Well Pug I blame your problem on the edumacation system.
When I furst went to school, an old wooden building formerly housing those splendid Land Army Girls, I learnted the basics of the three Rs.
Us had they things with lots of bits of paper glued or stitched together called books. They had lots of pichers in em but not many wurds.
When I wented on to big school, I learnted more complicated reading and harder sums, and the books had more wurds than pichers.
Then when I went to really big school they taught us hard sums (I even have two Ologies in it) and had books with lot of big wurds but very few pichers, with one exception.
The books with lots of pretty coloured pichers were called atlases, and contained things called maps. We learnted all about contours, and salient fechurs such as churches wiv spires and wivout, windmills wiv sails and wivout, different types of roads in different colours (even though real roads were mostly a dirty grey) and woods and builted up aerials like hamlets and villages and towns and cities, and rivers and lakes and the sea, and faeries that went across rivers and lakes and the sea, and bridges over and bridges under, and railway lines and level crossings, and all sorts of interesting stuff.
These books of pretty pichers had a things called indexes where names of places could be found, and from that what page in the book of maps it could be found.
Most importantly we learnted how to use the six figure grid reference to find something on a map in a book of maps. Very useful if you wanted to know how to get somewhere. We learnted a lot about a place called A, and a place called B, and even sometimes about the lost city of C, and how to find your way from one to t’other.
We even learnted how to find other places as well as those three listed above.
This now seems to be a lost art. Kids and even allegedly more mature peoples are not taught how to use a book of maps. If they can’t find the information on their portable elektrickery devices they are stuffed.
Even if one of these devices has elektrickery pichers of maps, they are no good for navigating a-cause you can’t see enough of said map at once.
I tells ya, the edumacation system is going to pot, grid reference 6133403, page 72.
