On the lighter side - High Heels and Ben Nevis

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It's always a question of suspending disbelief when a story's young heroine leaps into heels for the first time and performs flawlessly.

However I bet they've never tried to walk up a boulder strewn mountain. Even an idiot Brit wouldn't try that... right?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/must_see/40519195/why-a-man-tried-to-climb-ben-nevis-in-five-inch-heels

:)

Persephone

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As if.

Noel Coward must've been well into his cups when he wrote "Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun."

There's no "midday sun"! There's just a slight lessening of the rain!

The sun still hasn't set

and, assuming no changes to the British overseas territories, it definitely still won't for over a thousand years

I concede your point

The remaining dots are quite well spread around the globe. Though some parts, like most of the Chagos Islands, are likely to sink below the waves in the future.

My mother

used to say that God wouldn't trust them in the dark

Liz

backwards

that is why you go down backwards :)

belle