Viking axe-perts have set up shop
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GREETINGS my majestic Maxonians, how’s it going?
Taxi drivers and Express readers I meet in the street always ask how I manage to find enough material to fill a page every week.
Clearly, these are newcomers to our town.
Anyone who knows Macclesfield will know I could fill a page every day.
We don’t need professional clowns in Macclesfield - the streets are full of them.
The best of it is I don’t need to go looking for stories, they come looking for me.
So...I was walking down Sunderland Street minding my own business when I bumped into a Viking. No, come on, would I lie to you?
This was no cardboard cut-out (like that policeman in Home Bargains); this was your real living, breathing, bearded Viking.
As seafaring people I would have thought Macclesfield was the last town likely to suffer a Viking invasion, but apparently their longboats sail beautifully down the canal.
Now, as luck would have it this particular
Viking had had his fill of plundering and pillaging, and has opened a shop in Charlotte Street specialising in axe throwing (I kid you not… check it out.)
We all know about niche businesses, and in any other town these might be companies making tee-shirts out of seaweed or children’s books you can plant after they’ve been read. But, oh no, not in Macclesfield.
Here we have a real live Viking inviting us to fling axes around.
Look, I don’t know how big the demand is for axe lobbing.
I mean it’s not like you could play it in the pub like darts, so if you are interested it’s probably better you go to the Viking Axe Shop yourself and find out.
Maybe you and a dozen of your mates could hire a longboat and sail off to Poynton, visit a few pubs and start an Axe Lobbing League?
Macclesfield… where every day is Red Nose Day.