Copycat Evacuations at Knaresborough Castle

Alas and alack, it seems that the Contributions Secretary's worse fears have been realised, for earlier today I came into receipt of this most worrying of photos...

The aping of serious Ragged Rambler research at Knaresborough Castle

It seems that there are people out there indulging in copycat taking of their ease, inspired by the foolhardy Ragged Rambler who did it at Mount Grace some time last year. Although this time the photo appears to have been taken in the ruinous Keep of Knaresborough Castle.

But to make matters worse whilst the Ragged Rambler did it in the pursuit of knowledge, it seems that this new spate of simulated evacuations are being carried out for no other reason than what some of the common people term as 'having a laugh'. To make matters even worse the perpetrator is not a member of the R.S.A.R and nor is she a male! A woman by thunder aping the ways of man, just as Margaret Caley did some 400 years ago in Norwich.

Where will it all end? I myself know of many a recreated and reconstructed gaurderobe (Toilet) at Blists Hill Victorian village, Beamish Victorian village and also a Tudor one at Kentwell Hall in Suffolk and doubtless there are many more. Are they all to be sullied by untrained and unknowing posteriors?

I rue the day when first I posted the photo of the Ragged Rambler at Mount Grace.

+Many Coats+ R.S.A.R