Examining a recent entry in my journal, I found that I was ruminating on what might have happened to William the Conqueror and his Norman hordes at the Battle of Hastings had Harold Godwinson and his Anglo-Saxon army not hurried to the south coast from having defeated the invading Viking Danes under Harald Hardrada at the Battle of Stamford Bridge. There is either something really, really wrong with me or something really, really right.

"In widest bay, in brackish bight..."