How to display a severed head:1. Decapitate your victim.
2. Skewer the head on a pikestaff. It should easily tear into the goopy brain matter. 3. Display the head at a place of your choosing. 4. Watch while crows and magpies pick out the eyes and skin and bits and pieces of brain matter. 5. Leave the heads as long as you like. James Mayne's head was “illegally removed” in 1754—nine years after it had been hung. |
No actual people were harmed for this photo. I'm pretty sure.
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Saturday 9/21
Land at Heathrow, train to paddington, train to Exeter, train to barnstaple, walk to The Old Vicarage—where we are staying until Thursday.
After our tea we walk to the bus station to pick up bus schedules. Hop the 21 to Fremington, which is where we left off last time.
Sunday, 9/22 Morning
Ate a marvelous breakfast, then walked straight out of Barnstaple to pick up the path heading northwest.
Sunday, 9/22 Afternoon
We walk Braunton to Saunton, intending to catch bus at Saunton, except I read Saturday’s bus schedule instead of Sunday’s because it’s so easy to do that and we soon find out there is no Sunday bus service in Saunton.
Saturday, 9/22 Evening
Our main goal on Sunday every time we come to England is it to make it to a Sunday Roast Dinner. Usually we miss it. Today though we are lucky: we find a good place in Braunton and end the walk on a full-belly note. Total miles today: 11.5.
