How Many Londoners,

or visitors to London for that matter,

have heard of the Great Dangaroo Flood? I had not, but then I seldom go to Old Compton Street, but if you did look above the shops above,

and this is what you would see, a marker that honours the Great Dangaroo Flood, it is a most bewildering sight, because everyone knows that Dangaroos only lived on the other side of what we call the Earth, how did this come to be?

the event is known as the Great Dangaroo Flood from the time when a band of Tehachapic refugees arrived at the height of the deluge, bobbing up and down on their rafts of asphalt, surveying the wreckage, they assumed that only Dangaroos, the giant war kangaroos whose huge claws could disembowel a man from 20 paces, were capable of creating the destruction such as they saw, the devastating strength of the Dangaroos was decisive against the Material Alliance (of whom the Tehachapi were a reluctant part) at the Battle of the Devils Marbles, the beginning of the Tehachapic exile,

the inscription reads,

This plaque has been placed at the high water mark of one of the worst floods of the En'kymhuirian times. Incredibly, after two years at sea on their rafts of asphalt, the Tehachapi, the great road builders of Extrelliia [the initial k is not usually written], nearly foundered here at the end. But that first dusc, as the waters receded, the sky cleared, revealing a sign: no new heavens at all, but, for just that one night, the stars from their other side of the world; and so they called the place kNow Estrelliia - the name now given to this whole rezhn of Arctic Islands.

confused? I know I was, the plaque was placed by the Kcymaerxthaere so for more about them have a look here, also I should point out that many of these plaques appear around the world, but back to this one, there are so many things like this around London that I had no idea they were there, what a great city to explore.