Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.

[Nathan Ross]

...planning generally, preparing weaponry and organising their 'secret conspiracy'... Perhaps, they made a show of preparing the fields without actually sowing anything. 

I cannot resist mentioning that all this planning, conspiring, mass deception and careful preparation would seem to be the direct opposite of incuriosus, 'careless' or 'negligent'...

But I am increasingly thinking that we cannot really take Tacitus on his word about all this, so we are back to square one...

Did the Romans have raspberry jam?

They might have had some sort of fruity spread - here's a recipe for apricot jam, for example. But without sugar as a preservative and sweetener (presumably they used honey instead?) the result probably would not have tasted much like our jam today.