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Oh go on, then. Lots of coffee and psychedelic music and crushes as mood-altering phenomena!!! Off you go!

― kate (suzy), Sunday, 16 March 2003 14:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I should never have made that second pot.....

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 16 March 2003 14:08 (twenty-three years ago)

LA LA LAA LA LA LAA LA LA LA LAAAAA!!!

― kate (suzy), Sunday, 16 March 2003 14:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Be amazed as we use the modern internet to communicate over the grand distance of four feet.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 16 March 2003 14:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey, at least I'm not posting the bizarre photos of him covered in woad and playing a doubleneck guitar!

― kate (suzy), Sunday, 16 March 2003 14:16 (twenty-three years ago)

why not? Although he was more gene simmonds that Cassivelaunos.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 16 March 2003 14:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh no, Ed has just discovered the History Of The Pictish Kings website. I think it's time for the Woad fashion revival to hit Hoxton.

― kate (suzy), Sunday, 16 March 2003 14:24 (twenty-three years ago)

1105-52 Olaf I The Dwarf is King of The Isle of Man

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 16 March 2003 14:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Dammit, Suzy doesn't have acrobat installed on this computer, so I'm going to have to wait until work tomorrow to read all about Olaf the Dwarf and Queen Boudicca. I heart Queen Boudicca! They had a whole exhibit about her in the Museum Of The City Of London. I want to drive a chariot and sack cities.

― kate (suzy), Sunday, 16 March 2003 14:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Celts were wusses compared to picts who were never overrun by anyone.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 16 March 2003 14:35 (twenty-three years ago)

That's only becaue noone could be arsed to invade Inverness

(well, the Picts did get mildly overrun by the Vikings, but noone bothered to write much down about it at the time so it's Not Historical)

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 16 March 2003 15:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll let you know when I hit that crucial upswing. But my downswing has yielded a minor obsession with that first Lords of the New Church record, which I've finally decided is pretty good after all.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 16 March 2003 15:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Maybe I should go for a walk and have something to do with all this manic nervous energy. And listen to my new Teardrop Explodes album. I think I shall go down to the Thames.

― kate (suzy), Sunday, 16 March 2003 15:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I went to look for the Fleet. It's well and truly gone. Even where it spills into the Thames has been burried under the Victoria Embankment and Blackfriars. This upsets me. I want to set free all the underground rivers of London and wash the streets clean.

― kate (dali), Sunday, 16 March 2003 16:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I mean, how can an entire river just DISAPPEAR?!?!? I feel cheated or something. Next weekend I shall go looking for the River Lee or Lea again, at least I know I can still find that one. Free the caged rivers of London! Free them! I want them back! I want to look out my window and see the Fleet rolling by at the bottom of my street. I want to stand on the Clerkenwell Road bridge and see the Fleet rolling by underneath with St. Paul's in the background. Why can't I have it? Surely that's less to ask than having a band or a lover or anything like that.

― kate (dali), Sunday, 16 March 2003 16:47 (twenty-three years ago)

You get a good view of the Lea near where it joins the Thames by travelling on the DLR near Canning Town.

Which river is it that runs through the middle of Sloane Square station in a big iron pipe?

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 16 March 2003 17:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Is that the Tyburn? My copy of London: The Biography is still packed away in the Vox Boxes in my room.

― kate (suzy), Sunday, 16 March 2003 17:17 (twenty-three years ago)

It might be. I had a vague idea it might be the Westbourne (which presumably flowed near Westbourne Park, although possibly not given that Finsbury Park is nowhere near Finsbury)

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 16 March 2003 17:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I think you might be right because if I think about it, the Tyburn flowed along the top of Hyde Park and through Marylebone.

― kate (suzy), Sunday, 16 March 2003 17:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Or did it? there's another river that ended up as the Serphentine and I think that's the one that flows through Sloane Square in a pipe. Oh god, I'm going to have to dig the book out now.

― kate (suzy), Sunday, 16 March 2003 17:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd assume the Tyburn flowed along the top of Hyde Park because I remember that was what Marble Arch was called before Marble Arch was actually built. When they used to hang people there, and so on.

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 16 March 2003 17:35 (twenty-three years ago)

the Fleet flows thru a pipe too doesn't it? How many of these London rivers in pipes are there?

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 16 March 2003 17:38 (twenty-three years ago)

AAAAHHHH!!! Time Team is digging up Castle Howard's garden! I love Castle Howard! It was the house used in the TV series of Brideshead Revisited. It's one of my favourite country houses! Apparently a whole medieval village was knocked down to make way for it!

yes, the Fleet flows through a pipe at the bottom of my road. Almost all of London's rivers are in pipes now. Something like a dozen of them!

― kate (suzy), Sunday, 16 March 2003 17:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I am obsessed with shite Tiffany Amber Thiessen films.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 16 March 2003 17:43 (twenty-three years ago)

oh you mean like ilx?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 16 March 2003 17:45 (twenty-three years ago)

"One minute and twenty seconds after the turf came off in trench one, Phil hit archeology." I love Time Team!

― kate (suzy), Sunday, 16 March 2003 17:46 (twenty-three years ago)

yes, I do. I am also obsessed with that scene in falling down in the sweater shop. Tiffany Amber Thiessen is not in it, BUT IF SHE WAS.......

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 16 March 2003 17:46 (twenty-three years ago)

"you hear this silicone implant...this one was USED"

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 16 March 2003 17:47 (twenty-three years ago)

"do you like my movie kid"

"yeah what's it called"

"well it was going to be under construction but then michael douglas opted out and we changed the story to one of love and loss in a small indie village"

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 16 March 2003 17:49 (twenty-three years ago)

"This isn't working! SEND IN GEOPHYS!!!!" I wish I could cry this in regular life all the time.

― kate (suzy), Sunday, 16 March 2003 17:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I wish I'd worked on a dig where the geophys actually discovered something useful

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 16 March 2003 17:58 (twenty-three years ago)

What sort of digs have you been on, Caitlin? This sounds terribly exciting to me!

― kate (suzy), Sunday, 16 March 2003 18:01 (twenty-three years ago)

They weren't, trust me. One in north-east Scotland, and two in the Outer Hebrides. All part of doing an archaeology degree.

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 16 March 2003 18:07 (twenty-three years ago)

What were you looking for that you didn't find? Outer Hebrides, I'm sure there would be loads of fascinating Celtic and Viking stuff!

― kate (suzy), Sunday, 16 March 2003 18:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, different things each time.

The first Outer Hebridean trip, we were digging up some sort of mysterious settlement that was probably medieval but might have been earlier. It was probably a pottery kiln, because there were bits of misfired pottery everywhere on the site. The dig went quite well, overall, but was far too large for us to excavate properly.

The second one, the main aim of the dig was to find field walls from the Neolithic period, all buried under 2-3 metres of peat. It wasn't *too* successful, really. The geophysics were no use at all. Our other sophisticated survey technique - sticking metal rods in the ground and seeing if they hit a rock - produced 50% false positives. Several of the trenches we dug flooded themselves if you took your eyes off them for more than five minutes.

I also did my dissertation research up there, which was qutie nice - I spent three weeks going around the Outer Hebrides (by public transport) taking photos of ruined medieval churches, in a futile attempt to argue a connection between the church locations and pre-Viking settlements. It was rather nice, although as I was on my own I couldn't do any digging.

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 16 March 2003 18:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Wow, Caitlin, that sounds so cool!

― kate (suzy), Sunday, 16 March 2003 18:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I've never even been to the Outer Hebrides. But I've always been fascinated by the Viking/Celtic crossover in the Highlands coz my family are from Inverness. I really should get some decent books about it, so I can't imagine how amazing it must be to see it all first hand.

― kate (suzy), Sunday, 16 March 2003 18:23 (twenty-three years ago)

The best bit of the second dig were the peat fights. The test trenches we were digging were only two metres long by one wide, and getting on for two metres deep, so it was all a bit boring and claustrophobic. Solution: peep over the edge and shout the name of the person in the next trench over, about 5-10 metres away. When their head pops up, hurl mud!

Oh, the helicopter rides were pretty cool too. We only got a couple, though, not all the bloody time like on Time Team. It was to carry soil samples back from the first site, which was about 20 minutes walk from the nearest track, across a featureless bog. We had several hundred samples, each so heavy that most people could only carry one at once. Solution: phone up the coastguard helicopter and offer them a crate of whisky if they'd do us a favour.

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 16 March 2003 18:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, the helicopter rides in Time Team look like so much fun! They just did one over Yorkshire where they went over a cow field that you could very clearly see the outline of a medieval village under the cows. So strange to see cows wandering in and out of streetplans.

So long as the coast guard don't consume the whiskey *while* they fly, it sounds like an ideal solution for all!

Peat-fight, wah-hey!

― kate (suzy), Sunday, 16 March 2003 18:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Time Team BIG DIG!?!?!? How do I become a part of this? Let's have an ILX Team for the Time Team Big Dig! It's in June sometime... must find out more...

― kate (suzy), Sunday, 16 March 2003 18:34 (twenty-three years ago)

ICEWIND DALE II UP IN THIS BITCH!!!!!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 17 March 2003 14:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Looked at old photos which Laura and I took of our last London Roman wall walk - Tower Hill to Holborn Viaduct. Beautiful spring Saturday in 2000; the last Saturday in April. Lots of policemen demanding to know why we two weirdos were taking pictures of the Nat West Tower (they thought we were something to do with May Day protests). It was a great day. As usual, the most interesting stuff was well away from the designated route.

We loved "Time Team." Saw them actually engaged in a dig (Tony Robinson whizzing around on a motorbike) when we were up in York, Sept '99.

Sometimes I am this far away from packing my bags and going to live in York. It's a nice place and I'd be left alone there.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 17 March 2003 14:30 (twenty-three years ago)

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