A 599th Anniversary, two cheeseburgers and John Knox's Hingin ee for Mary QOS

Its all about me today, he said tossing his hair. Today is the 599th anniversary of the Battle of Bauge, a turning point in the Hundred Years War between England and France. Nobody much knows, and few throughout this sceptred isle care, but Scotland played a loyal and effective part in this struggle in France, committing an extraordinary number of troops over the piece- 50,000 or so- and in the process sconing Henry V's brother the Duke of Clarence stone deid with an oatcake. No, that's another poem. But it was a great victory and at the news the Pope did a little dance and exclaimed that the Scots were the perfect antidote to the English.

In celebration of this great victory, here I read two of the collection of What If poems I am writing- have written- in sort of Scots, one about a hypothetical battle between two monster warships of the day, the English Mary Rose and the Scots Great Michael, and one about the moment John Knox fell in love with Mary Queen of Scots.