Sunday, June 14, 2009

Around the Bend


Harold watched a documentary on Bog people last night. He tried to explain it to me by telling me their bodies had been preserved in peat; but as soon as they were released from the mud they started to decay and therefore had to be kept under water.

“That’s why they’re called bog people,” I said. “Best kept around the U-bend.”

5 comments:

Dave King said...

Sorry I missed that one. Have you read the Seamus Heaney poems on the subject?

stephanie said...

*laughs*

Good thing I just sat my coffee down. Wicked woman.

Leatherdykeuk said...

I haven't Dave. I shall look out for them.

Stephanie - Thank you, and sorry!

aims said...

What an interesting concept. Not surprised Harold was taken with it. ;0)

Leatherdykeuk said...

Bog people are 6K year old mummies