Obviously not, because that would be Dangerous. Just the axe as pictured, I’m sure.
Nearly sure.
Ish.
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Mornin’ all.
yardarm
Don’t worry, if you get murdered in yer bed it’ll be for sound commercial reasons and you won’t know a fing about it. That’s the Sparrer’s Bruvver guarantee.
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Bacon butties ready folk
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It’s not actually the anniversary of the Battle of Senlac Hill, of course (give us back our eleven days!) but it is the day people have chosen to claim for it, so let’s raise a glass or two in memory of a remarkable campaign, lost only through mischance and not through valour or skill on the other side.
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(with my wargaming brain in) When one side has cavalry and at least some idea of how to use it, and the other doesn’t, you know which way the odds are running. Could certainly have gone either way, though.
When I were a tiny sparrer the consensus was that the Anglo-Saxon troops were tired after having marched from Stamford Bridge; but they still fought all day, while other tired troops of the same period would simply run away. On the other hand, chasing after the Norman false retreats rather than staying in formation was certainly a mistake. (But when you’re the leader of a Saxon warband, can you stay in formation and retain the respect of your men, which you need to lead them at all? They were certainly not the last to make that error - see Nicopolis for example.)
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Bunking off to watch the footie mid-campaign is seldom a wise move.
It is, however, 94 years since the publication of Winnie-the-Pooh, with no calendar shifting involved. Feels longer, somehow…
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Also nominally on this day: in 1322, Robert the Bruce wins the Battle of Old Byland. (Other things too, of course.)
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Sir Cliff Richard is 80 today too…
Carinthia.xx
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That feels longer, too.
OK, it’s official, then: 14 October is a Not Good Day. One might go so far as to call it Inauspicious. Assuming one is not Robert the Bruce.
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A day of meh to be frank
Would beer help?
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Usually does, yep.
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Pore Sparrer : (
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In a concession to autumn, I am building a soup out of orangey things. Butternut squash and lentils, mainly.
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Here I have taken the band off my weather skirt as M had done a crude effort at a dart
Take the band and put a few stitches in to make a loop of the band on each side of the zip
The band put on with an edge either side of the zip and the skirt hook bar was at right angles to the hook!
So are darts better in front or at the back
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Try the knittery and stitchery thread?
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Done
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AttaTwellies; it fits better there, being as how it is definitely stitchery!
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Soup is done. Sweet, spicy, earthy, warming. Slightly ‘worthy’ though - next time I shall decrease the proportion of lentils.
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Why did I agree to write this article? My head is full of 1960s cars now. Oh right, that’s why.
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