10.10pm. "Phyllis, shut up and stop distracting me. I am faced with a blank page for tomorrow's blog post and frigging well move your shell collection as the printer needs to be loaded with paper".
I think this is a better map of Great Britain than I last showed and less likely to offend those on an semi independent island off Great Britain's west coast. Can any of you see a problem with the map?
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There used to be a local competition here on social media called Miss Isle of Man, where people would post all the maps shown on the national news media where we apparently did not exist.
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JayCee, we had a similar problem here with our island state, Tasmania. I haven't noticed it of late.
DeleteMy partner's father's family came from the Isle of Man.
ReplyDeleteThat may explain it EC, although I can't imagine what.
DeleteThese isles sit right in within the sea territory
ReplyDeleteThey do, Roentare.
DeleteJust need a larger map . . .
ReplyDeleteJB, right click and open it in its own window, it is not a bad size on a proper screen.
DeleteThe only problems that I can see are:-
ReplyDelete1. Only two of The Channel Islands have been named.
2. Yorkshire should be specially defined with its boundaries shown.
3. You have missed out the island of St KIlda.
YP, aren't there quite a number of Channel Islands? They can't all be named. Yorkshire is so important, that everyone knows where it is and doesn't need to be marked. Unfortunately St Kilda is covered by one of those boundary lines.
DeleteIt looks like you traced one of Phyllis' shells on the map.
ReplyDeleteKirk, I am sure I could find one that would fit the shape. More on shells in my next post.
DeleteI don't see anything wrong, but I did think Isle of Man was north of Scotland. I really don't know much at all about the United Kingdom.
ReplyDeleteRiver, but doesn't blogging educate you about so much and so many places.
DeleteIt looks like someone's ear, pierced no less, with an earbud.
ReplyDeleteI like it, Strayer.
DeleteI didn't think I would be interested in the islands around the British mainland and Ireland, until I visited some of them over the years. Re Isle of Man, I wrote quite a lot about its role in WW2 and in decorative arts eg
ReplyDeleteIsle of Man Internment Camps, 1940, and
Was Archibald Knox the finest Art Nouveau designer in Britain?
Hels, I will follow this up. I like that it has old style electric trams and an operational steam train.
DeleteThe map looks a bit weird. A cousins husband came from the Isle of Man when he was little, and he's getting towards 90. The wars over yonder are bringing back memories for him, bad ones so said my cousin on phone today.
ReplyDeleteMargaret, that is sad for him at his age. I think we had quite a lot of immigrants from IoM.
DeleteSo much left to see.
ReplyDeleteTP, remember not being too ambitious when travelling.
DeleteOh dear it just confirms what I knew already - I'm rubbish at geography!
ReplyDeleteAlison in Wales x
Alison, it isn't something you need to know about to go about your daily life. I just find it interesting.
DeleteIt loooks like a kidney!
ReplyDeletePixie, it looks like a kidney dish to me. I'll bow to your greater knowledge of human organs.
DeleteI don't see a problem with it, but I do wonder why borders have to be so complicated!
ReplyDeleteSteve, few are more complicated than the British Isles.
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