Not so bleeding clever now, are you with your big house up on the hill? Well, it’s falling down, innit? Ooh, you have had the cowboys in. Can’t get the workmanship these days.
You thought you’d just build that sodding castle up there where you could look down and intimidate us. Who’s looking down now? Sod off back to France, you Norman gits. And take them Romans with you. England for the Anglo-Saxons, yeah.
Come to think of it, take your Angles and your Saxons too. Britain for the Celts, I say. Not so bleeding clever now, are you?
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Neil MacDonald Author 
Castles & palaces have long fallen.
No more clever.
This is a new-world now.
Smarter & faster.
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Faster, anyway
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Sod off Celts, the Picts want their land back. 😀
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I’m thinking now, Beaker People
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Well done!
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You could hardly call him a diversity-freak could you? Excellent voice.
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Thanks so much, Sandra
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I feel a civil war looming!
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Or perhaps an ethnic cleansing
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Not sure we Celts would want anymore of it, happy with the nice bits we already have, and everyone welcome to visit us here 🙂
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Even the Anglo-Saxons?
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So long as they’re well behaved and clean up after themselves.
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Celts, phhh. I root for Homo antecessor.
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Yeah. And it may have been a mistake coming down out of the trees
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😀 I blame the dinosaurs.
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Paradises will always be coveted by others, and some willing to kill to have it. It’s killers all the way down…
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That’s as neat a summary of world history as I’ve ever heard
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haha Thanks, Neil.
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War like conditions are emerging..
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Or receding into the distant past
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Doesn’t believe in the melting pot, that one… And green really is not his colour!
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He wanted to unscramble his eggs too
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I hear ya.
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The sabre toothed tigers wants everyone gone, including the mammoths
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And the stromaloltites are biding their time
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Ring the bell.
Everyone go to your homes. Play time is over, there’s no land to share here.
Take your shovels and shovel off.
Great story.
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Thanks so much
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Echoes of contemporary politics, I fear.
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I’m glad you saw those echoes. Thank you, Penny
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Dear Neil,
Some people have superiority complexes. .
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thanks, Rochelle,
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I loved reading this, Neil. The poetic feel of it and clear expression of emotion roll on so that I want more. 🙂
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Thanks so much, Bill
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Amazing, even in those days Brexit was on everyone minds. It must be a generational feeling borne through being an island.
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And we weren’t even an island when the first lot arrived
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As a Celt, I agree! Now, where did I put my spear and face paint…
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I think it’s the bottom paint that scares the enemy
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Love it! 🙂
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Thanks so much
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Being a Kiwi living in Aussie, and not familiar with the ancient times in the story, I can’t comment… But! I love voice! I thought of a story similar to this, a castle high above everyone, looking down, but you’ve done it so much better 🙂
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Thanks so much, Fleur. I suppose this is the whinging Pom version of Dreamtime
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Hahaha not well thought out to build there where you’re hated by the local population.
Falling apart indeed.
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It’s OK to build there if you have a garrison of armoured troops. Otherwise, a little problematic
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So many changes on this relatively small island. Important in so many ways, and there is still fighting over who controls is. Good historical perspective.
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Thanks so much, Linda
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Thoroughly enjoyed this rant, and think the pixies might have something to say about their claim. 😉
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I’m pretty sure the pixies aren’t real. On the other hand, neither are the Celts
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The neanderthals are like, “hold our fermented whatnot!” 😉
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Thanks so much, Na’ama
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