No sheep in Canary Wharf? They have a farm there, don't they?
Vauxhall and Spitalfields are much closer to Trafalgar Square.
Where is London's most central sheep?
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Re: Where is London's most central sheep?
#62No sheep in Canary Wharf? They have a farm there, don't they?
That would be mudchute farm. But Canary Wharf is not considered part of central London, which is what the author is concerned with.
Re: Where is London's most central sheep?
#63Looks like there's an errata, already :)
https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-sheepish-apolog...
Re: Where is London's most central sheep?
#64Wouldn't that need to be the sheep with the closest distance to all the other sheeps in London?
Re: Where is London's most central sheep?
#65Looks like there's an errata, already :) https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-sheepish-apolog...
Some good advice at the end of that:
1) Don't state something as fact when you haven't researched it fully.
2) Remember that when you do state something because you believe it's fact, it could be based on incomplete information.
3) If you're not 100% sure about something, best introduce at least some element of doubt.
4) Don't trust everything you read just because somebody you trust presented it as fact.
Re: Where is London's most central sheep?
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
I live in Bath, so quite a bit smaller than Bristol, but I really apprecaite the fact that we can be in the city centre in half an hour, or in the countryside in 15 minutes. If I didn't live in Bath I'd probably live in Bristol, it's a great city. And I absolutely agree that it's kind of the perfect size for a metropolitan area. I think a lot of London is saved by having so many parks, and so many large parks and com…
I like Bristol but the traffic is so bad. It desperately needs a tram system. Bath is nice though, my son lives there and we love visiting.
Hah, very true. I never drive there for a reason.
Re: Where is London's most central sheep?
#67When my wife and I lived in Bristol we developed a metric designed to measure how enjoyable a city was to live in that we called "time to sheep". Basically it's a measure of how long you have to travel from the center of the city before you're in the English countryside surrounded by sheep and the best cities have a low (but not too low) "time to sheep" metric. It helped explain one of the reasons we loved living in…
When I was in Bristol, the smell of burned weed was frequent. More frequent than other cities, I think.
Bristol has the highest traces of cocaine in its sewage.
https://www.itv.com/news/2019-03-14/which-uk-city-tops-list-...
Re: Where is London's most central sheep?
#68When my wife and I lived in Bristol we developed a metric designed to measure how enjoyable a city was to live in that we called "time to sheep". Basically it's a measure of how long you have to travel from the center of the city before you're in the English countryside surrounded by sheep and the best cities have a low (but not too low) "time to sheep" metric. It helped explain one of the reasons we loved living in…
There needs to be a counterbalancing variable, though; presumably you want to live in a city, otherwise you'd just live in the countryside somewhere with a TTS of zero :) Maybe the other factor is "time for pizza to arrive at door"?
Walking distance from the Pub to home.
More seriously, time taken to get to work.
Re: Where is London's most central sheep?
#69Never mind sheep, what about cats? Larry, the Number 10 cat has to be a contender.
Considering the wealth of the nation was based on the woollen trade, with London being the place where weavers from Flanders made that wealth, times have changed.
The Speaker's Chair in the House of Lords is still a wool sack, although, a few years ago, it was found to be stuffed with horsehair.
The Royal Navy grew to defend the cross channel trade in wool and that led to 'Britannia Rules The Waves' in a big way, up until about a century ago.
The British weather and the plague made it so that wool was the winning product, with the customers being the armies of Europe and the slaves that needed to be clothed. Although mining was crucial to the Industrial Revolution, wool was the original cradle of innovation. We owe so much to wool, and sheep.
Oh, Fuller's Earth was also crucial to the success story, needed for cleaning wool, along with urine, which peasants provided all by themselves, in abundance.
Other wool was not with the long, tough fibres that British wool had, hence the desirability of the product.
Re: Where is London's most central sheep?
#70When my wife and I lived in Bristol we developed a metric designed to measure how enjoyable a city was to live in that we called "time to sheep". Basically it's a measure of how long you have to travel from the center of the city before you're in the English countryside surrounded by sheep and the best cities have a low (but not too low) "time to sheep" metric. It helped explain one of the reasons we loved living in…
A better metric imho would be time to a wild animal. I'd go with distance to a wild bear, or anything else that could threaten a human. That is where wilderness starts imho. For London, that measurement is likely hundreds of miles. In much of north america, it is probably be less than one. I've been to the English countryside. It is more city park than open country.