Richard I’m back from the pub and am happy to report I have burnt gallons of gas today moving my Leyland Retriever engine and gearbox to its new home so I’m all fired up on a haze of non green, non PC, non Euro high lead fuel.
Let's start at the beginning…….. Hastings or in English history (actually that means Saxon) that’s about mid way, in British history it’s not even a blinks worth.
Now, I can rightfully claim that one of my ancestors was there…. fighting for the bad guy, on which side where the Notons and Winnington-Balls, those with the arrows and dodgy hair cuts or them with the long droopy moustaches and enormous choppers?
Anyway we kicked some Saxon arse and generally misbehaved for the next two centuries. Serves them right they were interlopers anyway.
Had it not been for the blasted Tudors I would still own most of Northamptonshire part of Warwickshire and bits Leicestershire.
Right the Scottish problem next,
Most of the 14 billion a month is paid by the taxes of those who live in the southeast of England, I know, I pay 40% of it every month.
It makes me feel warm all over to realise that my sacrifice is going towards making Scottish MP's comfy and not sorting out the very real problems of unemployment and under investment in the Highlands, I have close links with Dounreay so I have an idea what the issues are in that part of the world.
Now Alberta.........I have looked at my Readers Digest World Atlas and it looks like it's on the same level as the UK so I guessing the weather is broadly the same? Two questions Do they have bloody great snakes there? And are there bloody great bears wandering around? Both are preferable to being mugged in the street, but at least a chap needs to be prepared.
Yours as ever xenophobicaly
Pete
