Morpeth

Morpeth means Murder Path where fights occurred when Scots, camped nearby entered Morpeth by stealth by night. Scotswood literally meant raiders camped in a Scot's Wood outside Newcastle City Walls: The Roman Wall was gone, being reconstructed later.

Cycling across the featureless moor through the necessary damp white mist into Roxburghshire (Dumfriesshire or Berwickshire) marked by a rampant lion carrying hammer and sickle single mace reminding you you are entering a zone of tribally pure (and therefore interbred characteristically ‘turning a blind eye’ to incest) nomadic Picts whose fickle and ferocious heritage is looting the dead bodies of English soldiers: It reminds you you are entering a Foreign Country.

These roving extended families guard the route up to Edinburgh where at Arthur’s Seat (a magnificent volcanic buttress) the defence of Scotland is surrendered to Jacobite Tim Roth on a Dapple Mere.

As I Look North The View From England of Scotland evokes two Queen Elizabeth I frigates (HMS White Bear and HMS Rainbow maybe)(tbc)140 miles off Newcastle, intercepting Mary Queen of Scot’s and the cerebral edge English women have over Scottish women. Its important the Elizabethan warship was dispatched from Newcastle.

John Knox graced England by staying for a short while exiled in Newcastle.

Briefly, on my imaginary cycle trip to Auld Rekie I muse England's gleichschaltung under Scottish Government of England since James V became James I of England, under Scottish Born (Or Named) British Prime Ministers* and yearned for English Independence from Scotland: The motto might be 'Get Shot of A Scot'. Thinking a little deeper though on ‘Scotland The What’ and Andy Stewart and remember what Scotland is: A land of Golden Autumn run by The Gay Scottish Mafia and Doric speaking Scottish Widows.



*The Earl of Bute, George Gordon Earl of Aberdeen, Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Andrew Bonar Law, Ramsey McDonald, Harold Macmillan, Alec Douglas-Home, Tony Blair and ‘Son of the Manse’ Gordon Brown.