(06-20-2021, 10:27 PM)BIAD Wrote:(06-20-2021, 10:21 PM)Ninurta Wrote: Britain may soon stand in need of yet another cross-country wall, on the pattern of Hadrian's Wall,
but this time set to guard against invasion from the south rather than the north.
Maybe just north of Manchester would be a good site...
I will forward your excellent suggestion on to my local member of parliament straight away with an amendment
that the site should be just below Rodinus' old haunt, the rural town Harrogate!
A line between Blackburn and Hull has a nice pinched waist that would shorten the Wall, and hence the work, time, and expense required to construct it... Just looking out for the hardworking British taxpayer!
Of course, that would leave the Welsh in the lurch, but they seem to have a history of not minding piling the bodies of invaders into a wall of their own, so there is that....
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