Kirby Muxloe Castle.
I spent hours playing there as a child
hide and seek, much beguiled
We built a raft at the rear
crossed the moat to commandeer.
School holidays were the best
blood hill on its crest.
A stones throw from the castle
in the evening we'd do battle.
Cowboys and Indians the usual start
not that you could tell apart.
Catapults, mud balls ammunition
load up and take position.
“At them when they cross the moat
keep firing sink their boat”
No one ever really won
by crikey, it was good fun.
Sometimes I went alone
around the moat I'd roam.
Water hens at the base of reeds
buntings flutter in the breeze.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4_noq_oGFY
Kirby Castle was the home of Lord
Hastings.
Richard 111 executed him without trial.
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