Megalithic shipping and trade routes

[TisILeclerc]

Aye lad. 'Ecky Thump. Tell the youngsters of today an' they wouldn't believe you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJxGi8bizEg

Meanwhile darn sarff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgg8FmO41Gg

[Boreades]

Hastings?
Too far sarf surely? That's bordering on Norman.

Warwick seems to be the limit of the robust stuff in Central/Southern England.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&v=V ... E&hl=en-GB

I prefer the Beltane dancing in Edinburgh. For artistic reasons of course, nothing to do with the naked women.

[Boreades]

Meanwhile, re "Out Of America" and Haplogroup Q - it's occurred to me that the French Alpine region used to be a stronghold of deer herding, as is/was Scandinavia and Lapland. Pre-Roman shipping is reported to have used leather for sails. Lots of leather would be needed for lots of ships. Another reason for the trade routes to extend that far north. Not to mention the mundane/commonplace usage for shoes and clothing that doesn't get much ortho-archeo attention.

[TisILeclerc]

Alas poor Warwick. Gloucester seems to be the place today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN21wCbxjWk

[Boreades]

And after a bit of Gloucester shin-kicking, what could be more appropriate than a tasty bit of Gloucester cheese rolling?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOyQBSMeIhM

[TisILeclerc]

I see the cheese won Grommit.

Meanwhile oop north here's 'ow it's done. And not a cheese in sight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OsL6brYV-I

Now where's me Wensleydale?

[Boreades]

Borrowdale is in Lancashire, ye daft booger!

Even soft Devon folk knows Wensleydale is in Yorkshire.


But at least they'll give you a nice cup of tea and a sandwich. Probably Tetley tea, that's from Yorkshire as well.
http://www.borrowdalefellrunners.co.uk/ ... fell-race/



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM0rOtzC1zc

[TisILeclerc]

Daft booger? Borrowdale's in Cumbria. You must be thinking of Borrydale a place no one goes to after dark.

As a Boney Fido Yorkshireman I know where Wensleydale is as well. And 'ere's a tip me lad fer Christmas, we eat cheese with our Christmas cake. Especially Wensleydale. That Wallace knew a thing or two, and 'is dog.

As for Tetley tea, it were all right when they did their Tetley Tea Morris dance but tea in bags? No thanks.

Mind you Tetley beer is worth takin' whippet down ter t'pub fer an 'our or two.

Yorkshire Tea is the only tea worth drinking. It's what they built Stonehenge with. As long as it's not in bags.

And finally this is what Yorkshire is all about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VLYpKG ... T8&index=2

Look on our works oh Borry and despair.

[Boreades]

Eh up, it's The Management again.



More Ron?

Yorkshire Tea is reportedly brewed so thick (to match the patrons) you can use it for grouting. Handy at a height above ground on the Henge Lintels, you can pour some in your megalithic mug and some in the cracks between the stones. Job done, tidy like.

Borrydale is in a secret part of the West Country (just off the A4 near Avebury) where GWR (God's Wonderful Railway) is still being bult using Brunel's French technology. So the rails don't warp as soon as the sun shines. In Borrydale it only rains at night, the fruit and veg grows all year round, and love and peace reign supreme.

[TisILeclerc]

Yorkshire born, Yorkshire bread, strong in t'arm thick in t'ead

Or 'wick' as we prefer to say. We are candles illuminating t'ole wide world.