dougdeep
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What did we all get up too? Waving our flag? Sussex dances? Beating the bounds? Pub games? Songs and prayers to the Sussex saint? Stoolball?
Stoolball ! How would you play that?
Stoolball ! How would you play that?
Stoolball is sort of a cross between cricket and rounders, played with an oversized table-tennis bat. I used to play in PE lessons at Clymping St. Mary's School.
I let my heart be gay
Perhaps we should all have carried out a pilgrimage to the most sacred place in Sussex. According to Wiki the first king of the Southern Saxons, among others, could still be there.
It has been conjectured that, as Saxon war leader, Ælle may have met his death in the disastrous battle of Mount Badon when the Britons halted Saxon expansion. If Ælle died within the borders of his own kingdom then it may well have been that he was buried on Highdown Hill with his weapons and ornaments in the usual mode of burial among the South Saxons. Highdown Hill is the traditional burial-place of the kings of Sussex.
Stoolball ! How would you play that?
I let my heart be gay
I may well have also harked to a merry bugle