25th October 2017 - St Crispin's Day

Thought for the day:"Synonym n: Word used in place of one you can't spell"

Best go and put some gaffer tape on the Bothy I suppose.... Luckily it is not raining...
Hmm - should have checked - battery dead as a door nail
On Charge - hoping to get her started by 12.30 when it is booked in - nope - did not work ...

6pm - and it is charged - but too late for today - have to be tomorrow..

Meanwhile, it is St Crispin's day

1415 – Hundred Years' War: Henry V of England and his lightly armoured infantry and archers defeat the heavily armoured French cavalry in the Battle of Agincourt on Saint Crispin's Day.

When the Battle of Balaclava was fought on the 25 October 1854, the coincidence was noticed by contemporaries, who used Shakespeare's words to comment on the battle. The contrast between the two battles, one a complete victory, the other indecisive and notorious for the disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade, has also been noted. The Battle of Shangani (1893) in the First Matabele War was also fought on that date. Didn't know that before!!

Saints Crispin and Crispinian are the Christian patron saints of cobblers, curriers, tanners, and leatherworkers. Beheaded during the reign of Diocletian; the date of their execution is given as 25 October 285 or 286. 

Born to a noble Roman family in the 3rd century AD, Saints Crispin and Crispinian fled persecution for their faith, ending up at Soissons, where they preached Christianity to the Gauls whilst making shoes by night. While it is stated that they were twin brothers, that has not been positively proved.

They earned enough by their trade to support themselves and also to aid the poor. Their success attracted the ire of Rictus Varus, governor of Belgic Gaul, who had them tortured and thrown into the river with millstones around their necks. Though they survived, they were beheaded by the Emperor c. 285-286.

An alternative account gives them to be sons of a noble Romano-Briton family who lived in Canterbury, following their father's murder for displeasing the Roman Emperor. As they were approaching maturity their mother sent them to London to seek apprenticeship and to avoid coming to the attention of their father's killer. Travelling there, the brothers came across a shoemaker's workshop at Faversham and decided to travel no further and stayed in Faversham. This account fails to explain how the brothers came to be venerated and martyred.

So there !!!

And a Trump Picture - because I can ...

And susie out of hospital
so cheers !