The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #48858   Message #736240
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
24-Jun-02 - 11:42 PM
Thread Name: Bannockburn
Subject: RE: BS: Bannockburn
Probably only recent ones. Well, we had to win a battle once in a while; law of averages. Bruce (de Brus), the Norman-French blow-in, had only just decided that his own personal best interests lay with Scotland rather than England. He was right, of course (always had an eye to the main chance), and got -briefly- the Scottish throne; though he certainly wouldn't have managed it without the backing of the Douglases. Naturally, he screwed it up, and one of my lot had to take bits of him to the "Holy Land",  post-mortem.

Now, if we'd succeeded in our bid for the Scottish throne (which we made the mistake of trying to arrange dynastically, rather than just killing everybody else who had some sort of claim to it) all that nonsense with the incompetent Stewarts might have been avoided.

Oh, well. At least we still have the Haggis, though I should warn you that it is only nowadays intimidating to English people (half my family, after all) when deep-fried.