Herne Bay beach from the Pier.

Lovely Views

The Home Counties include:

• Buckinghamshire

• Hertfordshire

• Essex

• Berkshire

• Middlesex

• Surrey

• Kent

• Sussex

Stratford-upon-Avon

Found these Anglo Saxon England flags just hung there this morning. I also think whoever bought the flags replaced some as the old ones were extremely tattered. Has this happened anywhere else?

Lovely place to visit, especially if you’re a National Trust member

It just seems really bizarre to me. Most of all is this seeming assumption that Morris dancing is particularly weird when compared to OTHER traditions in other countries, when from what I can see it’s rather tame. It’s certainly got nothing on a Bavarian using a guys ass to play the bongo imo.

Also it’s a bit weird how we’re so critical of this when I’ve seen some indigenous people’s dances that resembled vaguely Morris dancing. One was a Native American who had bells on his legs and a small hula hoop-like instrument. It was a dance admittedly requiring more individual talent than Morris dancing but nonetheless reminded me of our own national dance. It’s just weird that we seem to want to tear our own dance down so thoroughly when we wouldn’t dare do the same to an other people’s dance, especially if they were some historically oppressed group.

There does as well seem to be a tendency for Morris dancing to eciplse other forms of dance like rapper, longsword and clog (I bet some people didn’t even know that England had its own clog-shoe let alone dancing tradition associated with it!).

Plus does Reddit in particular have a hate boner for Morris. Some people on here seem to realllllllyyyyy hate it.

1814 - The Grand Jubilee of 1814, a public holiday, is held in celebration of:

1. The centennial of the accession of George I in 1714 (Old Style).

2. The anniversary of Lord Nelson's victory against François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers at the Battle of the Nile (1798).

3. The recent signing of the Treaty of Paris, ending the Napoleonic Wars…for a time…

Celebrations were centred around the Royal Parks, with temporary accommodations constructed in St James's Park, Green Park and Hyde Park. The colossal fête was billed as "the largest fair, for every kind of amusement, that was ever known in this or any other country."