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Jun 30, 2023

anniversaries, buildings, genealogy, humour

alternative names, Barron Knights, Belgium, comedy songs, eating disorders, Ghent, half-inching, Israel, Joan of Acre, John of Gaunt, metrication, Metropolitan Police, Michael Foot, Scotland Yard, theft

There was a British comedy song in the 1970s about metrication. Although I cannot trace it, even on their website, it may well have been by the Barron Knights. It suggested that a Cabinet Minister of the time be renamed Michael 30.24cm and the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police (who arrest people for 1.27cm-ing) Scotland…
To eat medieval meat, or not to eat medieval meat….

Feb 1, 2017

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Cawood Castle, eating disorders, George Neville, hunting, mediaeval food

It is said that eating cheese last thing at night is very bad indeed for the digestion, and will result in alternate sleeplessness or bad dreams. Well, so I have been told. I ate cheese last thing last night and slept like a log, but I woke up this morning with the odd thought about…