On 07/01/2014 17:11, harryagain wrote:
"Martin Brown" wrote in message
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On 06/01/2014 19:55, newshound wrote:
On 06/01/2014 19:08, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Mon, 06 Jan 2014 12:12:07 +0000, Capitol wrote:
harryagain wrote:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/env...ange/10546128/
Worlds-climate-warming-faster-than-feared-scientists-say.html
We are the UK, we get weather change not climate change. We knew a
century ago that weather cycles exist and had even charted them. The
romans described the UK as having permanent winter, I don't see any
difference.
The same Romans that grew grapes in Yorkshire ?
They were homesick for wine and warmth so were brewing their own low grade
plonk locally to drown their sorrows. Today there are vineyards making
commercial quality wines just outside York and also at Helmsley.
http://www.ryedalevineyards.co.uk/
And these are wines that match up to international judging standards not
some Centurions home brew gut rot.
I was thinking that. The first time I visited Hadrian's wall (on a
relatively nice summer day 40 years ago) I asked myself what on earth
did they come here for (the standard answer in those days was the copper
in Anglesey and the tin and lead in Cornwall). That was before I looked
up what they were growing.
Copper, Tin and Lead. They also brought us the stinging nettle, ground
elder and the sycamore tree all three of them pernicious weeds.
Stinging nettles to help keep them warm! Ground elder for the gout and
sycamore presumably as a quick growing source of a familiar wood.
And rabbits.
The evidence suggests that the Roman introduced rabbits died out in
Britain around the 5th century BC. They did not take too kindly to being
transplanted from the warmer climate of Spain.
The wild rabbits in Britain today (with the possible exception of those
on Lundy, which may be descended from Roman rabbits) are almost
certainly descended from those introduced by the Normans.
The Romans did leave us with the edible dormouse though, as well as
(probably) guinea fowl and chickens.
Colin Bignell