The Rise and Fall of Boudica
Boudica was a queen of the Britons and the Iceni tribe in Eastern England in what is now Suffolk and Norfolk in the first century AD. She was a marvellous woman and an excellent role model for other women of her time. Her life was just like that of any other Iceni housewife. Whilst the men were out fighting battles, conquering new territories, socialising with friends and swapping tales of masculinity, the women would stay at home doing household chores and looking after the children.
The Iceni were living in relative peace and harmony after signing a treaty with Rome, but this peaceful life was about to change. Boudica was married to Prasutagus, a mighty Iceni warrior who was also Eastern Counties arm wrestling champion on no less than five occasions. Besides arm wrestling Prasutagus was a keen angler and he loved nothing more than sitting alone on a river bank fishing for trout. One afternoon he was doing just this, it was a nice, bright, sunny day and Boudica had made him a delightful packed lunch. He was looking forward to this just as much as the fishing as Boudica was an excellent cook. Hours later when Prasutugas didn’t return home for his tea Boudica was concerned because not once in all the years that they had been together had he failed to turn up on time, especially when it was teatime and she was cooking. The hours went by and she became increasingly worried at his non-appearance so she decided to gather a search party together and go and look for him. They searched all of his favourite fishing spots and they had almost given up for the day when they eventually found him. He was lying on the riverbank with his rod in one hand and plums in the other, but unfortunately it was too late, he was dead. On the end of the line they found the largest trout they had ever seen, it was a real monster and after examining Prasutugas they were able to piece together the events of that fateful afternoon.
It seems that he had tucked into his packed lunch and then started on the fruit Boudica had given him, plums. Plums were his favourite. Whilst munching on his favourite fruit he felt something pulling on the line and he realised that he had something very big on the end of it. With the plum still in his mouth he reeled in the fish and saw the size of it. It was ginormous and the biggest trout that he had ever laid eyes upon. He was so excited and so overcome that he swallowed the plum which was still in his mouth and started to choke. There was nothing he could do and there was nobody else around to help him and sadly he slowly choked to death.