Anyway, I am extremely grateful to have been given the chance to go see it. It is extraordinary. It is beautiful. It is a masterpiece of story-telling and needle-craft. Its survival is a goddamn miracle. Thank you France for letting us have a peek.

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I would've given my remaining eye-tooth to be able to stop and linger and peer at the embroidery stitches, but we were all asked to keep shuffling on and let everyone have a good look, which, fair.

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There are spooky eels! And birds! And people stripping chainmail off the dead soldiers! And a weird little nekkid dude! And dragons! And cooking pots! And a bishop in full armour waving a club! And people lurking behind pillars and a chap up a tree! And lots and lots of magnificent horses!

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OK, so, OK, the Bayeux Tapestry, is FANTASTIC. There's Normans eating kebabs! There's Harold with his tunic tucked into his knickers wading to his ship while carrying his dog! There are sea-sick horses! Halley's Comet! Daintily embroidered penises! Drinking horns! Harold has a glorious moustache!

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I'd probably take that personally, especially as he wasn't just in SLIII but actually took part in the escape planning/cover.

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