This morning at 07:23 London time (an hour later in her beloved Andorra), Scotland Yard rescue teams have located The Grandma on an excavator on the banks of the Thames.
Still a little tired and soaked, the woman's first words have been: where the hell are my dentures?
In a few hours, she will meet her family, The Morgans, and they will continue their visit to London, a city that has lived her disappearance with great anguish.
The Grandma has been taken to a medical centre to assess her health. Doctors say she is still in shock as she claims a very attractive sailor, with messy hair and brightly coloured pants and jacket helped her into the excavator while singing:
We are sailing, we are sailing Home again 'cross the sea We are sailing stormy waters To be near you, to be free Oh Lord, to be near you, to be free Oh My Lord, to be near you, to be free
Doctors believe that The Grandma has suffered a mystical experience typical of people who are in serious danger and they have recommended rest and tranquility while she kept shouting that the show must go on.
During these hours of uncertainty, The Morgans moved to Bath in Somerset, to seek peace and relaxation amidst so much suffering.
Baths, wine and sex corrupt our bodies, but baths, wine and sex make life worth living
Tiberius Claudius Secundus
With virtually no recovery time, The Grandma has wanted to be with TheMorgansand continue her English training.
So,
she has moved to Bath, where all together have worked on the Article
The, Prepositions of Place and Movement, and have read and shared
stories about great scientists like Manel Esteller.
Finally,
they have talked about the Saxon Genitive and how different cultural
communities have created their identity over the centuries, with an
element as important as the surname.
A name is so important. A surname connects you to your past, to your family. Even a given name has meaning -why did your parents pick that particular one?
Today, The Morgans & TheGrandma have decided to sail along the Thames. It has been an accidental trip because The Grandma has fallen to the water and, nowadays, there are no news about her.
The ThamesRiver, known alternatively in parts as the River Isis, is a river that flows through southern England including London. At 346 km, it is the longest river entirely in England and the second-longest in the United Kingdom, after the River Severn.
The river rises at Thames Head in Gloucestershire
and flows into the North Sea near Tilbury, Essex and Gravesend, Kent,
via the Thames Estuary. From the west it flows through Oxford (where it
is sometimes called the Isis), Reading, Henley-on-Thames and Windsor. The Thames also drains the whole of Greater London.
The
lower reaches of the river are called the Tideway, derived from its
long tidal reach up to Teddington Lock. Its tidal section includes most
of its London stretch and has a rise and fall of 7 m.
From Oxford to the estuary theThames drops by 55 metres. Running through some of the drier parts of mainland Britain and heavily abstracted for drinking water, the Thames'
discharge is low considering its length and breadth: the Severn has a
discharge almost twice as large on average despite having a smaller
drainage basin.
Along
its course are 45 navigation locks with accompanying weirs. Its
catchment area covers a large part of south-eastern and a small part of
western England; the river is fed by at least 50 named tributaries. The
river contains over 80 islands. With its waters varying from freshwater
to almost seawater, the Thames supports a variety of wildlife and has a
number of adjoining Sites of Special Scientific Interest, with the
largest being in the North Kent Marshes and covering 5,289 ha.
According to Mallory and Adams, the Thames, from Middle English Temese, is derived from the Brittonic name for the river, Tamesas (from *tamēssa),recorded in Latin as Tamesis and yielding modern Welsh Tafwys, Thames.
The Thames through Oxford is sometimes called the Isis.
Historically, and especially in Victorian times, gazetteers and
cartographers insisted that the entire river was correctly named the
Isis from its source down to Dorchester on Thames and that only from
this point, where the river meets the Thame and becomes the Thame-isis (supposedly subsequently abbreviated to Thames) should it be so called.
Marks of human activity, in some cases dating back to Pre-Roman Britain,
are visible at various points along the river. These include a variety
of structures connected with use of the river, such as navigations,
bridges and watermills, as well as prehistoric burial mounds.
The lower Thames
in the Roman era was a shallow waterway winding through marshes. But
centuries of human intervention have transformed it into a deep tidal
canal flowing between 200 miles of solid walls; these defend a
floodplain where 1.5 million people work and live.
A
major maritime route is formed for much of its length for shipping and
supplies: through the Port of London for international trade, internally
along its length and by its connection to the British canal system. The
river's position has put it at the centre of many events in British
history, leading to it being described by John Burns as liquid history.
Rowing and sailing clubs are common along the Thames,
which is navigable to such vessels. Kayaking and canoeing also take
place. Major annual events include the Henley Royal Regatta and the Boat
Race, while the Thames has been used during two Summer Olympic Games:
1908 (rowing) and 1948 (rowing and canoeing). Safe headwaters and
reaches are a summer venue for organised swimming, which is prohibited
on safety grounds in a stretch centred on Central London.
About 450,000 years ago, in the most extreme Ice Age of the Pleistocene,
the Anglian, the furthest southern extent of the ice sheet reached
Hornchurch in east London, the Vale of St Albans, and the Finchley Gap.
The Anglian ice advance resulted in a new course for the Thames
through Berkshire and on into London, after which the river rejoined
its original course in southern Essex, near the present River Blackwater
estuary. Here it entered a substantial freshwater lake in the southern
North Sea basin, south of what is called Doggerland. The overspill of
this lake caused the formation of the Channel River and later the Dover
Strait gap between present-day Britain and France. Subsequent
development led to the continuation of the course that the river follows
at the present day.
At the height of the last ice age, around 20,000 BC, Britain was connected to mainland Europe by a large expanse of land known as Doggerland in the southern North Sea Basin. At this time, the Thames'
course did not continue to Doggerland but flowed southwards from the
eastern Essex coast where it met the waters of the
proto-Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta flowing from what are now the
Netherlands and Belgium. These rivers formed a single river -the
Channel River (Fleuve Manche)- that passed through the Dover Strait and
drained into the Atlantic Ocean in the western English Channel.
Upon the valley sides of the Thames
and some of its tributaries can be seen other terraces of brickearth,
laid over and sometimes interlayered with the clays. These deposits were
brought in by the winds during the periglacial periods, suggesting that
wide, flat marshes were then part of the landscape, which the new
rivers proceeded to cut into. The steepness of some valley sides
indicates very much lower mean sea levels caused by the glaciation
locking up so much water upon the land masses, thus causing the river
water to flow rapidly seaward and so erode its bed quickly downwards.
The
original land surface was around 110 to 120 m above the current
sea-level. The surface had sandy deposits from an ancient sea, laid over
sedimentary clay (this is the blue London Clay). All the erosion down
from this higher land surface, and the sorting action by these changes
of water flow and direction, formed what is known as the Thames River Gravel Terraces.
Since Roman times
and perhaps earlier, the isostatic rebound from the weight of previous
ice sheets, and its interplay with the eustatic change in sea level,
have resulted in the old valley of the River Brent, together with that
of the Thames,silting up again. Thus, along much of the
Brent's present-day course, one can make out the water-meadows of rich
alluvium, which is augmented by frequent floods.
The ThamesRiver, known alternatively in parts as the River Isis, is a river that flows through southern England including London.
At 346 km, it is the longest river entirely in England and the second-longest in the United Kingdom, after the River Severn.
The river rises at Thames Head in Gloucestershire
and flows into the North Sea near Tilbury, Essex and Gravesend, Kent,
via the Thames Estuary. From the west it flows through Oxford (where it
is sometimes called the Isis), Reading, Henley-on-Thames and Windsor. The Thames also drains the whole of Greater London.
The
lower reaches of the river are called the Tideway, derived from its
long tidal reach up to Teddington Lock. Its tidal section includes most
of its London stretch and has a rise and fall of 7 m.
From Oxford to the estuary theThames drops by 55 metres. Running through some of the drier parts of mainland Britain and heavily abstracted for drinking water, the Thames'
discharge is low considering its length and breadth: the Severn has a
discharge almost twice as large on average despite having a smaller
drainage basin.
Along
its course are 45 navigation locks with accompanying weirs. Its
catchment area covers a large part of south-eastern and a small part of
western England; the river is fed by at least 50 named tributaries. The
river contains over 80 islands. With its waters varying from freshwater
to almost seawater, the Thames supports a variety of wildlife and has a
number of adjoining Sites of Special Scientific Interest, with the
largest being in the North Kent Marshes and covering 5,289 ha.
According to Mallory and Adams, the Thames, from Middle English Temese, is derived from the Brittonic name for the river, Tamesas (from *tamēssa), recorded in Latin as Tamesis and yielding modern Welsh Tafwys, Thames.
The Thames through Oxford is sometimes called the Isis.
Historically, and especially in Victorian times, gazetteers and
cartographers insisted that the entire river was correctly named the
Isis from its source down to Dorchester on Thames and that only from
this point, where the river meets the Thame and becomes the Thame-isis (supposedly subsequently abbreviated to Thames) should it be so called.
Marks of human activity, in some cases dating back to Pre-Roman Britain,
are visible at various points along the river. These include a variety
of structures connected with use of the river, such as navigations,
bridges and watermills, as well as prehistoric burial mounds.
The lower Thames
in the Roman era was a shallow waterway winding through marshes. But
centuries of human intervention have transformed it into a deep tidal
canal flowing between 200 miles of solid walls; these defend a
floodplain where 1.5 million people work and live.
A
major maritime route is formed for much of its length for shipping and
supplies: through the Port of London for international trade, internally
along its length and by its connection to the British canal system. The
river's position has put it at the centre of many events in British
history, leading to it being described by John Burns as liquid history.
Rowing and sailing clubs are common along the Thames,
which is navigable to such vessels. Kayaking and canoeing also take
place. Major annual events include the Henley Royal Regatta and the Boat
Race, while the Thames has been used during two Summer Olympic Games:
1908 (rowing) and 1948 (rowing and canoeing). Safe headwaters and
reaches are a summer venue for organised swimming, which is prohibited
on safety grounds in a stretch centred on Central London.
About 450,000 years ago, in the most extreme Ice Age of the Pleistocene,
the Anglian, the furthest southern extent of the ice sheet reached
Hornchurch in east London, the Vale of St Albans, and the Finchley Gap.
The Anglian ice advance resulted in a new course for the Thames
through Berkshire and on into London, after which the river rejoined
its original course in southern Essex, near the present River Blackwater
estuary. Here it entered a substantial freshwater lake in the southern
North Sea basin, south of what is called Doggerland. The overspill of
this lake caused the formation of the Channel River and later the Dover
Strait gap between present-day Britain and France. Subsequent
development led to the continuation of the course that the river follows
at the present day.
At the height of the last ice age, around 20,000 BC, Britain was connected to mainland Europe by a large expanse of land known as Doggerland in the southern North Sea Basin. At this time, the Thames'
course did not continue to Doggerland but flowed southwards from the
eastern Essex coast where it met the waters of the
proto-Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta flowing from what are now the
Netherlands and Belgium. These rivers formed a single river -the
Channel River (Fleuve Manche)- that passed through the Dover Strait and
drained into the Atlantic Ocean in the western English Channel.
Upon the valley sides of the Thames
and some of its tributaries can be seen other terraces of brickearth,
laid over and sometimes interlayered with the clays. These deposits were
brought in by the winds during the periglacial periods, suggesting that
wide, flat marshes were then part of the landscape, which the new
rivers proceeded to cut into. The steepness of some valley sides
indicates very much lower mean sea levels caused by the glaciation
locking up so much water upon the land masses, thus causing the river
water to flow rapidly seaward and so erode its bed quickly downwards.
The
original land surface was around 110 to 120 m above the current
sea-level. The surface had sandy deposits from an ancient sea, laid over
sedimentary clay (this is the blue London Clay). All the erosion down
from this higher land surface, and the sorting action by these changes
of water flow and direction, formed what is known as the Thames River Gravel Terraces.
Since Roman times
and perhaps earlier, the isostatic rebound from the weight of previous
ice sheets, and its interplay with the eustatic change in sea level,
have resulted in the old valley of the River Brent, together with that
of the Thames,silting up again. Thus, along much of the
Brent's present-day course, one can make out the water-meadows of rich
alluvium, which is augmented by frequent floods.
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