Eina and other things

Don’t run upstairs in your slippers, Janice – you might slip and smash your wrist into the sharp wooden banister rail edge at the top of the stairs ... 

 Ow

Hayzel and I went into Bury St Edmunds this morning to meet with our UK business associate, who is a Barrister with practises in Bury and London.   It wasn't as boring as I thought and we ended up discussing more work for IIA with regards UK Entrepreneur visas.  So if you know anyone who has the ability to raise about £200,000  (either individually or with a group of people) and might want to look at moving to the UK to create a business, then give us their details and we'll see if we can help. 

Bury is a stunning town, and the stories surrounding its past relate to the very foundations of British history.    The Abbey ruins and gardens are central to the lay out of the town.   The heritage of this  place goes back to the 7th Century.  

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 Here follows a lickle bit of the history about the Abbey- taken from this website

On Christmas day 855, at the tender age of 15, Edmund was crowned King of East Anglia.  When the Danes invaded, he found himself leading an army into battle against them. It was during a forced retreat one fateful day in 869 that he and his followers were captured, and Edmund was tortured and slain. Legend has it that Edmund refused to renounce his strong Catholic faith, and thus died a martyr. The Abbey, which dates back to 633, was renamed in his honour, and for the next five centuries, pilgrims from all over the world travelled to worship at the shrine of St Edmunds. In fact, St Edmund was held to be the patron saint of England before St George.  

Visitors to the Abbey Gardens should note the two plaques which mark the spot where, in 1214, Cardinal Langton and 25 Barons swore an oath which changed England's history. Seven months later, they compelled King John to sign the Magna Carta, the charter which restored certain basic human rights to the people, most notably that of Habeas Corpus, the right to contest unlawful imprisonment. The 13th Century also saw the erection of the Charnel House, built to store the bones exhumed from the Great Churchyard to make way for new burials. Some of the remaining plaques make for interesting reading, notably that of Captain Bartholomew Gosnold, an explorer and coloniser whose expeditions carried the first English settlers to North America, and who named Martha's Vineyard after his daughter.  

We understand that there is a chance of snow soon, and I would really love to go to Bury St Edmunds Abbey Gardens and maybe get a shot like this one:

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I also discovered that John Robert Parker Ravenscroft's funeral was from Bury St. Edmunds' Cathedral.   I grew up listening to John Peel as he became known on my transistor radio back in 1967/68 (just before I left the UK to come to South Africa).   John died in 2004 - by then he had become a world famous person with an OBE and millions of fans all around the world.   He was a Cult figure in his own right by the time he died.  It's thanks to John that I discovered Underground (alternative) music - Pink Floyd, Canned Heat, Jethro Tull (when they were still minstrels) and hundreds of other progressive or psychedelic bands back then  ....  what a long time ago!