I logged into the family tree to see how far he’s gone back on the wife’s family…1695 is the birth year of 7th great grandparents on one side, and similar on the other side but no birth year of that generation. Incredibly he’s found 26,523 people in the tree as a whole!
Also he’s gone back in my family tree too, found some great-whatever of my dad’s mother’s family born in 1665. He lived until he was 30 and his wife 33.
I just assumed it was a funny old man thing.
I believe all because it’s impossible spell or pronounce Stjórnavágr!
What a super thread this is, going off in all directions!
Going back to food, I have enjoyed mince pie and cheese since I was a kid. One other odd mix that I enjoy is cold baked beans with angel cake. Lovely!
I went searching after this, there have been updates on my mother’s side family tree. My relative who emigrated to America is now reported as being from Holborn, London. He was born around 1600 and emigrated in 1664 with his wife and children. That seems to be old to be sailing the Atlantic to the new world and starting again. To get some date context, Charles II had become King of England with the restitution of the monarchy in 1660, 4 years earlier.
I don’t know if he liked blue cheese and beer. (Blue cheese and beer sounds like it should be a line in Dr. Seus’ Green Eggs and Ham. 
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Living to at least 64 in 1600s seems like an achievement in itself. A tough old dog no doubt.
Heading in another direction…
Usually I try and pick up a bit of quartz for Mo. She uses it to decorate the garden. The size of the quartz is usually in inverse proportion to the length of the hike. On Tuesday, there were a few bands of quartz on The Fara, however everything was well attached to the bedrock. Further up everything was covered in snow.
I happened on these on the way back, as we were playing Frogger across the stream. When I got home and announced there was no quartz but I got you these, she was quite pleased!
FT-60 for scale because I had the banana for breakfast
from Beinn a’Mhonicag GM/CS-101
His grandson lived from 1668 to 1764, 86 years. That’s impressive. This grandson went on to have 17 children of which only 4 got to live to 21 or older. Times was hard back then.
270 Winchester?
I honestly thought as I scrolled down, the next image would be Mo welding an AK47 and a Yaesu! 
That quartz is unreal. Does Mo use them in a rockery in the garden or does she shape them in to different objects?
Average age in the 1600’s to pop your clogs was around 30. Unbelievable Jeff!
The child mortality rate was very high and this pulled the average down, surviving childhood was the trick.
They are used in the garden as they were found. Borders, plant pots etc.
Not my area of expertise.
It says on the bottom of the cartridge what the calibre is or has some specific markings that Google will explain.
This one says 270 WIN.
I feel as if muddling my way through Thrawn Janet earlier this year (and then listening to an audio book of the original while reading an English translation) somewhat prepared me for this thread.
In any case, enjoyed the report, including the linguistic excursions, Alex and Fraser.
It’s a very popular sized round for hunting things like deer.
There’s quite a lot online about the minimum calibre/muzzle energy required for the various species of deer.
Also there was a very detailed field trial of calibres/ bullet weights etc carried out to determine if the Scottish regs. should be amended.
I genuinely believe that the person who invented Angel Cake was beamed to Earth from the heavens to share such a beautiful baked treat with the world.
Angel cake is up there with Lemon Meringue, Egg Custard, Pastel de Nata, Pink Panther cakes and Bolicao’s by Bimbo as a mere handful of the most divine desserts on the planet.
You might find a 223 (which is roughly the same size as a NATO 5.56mm round) where the prey are small (Roe etc.) deer or wild pigs
Is that like .22 hornet round ?
I found some of those casings when I was a boy in the wilds of Sutherland.
Andy
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.223 is larger in diameter and length (45mm long -v- 36mm) and carries a much higher charge - but not as large a charge as the NATO round!.
With all these Scots discussing ammunition I’m wondering if we need to rebuild Hadrian’s Wall…
