Boadicea's Chariot

There is a very interesting article on the BBC magazine about some  World War I tunnels and the miners who dug them.  Apparently the owners of the land in the north of  France have now given permission for research work to be carried out.  I have seen the Lochnagar crater and knew that some British soldiers had been buried there when the explosion was set off.  I didn’t know all of the other details, such as the fact that British miners were brought from their collieries to do the work and to live in the tunnels while they did so.  Having been through the tunnels at Vimy and knowing that the troops had to spend time in them before the assault, I cannot imagine having to spend days and days in them. It will be very interesting to see what the historians find near La Boisselle.  Bodies will be removed for reburial in one of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s cemeteries.  There is no shortage of them nearby.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13630203

A letter was sent to Leicester council asking about their readiness for a Zombie attack. Now I am worried that a council as large as Leicester is not making provisions for Zombie attacks, after all Zombies are a serious problem around here.

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They let these people vote?

The best Zombies produced “She’s not there” and the lead singer was Rod Argent.

In 1984, I moved to where I still live. At the foot of the hill is a bowling green. Pleasant enough but meant nothing at all to me at the time.

Then, one of my colleagues at work explained that I could fast track membership because I lived within the boundaries of the Trust which owned the club. So, I joined for next to nothing and because the drink was incredibly cheap. I am, after all, a Jock. Continue reading “‘An’ forward, tho’ I canna see, I guess an’ fear!’”

The Grauniad waxes wrath, (why don’t they ever wax Jennings?) on plans to found a new, private University.

British universities, plundered of resources by the bankers and financiers they educated, are not best served by a bunch of prima donnas jumping ship and creaming off the bright and loaded. It is as though a group of medics in a hard-pressed public hospital were to down scalpels and slink off to start a lucrative private clinic. Grayling and his friends are taking advantage of a crumbling university system to rake off money from the rich. As such, they are betraying all those academics who have been fighting the cuts for the sake of their students. Story.

Erm, ‘scuse me, isn’ this the same ‘newspaper’ wot advercates discriminashun against university applicants from, eg, private schools an’ middle class families? So, where’s the beef?