On the telly
Our local area was - John Bishop ran right past my old local and my daughters school on that programme about his money raising Paris to London thing. If they'd have kept the camera on two seconds longer D-o-F would have been on the telly. Now last night though Pub Dig at Chatham was aired on Channel 5. This is a rip off of Time Team but with less people and Rory McGrath hosting it... all digs are in pubs... nice gig Rory! Anyway last night they were at Chatham outside The Command House - a teenage occasional haunt of mine - haven't been there in years mind. However they were digging out the front of it looking for evidence of the first Royal Dockyard - started in 1500 something by Henry VIII and in Elizabeth I's reign it was the most important dockyard in the country and therefore in the wars with the Spanish etc. In fact the last ever foreign invasion was in the Raid on the Medway in 1667 when the Dutch had a go and actually did sink a...