>Hi Terry,
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>Nah no big fans of Mr Manning in my family, unless my mother is not telling me something? Just a Non de Plume , see that the french influence showing up straightaway..
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>Yep, you can understand it though, "oh look they running away, come on let's chase 'em", excitable lot..
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>you think after that little walk up to Stamford Bridge, bit of a schuffle with those scandiavian blokes, march back down to Hasting, punch up with the french, that they would be too knackered to chase anything...
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>Bernard......

Ironically, today I've just seen a flier for a proms they're doing at Battle Abbey (just near Senlac Field), end of August, with talk of getting to sing all those jingoistic songs, like "Rule Britannia". So people will sing "Britons never, never, never shall be slaves..." at the site of where they actually practically WERE MADE SLAVES.

Hastings is only an "arrow's flight" form here.