Tea?

[MikeG]

Three Ridings because it was too big for one days riding to cross it. Now a Riding and three Counties.......

Whoa, just a sec. What sort of useless horses did Yorkshire have? Dick Turpin managed York to London overnight, yet a Yorkshire horse can only get from Scarborough to Filey, apparently.

 

[classic33]

Couple of problems:
The ride was done in a day, not overnight.
It was London to York
and
it was "Swift Nick", not Dick Turpin.

Yorkshire has been robbed of it's lands since then. We'll get them back under devolution.

 

[MikeG]

...................that'll be three then. Still doesn't reflect well on Yorkshire donkeys.

 

[classic33]

...................that'll be three then. Still doesn't reflect well on Yorkshire donkeys.

Three Ridings, and the donkeys were London ones.

Scarborough and Filey are in the same Riding.

 

[MikeG]

Three to a couple, and the London donkeys managed to traverse 200 miles in a day, whereas Yorkshire needs 3 days to ride across. Like I said........useless nags they've got in Yorkshire.

 

[classic33]

Three to a couple, and the London donkeys managed to traverse 200 miles in a day, whereas Yorkshire needs 3 days to ride across. Like I said........useless nags they've got in Yorkshire.

T'was a horse from Yorkshire that made the distance. Outran the London donkey's.

 

[MikeG]

Well if a Yorkshire horse can do London to York in a day, how come it takes three days to ride across Yorkshire?

 

[classic33]

Well if a Yorkshire horse can do London to York in a days, how come it takes three days to ride across Yorkshire?

Royalty seldom had to "run to save their necks".

 

[172traindriver]

Three to a couple, and the London donkeys managed to traverse 200 miles in a day, whereas Yorkshire needs 3 days to ride across. Like I said........useless nags they've got in Yorkshire.

 

[172traindriver]

Good Night

 

[classic33]

Good Night

Sithi

Sweet Dream!!

 

[welsh dragon]

Good morning folks.

 

[MikeG]

Morning WD.

Did you notice how, out of respect for Wales, I didn't use "the size of Wales" as a way of measuring Yorkshire yesterday? The standard scales are a gnat's thingamejig, a tennis court, Wales, and, sometimes, Texas. For example, the surface area of human lungs are about the size of a tennis court. Or, the world loses an area of rainforest the size of Wales every year. And so on. So when we were discussing why it takes 3 days to ride across Yorkshire but only one day to ride from York to London it would only have been natural to judge both distances in terms of Wales. I'll take your gratitude for not invoking such a comparison in the form of a rich fruitcake, please, with thick home-made marzipan and some Royal icing. Ta.

 

[172traindriver]

Good Morning

 

[welsh dragon]

Morning WD.

Did you notice how, out of respect for Wales, I didn't use "the size of Wales" as a way of measuring Yorkshire yesterday? The standard scales are a gnat's thingamejig, a tennis court, Wales, and, sometimes, Texas. For example, the surface area of human lungs are about the size of a tennis court. Or, the world loses an area of rainforest the size of Wales every year. And so on. So when we were discussing why it takes 3 days to ride across Yorkshire but only one day to ride from York to London it would only have been natural to judge both distances in terms of Wales. I'll take your gratitude for not invoking such a comparison in the form of a rich fruitcake, please, with thick home-made marzipan and some Royal icing. Ta.