There’s one on the TV now they used to be always on some old dull film from the 40′s and 50′s. The ones I disliked most were The Three Musketeers. Somebody said that a sword fight would take just as long if the hero was fighting one expert opponent or fifty hapless ones.

Up the stairs, down the stairs, swing on the chandelier, yawn, the baddie will be allowed to graze the hero’s silk shirt, tear and blood stain but that’s all.

Was anything duller than that slow moving plot, tacked on romance, roll on the credits.

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About 5000BC the island of Doggerland off the coast of Britain disappeared beneath the North Sea. It had once been as large as the UK today and joined the UK to the continent. Sea Levels had been as much as 120 metres lower than they are today after the Ice Age.

In 9000BC a gigantic Tsunami cause by the Storegga Slide in Norway would have devastated Doggerland the coasts of Mesolithic Britain and helped turn Britain into an island.

Research on Doggerland is quite recent and was triggered by the trawling up of a barbed antler point in the 1930s.

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