440t UK - North Lincolnshire 23/7/08
Saturday 12th- went to Brigg

- , but had to go to a hotel to find WIFI it didn't work, but they had a strange machine in the toilets.. a machine to buy female attracting perfume ..

Sunday 13th

- went to the market at Helmswell old Airfield it was a sunny morning so there were so many stalls it took 4 hours to go around them all

Broughton - Annual Village Show - not really exciting there was the horse gymkana and the dog show



- 14th We went out to my sister Elizabeth for her birthday BBQ
Tuesday - bizarre comedy like routine at the museum

- I went to an archaeology talk at the museum. After a 10Km bike ride I arrived sweating just 1 minute late at the museum and ran in ... "sorry sir the talk has been cancelled". OK I thought I'll walk around the museum anyway. 30 minutes later I walked into the lecture room "you should have been here earlier, we have just finished a talk !". I asked them how big the audience was and they said one person, I told them that was hardly suprising if the guy on the door was telling people it had been cancelled. So I got her to explain most of it again.

- There were a couple of new interesting bits of local information in the museum I'd never heard about :
- 1. the Kings of Lindsey they had info about the line of these kings between 500 and 800AD, then Lindsey became part of Mercia, then Mercia became part of England
- 2. Lake Humber 7000 years ago people could walk from Norway to Enland as the North Sea was frozen. The limit of the ice was around Scunthorpe so that water from the River Trent etc could flow out to sea so there was a huge lake at the end of the Trent.
- and there seemed to be much more artefacts in the Museum

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