It occurs to me some readers (if indeed there are any readers of this blog other than my Californian friend, who must have been taught by someone like my old RI teacher: "Read everything you can," he said, "even if it's only the back of the corn flake packet."). Now where was I? Oh yes.
It occurs to me that people might not know the difference between a Man of Kent and a Kentish Man. Indeed, they might not even realise that there is a difference.
Kent is the county that occupies the most south-easterly corner of England, the bit nearest to France. Known as the Garden of England, it was once famous for hops, apples and cherries. Sadly, most of those have long since disappeared and Kent is now best known for Dover, the busiest port in the world from where ferries sail for France at the rate of one every 15 minutes or so during the busiest part of the day. Kent is also home to the English end of the Channel tunnel.
The county is divided roughly into two halves by the River Medway, which joins the Thames estuary at Sheerness, having flowed through Tonbridge, and Maidstone, then past Rochester, Chatham and Gillingham. Men born north and west of the Medway, ie on the London side, are Kentish men, while those born on the Canterbury side are Men of Kent.
I did warn you - more useless trivia! Now for today's positive thought.
"Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed."
Eileen Caddy
1 comment:
Corn flakes... hmmmmmm... haven't read those for awhile. I'll have to buy a box. Meanwhile, I will continue to read just about anything else that catches the eye.
Oh! I don't believe that was so trivial. But what do I know about trivia?
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