having read the following bit off the northerner [hence the cut and paste] left me with a few question's.
besides not makin any logical sense whatsoever:
1. the wall in question is a reminder of the roman conquest - though it is part of england's past
2. said wall was built solely to push the britons further up north; as well as keepin the pict's, brigantes, blah at bay
3. the wall is but a massive heap of ancient stone's
4. how the fuck would em rabbit's know about the significance of the wall?
it's bleedin obvious which is the lesser creature[s] ere innit. they even make elmer fudd look clever.
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Back in the north-east, the Newcastle Evening Chronicle reports that archaeologists are very angry that rabbits seem to be doing what almost 2000 years of history have failed to do - make Hadrian's Wall disappear into a very deep Northumbrian hole.
The situation is so bad that some hardliners are calling for the reintroduction of myxomatosis.
"Rabbit burrows have created such a honeycomb beneath sites that sooner or later there will be a single catastrophic incident where the whole thing vanishes," warns Dr David Woolliscroft of Liverpool University. "So great is the problem that experts warn the destruction is starting to challenge one of the basic tenets of archaeology, that it is safer to leave ruins in the ground."
But help may be on the way. The Journal, the Chronicle's sister paper, reports that one unified body could take over responsibility for the wall from April next year. How good it will be with rabbits is not clear. The paper then lists the outfits which now have their fingers in this ancient pie: two regional development agencies (for the north-east and north-west), English Heritage, the Countryside Agency, National Trust, World Heritage Site Management Plan Committee,
Northumberland National Park Authority and Northumberland Strategic Partnership.
"Given the number of organisations involved, this makes a great deal of sense," comments the Journal. (And how, the rest of us might add.) "Each has its specific role to play and sometimes the aim of one can conflict with the wishes of another. That has to be avoided in the future if the wall is, firstly, to achieve its full economicpotential and, secondly, to be preserved as the unique structure that it is."
May the gods look kindly at this attempt at bureaucratic sanity. It's worth a novena at a Mithraic temple.
as enscribed by the letter b @ September 1, 2005 03:45 PM | someone's pinged