Happy Summer Solstice!
High Summer, y’all. Just *look* at those boiling temperatures.
I’m sour. I had an adventure today. Not only was it hammering down on the way in but the Highways Agency has allowed the bike path to overgrow completely. And by completely, I mean I couldn’t see the path at all most of the way and in places the weeds were shoulder height. I had a mile of this.
I have a complete yellow slicker wet suit which I capped off with wellies. First thing that happened, the wellies filled up with water.
The way back was worse. The chain kept slipping and at one point a thick rope of grass wrapped around my leg and jerked me off the bike. I had to walk from there, which wasn’t any easier. Either the bike could be on the path or I could, not both. I’m shattered.
I’m currently wrapped in an electric blanket and I refuse to budge until a gin and tonic is waved under my snout.
Another snippet from my Prehistory seminar last week: the DNA guy was interesting. They’ve analyzed around 400 skeletons so far. Iron Age women had their first babies around 20 (this is derived from deaths in childbirth). They married around that age (or whatever the Iron Age equivalent of marriage was) and moved to live with their husband’s family. They were monogamous: they have found no evidence of half-siblings. Which is interesting – you’d think there would at least be remarriages after a death.
So, that proves it. The hippies were wrong about everything.
June 21, 2021 — 6:47 pm
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