Surely that's Harry Kane !!?? Anyway, about this time of year, we start getting all these adverts in the colour supplements about presents, and holidays and the like........ But when I look at that one for example, I'm not looking at the binoculars, I'm not looking at him, or his hi-tech rucksack ( Rück = back in German) . No ... my attention is immediately drawn to those rock formations. It took yonks and yonks of years for anyone with half a brain to realise how old the Earth was. I blame religion myself ... the bible tries to persuade us it's only about 6ooo years old. Ha! Shite ! But that sort of thinking held sway for a ridiculously long time. That Harry-Kane-esque person is bounding over huge swathes of geological time! And the rocks he's whizzing over are going to be ground down to cobbles, then pebbles ... that's started already, then sand, then to even smaller bits, then they might well get squashed down into new rocks...sandstones or slates or gritstones or mudstones etc ... and eventually maybe they will again rise up as mountains as the result of some upheaval/orogeny millions/billions of years hence. And in many places, pebbles are clearly visible in rock formations ... which themselves are evidence that there were other mountains before the present ones, that themselves got eroded away, and the resulting pebbles were incorporated in the new rock formations. And some of those pebbles will themselves have fossils inside them. Crumbs ! And people will look at them and think ... oh, the bible explains how they got thousands of feet up even though they died in the sea ... it was that flood. Of course, So blinkered in their thinking were they that obvious things, visible to everybody, weren't even noticed or thought about. In the UK, our gardens, well northern ones anyway, are full of all sorts of different pebbles .... did anyone question how they got there ? All over the north, there are loads of clues about those massive ice ages that enveloped the land..... but nobody, for a long long time, even noticed them, or realised how they were formed . Boulder clay, drumlins, pingos, rock striations, erratics ... they're all over the land. And the northern bit of the UK is still rising up due to the release of the massive pressure when the ice melted... and the south is sinking ... hence all those flooded estuaries ( rias) on the Cornish coast. The whole country is like one of those arcade games where you tilt the table to slide the pucks around. Why are the Alps/Pyrenees so big ?.... because compared to our dinky little hills, they're very young in geological time and haven't been eroded down much. But ours are old ...... old .. old ... and have been eroded and glaciated as well. But they were that big once. And there's a wider picture ... what else is staring us in the face but we aren't really seeing ? What indeed ! 6000 years old ? Tosh ! Hey .. that's two (2) relatively serious posts in a row. Ouch. Serious music too ... New Order .... Ceremony This is why events unnerve me
They find it all, a different story Notice whom for wheels are turning Turn again and turn towards this time All she asks is the strength to hold me Then again the same old story World will travel, oh so quickly Travel first and lean towards this time Oh, I'll break them down, no mercy shown Heaven knows, it's got to be this time Watching her, these things she said The times she cried Too frail to wake this time Oh I'll break them down, no mercy shown Heaven knows, it's got to be this time Avenues all lined with trees Picture me and then you start watching Watching forever Forever Watching love grow, forever Letting me know, forever
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