Matching

Very clever to paint the walkway in the same colours as the bikes.
 
 
Dull and drizzly in Newcastle today. Fascinating talk on law-making in the Anglo-Saxon/early medieval world. 

If a man from a distance or a foreigner goes off the track, and he neither shouts nor blows a horn, he is to be assumed to be a thief, to be either killed or redeemed. (Laws of Wihtred of Kent – 650-725)
   
Hatred, based on fear, of ‘foreigners’ – have we moved on at all from the 7th century?