Is Death Serious Enough?

 

 

Freaky Deacon

 

I found an envelope in an Olde Arte Book a few minutes after I posted my last blog post about Chaz becoming a “King” : As if Game Of Thrones hadn’t been dull enough. In the envelope was this photo that looked spookily like the Charles & Baconesque homage post I had just posted in the blog post etc …

 

Mysterious Envelope  

 

Not Chaz or a Screaming Pope but … whatever 

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Fa King’ Hell

 

Old Git With Ski Poles As Walking Sticks

 Like They do

 

Ai miss Francis Bacon

 

 

 

Batman vs Putin

 

WTFuck is this photo about? 

 

Bidenman, Bidenman, Does Whatever A Biden Can. Different theme song same show

 

 

 

The Winner Takes It All

 

But he took the lot anyway … right?

 

Ignore That Cnut

Today I am on a sunny roof terrace in Andalucia practicing alchemy on a chicken. I’m converting it into pure carbon using a Barbecue: Incidentally, the Carbon Footprint of a Chicken is 1.82kg CO2e, or a 9km drive in a car. Shut-up you say? I don’t drive

Today the UK is flooding and freezing with temperatures falling as low as -10°

Today Sky News is reporting on the flooding & freezing in a County of Merry Olde Englande that no longer exists: Wessex

 Wessex Whatever?

Yes here is a gratuitous photo unrelated to Wessex but this cheeky ironic pic illustrates what I want to talk about briefly

An understanding of the often misquoted and misunderstood story of King Canute or Cnut is necessary here

Nano History Lesson

Most of us may be familiar with the beginning of the story: King Canute, being an arrogant ruler, had his throne placed on the banks of the Thames, waiting for the tide to come in. As the tide rose, Canute stood and held out his hand, demanding that the waves recede.

 A country that loves a sign

“But the sea carried on rising as usual without any reverence for his person, and soaked his feet and legs. Then he moving away said: “All the inhabitants of the world should know that the power of kings is vain and trivial, and that none is worthy of the name of king but He whose command the heaven, earth and sea obey by eternal laws”.
(Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum)

 

And thus my educated chums, King Canute/Cnut learned something that day that all we should learn … but then

  

After King Canute/Cnut the Great’s conquest of 1016, Wessex became one of the great regional earldoms Canute created, and so it remained from 1020 to 1066. After 1066, the Normans dissolved the large English earldoms and Wessex was no more.

 

Until Today

 

No More Wessex Anymore

 

(Now … time to bin that chicken) 

 

Spare A Thought

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Yours Truly 

Happy New Year Dear

 

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Yours Truly

 

 

 

 

 

Christmas To Be Repurposed

 

The Federation of Universal Linguistics (FOUL) are seeking to modernise the festive experience by renaming it ‘Unboxing Day’. FOUL also propose that the day following ‘Unboxing Day’ should will be updated to ‘ReBoxing Day’

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Yours Truly

 

Death On Mars

 

‘My power’s really low’: Nasa’s Insight Mars lander prepares to sign off from the Red Planet

 Robot says it might be sending its last message from Mars as dust chokes out its power supply

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Yours Truly