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Treasure of Cartimandua
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Found
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A pair of hobbyists using metal detectors uncover a hoard of torques and gold in North Yorkshire believed to be from the hoard of Queen Cartimandua.
So far the value approaches $1,000,000 dollars, but the amateur archeologists believe that there's a lot more yet to be recovered...
Read More Here: Torque of the Town
Garage Sales - Week 10 - 2011
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
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No parades or lists this weekend, just a drive following my hunches. And there are a few, some books (one - a 1st edition of "Adrift on an Ice Pan" - the first hand account of one man's voyage on an ice pan, I'm guessing, complete with illustrations & photo of the author - 10 points for obscure adventure travel), some antique artist's handbooks, a houseplant that perfectly fills the corner, a couple of grass-hockey sticks to be placed in the hall with the walking sticks, sword and canes, a musical frog, a slingshot I pass on to G at work (who swears to kill gophers with it that very evening. **sigh**).
Nothing too great, but not too bad either, the season is, after all, over.
Gold hoard found in French cellar
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Found
- Hits: 1750
From the BBC:
A French couple have found a hoard of gold coins worth at least 100,000 euros (£89,000; $140,000) in the cellar of their home in the town of Millau.They were working on their drains when they dug up the 34 coins in a little clay pot, French media said.
Read more here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14080228
turnover
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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The owner, he's gotten into his head that he's going to fire the manager, she's not meeting his expectations. And he tells all the staff as a warning, there will be no days off until vacation, then maybe he'll look for another one.
She - the manager - has tried to quit a few times, the owner wouldn't let her. And he's talked of firing her before, but hasn't, this time he seems determined...
And when she comes in to work at 3:00 it's done.
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Now the bosses nephew marches about the restaurant declaring himself to be the new manager, telling everyone what to do, it's in jest but he's doing the village idiot impression just a little too well, it's remarkable, really, and if you told him what a fine village idiot he was portraying he would be proud, wouldn't understand the that the quality of his idiocy was not just limited to his impersonations....
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The next day, over dinner the owner inquires after C - the last waitress he fired - is she still in Calgary? Does she have a job yet? and he's feeling about not too subtly for the manageresses replacement...
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Evenings, during the Calgary Stampede, aren't so busy, and if ever we could spare someone it's now. The part-timers are brought in and it's business as usual, except that there are some problems accessing his website, coincidentally it was the manageresses boyfriend who redid the site and now the passwords have been changed, he's locked out and he's finding it hard to believe they've done this, what has he done? and his confusion at this moment appears genuine, he has - to quote Somerset Maughm - that ability to "do someone a bad turn and not hold a grudge"
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Mid shift another blowout, one of the part-timers has taken out the wrong side dish, the owner's screaming, throwing pots, audible in the dining room but nobody there cares, this part timer, she'd attempted to quit as a result of his rants before but he had hastened to assure her they were not directed at her, now there's no such argument, his abuse has been too direct. I meet her at the bar changing, she's off as well.
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The owner, he's curiously quiet about the dismissal of the manageress and the missing waitress, the staff buzz over to my side of the restaurant and take over as if nothing has happened, these mid-shift departures are commonplace and everyone works around them. And so the circus continues...
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