As Lion-o might say, Sutton HO!!!!

though actually it's Sutton Hoo.

This is what all the fuss is about, a collection of mounds in a field that apparently contain the burials of pagan anglo-saxons of great note, nobles and possibly kings, as you can see it was looking quite beautiful by the time we arrived there.

Being twenty sonething men we didn't even consider leaving till about eleven, now that part of suffolk is all of three hours drive from our lovely town (pity me, the driver :S, actually dont. the whole thing was my idea.), though it was really cool to go on a bona fide road trip with Dan and John, a right laugh, and John got to have his first experience of a little chef, quite how he's got to 22 and never been in one i'll never know, but he said it felt like he was in a tarantino movie. To be fair this essex little chef did have a slightly pulp fictiony feel to it.

The Sutton Hoo sight is run by the national trust, which i feel always adds an aditional air of enjoyment to any visit on account of the very stuffy nature of a lot of the signage about the place, it's like lt's being run by the WI

eg.



this one is obviously meant to prevent attack from hippies.

and slightly more ominously.....

Sutton Hoo is most famous for the ship burial discovered there intact and filled with the unplundered treasure of a great lord (possibly Readwald, a Saxon High King) including the only example of an anglo saxon helmet, hence the giant one outside the visitor centre door.

This helmet was too small for my enormous head, sadly. but john and dan seem to be enjoying themselves.

In conclusion we had a great time being geeks for a day (or rather, even bigger geeks ) more trips of this nature can only be a good thing.

last track listened too: Creedence Clearwater Revivial - Run Through The Jungle