Sat in a buffet, Drinking a bottle of stout She knocked back so many Without paying a penny That the management had to call the Fire Brigade to help them put Little Miss Muffet out The Oldest Inhabitant A rossi nautilus, found in the clay 40 fect below London, is said by experts to be 60,000.-
000 years old.
Its nearest surviving relative lives in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. So this fossil proves that, in the days when southern England was under water, our climate was tropical or subtropical.
But things haven't changed so much really Its still easy enough to get into hot water.
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