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Her Majesty ,The Queen Mother was a Scot.I am from Norman blood on my fathers side and Scots on my mothers and I am proud to be British as are all the other mongrels in this greatest of nations.We have taken the best of the best,Norman,Viking,Angle, Saxon, Celt plus a good dose of German Nobility...

@happytree212 I think the whole point is that somehow Tony always comes through and carries on while everyone else meets sticky ends.The ending allows this ,we know that somewhere Tony is still getting by,perhaps he can go legit, the pipe dream of every mob boss from Don Corleone to Carlito Braga...

Saw them at Edinburgh Hogmanay street party last night,brillaint and funny.Best atmosphere by their stage,everybody had to pass them on their way out and everyone stopped to dance.

The blade is very like a smatchet as designed by Fairbairn of Fairbairn Sykes fame.As to bowie shapes I recently saw an early 19c knife that was probably longer than yours with an almost leaf shaped blade that widenened from the guard and finished in a point very like a tanto.The dealer was sell...

Apparently this was a favourite of HM The Queen when on the Royal Yacht Britannia and was regularly played by the band of the Royal Marines after dinner.Obviously a lady of great taste!

Lovely bicycle,in Britain ,Raleigh both bikes and Sir Walter is pronounced rally.

Esquire is simply the title used instead of mister,every man is entitled to esquire after his name.Squire is an English term for landlord of a rural community or village as in the Scots tile of Laird,it has no rank in the Peerage.

You make me want to shave mine off,Handlebars are not fot pansies

@pipkeajaj. I think your roer is pretty smart, I was lucky enough to see an original 19 th century roer in the Royal Armouries museum in Leeds here in Britain, my apologies I did not quite catch you accent and don't know where you are based. It even had an old rawhide repair to the stock which wa...

Winston Churchill was Ian Smiths personal hero as he is a hero to a lot of other people myself included.However, I believe Ian Smith to be just as great a man as Churchill, for not only did he have to lead his country through its darkest hour but had to do it alone without the help of the rest o...

@Malcolm092 You obviously have not been to Darwen in Lancashire

I have only just discovered your videos and I think they are great. On the subject of Nessmuk you should read " Canoeing the Adirondacks with Nessmuk " this is a modern book that features Nessmuks articles for Field and Stream I think or possibly Forest and Stream. They give a far more rounded pi...

Are these fish spawning or on their way to spawn ? I assume that they are not in such concentration all year round. Where do they live the rest of the year etc. Are they a lake fish or sea fish that travels to spawn?

I once watched a nine pointer (4&5) in late autumn on a similiar scale to your two central heads the 8 and 10 pointers.I believe this head was a freak of that year due to feeding, when next I saw him he had shed his horns and I continued to watch him through the winter hoping he would grow an eve...

This is the most moving piece of music I know, especially with all its connotations of rememberance day. It encapsulates everything that is great about our nation and its past, it is a tribute to all the sacrifices made by Britons not just in two world wars but in carving out our once glorious e...