Questions for our British friends

[Sir Honkers]

We have friends live in York and they maintain that when they were doing renovations a few years back, they had to do the digging at 2:00am in case they uncovered a Roman Burial and English Heritage made them stop.

[bowlinggreen]

Originally Posted by loosegoose

We have friends live in York and they maintain that when they were doing renovations a few years back, they had to do the digging at 2:00am in case they uncovered a Roman Burial and English Heritage made them stop.

It must be interesting to live in a country where you have the chance of running across some ancient artifacts while digging.


Here, the only truly ancient thing you might find is an occasional arrowhead. Dang those old-time Indians and their primitive ways.

We have people here who excavate the latrine pits from old-time outhouses, in the hope of finding old bottles from the 19th century, some of which are apparently worth some bucks on the antique market these days.

My dad found an old cheapie 32 revolver from that era out in a pasture once, it was massively rusted solid and completely beyond salvage. Interesting to speculate how it got there though.

[Davemetalhead]

Originally Posted by loosegoose

We have friends live in York and they maintain that when they were doing renovations a few years back, they had to do the digging at 2:00am in case they uncovered a Roman Burial and English Heritage made them stop.

Yeah, your friends are pulling your leg - there's no way a British labourer would do any work past 4:30 in the afternoon, let alone 2 am! Not only that, but the neighbours would be up in arms about the noise.

[deepsepia]

Originally Posted by wildtig2013

Direct flight to it from here, no need to go wondering around the British country side and get lost.

We all know how challenging that can be . . .

[Sir Honkers]

Originally Posted by deepsepia

We all know how challenging that can be . . .

Gees, talk about synchronicity. I was only watching this a month or two ago.

Originally Posted by Davemetalhead

Yeah, your friends are pulling your leg - there's no way a British labourer would do any work past 4:30 in the afternoon, let alone 2 am! Not only that, but the neighbours would be up in arms about the noise.

Funnier than you realise. My friend used to be a council worker.

[Clouddancer]

Originally Posted by loosegoose

We have friends live in York and they maintain that when they were doing renovations a few years back, they had to do the digging at 2:00am in case they uncovered a Roman Burial and English Heritage made them stop.

When I ran a drainage company in York, we surveyed a drain that had semicollapsed in the street outside the house. The house was within 10 metres from the Roman walls. We offered to do the dig up & replacement of the drain, in a clandestine manner without letting the proper authorities know. The house owner got cold feet at the prospect of them finding out so he applied for proper procedure. The work to excavate was carried out at his expense by archaeologists & took 3 months all the time he was unable to flush his toilets, unplug his bath or sinks.

[bloke57]

Originally Posted by loosegoose

My friend used to be a council worker.

Phew! I'm glad to hear someone is!

[wimbo77]

Originally Posted by GailFan

OK, enough of international politics, I have a question about a soap operas.

We have a soap here in NZ called "Shortland Street". It was initially launched as our answer to Neighbours/Home And Away, but within a year it was been proclaimed as so much more. It's been hyped up for it dubious value to NZ national culture, and along with that is crowing about how well its sold overseas.

I've always been skeptical about this.

One of the places that Shortland Street has supposedly been sold to is the UK.

Have any of our British friends heard of Shortland Street? Do you know if it screens anywhere?

I may not be asking the right crowd, but it's a start...

Originally Posted by Mal Hombre

Oh Yes,We had Shortland Street,I don't think it's on at the moment but it used to be on in the afternoons.

Yes i remember it from the early to mid nineties on ITV and the character Rachel McKenna played by Angela Bloomfield. Got cancelled ages ago in the Uk.

[deepsepia]

Originally Posted by loosegoose

Gees, talk about synchronicity. I was only watching this a month or two ago.

Its a great movie. Its one of John Landis' best -- and since I was an American student in London at the time, I identified with it, though I never did find Jenny Agutter . ..

Landis has some nice comments about the scene on the moors in the Guardian, just last year

Originally Posted by John Landis on American Werewolf in London

We filmed the moors scenes in Wales. David Naughton and Griffin Dunne were inexperienced movie actors, but they gelled perfectly as two American backpackers attacked by a werewolf. But there was this moment when they were out walking – it was freezing and Griffin’s nose started running. He thought I’d called “Cut” but I hadn’t, so by the end of the sequence he was just wiping his nose and almost giggling. We left it in: it gave the scenes a wonderfully real feeling.

Turns out I wasn't the only one with a crush on Jenny Agutter:

Originally Posted by David Naughton

Jenny Agutter was a class act. I’d been a student at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts a few years before and had a total crush on her, having seen her playing the stable girl in Equus at the Royal Court theatre, where I’d been an usher.

[Roubignol]

Is cricket a sport of snobs like polo or tennis ?