Its only a few hours (for me) to the 150th anniversary of the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava, MLU has dealt with this before but suffice to say it was a cock-up of grand proportions and fairly decimated the 4th and 13th Light Dragoons, 17th Lancers, and the 8th and 11th Hussars.

At this moment a small army of correctly period uniformed re-enactors, with period tentage and cooking facilities are encamped on the original battlefield and complete with the necessary horses.

The charge will be re-enacted tomorrow but without the original carnage thankfully and I have to record that it was not I, but Mrs. Notton who watched the scenes on the national news tonight and remarked that only the British would do this; would we ever see the French re-enacting Waterloo or Agincourt, or even our indigenous large population of Wehrmacht re-enactors travelling to Falaise to re-play the events of the pocket.

How strange that we would actually celebrate in detail a resounding defeat, perhaps me and that frightfully nice Mr. Raywinning-Suntonball should organise a similar grand-scale Operation Jubilee re-enactment?

R.