Behold my buried treasure! While preparing for the demolition of a derelict shed, I found a corner of something concrete in the ground nearby. Hoping very much it wasn’t more concrete slab to need demolishing, I dug (with trowel, shown above for scale) and behold! it was a concrete trough, which last saw the light of day…sometime between 10 and 80 years ago. Having extricated it (with aforementioned trowel, spade, and crowbar) I plan to transfer it to the front garden and use it as a combination planter and miniature retaining wall.
Interesting Times
Edward II died in 1327 in a Most Unpleasant Way – or did he? The history books state that he died at Berkeley Castle on the 21st of September. His son started spreading the news two days later, having received a letter from Thomas de Berkeley (baron of Berkeley Castle) which, in Parliament three years later, the said Thomas de Berkeley denied ever sending. Whether Edward II died or not, then or not, there or not, a red hot poker was almost certainly not involved.
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