Flower Friday…

This little arrangement is on one of the tables at Mylk in Market Terrace.

Yesterday JacZero was in Runnymede and his blip was a pic of an information board saying Magna Carta https://www.blipfoto.com/entry/3372281720387668487
I had no idea where the Magna Carta was signed but I knew Runnymead was famous for something. So now I’ve tied these loose ends. I thought that would be ideal for my saying of the day but apparently nobody really knows the origin of it other than the obvious.
But I did find the origin of at a loose end…
To be at a loose end means to have nothing to do. It is a nautical term, which refers to a time when a ship's captain would task idle sailors (i.e., those with nothing to do) with checking the ends of rigging ropes to ensure none had come loose.

And yesterday I was wondering what the people around in what we call 414BC called it. Well this is what I found…

The ancient Greeks used the date of the first Olympic Games, traditionally dated to 776 BC, as a starting point for their calendar. This system, known as the Olympiad, marked a four-year cycle and was a shared system for reckoning time across the Greek city-states.