because my joints react badly, but I was filled with a burning enthusiasm for the rhythmic pounding.
Ash
06-02-2016, 02:38 PM
I did 5 in the morning and then, feeling energised all day, a further 3 in the afternoon. I shouldn't really do distances like that because my joints react badly, but I was filled with a burning enthusiasm for the rhythmic pounding.

There are certainly easier, and more pleasurable ways to enjoy a rhythmic pounding imo.
Sir C
06-02-2016, 02:39 PM
There are certainly easier, and more pleasurable ways to enjoy a rhythmic pounding imo.

I just trickled a 'your mum' along the goal line for you there, a. I commend your principled stance in refusing to tap it in.