Re: Where you live.
Se and I now live within walking distance of our little village, not much in it really shop wise apart from estate agents. One side a couple of miles away we have the English Channel. Not far from the south downs. Plenty of castles dotted about to stop invasion from you know who in the past. The village is being blighted by house builders not far away but out of sight are 450 homes being built.The infrastructure can't cope school wise or DR wise let alone the extra traffic
As I said we are far enough away so it doesn't affect us directly.
One thing that is unique is where our house is situated You have heard of the Battle of Hastings only about 10 miles or less from here . But what is not known is that here in 1065 is where King Harold recruited his army in Little Common more or less where our house now stands.
It is well known locally that the first recruit was an axe thrower. King Harold asked how good he was .
Axe man " Sire I am the best axe thrower in your kingdom"
King H "well if your that good slice a twig off that tree 30 yards away"
So the axe man threw his axe and sliced off that twig.
King H " yes you are very good you can be one of my personal body guards"
Next one who wanted to join up was a spear thrower
King H "how good are you throwing a spear"?
Spear throw said "Sire I am the best spear thrower in your kingdom"
King H " well throw a spear right through the hole in the trunk of a tree 30 yards away"
Well the spear thrower did exactly that
King H said " yes you are the best you too can be one of my personal .body guards"
The next one was the village idiot. So King Harold asked if he had ever used a weapon
"No sire" he said " Alls I does is looks after them sheeps and cows in them there fields"
So King Harold gave him a bow and arrow .
Well the village idiot fired the arrow and it bounced off 2 trees and returned in a kinda arc
King Harold said " put him at the back of the army before he has someones eye out"