1856…
They were the Worst of Times…
Before the Beginning…
Chuck D, Pompey man !
(…& sometimes Ladies & Gents, they were even worse than that…)
Saturday Afternoons would come & go with nothing more for grown men to do but stand around pretending to be chimneys…
…a Mid-Week Fixture consisted of simply sitting about on rickety gates, talking a load of old turnips & hoping to avoid being struck by lightning…
Shocking !
Wet &Windy Wednesdays in Wednesbury, Workington, Worcester or Wigan held even less appeal back then, than they hold, now…
…& another thing…
…There was always a ‘wee roond a Gowf ’*…
Wis ma baw gan..?
…Gowd help us !
…well, perhaps not…
*…that’ll be a ‘little round of Golf’ to those Non-Scots among us…
Maybe a crack at the Cricket might help while away those idle hours…
Owzat !!!
The Ballad of ‘Bouncing’ Tom Box…coming soon…
(…as long as it was summer & not raining, of course…)
A little light ice-skating should conditions be conducive - Keep an eye out for the thin ice, mind !
…With that calamitous conflict in the Crimea finally finished (…for the time being, at least…) somewhere in the region of Britain’s Middle, the reek of peaceful revolution hangs heavy in the air…
…well, MOSTLY peaceful, that is…
Next…
In the Beginning…
Is it 1857 yet…?
“…& another thing & another & another &…”
Credit, where Credit’s due, Brian…
Reffed by Wikipedia…
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