Honest john
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- Fenland
What is the Darien Project ?
Getting concerned
- Thread starter Mr Charisma
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Hindsight
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- Lincolnshire
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- S E Glos
On a less dramatic scale, I saw a figure the other day that three volcanic eruptions per annum cancel out 10 years of CO2 reduction efforts.
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- Mid Lincolnshire,UK
Going by how much Mrs Radar has in our freezer we should be Ok in a famine!
It’s maybe a modern day Nicola sturgeon
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- Ardrossan Ayrshire
Thank you.
Fish
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- North yorkshire
Katla is over due for a major eruption, wouldn't bank on it though.
Yellowstone Park is a super volcano which would make all our lives pretty miserable if/when it blows
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- West Suffolk
One of the family that originally owned the farm my family was in for 150 years , died in Darien. I suppose he was the second son , who got sent away.
glasshouse
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- lothians
No wonder darien failed, they put a frigging banker in charge who believed the stories that sailors tell
oil barron
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- Aberdeenshire
it failed because it would have bankrupted the East India corporation, so England refused to deal with any company that did business with them.
Hindsight
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- Lincolnshire
Letter in todays edition of The Times
SCOTTISH COLONIALISM
Sir, It may have been volcanic activity that made the Scots cold in the 1690s (report, Dec 11) but it was their lust for a colony to trade in competition with England’s East India Company that bankrupted them. “New Caledonia” on the Darien Isthmus of modern Panama was funded by nearly every citizen of Scotland, from peer to peasant. Its position, population, goods for sale, and eventual demise were all foreseeable, but the slim chance of success outweighed common sense. The failure, within a year of the venture starting, left Scotland bankrupt. England paid off the debt as part of the negotiations that resulted in the political union of the two countries. The Act of Union 1707 was as much about recouping the debt of £400,000 as it was about crop failures.
Dr Michael A Fopp
Soulbury, Bucks
SCOTTISH COLONIALISM
Sir, It may have been volcanic activity that made the Scots cold in the 1690s (report, Dec 11) but it was their lust for a colony to trade in competition with England’s East India Company that bankrupted them. “New Caledonia” on the Darien Isthmus of modern Panama was funded by nearly every citizen of Scotland, from peer to peasant. Its position, population, goods for sale, and eventual demise were all foreseeable, but the slim chance of success outweighed common sense. The failure, within a year of the venture starting, left Scotland bankrupt. England paid off the debt as part of the negotiations that resulted in the political union of the two countries. The Act of Union 1707 was as much about recouping the debt of £400,000 as it was about crop failures.
Dr Michael A Fopp
Soulbury, Bucks
glasshouse
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- lothians
Typical south of england simplistic pish
Cab-over Pete
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- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
I thought we were talking about the weather.
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- East meath/dublin
Going of topic Pete but hearty congrats to young Sam on his ploughing marathon .
Just finished reading about it. In Classic Tractor .
Cab-over Pete
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- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
Thank you, it was a brilliant thing to be a part of.
On the subject of weather, it was wet back then but a good job we did it because it’s just got worse ever since!
On the subject of weather, it was wet back then but a good job we did it because it’s just got worse ever since!
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- Sutton Coldfield
We now have water lying on the water!
Cab-over Pete
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- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
Oh. That’s proper wet then!!!