On this day in 1844, a man named William Archibald Spooner was born. He later became an Anglican clergyman and warden of New College, Oxford. What made him famous were his ‘Spoonerisms,’ where he accidentally switched letters in phrases, resulting in amusing expressions like ‘It is kisstomary to cuss the bride,‘ and ‘a well-boiled icicle.‘
So on the anniversary of Spooner’s birthday, from the misty expanse of Great Ayton Moor, and looking down on the remains of the WW2 control bunker for Operation Starfish, I tried to dream up a title for a photo of a sombre and rain-soaked view along Percy Cross Rigg.
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