No, dear reader, this post isn’t another screed against ghoulish sexual perverts, despite what the title might suggest. It’s a fun installment of Myersvision, the intermittent series of whimsical posts from our senior correspondent, Audre Myers.
I reached out to some of my regular contributors to see if anyone had anything for me, and Audre whipped up this short, charming piece about alleged goblins and faeries—well, pixies—roaming the English countryside. She notes that one YouTuber has around 400,000 subscribers, and asks, “So who’s crazy?”
Well, my money is still on the people that think CGI pixies are real, and the only Goblin I believe in is the Italian synth rock band.
At least, for now. I’ll never forget learning about the Scottish researcher in the nineteenth century who went looking for faeries, because if he could prove faeries and other supernatural or folkloric creatures were real, he could prove God’s Existence. After all, if God Exists, there is surely a rich world of supernatural entities—angels and demons (of which I am thoroughly convinced are real), but also all manner of other creatures. The Bible speaks of giants and Behemoth. Who’s to say dragons (clearly dinosaurs) weren’t swooping around causing trouble? The Bible speaks of dragons, too.
All things to consider for another day. For now, here’s Audre, taking us on a tour of the mystical English countryside:
The English have a lovely expression for someone they think is nuts – that person is “away with the fairies”. Pretty, right? There has often been talk there of the fairies at the ‘bottom of the garden’. Wonderful little visuals, aren’t they? Well … evidently, they’ve got pixies, too. Yes – pixies. Erwin Saunders has the best video capture of pixies in this particular video:
…but you do have to go through the video to get to the pixies. Now … I would like for you to notice, Saunders has 401k subscribers. So who’s crazy?
And one goblin video:
In case you didn’t guess, I’m an Anglophile – I love the English and their land. If I weren’t American, I’d be English. Look up the Ribble Valley – looks like prime Hobbit territory to me.
A wonderful look at the English countryside can be found every Sunday on The Conservative Woman. Margaret Ashworth has a series called Notes from the Sticks and they are delightful. It’s like taking a walk with her every week and it’s charming and informative and Margaret is a wonderful writer. Do check her out this coming Sunday.
The Portly Politico 
Sorry the troll video doesn’t work – it did when I pasted it to the article and it did when I double checked ‘sent mail’, so whatever happened is beyond my control.
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Audre, I think I fixed it. It looks like some characters got added to the link. Oops!
Here is the direct link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OfyqFr3lo4
Refresh the post and it should be working properly now.
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You’re the best!!! Thank you, Port.
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Cheers Audre. 👍😉
Our countryside never fails to fascinate me. It’s gorgeous wherever you go. Norfolk, where we reside, is beautiful and any chance I can get to drive through it, either to the coast which is around 45 minutes drive from here or to one of the many idyllic watering holes, I take. I keep meaning to record our drives to send them over. If I do, you might have to put up with my awful singing and a little blue language. 😂
The Yorkshire Dales and Saddleworth Moors are stunning, the Cotswolds and the Downs exquisite too. You and Tyler would love it here.
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Hugs to you and Tina.
I don’t doubt that we would.
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Please send along your drives, Ponty. Those would be a great deal of fun! I’m hoping to visit your way one day.
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It’d probably take some getting used to, size wise. For instance, where we are, smack in the middle of the countryside, we can get to our nearest city (Norwich) in less than half an hour and the coast for a little over that time. If we wanted to drive up to see my brother (Stalybridge, Cheshire/Lancashire) or Margaret (Yorkshire), it’d only take a few hours, with a couple of welcome ale stops.
For you guys, in the vast States, it’d probably take both of you a day or two to drive up to where Dave is in Nebraska. Now that the vax mandates have been lifted, we’ll get the opportunity to do that and boy, would I love that. It’d take a lot of saving though and some experience in driving on the wrong side of the road! 😉
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Florida to Nebraska is a 25 hour drive equalling roughly 1686 miles
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In 25 hours, I could drive from one end of the country to the other and then back home again.
Still, think of all those stops, all the states you’d pass through…
A road trip in your country would be more than a drive. It’d be a voyage, an experience and it’d definitely be memorable.
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It sure would!!!
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One might say… an odyssey. A Honda Odyssey.
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