Leek soup ...luverly.... yes sometimes things work , another time nothing ....zippo , zilch ,nadda, or in English, not a single bean old chap......lol. I dug up a load of bones once ...I really thought they were human , till I got to the skull . Boy was I glad it was a sheeps skull . I read in a book about old farming ways once , how they used to put dead work horses into the manure heap . It was back in the days when heaps were really big 20'x however long needed. They would have to put the horses body/ skeleton through a number of times till it was comp pletely gone. The reason they did it was, it was just easier to drag the horse there and then pile up manure ontop ,than dig a huge hole to lay the horse in . No diggers in those days , so it was just the easy way out plus the horse would go back on the land it had lived it's life on .
Speaking of old world diseases, I once followed the University boat race along the Thames , (it was only a 20 minute train ride from where i lived ) while walking along the riverbank after the race , I saw a taped off area. Now I was a nosey young kid of about 12 or so, so I looked round and there was nobody in sight , so in I went to see what was to be seen .... Well it was a load of old bones in a huge hole . I mean it was about 20'x 60' or even more . It instantly reminded me of the death camps in the war. I got out of there so fast it was unreal ... what it turned out to be was, they were clearing old buildings along the bank when they uncovered an old plague pit ...full to the brim , and theres me walking around in it ...yuk ....I think I may have started to convert it into a manure heap , it scared me so much. I still poke my nose in where I shouldn't though .... dem bones dem bones dem dry bones !!!!
