Re: contraception

From: Rob <robert_m_davis_at_...>
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:06:10 -0000

wrote:
> "Rob" <robert_m_davis_at_h...> writes:
>
> >Queen Boudicca had daughters and she was the
> >archtypical warrior queen was she not?
>
> Was she? I thought she was just a normal Iceni wife and mother
until
> the Romans beat her and raped her daughters, at which point she
took
> the Red Vows, henna'd her hair, entrusted her fertility to, er, the
> Earth Goddess, and led a horde of screaming tribesmen....

does sound like someone we already know (bar the rape and the daughters, of course!)

But I think the general concensus was that she was not just 'a pissed off housewife' though if you saw my missus at full throttle you'd probably feel like fleeing to Rome!!! (only joking hon!)

Regards
Rob

to burn London
> and fill the Walbrook with the severed heads of its inhabitants?
>
> Or something like that, anyway...
>
> Stephen