Musings from the Merse
Sunday, August 13, 2006
Lovers of caption contests should try their skill at http://www.hunnymonster.org.uk/ where our MSP is photographed chatting to a quaintly dressed gentleman in a fairly animated way. You are invited to supply a suitable caption or speech bubble.
Huttonian has been avoiding Coldstream during the current civic week for fear of being run down by the Coldstreamer on his big hoss or by the right hand or left hand men on theirs. There are lot of them around-hence presumably the description of 'common rider' -or perhaps that breed of horsey people are from another Borders festival, also celebrating the bad old days. Anyhow this weeks Berwickshire has a front page picture of the Coldstreamer, nag bound, with the Burgh Standard (NB a flag, not a local paper) on a ride-out to Norham. Why Norham? Its an English Border town as Coldstream is a Scottish Border Toon. I would have thought that Scots would have learned to be a bit careful about expeditions into England all dressed up in their war paint. It could all end in tears as in 1513 at Flodden Field. But of course they may be conveying an official apology for their previous and unprovoked invasion of poor old Norham, badly damaging its castle, en route to the battle field a few leagues south. And it was all to do the French a favour. No nobler cause than that?
Flodden was a disaster for Scotland. Why celebrate it? Ride -out to Bannockburn for goodness sake. Now had Mel Gibson been at Flodden it might have ended differently. Mightn't it?
For goodness sake
Huttonian has been avoiding Coldstream during the current civic week for fear of being run down by the Coldstreamer on his big hoss or by the right hand or left hand men on theirs. There are lot of them around-hence presumably the description of 'common rider' -or perhaps that breed of horsey people are from another Borders festival, also celebrating the bad old days. Anyhow this weeks Berwickshire has a front page picture of the Coldstreamer, nag bound, with the Burgh Standard (NB a flag, not a local paper) on a ride-out to Norham. Why Norham? Its an English Border town as Coldstream is a Scottish Border Toon. I would have thought that Scots would have learned to be a bit careful about expeditions into England all dressed up in their war paint. It could all end in tears as in 1513 at Flodden Field. But of course they may be conveying an official apology for their previous and unprovoked invasion of poor old Norham, badly damaging its castle, en route to the battle field a few leagues south. And it was all to do the French a favour. No nobler cause than that?
Flodden was a disaster for Scotland. Why celebrate it? Ride -out to Bannockburn for goodness sake. Now had Mel Gibson been at Flodden it might have ended differently. Mightn't it?
For goodness sake
Comments:
You mean he'd have been arrested for Drunk in Charge of a Battle, given the arresting officer some racist verbal and been up before Sir Kevin of Duns ? ;-)
Coldstream Civic Week is over and the roses are looking well on it.
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Coldstream Civic Week is over and the roses are looking well on it.
