I was up before dawn today. After our recent gruelling voyage to Milton Keyes, the Mayor said that he wanted “that filthy heap” cleaning and polishing before today’s departure to Darwen. My supercilious boss bags all the freebies he can and today he’s looking for free beer again at the Hopstar Brewery Tap, in Downtown Darwen. It is common local knowledge that their beer is excellent and when we draw up outside in the Roller, him in his shiny off-black suit and regalia, promising them the Earth, they think they might be in for providing refreshments at the Mayor’s annual open day in Riley Green. How anyone can be fooled by this biggest fool of all, I do not know, but he always comes away with his belly swilling around several pints of their well popular “Dizzy Danny”.
However I digress. In the back of the Limmo I found some article that he’d downloaded from the mayor’s Parlour computer, about sun worship…… This probably explains why he’s forever insisting I take so many pictures at sunrise and sunset! So this morning, without any prodding I took these new pictures.
Meanwhile, I read a bit of the article & heavily underlined in green, was the passage below.
In Chaldean (or Babylonian) times, the head of the church was the representative of the god Dagon. He was considered to be infallible, and was addressed as “Your Holiness.” Nations subdued by Babylon had to kiss the ring and slipper of the Babylonian god-king.
I wonder if this is what he expects of me and the DIY man? He can kiss my ar** before I kiss his Mayoral ring!