Hroth

Time for a muggatea anna cinnamon bun!

1 minute ago, Ozexpatriate said:

Not the fifth - that's all jurisprudence - grand jury, double jeopardy, self incrimination*, due process, etc

 

* "Taking the Fifth".

Thought that was a pocket sized bottle of spiritous liquor?  🤪

Ok, I know what you mean!

42 minutes ago, Winslow Boy said:

So no first past the post then, just proportional representation.

Eventually post-mortem.

3 minutes ago, Winslow Boy said:

Given the fact that Royal Mail are only delivering mail if they feel like it, it's unlikely that it would be delivered anyway.

Going by that, I should feel honoured as a postman rang my doorbell this morning and DIDN'T run away!

Also, running a re-enacment artillery company (of just one gun) is expensive and licencing an artillery piece is a bit more involved than getting a shotgun licence.  Consequently, artillery is pretty thin on the ground and in demand during the summer months when reenactments take place.  Often, the artillery will work for the Royalists in the morning, and the Parliamentarians in the afternoon...

1 minute ago, rockershovel said:

I remember seeing a bunch of them at Howard's Castle one summer afternoon. They certainly seemed to be enjoying themselves. The two Commanding Officers appeared to be of the Large Ham school of acting, there was smoke everywhere and the artillery appeared to be on both sides simultaneously. 

It used to be quite easy to get a shotgun licence if you wanted to be a musketeer....

12 hours ago, J. S. Bach said:

Odd. I do not see any grey there; or bluebellies for that matter!

However, we were there first...  😏

If you want someone in blue, there's a Scottish interloper in this mob...

And a Bluecoat regiment in this bunch

With associated camp followers looking on to the rear...

Speaking of (in)Civil wars, we had an earlier one too, the Wars of the Roses (1455–1487).  One of the participants was found recently, hiding in a council car park in Leicester...

Then there was the fracas between Stephen and Matilda (1139 - 1153)

The only Flying Scotsman tat that I have is a Triang-Hornby Flying Scotsman with flickering firebox.  Now that IS tat and won't be replaced by anything more modern!

27 minutes ago, The Johnster said:

By far the biggest portion of new adult Welsh language learners are English incomers...

Mainly because they want to know what the welsh speakers are muttering about when they change from English to Welsh as the "incomers" come into the village shop or pub? 🤔

5 hours ago, Coombe Barton said:

Last night I said that I'd completed my writing of the lecture - wrong.

Breakfats, relaxing with coffee, then suddenly realised I'd left out two important bits of information - luckily I could add them right at the end

• Its all yours now.
• Good Luck!

Just thought I'd make it a bit more Powerpointy....

Setting a Bear Trap, baited with LDC... 🤔

Oh well, since rights to bear arms has been mentioned, its only right to impose the reciprocal, the right to arm bears.

It seems fair enough...

Up earlyish to avoid the school runs, grey, cool and calm out, went and dropped my local election postal vote in a Pillar Box.  It had a nice knitted cap in support of the RNLI with a crewed D class Inshore boat* bouncing across the top.

Then did some food shopping, and so home for brekky.

* The boat for the lifeboat station closest to the box!

Your Tiny Hand Is Frozen - Puccini/Pavarotti

But an R3220 is an old model B12.... 🤔

And even that ain't worth £90!

4 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

I didn’t know about those, I thought they all came from Halewood in Liverpool. 

The Anglia and the Escort certainly did. Though who would want to pay for an escort from Halewood....

4 minutes ago, Compound2632 said:

 

It comes down to which side has the longest pikes.

Re-enactors don't want to be perforated, so they have regulation length poles with safety tips and tend to end up with something that looks more like a rugger scrum...

3 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

Round here a hamlet is a hameau or a lieu dit.  I suppose that Hiemat from German could be related.  My thoughts were prompted by the fact that hangars were first needed in France during WW1 and maybe the local name stuck. 

46 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said:

I thought they predated the war - in that turn of the century period where many of the innovations over the Wright Brothers' wing warping (the Flyer first flew in 1903) were French.  Blériot crossed the channel in 1909 in his monoplane (with elevators).

 

Wikipedia

 

The rapidity of explosive experimentation in that period between 1903 and 1914 is quite amazing.

Before heavier then air flight there were airships, rigid, semi rigid and non-rigid. 

They were stored in large sheds to protect them from wind and rain and when semi inflated, would hang from the roofing struts.  Perhaps this might be where the term "hangers" as a storage shed for aeroplanes came from?

Since you ask

Perhaps it had been on the bottle....

@Happy Hippo  Referring back to your visit to Chirk Castle, here's a couple of snaps of the Civil War re-enactors I saw there on a visit...

A Push of Pike

The Vanquished

FIRE!

Very noisy....

The one good thing about it is that after a while, it withers and drops off...

Here Comes The Sun - The Beatles

3 hours ago, KeithMacdonald said:

Have we had this one before?

 

May I add that TomTom satnavs would tend to differ.  If there's an apparent "shortcut", they'll send you down it!

I Fought The Law - The Clash

9 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said:

Those that knock on the window or stare in at me waiting to be fed: Sulphur-Crested Cockatoos, King Parrots, Rainbow Lorikeets, Australian Magpies, Pied Butcherbirds, Wonga Pigeons, Satin Bowerbirds, Indian Mynah birds.

I've no sympathy, thats all your own fault...  🤪