tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34515154.post3005905677840939463..comments2024-02-07T23:23:13.726+00:00Comments on The Fylde and Wyre Antiquarian: The Triumphant Return of Mr. Sobee: Part TwoBrian Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00350965110160879688noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34515154.post-62297047594496756962008-03-10T18:53:00.000+00:002008-03-10T18:53:00.000+00:00John,The Kate's Pad is prehistoric, probably Bronz...<B>John,<BR/><BR/>The Kate's Pad is prehistoric, probably Bronze Age, and, yes, the peat beneath which it was discovered, more than likely helped with its preservation. As for why it's a single beamed wooden trackway when most of the other prehistoric roads in this district are cobbled hollow-ways, I honestly couldn't say. Probably the prehistoric version of a 'b' road I suspect.</B>Brian Hugheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00350965110160879688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34515154.post-87692517406291352132008-03-10T16:54:00.000+00:002008-03-10T16:54:00.000+00:00Brian,Just how old is kate's Pad, and who built it...Brian,<BR/>Just how old is kate's Pad, and who built it? I think you've answered these questions elsewhere, but I can't recall.<BR/><BR/>Isn't it remarkable that the pad survived this long, being wood, or was it somehow preserved in peat, or something?<BR/><BR/>Cheers, JOHN :0)<BR/><BR/>PS In teh village of Steventon, they have a very old causeway, built perhaps in the 13th century, or older. Considering all the earthworks within your countryside, why was a pad built, instead of a causeway?<BR/><BR/>Just curious...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15142977785391302797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34515154.post-83361168272312681622008-03-10T07:51:00.000+00:002008-03-10T07:51:00.000+00:00Mr. Beast,I knew it was higgledy-piggledy really. ...<B>Mr. Beast,<BR/><BR/>I knew it was higgledy-piggledy really. It's just that I wrote it with a very posh accent.</B>Brian Hugheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00350965110160879688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34515154.post-25605833193867281362008-03-10T05:04:00.000+00:002008-03-10T05:04:00.000+00:00Brian I just looooooooooooove those photos you pos...Brian I just looooooooooooove those photos you posted up but "HIGGLEDY-PIGGLEDY" I bet your teacher would make you do 100 lines.<BR/>Higly-Pigly was first used in the 15th century as a description of pigs moving about in a group.Feral Beasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11143227888315736467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34515154.post-58191634966409307932008-03-07T14:58:00.000+00:002008-03-07T14:58:00.000+00:00Witchy,In the great classroom of life I've always ...<B>Witchy,<BR/><BR/>In the great classroom of life I've always been sat at the back having a crafty cigarette, pulling the girls' pigtails and sniggering behind my copy of the Beano. It's beyond doubt the best place to be.</B>Brian Hugheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00350965110160879688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34515154.post-72919806641030509972008-03-07T13:10:00.000+00:002008-03-07T13:10:00.000+00:00Now you've got him Bella, he just loves school ma'...Now you've got him Bella, he just loves school ma'am discipline and his answer is far from niggardly.JahTehhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02007730071564639411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34515154.post-38389197800133175042008-03-07T09:03:00.000+00:002008-03-07T09:03:00.000+00:00Bella,And you do it so well...if not with an air o...<B>Bella,<BR/><BR/>And you do it so well...if not with an air of authoritive condescension reminiscent of a disciplinarian school ma'am. (Now there's an image to keep under lock and key until a rainy day.)<BR/><BR/>I could of course argue that, being the phrase a 'nonsense' expression, it probably isn't subject to the normal rules of diction, but that would just be me trying to wriggle out of the situation instead of admitting my mistake. I like 'higgardly piggardly' though...it has a much more thorough ring to it than the Australian version (as I'm now stubbornly regardling 'higgledy-piggedly'), so I reckon I ought to do my best to introduce this new variation into the English language and create a schism amongst grammatical scholars.</B>Brian Hugheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00350965110160879688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34515154.post-6706388446255715012008-03-07T03:04:00.000+00:002008-03-07T03:04:00.000+00:00Let me be the first...higgledy-piggledyIt's what I...Let me be the first...<BR/><BR/><I>higgledy-piggledy</I><BR/><BR/>It's what I do.Ozfemmehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11075356134336964558noreply@blogger.com