Myton

I was alerted to a new species - the mamil http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-10965608

can't think why?

The photo is of Myton on Swale where there was a big battle between the Scots and English in 1319. It is peaceful now but still has an unreal air about it. This was heightened by my having a chat with a farmer on a bike [not a common sentence] about the area. He told me how the river freezes over occasionally and how he had seen a bullock walk across last time it had. He followed the bullock just to say he had walked across the river, and got very worried half way over - but he made it.