Glad to know you're keeping the flag flying. Thanks for the info about KMcC.
I doubt if Dame Judi comes here these days, but I have seen her in York with her daughter and a grandchild. One of the river walks is named after her - it tends to flood...
That sign looks like a command. Someone should write ‘this way’ after it. However, she’d have trouble, being on the short side. She’d probably end up paddling, or swimming even. Not very dignified for a Dame.
Not dignified at all (!) and whoever took that last year (it wasn't me) must have been in waders or more likely a canoe. It's usually a nice walk, but the river must have been up about 12 feet, which is quite normal at times in winter. It's been up 18 feet a couple of times, in 2000 and 2015.
Oh dear! They relocated our local town when they realised the original settlement was prone to flooding. Do you think it’s too late to suggest that to the burghers of York?
It still doesn't seem very immediate of course. But it could be getting closer. Twenty years ago the Map Department in Cambridge University Library acquired a speculative map that had been drawn to show what the UK might look like in 2050.
Among other things, a lot of London would be under water, East Anglia would disappear, apart from some island communities, and a lot of the flat areas of Yorkshire would become sea. York might become an island - the Minster is all of 50' above sea level. If I live as long as my grandfather did, I might even live to see it but I hope I don't.
Here's the flag I bought in a flag shop in York in 2014 on the flagpole that we inherited with this house.
Lovely rose, and the home of a national treasure next door! What more could you want?
Btw, it was KMcC's 77th birthday yesterday (b 31/07/44).
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I doubt if Dame Judi comes here these days, but I have seen her in York with her daughter and a grandchild. One of the river walks is named after her - it tends to flood...
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Among other things, a lot of London would be under water, East Anglia would disappear, apart from some island communities, and a lot of the flat areas of Yorkshire would become sea. York might become an island - the Minster is all of 50' above sea level. If I live as long as my grandfather did, I might even live to see it but I hope I don't.
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