31-05-2024, 10:32 PM in response to #50139
Gary Bauress Wrote: I once visited Rochester for the day with my wife. It happened to be on the day of something called the Sweeps festival and this seemed to mean it was ok to have blacked up Morris dancing and people utterly pissed in the gutters by two o'clock in the afternoon. In what seemed ok Peter too be quite a nice place, the main explanation for the general behaviour was 'people from Gillingham and Chatham'.
Sweeps festival is ok except my Missis is into all that blacking up pagan shite. She one introduced me to a friend called John Crow. He had great pride in telling me that he blacked up because he is a crow . He is convinced that following a breakdown in Dartford he morphed into a crow and flew to Lincolnshire where ever since he has lived as John Crow on a commune of some kind.
He was sane compared to his nutty mates.
Rochester is much better then Gillingham.