Mysterious England and its Many Mysteries: A Guide (to Mysterious England and its Many Mysteries)

Viewed from the air, England lies below, on the ground. Its watery edges reveal its a-bit-surrounded-by-sea status; the cool, salty wetness laps at the country’s sandy rim, like toothless, heavily salivating hedgehogs supping on a vast potato. It’s a land of peculiarities, oddities, extravagances, outrages, intrigues, dark manoeuvres, illusions, delusions, diffusions, confusions, confinements, refinements, invention, deception, erections, objections, subjugations, wild sensations, tact, facts, cats, classes, marshes, streams, dreams, places, faces, history, mystery, churches, birches, horses, courses, fun, some sun, cars, bars, trials, miles, stiles and tiles.

As the famous George Orwell wrote in a book: It’s all going on.

From Kent to (Stoke-on) Trent, England is the world’s most enigmatic land-space: no where else on all the earth will you find such a high degree of the arcane per hectare. Ghosts, demons, fairies, strange fogs, alien infestations, nobgoblins, disappearances, reappearances, magic, curses and devilish verses wreath the cities and moors, like so much litter disgorged by a wind-borne bin. 

As the famous historian AJP Taylor once said to someone he was talking to: It’s a baffling, terrifying place. I’m getting outta here!

So, join us (or me? I’m the only one here) on a journey across our spectred isle. From Goole to Poole, from Northampton to…Southampton, come and learn about the rich strangeness that underpins our happy, generous, kind, thoughtful, safe and equal country.