These fuckers are fucking insane.
Sobering that children as young as five worked in these. Latterly illegally.
Better combination of Back in Black and helmetry than this.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbovtl1gW-A
Before she left, the wife gave a clear indication of her confidence in my ability to look after myself by suggesting that I take myself to a restaurant etc. a couple of times during the week.
I figured I’d be ok with “chuck in oven” type food.
No pyrotechnics this time, but fully half my “dinner” just went straight from microwave to compost bin 
FML
Just checked. The Jugged Hare is open on a Monday.
It’s always intrigued me how this stuff survives. You would think that once a villa has been abandoned the locals would strip it back to reuse the building materials or just ransack them.
I assume that as subsequent people lived there they just covered the floors with new ones or built on top without changing anything underneath.
Outside of cities, Roman occupation sites hardly ever seem to have been reused at-all. Most villa finds are single occupation sites. It’s possible that when the empire collapsed the owners of prestigious houses either fled or were murdered and their houses were simply abandoned altogether. Once the empire was over, the specialist knowledge of how to use and maintain them was lost from Britain altogether, as were the slaves/serfs needed to do the actual work, and the wealth generating infrastructure - even coinage all-but vanished for a while.
I suppose it wasn’t called ‘The Dark Ages’ for nothing.
St Albans was Roman Verulamium, quite a major city. Virtually all of the Roman area was stripped for raw materials, but the floors were left. Several mosaics were found intact, and one with underfloor heating.
Bits of Roman stuff found their way into Brixworth church, the oldest working church in Northern Europe (with, until recently, what seemed like the oldest working vicar in Northern Europe…)
And on a different note, just got sent this by a friend who works at the OED.
Nieces inquest starts in Swansea on I think the 11th of January and expected to last 7-10 days.
Also it’s in front of a jury which I think is unusual
A jury is not normally required. In most cases the cause of death is judged by the coroner on their own. But is common in cases of death in custody, by a third party or other unusual circumstances.
Sadly your neice’s case would certainly qualify for a jury.
Yes,her car went into the sea near port talbot and I think a gate was put up straight away,I think other aspects in terms of what happened will come up.
Fuck…
And this:
