Tales From the Crypt

[blahflowers]

Yesterday, on reading one of the schoolkids (13 y.o.) piece of imaginative writing about life during Elizabethan times I had to explain that they didn't have newsagents, gasoline, cans of gasoline and barbecues. I did let pass the Scottish neighbours in pre-James IV-London and didn't have time to read the whole thing, so don't know what other anachronisms existed. I know that children believe that history doesn't really start before their birth, so everything before that point smooshes together.

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[cherielabombe.livejournal.com]

I kind of like imagining an Elizabethan London with newsagents, cans of gasoline and barbecues. Did ol' Bill Shakespeare stop off at the Tesco Express for some fags?