<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp66143488yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Did you happen to notice if they were referring to an electronic version of the Bentley's on their portable devices?<br></div><div><br></div><div class="ydp66143488signature"><div style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none;"><div style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none;"><div><font size="4">Dave <br></font></div><div><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;"><br></span></div><br></div></div></div></div>
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On Sunday, August 6, 2023 at 06:33:23 AM CDT, John Macartney <johnbmacartney@gmx.com> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">In my home town of Evesham in the U.K., the early part of August sees a weekend dedicated to a re-enactment of the Battle of Evesham in 1265. By all accounts it was a very bloody affair with neither side taking prisoners. This weekend sees the better part of 1,000 reenactors taking part with the inevitable mediaeval encampment, horses everywhere, tents everywhere and a pall of woodsmoke from a myriad campfires hanging over the town and under a continuous drizzle of rain of any Typically British summer day.<br></div><div dir="ltr">The reenactors and camp followers are taking things very seriously by dressing in period clothes, eating period food and some are even speaking Chaucer’s English. The whole scene is a backdrop of two handed swords, spears, pikes, longbows and what have you.<br></div><div dir="ltr">Imagine my surprise therefore when coming through the town last night to encounter a Spitfire and a Stag parked by the kerb. The bonnet was raised on the Spitfire and the bootlid open on the Stag with a large box of tools on the ground between. But it was the crews of these cars that intrigued me as they were all dressed a l’epoque de 1265 with swords, spears, clubs and longbows leaning against the two cars, while eating in their fingers from a number of opened packets of fish and chips strategically placed on two soft tops, as the Spitfire decanted it’s own smokescreen to add to that of the campfires. <br></div><div dir="ltr">I’m guessing a tourist would want to photograph this scene but to me it was all quite normal - just a bit of period confusion perhaps but so typically British.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Jonmac<br></div><div dir="ltr">** <a href="mailto:triumphs@autox.team.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">triumphs@autox.team.net</a> **<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Donate: <a href="http://www.team.net/donate.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.team.net/donate.html</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">Archive: <a href="http://www.team.net/pipermail/triumphs" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.team.net/pipermail/triumphs</a> <a href="http://www.team.net/archive" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.team.net/archive</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Unsubscribe/Manage: <a href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/triumphs/dave1massey@cs.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/triumphs/dave1massey@cs.com</a><br></div></div>
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