Mikes weather bits & Photo Blog: Richard the III, "is the King under the car park!" & a few other things!

Tuesday, 5 February 2013

Richard the III, "is the King under the car park!" & a few other things!

So its official then, after a lot of conjecture the bones found under a car park in the city of Leicester are those of King Richard the III. His body apparently was buried inside the church of a priory which stood on the land now occupied by the car park at the time of his death at Bosworth Battlefield in 1485.

Sally my wife, is an ardent Yorkist even though she was born in Leicestershire. She will hear no "lies" about Richard and the "Prince's in the tower" controversy. The "nasty" side of Richard was also inflamed by William Shakespeare years later when he portrayed the king famously to be almost a half brother to Quasimodo in my opinion. However my opinion counts for little, me being a, "Lancastrian" Mmmmmmm!

I see that following Acrcheological practise, "The Kings" remains will be re-buried in the nearest consecrated ground which is Leicester Cathedral. I fear this might cause a little "scuffle" amongst those who believe that "English Kings" should be buried at "Westminster Abbey" Sally might be at the front of the queue!

I am happy to announce also that Sally has passed a test (she found it on the internet) which some consider all immigrants to our "Green and pleasant land!" should take. This is to prove they at least know the country to which they are consistently flocking. Not wanting to inflame any political debate, I think this is shutting the stable door way after it has been trampled "well underfoot!"

I see "Dyson" has come up with another "Ground breaking" invention. A tap with a hand drier attached! "The Telegraph" reports that "The Perils of negotiating the washroom with wet hands could soon be a thing of the past". I would have thought the "perils of negotiating the wash room with wet hands" could be drastically reduced by positioning the towel rail next to the sink?"

The winter has once again reminded us that its still around. yesterday we had glorious sunshine for the morning even though it was quite cold out in the North West wind. Our weather forecasters, yesterday afternoon were predicting icy blasts of snow and as I sit here, sure enough this morning here it is

This is the pic out the back of the house a few minutes ago. It looks far too wet, with the temperature at +1.2c to last very long though. (kiss of death maybe!)

Finally - - I just hope the current snow doesn't ruin the display of very early "spring" flowers in the garden