Happy Battle of Hastings Day to all on AB

[Mosaic]

I'll probably be the only one spending a minutes silence contemplating the arrival of the Norman Batarde on our shores.....

[bibblebub]

are you taking the change of calendar into account?

[factor-fiction]

I heard that Harold was the first person to have an i-pad.

[Ankou]

lol factor.

he always said to watch out for fred the archer. he was recorded as saying, "that bloody idiot is gonna take someones eye out with that stupid thing one of these da_aaarrrrggggg"

[Mosaic]

Damn that change of calendar! Another interference in our traditions from Europe. So I'll have to be wistful twice!
Factor...do you think he saw the point of it?

[Mosaic]

Lol Ankou!

[rowanwitch]

It was the Norman spy in the group he was with

Excuse me sire is that a Red kite or a buzzard up there....

where? ouch

[jno]

Another interference in our traditions from Europe.

ah, but it was resisted far longer than the changeover to kilometres. We took pride in being behind the rest of the world for more than 150 years because we thought it wsaas a Roman plot.

[Mosaic]

Goldarn it Jno is you saying the land of the free, where miles and inches rule, is 'be-hind' the rest of the world? That kinda talk gits a boy in Guantanamo.

[Ankou]

i don;t know about guantanamo, but you'd certainly have your benefits withdrawn.

[jake-the-peg]

Our traditions?

Harold was at least half Swedish on his mother's side and The Normans were "Norsemen".

The Battle of Hastings was two bunches of Vikings fighting over England more than anything else!

[Dodger666]

They may change its name to the Battle of Crowhurst some time in the future.

http://www.dailymail....King-Harold-died.html

[jno]

Harold's daughter fled to the continent and married the Grand Duke of Kiev; her son founded Moscow.