The Wise Man from the Staffs, Derbys & Chesh Triangle

We heard all about Gotham on the walk the other day from the organiser, even though we were 13 miles away. The only thing missing from this from what was said on the walk is that "The King imposed a tariff on every road that he travelled on, hence, the locals acted mad so the king (or his staff) never travelled there again, as madness was thought to be contagious >

The Wise Men of Gotham

During the reign of King John (1199–1216), the villagers of Gotham pretended to be foolish to stop the king from making Gotham his royal residence.

The villagers' actions included fencing in a bush to keep a cuckoo captive, trying to drown eels, and putting cows on thatched roofs.

The villagers' actions were successful, and the king's road was rerouted to avoid the village.

The villagers became known as "the wise men of Gotham".

The stories of the "Wise Men of Gotham" were written in books, including The Merie Tales of the Mad Men of Gotam in 1565.

800 years later they are still acting mad around here so nobody will even want to get remotely involved in that!

Be careful what you rear Yokelite culture as you may just find that one guy and a few amazing women whistle blowers do know right from wrong

Though their culture has been for at least 200 years to send people into a trance "To tame the out of control illiterate poor through 'magic' to subjugate them and so make them industrious"!

All whilst documenting and writing stories about what people say and do whilst they are in a trance (I've sen it with my own eye's where octogenarians etc put sheets over their heads and run about telling stories, though I couldn't hear what they said).

Though I'm aware they could be just keeping me alive to write stories about what they do and the effect on the population!

That isn't going to stop me though from doing the research and putting the effort in to get to the bottom of this Pool of Lice!

In the hope that one day my homeland will fill it up again, and turn the area into what it should be if all the resources hadn't been pilfered away; The world's biggest and best spa area which will attract everyone in the world to it with an entrance fee of just Tree Fiddy (£3.50)