does he ever sleep ?

style just evolves all the time ,
a year ago this was beyond imagination now genghis makes it
look like the contrived fakery it was

THE BALLAD of ROBIN HOOD (edit)

ROBIN HOODS MURDER
She saw the blood so bright so red,
she left the room and locked the door,
The blood it flowed so bright and red,
the blood it flowed so thick and fast.

At first it flowed the thick, thick blood,
and then the blood began to thin,
it bled all day and through the night,
till noon next day, it was not right.

He then thought of his bugle horn,
which to his knee was hung down low;
he set his horn unto his mouth,
and blew three times the sound was poor.

The notes were weak but Little John,
beneath a tree had heard the song,
he rushed towards the sound I fear,
my master Robin’s end is near.

Little John to Kirklees has gone,
running, his master to be near,
when he to Kirkley-Hall arrived,
his master for to see alive.

He broke the locks one two or three,
his master thinking to set free,
when Robin he himself did find,
upon his knees he sadly fell.

Good friend he cried good friend,
I beg thee master mine,
what is that my good friend,
quoth Robin Hood to him.

What do you beg of me,
It is cried Little John,
to burn the Kirkley-Hall,
and all their nunnery.

I never hurt a maid,
in all my life so fair,
nor at my end will I,
they are a treasure rare.

Put bow within my hand,
an arrow I’ll let flee,
where ere my arrow falls,
then there my grave shall be.

Lay me a green sod under my head
another at my feet,
my best bow beside me place
for truly t’was my music sweet,

and make my grave of gravel and green
which is most right and meet,
give me length and breadth to lie
so they will say when I am dead,

HERE LIES BOLD ROBIN HOOD MY FRIEND
HERE LIES BOLD ROBIN HOOD

Hey down a derry derry down.”

GHOST-PLANES

In july 1997 along with my friend David Maude , we had driven a few miles from home & were near cock crowing stone above meltham in the peak district national park .
As ornihologists we had intended to study larger birds of prey such as red kite & buzzard . we walked a short distance from the vehical & into some barron peat boggy area which overlooks a small lake we call the blue lagoon . it was a clear sunny day & we made a number of interesting bird sightings . Returning to the van we heard the throaty rumbling of an aircraft . I was gobsmacked as it appeared from the haze & very low it was a bf 109 in a tattered condition & waggling as if the pilot were struggling to control it . It was so low we could clearly see where paint was chipped off , it was a desert camo kind of lion/fawn colour , I particularly noticed the struts which supported the tailplane , so as an aviation buff I deduced it was an emil E (the later models dispensed with the struts) . As it roared above I excitedly jumped up & down . my friend said its a fucking Messerschmitt . He was right it was . I had used the battery on my camcorder & was kicking myself swearing as it simply vanished . It couldnt have been more than 100 feet away . the first incling it was a ghost plane came immediately thereafter it had roared towards us but became silent as it went directly overhead . As it had wiggled past we had both seen the pilot so near that we could discern the tint of the goggles . my friend said something which still makes me shiver "he had no face"
We immediately went to the local (huddersfield) library . After hours of reading the
only relevant information I could find was that during the so called baedecker raids (on historic citys like York & Chester the luftwaffe had used Blackmoor foot reservoir as a landmark to form up . although a couple of miles away it was plainly visible from the spot .
Remarkably that part of the peak district has been the sight of hundreds of actual plane crashes , many during the war , many more recent .



Bf 109
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The Messerschmitt Bf 109 was a German World War II fighter aircraft designed by Willy Messerschmitt in the early 1930s. It was one of the first true modern fighters of the era, including such features as an all-metal monocoque construction, a closed canopy, and retractable landing gear. The Bf 109 was produced in greater quantities than any other fighter aircraft in history, with 30,573 units built alone during 1939-1945. Fighter production totalled 47% of all German aircraft production, and the Bf 109 accounted for 57% of all fighter types produced .

The Bf 109 was the backbone of the Jagdwaffe for the duration of World War II, although it began to be partially replaced by the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 starting in 1941. The Bf 109 scored more aircraft kills in World War II than any other aircraft. At various times it served as an air superiority fighter, an escort fighter, an interceptor, a ground-attack aircraft and a reconnaissance aircraft. Although the Bf 109 had weaknesses, including a short range, and especially a sometimes difficult to handle narrow, outward-retracting undercarriage, it stayed competitive with Allied fighter aircraft until the end of the war.

The Bf 109 was flown by the three top-scoring fighter aces of World War II: Erich Hartmann, the top scoring fighter ace of all time with 352 official victories, Gerhard Barkhorn with 301 victories, and Günther Rall with 275 victories. All of them flew with Jagdgeschwader 52, a unit which exclusively flew the Bf 109 and was credited with over 10,000 victories, chiefly on the Eastern Front. Hartmann refused to fly any other aircraft in combat throughout the war. Hans-Joachim Marseille, the highest scoring German ace in the North African Campaign, also scored all of his 158 victories in the Bf 109, against Western Allied pilots. The Bf 109 was also used with good result by non-German pilots, including Finnish fighter ace Ilmari Juutilainen with 94 victories - the highest scoring non-German fighter ace in history.

The Bf 109 will always be compared to its adversary, the Supermarine Spitfire; both were among the best of their day.
The Howden Moor incident coming soon.

ROBIN HOOD MAN OF MANY GUISES

PROOF IS IN THE COURT RECORDS

1. Robert Hood/Hode appears at Wakefield in the WCR for 1331 [fined for not attending the tourn]
2. Robert Hood of Newton appears at Thornes in 1331 ['unjustly taking and detaining a horse'], at Alverthorpe in the same year ['tresspass'] and at Alverthorpe again in the same year when Robert's cattle trampled John Couper's corn and rye in the field of Newton.
3. Robert Hode at Stanley is mentioned in the WCR in the same years as Roger De Doncaster of Crigglestone, 1327 & 1333 and also 1332.The 1333 entry at Stanley states that Robert's cattle trampled William Templer's corn. Later in the same year the case appears again but does not proceed 'for want of jurors', and later in the year Robert is fined 3 pence for the tresspass.
4. Robert Hode at Sowerby is fined for not attending.
Hood is a particularly Scottish name, it is considered that any one of these persons residing within the Wakefield Manor could have provided the name 'Robyn Hode' for use by the author/compiler of the Geste. The added allusion to a hooded villain as a parody of the character of the Geste would not have been lost on the compiler.

µ Steward sometime when Alan De Nesse was Abbot of St. Mary's Abbey [1313-1329]. Sir John also held some land in Doncaster and nearby Bentley. He was entrusted with the stewardship of the Warrene lands between February 1323 and April 1324 which were then held by King Edward II [after Earl Thomas had taken them in 1317 and lost all to the king in 1322].
It is speculated here that either John or his nephew Roger, as members of this family, were the basis of Sir Roger De Doncastre of the Geste, designed by a ballad-muse or minstrel. This ballad-muse is described elsewhere as a member of the Le Waleys family of Burgh Wallis, South Yorkshire. We do find a minstrel, Nicholas De Doncaster, acting as a trumpeter to Earl Warrene§ and King Edward I's accounts mention payments to him for services in 1303 for 25th February, 12th June, 15th May, 26th April, and 23rd March..6 Nicholas is sometimes mentioned with Adam De Cliderhou [Clitheroe] the King's harper.

§ Note: This was John the seventh Earl Warrene and Surrey [1231-1304]. Because his father died when John [really a Plantagenet through his grandfather Hamelyn] was eight, his mother Matilda held the estates until later. He became a ward of Henry III as a result of his father's early death when he was 9 years of age. John Warrene 7th Earl married Alice [Alicia] de Lusignan [de Brun] d. 9th February 1255, they had a son, William and two daughters. Henry III's half sister.

John De Warrene became involved in a vitriolic land dispute with Henri de Laci of Pontefract in 1268. The 7th earl was issued with a writ along with may other barons by the king, Quo warranto? [Who Holds?], in which it was demanded by what authority he held his estates. The earl is said to have drawn the first earl's sword and replied " Gladoi riri, gladio teneo, gladio tenedo" or " I gained it by the sword, I hold it by the sword, I will keep it by the sword". Both barons assembled their armies but Henry III intervened to prevent the situation leading to war.
It was John the 7th Earl of Warren who built the stone castle of Sandal Magna, from 1240, making it the chief seat of the manor1 An earlier wooden motte and bailey had been built soon after the conquest.

Warrenes V's the De Lacis
The question might arise as to why a ballad-muse would introduce such a nefarious anti-hero with such a specific surname that seems to have been locally common in this medieval period. The answer may lie in the continuing feud between the De Lacis of Pontefract and their enemies the De Warrenes who held Sandal Castle and the Wakefield Manor. What better way of scandalising one of your enemies greatest supporters than by immortalising him as an evil-doer in a ballad. John De Doncaster as steward had in practice, control of the Warrene's Wakefield Manor, for most of the year. The earl of Warrene would only visit his Northern domains on circuit perhaps no more than a fortnight every six months.11 We know that the Le Waleys family* supported both the De Lacis and after 1311, Thomas Earl of Lancaster who married the De Laci heiress, Alice. Even after Thomas's death in 1322, the Le Waleys would have had strong feelings of enmity towards the stewards of the Wakefield Manor. Memories of John De Doncaster and the De Doncaster family particularly from the time of 1317 when the Warrene castles were attacked in reponse to Alice De Lacis apparent abduction by earl Warrene's men would have been high in the mind of the any compiler in the De Laci camp. It is speculated that the later fyttes that refer to the prioress and her lover were added by someone after Stephen II Le Waleys' death in 1347. A contender for this could be Sir Robert de Swillington, Stephen II's son-in-law and steward to John of Gaunt at Pontefract castle. The rivalry appears to have boiled again later, when, as described in the popular local drama, "Revenge upon Revenge", later described as the Elland Feud a steward of the Wakefield Manor, Sir John De Elland, was murdered along with his son.

INSCRIPTION ON ROBIN HOODS GRAVE

INSCRIPTION ON ROBIN HOODS GRAVE
Here underneath dis laitl stean
HERE UNDERNEATH THIS LITTLE STONE
Laz robert earl of Huntintun
LIES ROBERT EARL OF HUNTINGTON
Ne'er arcir ver as hie sa geud
"NEVER" AN ARCHER AS HE WAS SO GOOD
An pipl kauld im robin heud
THE PEOPLE CALLED HIM ROBIN HOOD
Sick utlawz as his as iz men
SUCH OUTLAWS AS HE & HIS MEN
Vil england nivr si agen
ENGLAND WILL "NEVER" SEE AGAIN
Obiit 24 Kal. Dekembris 1247.