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Cannon Calendar 2005
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Great day, behind the lines! Her Majesty Elizabeth rode Her white horse till here, to hearten the troops and check the situation: flanked by Francis Drake, Walter Raleigh and other members of the Court, escorted by Her dogs and Beefeaters, She is watching this moulding marvel who’s making the wheels for the gun’s carriages. The design is futuristic, the injector is propelled with steam, provided by a coal-fired boiler (an English must, after all…): this marvel is worth a poem, and the Court’s poet just wrote one, which he declaims to the workers. But he’s not much appreciated, it seems: maybe in a few centuries? The modern boiler feeds steam to operate another modern machine, that makes the cannonballs. They are cast with aluminium, now: they are lighter, fly farther, and do not rust when it rains. What do you want more than this? The host of The Black Bull isn’t better off than The Red Lions’ one: if all these folks work long hours who’s going to drink the beer? Let us hope that this threat dissolves quickly, and that people go back to their good old habits. And let us hope that the bad weather helps the locals: isn’t this all what they always talk about, after all? Good, if the Spaniards permit, we’ll see each other next year. Have a good one, in the meantime!

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