Tuesday, 24 September 2013
Robin Hood...next generation
I called round on my sister earlier..(her house is nearer to my shrine than my own) and her 13 yr old son was there..(my nephew) I asked if either of them fancied a stroll to the shrine and my sister said she was too tired! but my nephew was up to it...so we set off...as we walked fast down to the golf course, i started jogging...'ready for A ROUTE MARCH? I SAID...he said yes and we ran along the path, through the fence, across the course, up through the meadow, over the undergrowth and in next to no time at all we had arrived in the shrine. He was doubled over panting and wheezing...i had broken into a sweat but was ok...i am 41..he is 13!! TOO MUCH PLAYSTATION!! anyway, he quiclkly recovered and was amazed at the changes in the place..( i brought him here with my own kids about a year ago) i explained the work i had done and gave him a tour of the place, he was genuinely interested and was asking loads of questions about it...a lot of people would think my hobby odd but he has known me all his life and is used to the ways of his 'mad uncle'!! we took some photos of the place to show my sister, then headed back, jogging, as we came...he was buzzing when we got back to the house and we all looked at the pics together...when i had arrived they were just settling down to an episode of robin hood, so i said..'he has had a go at being the real robin hood this evening' we all laughed, but the robin hood myth and archetype runs right through this country, and long may it do so, we all see enough of the 'sherrif of nottingham' archetypes in government etc, so i think its important to keep the myth alive...out in the fields, the woods and the mindset, of old meerry england! blessed be!!
Labels:
archetype,
england,
myths,
robin hood
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