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Of course the first 'Fen Tiger' read a Boxer, named Eric Boon. That was in the late 30s.
Followed by the next tiger born in the same town...that is Dave Boy Green reaching Euro light welter weight in mid 70s.
But on topic...the Fens albeit at sea level very rarely flood due to the pumps and drains, sluices that take water to the Wash or flood plains ...all done by a Dutchman Vermuyden.

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The bidding on the house went up and up and up so after a re-think about the renovations needing to be completed decided to pull out. We did check out the bogginess of the garden and it seemed satisfactory for the area at this time of the year as long as no one is planning to play rugby on it every day. Shame as it was a really nice house.
The staircase was a bit garish and I was hoping to replace it but the money I was going to use was being eaten up by each higher bid. We were the first viewers and the second to start putting in a bid. So it's back to the drawing board.

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There's some new culverts being installed around the village. And nope, I'm not creeping around after curfew sabotaging the works carried out. I think that maybe this village needs more ditches/culverts especially on the flat side of the village. The garden of local friends of ours looks like a muddy quagmire. The guilty culprit is one of their dogs which lives outside! Come summer it will look pristine as it always does when we have visited them.

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Our local friends seem to think I have no experience of the boggy terrain around here so I'm going to have to educate him. Might have to do this via one of their sons, who can both speak English, as my Hungarian, both spoken and sign language, isn't even above basic. Too many start and stop attempts.

Dave 'Boy' Green - I remember this boxer quite well as I used to love watching boxing but not so much these days! I saw him once in Peterborough when I lived there.

I'm sure you are aware of Joe Bugner, born in Szeged, whose family fled Hungary in 1956. They settled in a village called St.Ives, in Huntingdonshire, near the Fens!