Dear Spike
The YouTube feed threw up a nice little BBC film from 1990- in which Spike Milligan- comedic genius- wandered round East Sussex looking at archeological sites and deploring the modern world. I found I had some passing aquaintance with just about every place he visited. He flew over The Long Man, walked round the footprint of a Roman villa at Beddingham, got sucked into quicksand and nearly lost his boot alongside the wreck of The Amsterdam on the beach at Bulverhythe. He made the odd joke but mostly he was sad about motorways being slapped down over the ruins of the past. One laughs because otherwise one would weep. His parting words to us were "If I had my time again I'd be an archaeologist". Who knew?
1990, that's already 35 years behind us- and Spike has been resting under the auld sod in the churchyard at Winchelsea for much of that time, busily turning into archaeology himself....
1990, that's already 35 years behind us- and Spike has been resting under the auld sod in the churchyard at Winchelsea for much of that time, busily turning into archaeology himself....