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D1- travelling north 2/9/24

Damp start to the day

Damp middle bit along the glorious M1 interrupted by a short break using theextraM1le guide to find a farm shop

…and someone decided to use the ladies’ facilities by mistake 🤦‍♂️ (no prizes for guessing who)

Easy mistake to make in this modern world of uni- facilities (my excuse)

On to better things 😂

More dampness on the motorway, before arriving in North Yorkshire where we are being well looked after as always by Chris and Anne.

A little bit of historical research was needed….

(Brittanica.com)

Saint Oswald (born c. 604—died 642, Maserfelth, Eng.; feast day August 5) was an Anglo-Saxon king of Northumbria in  633 to 642 who introduced Celtic Christian missionaries to his kingdom and gained ascendancy over most of England. 

Oswald’s father, King Aethelfrith (d. 616), had ruled the two ancient Northumbrian kingdoms of Bernicia and Deira. Expelled from Northumbria upon the accession of his uncle Edwin in 616, Oswald and his brother Oswiu took refuge in Iona in the Hebrides, where they were converted.

Edwin was killed fighting King Cadwallon of Gwynedd (in northern Wales) and Penda of Mercia in 633, but the next year Oswald defeated and killed Cadwallon near Hexham (in present-day Northumberland). At Oswald’s invitation, St. Aidan led a group of Irish monks from Iona to found a monastery and missionary bishopric for the kingdom at Lindisfarne. The historian Bede says that he asserted his authority over all the peoples of southern England. The pagan king Penda defeated and killed Oswald at Maserfelth (or Maserfeld, probably near Oswestry in present-day Shropshire). The dead king was venerated as a martyr of  the Northumbrian church, and it was believed that his remains worked miracles.

Love a good family tree ! 😱

(from Max Adams book “ The King in the North” Head of Zeus Ltd 2013)

And a bit of Geography .

An evening of putting the world to rights and a wee dram finished off the day nicely

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