This is very good by @barneyronay at explaining something that had been mildly nagging me: why I feel less interested in first class cricket this season than I have done since 1981.
My sense of the natural rhythm of the season is completely shot. I’ve no idea what all the various competitions are, when & by whom they’re being played, who’s going to be in the England team, who’s going to be out, & why.
Yes! The County Championship has been great. But now it’s suddenly stopped. Why? When does it return?
A literally haunting possibility floated by the article: “the shackles represented insurance for the living against any potential supernatural repercussions of the man's harsh treatment.”
2 maverick cops investigating Roman cold cases plus ghosts is very much the Sunday evening drama I want to watch
Sometimes 'inhabitants of post-Roman lowland Britain,' or 'West Saxons', or 'Anglians,' or 'Mercians', or - post Athelstan - 'English' may indeed serve better. But 'Anglo-Saxons' is the most convenient & widely recognised term, so use it when & as necessary, without anxiety!
A thread on why I, certainly, have no qualms whatsoever about using the word 'Anglo-Saxons'.
Asked by @AgnesCPoirier to show her l'Angleterre profonde tomorrow, I will - of course - be taking her to Wiltshire.
On the tour: a Mesolithic sacred spring, a top secret MOD facility turned cannabis factory, a paedophile slave owner's folly, & memories of King Alfred.
To Wiltshire!
At Blick Mead, where Mesolithic settlers set up camp beside a sacred spring, Guinevere retired after losing Sir Launcelot, & from which pilgrims will be leaving next week on a solstice journey to Avebury.
The eastern portal of the #StonehengeTunnel will be built on its doorstep.
The jollity of touring an array of monuments to kings, generals & homocidal Icenian queens with top Marxist @dcsandbrook considerably enhanced by the fact that he was a wearing a Tom Holland Benefit Year 2021 cap throughout...
This sets up our forthcoming trilogy on statues perfectly!