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health and safety in a risk adverse culture … can’t mow the castle lawn due to steep slopes ..

In an article today in the Telegraph is a mind numbing story of complete stupidity for which there is NO link. As usual.  So you will simply have to take this on faith that I am not making it up.

Something tells me however that Richard Littlejohn of The Mail will have this in the next couple of days with a link.  But I can’t wait till then.  Nor can I take the time to copy word for word the entire article.  So, I will give you the simple nut and bolt (there’s only one) and photos and history of a place called Carlisle Castle which is absolutely awesome.  While searching for the story link I discovered news on a BBC site of a decade long dig at the castle site, uncovering some 80,000 Roman artefacts including a human louse, 2,000 yrs old.  Unbelievable, huh?

For centuries and especially after it came under control of The English Heritage folks, there have been grounds keepers.  No surprise there. Right? We’re talking castle here.  And keeping the grounds means mowing lawns. Does it not?  The castle survived wars and sieges and was also one place where Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned.  It is as you would expect it to be, a major tourist attraction.

The center of countless wars and battles, guarding England’s northern border against Scottish invasion, under siege during the English civil war, the folks who look after this historic place have found something that is … “too dangerous” to do around it’s walls.
MOW THE FREEKIN GRASS ON THE SLOPING BANKS OF IT’S MOAT!

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Yup … there ya go BMEWS.  HEALTH and SAFETY officials now say mowing the grass on the banks of either side of the moat is “too perilous for workmen due to the steep inclines.” And so cutting the grass has now ceased. 

There isn’t any info on the numbers injured or killed over the last few hundred years while keeping the slopes trimmed.  It occurs to us doesn’t it, that had the Health and Safety Executive been around 900 years ago, this place might never have been built.
Or if it had, there’d have been no slopes and maybe no moat either.

These idiots are killing their country with their risk adverse politically correct everyone is equal left wing socialistic libtard bs.  Their embrace of diversity which they have turned into a religion and their romantic ideal of multi-culture as a cure all and a standard to be enshrined. 
They don’t deport plane hi-jackers on grounds of human rights, they can’t deport a killer to a country of his birth because he no longer speaks that language he’s been here so long, and it would violate his right to have a family.  Meanwhile of course, he’d destroyed another’s family.  The former govt. turned their police into social workers, or they tried anyway, and I have no idea if the rope that tied their hand is now loose.

And oh btw ... I forget.  Someone was hurt there .....  here’s an example of the sort of lunatic bs they’ve brought down on their own heads.

Concern was heightened after an out-of-court settlement earlier this year to a woman who was injured when she fell into the moat at 2am, when the castle was closed. In spite of the closure and warning notices, she won £15,000 compensation and English Heritage also paid her legal fees of £37,250.

Another article on her said she was trespassing.  Well I guess so. At 2 in the morning?  What else?  See, according to my barbaric belief, trespassers at 2am need to be shot dead.  Problem solved, no law suits, no courts, no public expense. 

The ppl responsible for the mess this country is dealing with, have betrayed their history and their ancestors.  They shame the generation that stood firm in ’39 and before that 1914 and before that their entire history.
Shame on them and a pox as well.  They don’t deserve this country.  If things aren’t turned around soon, they will surely deserve what they’ll end up with.


Carlisle Castle’s decade dig is completed

It is thought the Roman army lived in tents at first
An internationally important archaeological dig in Carlisle has unearthed rare articulated armour and a nit comb, with a louse still in it.
The dig, which took place over a decade in front of Carlisle Castle, has uncovered about 80,000 Roman artefacts.
The evidence provides Carlisle with almost 2,000 years of documented history.

Experts say the city is now ranked as one of the most important settlements in the north of England.
Senior executive officer for Oxford Archaeology North, Rachel Newman, said: “The area was very damp 2,000 years ago, and therefore rare evidence survived for how the Romans and their medieval successors lived, in the form of the foundations for their timber buildings, as well as parts of Roman tents and saddles, their shoes, and wooden and leather possessions.

“Many thousands of objects were excavated, including less fragile material, such as pottery, metalwork, both jewellery and everyday utensils, coins, and stone objects.”
“All this evidence provided a wonderful glimpse into how people lived 2,000 years ago, and also in medieval Carlisle, more than 1,000 years later.
“For instance, several nit combs very like the ones we sometimes have to use today were found, one with a human louse in it!

“We could also see from the numbers of bones that the Romans liked beef, and particularly shoulders of meat, that had perhaps been salted or smoked.”
She said the evidence suggested that the Roman army arrived in Carlisle, living in tents to begin with, until the first fort was built.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/8659355.stm

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Carlisle Castle guards the western end of the border between England and Scotland. William II built the first timber castle at Carlisle in 1092, and thirty years later his brother, King Henry I, ordered the building of a castle in stone which included the keep that now remains as the oldest part of the castle.

The keep and castle walls were eventually completed by the Scottish king, David I, who took control of northern England during the troubled reign of King Stephen (1135-54). By 1157 the castle was back in English hands, but its location at the border between two frequently warring nations meant it would be battled over for many more centuries. The last time the castle came under siege was in 1745 when the Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stewart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) successfully captured the castle, only to be forced to surrender the following month.

The oldest surviving buildings, other than the keep, are the inner and outer gatehouses, both built in the 1160’s and substantially altered in the late 14th century. Most of the other medieval buildings have been lost under the 19th century barracks and other army buildings that line the inner and outer bailey. The castle remains the headquarters of the King’s Own Royal Border Regiment and it houses the Regimental Museum.

http://www.visitcumbria.com/car/carlcas.htm For lots of photos of this place.


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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 08/24/2010 at 01:12 PM   
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