The British navy won a victory today in 1665 over the Dutch fleet. Let's not get too smug however - as well as contending with the plague and the fire of London in an eighteen month period around then, we also sat back and watched the same Dutch sail up the Medway and pinch our flagship! Annus horribilis or what?
In other news ...
You know how it is, chaps; she says 'But we spent last Christmas at your mother's' or 'I did let you go to Twickenham'. Well, Edward VIII (the 53 week king) once said 'Of course, I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her.' He married Wallis Simpson today in 1937.
