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WATERLOO YEAR

Two posts in one day?Happily New Years Day fell on a Thursday so I got the day off. We started the day with an impromptu Napoleonic battle on the sitting room floor. Each boy got a box of A Call to Arms Napoleonics and a Playmobil cannon as part of their Christmas presents, so we had a happy half hour firing the guns until the battle developed into trench warfare using fold in the rug as defences

Later on we went for a walk by the town of Wotton-under-Edge on part of the Cotswold Way. This copse of trees is called Waterloo plantation, and was originally planted to commemorate the battle, and has been replanted over the last 200 years. I always like a stand of Scots pines, and these are surrounded by a wall which makes them quite mysterious in an M R Jamesian  type of way. It wasn't raining but very windy, but fortunately we had brought bacon butties and cocoa.




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