On the Island we have a statue to a little sweep, Valentine Gray, who died up a chimney which led to laws forbidding the use of children as chimney sweeps. I have no truck with this wishy-washy, namby-pambying raising of children...need I say more.
Isn't it a memorial, rather than a statue..? I mean, there's no figure, just a stone with an inscription..?
You are quite right, but I was too lazy to correct myself. There is also a small plaque in Gray's Walk...a recent arcade named in his honour. P.s. just discovered it is a listed monument.
Just that St Godders might be a bit pee'd off if he discovers, having earnestly swum the Solent just to see a statue [I can just imagine the effort right now], that it turns out to be a stone.
There is a Tudor gateway as well and a very large weeping birch signifying Church Litten's history as a burial ground. There are reputed to be a few French soldiers there who were killed when they dared to invade our Island.
While I am on a roll, the area is called Nodehill and noddy was an old word for body. Stop me somebody.
You seem to be enjoying all of this research Fran and as your knowledge of the Island now seems to be encyclopaedic I might call on you to give a guided tour when I am over next. In the meantime you need to get scrubbed up as we have an operation to perform on that very neglectful young man. As I write he is being shaved and prepared ready for your skilful wielding of the scalpel. I hope your hands are steady and you understand exactly which bits need to be removed. A mistake in that area could be disastrous for the young man. I can hear him now once he has qualified presenting a case to the jury in a high piched castrato voice! I wont go into the other problems he might face.
As an attempt to give my thread more life (and try to skirt the issue of Fran relieving me of my manhood) I thought I'd bring up an interesting story I just read. Scientists now believe that there may be a universe inside every black hole, and that therefore our universe is also inside a black hole. please log in to view this image
Is that shaving foam on your head Joe? Thats not where they were meant to shave you. Oooops! Looks like Fran has already been there with her scalpel. What has happened to your head Joe?
How much longer can we keep trying to breath some life into this thread and the Saints message board before it finally does become like John Cleese's parrot?
No! Talk about my black hole thing. Or perhaps the fact that in 2023, astronauts will be sent on a one-way journey to Mars. These are quality conversation starters.
Who would volunteer for a one way trip to Mars? Perhaps we could suggest names to be put forward Quickly adding...no politicians. We don't want Beddy to bust his truss.
Veteran astronauts who see it as the ultimate achievement. They'll put the first buildings up, and new astronauts will join them every two years.
