Try razor wire around that frame above the clock and install a rotary clock jack to march around the bell with a very sharp spear. Failing that a flame-thrower might do the trick, but you might have to repaint the clock after using it! Pootatu is being either Hip or helpful... v-word is 'ocyticat'
Perhaps a moggy up the steeple would scare the birds away - but Hadleigh hasn't been a city since it was the capital of a Saxon King.
Yes of course, Mike. I knew the name but couldn't extract it from the memory banks. If I'd got the name I might have got his nationality right. Deepest shame, although I understand that the earliest Saxon Kings, Hengist & Hrosa, arrived from Denmark (Jutland) whilst being Germanic (Saxon) by descent. Didn't Alfred and Guthrum make a peace-treaty a couple of years before Guthrum died?
Yes, they certainly came to some sort of treaty, and at about the same time Guthrum underwent some sort (rather political, I think) of conversion to Christianity, and became King of East Anglia, with his capital here. As a result of this (directly or indirectly) the Deanery of Hadleigh and Bocking is still in the gift of the Archbishop of Canterbury; although it's all a bit more complex than that, I think.
Try razor wire around that frame above the clock and install a rotary clock jack to march around the bell with a very sharp spear.
ReplyDeleteFailing that a flame-thrower might do the trick, but you might have to repaint the clock after using it!
Pootatu is being either Hip or helpful...
v-word is 'ocyticat'
Perhaps a moggy up the steeple would scare the birds away - but Hadleigh hasn't been a city since it was the capital of a Saxon King.
Guthrum the DANE!
ReplyDeleteYes of course, Mike. I knew the name but couldn't extract it from the memory banks. If I'd got the name I might have got his nationality right. Deepest shame, although I understand that the earliest Saxon Kings, Hengist & Hrosa, arrived from Denmark (Jutland) whilst being Germanic (Saxon) by descent.
ReplyDeleteDidn't Alfred and Guthrum make a peace-treaty a couple of years before Guthrum died?
Yes, they certainly came to some sort of treaty, and at about the same time Guthrum underwent some sort (rather political, I think) of conversion to Christianity, and became King of East Anglia, with his capital here. As a result of this (directly or indirectly) the Deanery of Hadleigh and Bocking is still in the gift of the Archbishop of Canterbury; although it's all a bit more complex than that, I think.
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