Tell Techno.

[Techno]

Thanks, Mark !!

Now to search "Change boot up screen !!"

Cheers - Phil

[Techno]

Apparently......The term I was looking for was "Lock Screen".

Found that...and it worked when I went to change the background......Huzzah !!

I expect 'they' change the definitions every so often just to confuse Muppets, like yours truly.

Cheers - Phil

[Techno]

New question, Gang.

With the 'Ancient Persians' range, wot I are doing at the moment..........

Did the cavalry of that era use stirrups ?

From what I can glean from t'net......It looks very unlikely.
The Chinese 'invented' stirrups in the first few centuries AD..(apparently)..and their use spread Westwards....So unless I'm going completely ga-ga, that means no cavalry around the time of Xerxes would have used said item.

Correct ?

Cheers - Phil

[Ithoriel]

Very unlikely to use stirrups as we think of them. They may have tucked their feet into a girth strap or have had toe loop iirc.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Ancient western saddles (Not saddles from old Westerns) were designed to grip the thighs front and back, holding the ride5 on, but with less security than stirrups, allegedly...

[fsn]

Bloomin' Chinese claim to have invented everything.

We all know the stirrup was invented in Splot well before the Chinese even thought of it.

[Techno]

Thanks chaps.

Cheers - Phil

(Oooooo....I'm so close to my next star/promotion....As a treat I might show you the chaos that IS my work desk....Something I said that you'd never get the chance to see.....We can have a game of...."Where's Phil's wax 5 gone now ?")

[fsn]

We can have a game of...."Where's Phil's wax 5 gone now ?")

That doesn't bear thinking about ... I'm afraid I shall be washing my hare that day.

[Fenton]

Thanks chaps.

Cheers - Phil

..We can have a game of...."Where's Phil's wax 5 gone now ?")

Does Wales have a problem of criminal gangs of Otolaryngologists roaming the countryside?

[fsn]

I'be had a look at some of my sources, and no stirrups for Persians in the C5 BC.

Later on they talk about armoured saddles that curve over the thighs, but no stirrups.

[Orcs]

I'be had a look at some of my sources, and no stirrups for Persians in the C5 BC.

Later on they talk about armoured saddles that curve over the thighs, but no stirrups.

I thought all your knowledge od stirrups came from the dungeon of Miss Whiplash!

[Techno]

We've got one old stirrup which is bent out of shape, from when one of the old horses did a 'Heigh-ho Silver' and crashed down on his side.

Cheers - Phil

[Techno]

Right then.

What's the correct name of the 'bow' that was used by soldiers in the 18th and 19th C (I think) to form the hair over the nape of the neck into a little 'pony tail' ?

Hope that makes sense.

Cheers - Phil

[mmcv]

I think the hairstyle you're talking about was called a "queue" but not sure there was an official name for the ribbon or leather cord they used to tie it.

[fsn]

i think the ribbons are called ... ribbons.

[Techno]

Queue seems to be the right term for the hairstyle. 

Thanks both !!

Cheers - Phil

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Held in place with tar, and whitend with lime if I recall correctly. tar was supposed to keep the lice and fleas down !

[fsn]

... and protection on the back of the uniform to keep the jacket clean.

As worn by the Royal Welch Fusiliers.

[Techno]

Do any other regiments use that as a 'nod' to their past ?

About twenty years ago, I an remember asking a young lad in uniform what that 'bit' represented...and he said about keeping the jacket clean from tar.

Thanks again.

Cheers - Phil

[fsn]

No, I think the RWF were the only ones.