They'll be broken down, metal smelted, gems recut if necessary. They're gone, who cares. It's not like they were the actual crown jewels, just a few baubles.
It's my understanding that everyone has sleep paralysis - the brain "switches off" the body (apart from essentials: breathing, heart beat etc) so you don't come to grief acting out your dreams. What we call sleep paralysis is when you wake, but your body hasn't been switched back on.
I used to have horrible sleep paralysis nightmares quite often. But then I read about what it really is, and I stopped having them. It was like my brain realised it was out of sync and corrected itself.
I think it may be dawning on them. I'm on an international holiday & didn't get time to faff about installing Linux before I left. But I discovered the day before my flight that Microsoft has extended its offer of security updates for another year to individuals as well as businesses free of charge, and signed up. Last time I'd looked I'm sure ESU was for businesses only.
It happened in the UK too, in the 60s. Some of the lines have been reinstated in recent years, but most were gone for good. Cars were the future! Really dumb.
In Belgium we hired bicycles at the railway station at Ypres, biked around the countryside all day, then dropped them off and got the train back to Brussels.
As for the Netherlands... this is a typical railway station bike park.
Not weird at all. I reach into my left pocket for my phone with my left hand and am ready to operate it with my right hand. Having it in my right pocket would be awkward.
Late licences (to 5am in Scotland) are the main reason I fled Edinburgh's Old Town for the suburbs. No fun having your front door used as a toilet, drunks ranting and fighting in the close at 3am, having to dodge "pavement pizzas" every night. Yay, growth!
I haven't noticed a great slowdown in healing/recovery - I had a knee replacement six years ago and recovered well from that. Never had COVID, rarely get colds. I feel like my health is generally better now than in my youth, when I drank, smoked and took drugs. When the doc suggests I lose weight I want to show him pix of my speed-addled self in the 70s. I was super slim! But so bloody unwell.
I can't recall anything in particular - I was working, I had a dog... But I had a look at a "what's in my bag" photo I took that year, and it included a cheque book, a diary, a Nokia phone, a Palm Pilot, an MP3 player, a compact digital camera and a portable radio. All of which have been superseded by one single device. Amazing.
I once asked a Dutch friend what would be a good phrase to learn before visiting Amsterdam. He thought for a minute and said "sneeuwklokjes". Snowdrops. It was his kindly way of saying don't bother, lol. I did learn a few things - hello, please, thanks - and they did go down well.
The Monty Python theme is a Sousa march called Liberty Bell. I bet someone ran it past him & he said great, because he's never watched the show and has no idea. That is hilarious.
He also invented CFCs, the chemical that nearly destroyed the earth's protective ozone layer. Quite a guy.