My ancestry is pure mongrel. Scots, Welsh and English, though not necessarily in that order...
FV623 - try talking to your MP, and suggesting that we scrap political correctness with a view to sentencing criminals instead of victims. I suggested 1 year hard labour on a bread'n'water diet for every 10p stolen, breaking rocks in a quarry using the head as a hammer, public castration for sexual offences and hanging for all crimes where a weapon is used. MPs don't half vanish quickly when they find out that the public ( ie. their employers) have opinions that don't match their 'party line' !!!!
Chichester - the posh bit of Sussex a hotbed of crime.... you surprise me.
JD - quite correct - the 'monkey' was a tray with holes in that the sailors used to hold their 'ready use' ammo. In cold weather the tray contracted faster than the cast iron balls and caused them to roll around the deck. To coin a phrase - Ooooohhhhh Nasty! LOL
