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Book 2 Part 1 uploaded and ready for PL

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Book 1 Part 6 is uploaded and ready for PL. It's the Hereford County Championship on Sunday. Thunder and lightning and rain are forecast. It will take quite a few hours to shoot all 12 dozen arrows (especially as we have to help the the longbow archers look for their lost arrows - they miss a lot) ....

I've trimmed the silence to 5 seconds and uploaded the modified file. I haven't posted a longer file for some time, and it used to be 10 seconds silence for files over 30 mins!

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Book 1 Part 5 is uploaded and ready for PL I lost over three weeks to COVID :( Getting back to normal. Clive Some absolutely golden bits in this part. Ascham suggests that before England took it over, Wales was uninhabited, wild and useless wilderness. And that Scotland is plainly foolish not to beg...

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Book 1 Part 4 is uploaded and ready for PLing. Why Archery is so great in warfare and sooo much better than guns and artillery. A particular fun aside Ashcham mentions is that it was sometimes more dangerous to stand beside a gun as it fired instead of having it fire towards you (presumably, like th...

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Book 1 Part 3 is uploaded and ready for PL.

Why shooting is so much better than gambling.

Can't argue with that.

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Book 1 - Part 2 uploaded.
It's been too windy for the last couple of days to practice much, so I had plenty of time for recording! (You can't tell how well you're doing if the wind randomly blows the arrows around so it's no fun)



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Just checking in. Working slowly, mostly because I am spending most of my spare time practicing archery!
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Whoops. I was in the middle of writing a bit of a rant about Henry 8th (like you do) and didn't see your post. I'd be very happy for you to PL. FULL DISCLOSURE: it's sometimes hard to follow as the language is 16th century English. It's also hard to read. Some sentences are taking me quite a while t...

This is just a completely perfect sucking-up book for Henry 8th. The basic premise is just right for the spolied brat that was king Henry. It's almost as if the book is saying: I know you need to do all of that beastly hard thinking and complicated stuff to run the country. Poor you. But don't do it...