What did people do before the cell phone? They told stories. One that goes back to the time of bad King John, (is this the one in the Robin Hood story?), tells of a foggy night that prevents the king from reaching one of his favorite hunting lodges. He has to spend the night in Kingsclere, (where our friends the Brittons invited us for the weekend), and is waken in the night by bed bugs biting him without mercy! After his restless night of agony, the king in a rage orders the local church, St. Marys, to fly a bed bug weather vane on it's roof as a disgrace. As the story goes, the bed bug vane has been there ever since and can still be seen today. (Is that what a bed bug looks like?) Speaking of flying things in Kingsclere, one of the Britton's neighbors heard they had American guests staying with them and decided to host the US flag! Unlike King John, we think the hospitality is quite nice in Kingsclere.
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