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In my very multicultural office in Abu Dhabi, we gave presentations about where we were from. It was a great way to get an understanding of other countries and cultures, and the interesting lunches people brought were good too!
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MJP UK CA
- 2. British Isles Great Britain United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland England Wales Northern Ireland Scotland
- 5. • Neighbours – Cambridgeshire (NE) – Northamptonshire (N) – Buckinghamshire (W) – Hertfordshire (SE) • Major towns – Bedford – Luton
- 9. Language Number of people English 58,100,000 Welsh 562,000 Scots 100,000 British Sign Language 125,000 Irish 95,000 Angloromani 90,000 Scottish Gaelic 65,674 Cornish 557 Shelta unknown • Also spoken – Polish (1%) – Punjabi (0.5%) – Hindustani (0.5%) – Bengali (0.4%) – Gujarati (0.4%) – Arabic (0.3%) – French (0.3%) – Saraiki – Sylheti – Cantonese – Greek – Italian – Southwestern Caribbean Creole – Malayalam – Tamil – Kashmiri – Russian
- 12. • “Beda’s Ford”: Saxon Chief • 571CE: Cuthwulf defeats the Britons • 919CE: First fortress destroyed • 1016CE: Canute destroys county • 1166CE: Borough charter • 1224CE: Bedford Castle destroyed • 1575-1579CE: Bubonic Plague • 1642-1651CE: Opposes King during Civil War • … • 1972CE: Matthew Petty born
- 15. • Pie or with meat (beef or gammon) in one end, fruit in the other
- 16. • Woburn Abbey • Whipsnade Zoo • Santa Pod • Cardington Hangars
- 19. • Hot underground • 40+ degrees • Clear airways • Replace fans • Install coolers • Install train AC • Control systems • Systems Design
- 22. • 220mph • Electric • Like systems in Korea, Spain, France, Germany • LA-SF in 2 • 800 miles
- 23. • Holidays coming up: – Kwanzaa – Hanukkah – Krampusnacht – Christmas – Saturnalia – Yule – Yalda – Pancha Ganapati – Festivus (for the rest of us)
Editor's Notes
- We cannot conduct a monster tour of Manchester without mentioning the Boggart of Boggart Hole Clough. The clough is an urban park about three miles north of the city centre covering 171 acres near Blackley and Moston. Boggarts are commonly found in Lancashire and Yorkshire and tend to be mischievous spirits responsible for mishaps and poltergeist activity within the home and in the countryside. Other names for Boggart’s include bug, bugbear, bogey, bogeyman and bogle. Boggart’s take on a ugly human or beast-like form. They are often described as squat, hairy and smelly creature but they have the power to shape-shift. The story of the Boggart of the clough was first told in John Roby’s Traditions of Lancashire, published in 1829. Roby recounted a story concerning a farmer from Blackley, George Cheetham, whose farmhouse was haunted by the described as a ‘strange elf...sly and mischievous’ (1829: 296). It torments Cheetham’s family with numerous pranks, from snatching the children’s bread and butter, dashing their milk to the ground, pulling the sheets of the children’s bed and making loud noises throughout at night (1829: 298-299). When the family decided to leave because of the monster, the Boggart decided to go with them. So the family decided that they might as well stay and so did the Boggart – although its torments became much less. The folklore has continued and has been documented by Ceri Houlbrook, a PhD student at the University of Manchester (whose MA dissertation on the Boggart won The Folklore’s Society Award in 2011). Ceri interviewed local residents about the Boggart and found the monster survives on in a variety of different forms: - “A creature which you could only hope to catch a glimpse of in the mist”. - For others “there wasn’t just one Boggart, but a whole race of creatures, which only come out at night”. - Others claim that “the Boggarts left the park a long time ago, but when the cross comes down from the steeple of a nearby church, the Boggarts will apparently return”. - Some claim “that Boggarts are creatures which live underground; they steal children from their beds at night and drag them down their holes” and that they live in the sewers under the park and come out from the drainage grids - Finally some say the Boggart lives under a bridge in the park