Yes, but Leon was saying that whatever-it-is has not been previewed anywhere as yet. Was that a cunning ploy to put them what haven't forgotten your splendid sculpts off da scent?

Quote from: mollinary on 27 September 2015, 07:49:15 PM
I blame Mel Gibson. Mind you, I tend to blame Mel Gibson for everything!   

I'm back (sorry, I'm not really into soaps but, for some reason, I watch Downton Abbey - well, Mrs W does .... and I .... er ... happen to be there. Yes, Mel Gibson. 

Braveheart. What a distortion (but, nevertheless, based on a great and inspiring story  - and James Horner's music ......). And he didn't stop there. When he shot, "The Patriot", he pulled one atrocity from WW2 - the Nazis burning a church in Poland with people in it - and had us Brits committing it in the AWI (What a rabble rouser!). Also on record as a religious bigot. What a disappointing f.......

But, do you know, Moll, when I look back, this is what I think. I blame Edward I for most of the bitterness between some of the countrymen in our respective nations. Up to his reign, relations between the kingdoms of Scotland and England were relatively good. But he wanted to rule over everyone. As alluded to in the title of one recent biography, he was a great and terrible king. Take this episode from his younger days, for example. 

Matthew Paris, the most notable chronicler of the day, wrote in the late 1250's, in despair as to what the future King Edward I would be like as a king. He described a particularly unpleasant and wholly gratuitous attack by Edwards and his followers on a young man, who at the prince's orders had an ear cut off and an eye gouged out. Matthew altered a quotation from St Luke to fit: "If he does these things when the wood is green, what can be hoped for when the wood is seasoned?" The Scots (and I am sure, others, e.g., Welsh, Irish, French and English) learned to find out that part of his character. To the great credit of my ancestors, the Scots managed to resist him. Alas, the smaller Welsh nation did not.

So, fair do. In 1513, the Scottish King invaded England and the English won a heroic victory in legitimate defence of their homeland. In 1314, the outnumbered Scots hammered a numerically superior invading English army.  In one case, a King acted in accordance with some romantic gesture to the Queen of France and, more importantly, to honour certain Treaty obligations (that if both countries were attacked) (and paid for it with his life). In another, a King (Edward II) just wanted to be dominant over another nation (like his father). So bearing in mind a later Scots King became the king of both kingdoms, and we all became Brits together - and look what epic stuff we subsequently achieved together - I like to think the Scots story was the more laudable ... and therefore more worthy of the song* 

If it is 1513 (Flodden campaign), I look forward to seeing the new releases in due course.

*which, incidentally, only dates back to roughly 1967 and, in my opinion, as a candidate for a national anthem, is a bit of dirge and slightly anti-English - not an attractive feature for future international relations.   

Quote from: Westmarcher on 27 September 2015, 11:05:50 PM
*which, incidentally, only dates back to roughly 1967 and, in my opinion, as a candidate for a national anthem, is a bit of dirge and slightly anti-English - not an attractive feature for future international relations. 

Have to disagree about it being a dirge, especially when sung with gusto by crowds of sports fans, however there is indeed a problem with it being only slightly anti-English

Quote from: WeeWars on 27 September 2015, 10:35:25 PM
Yes, but Leon was saying that whatever-it-is has not been previewed anywhere as yet. Was that a cunning ploy to put them what haven't forgotten your splendid sculpts off da scent?

There are a few dozen more that haven't been previewed, though. 
Cheers - Phil

Quote from: Ithoriel on 27 September 2015, 11:24:22 PM
Have to disagree about it being a dirge, especially when sung with gusto by crowds of sports fans, however there is indeed a problem with it being only slightly anti-English

Danny Bhoy explains it all ...

 

The Big Yin and another dirge .......

Flodden or Le Motta, those non-bag pipe figures might slip into either quite nicely

I WAS NEARLY FINISHED WITH THE ITALIAN WARS FIGURES, DRAT YOU!

  Sorry.....
Cheers - Phil

Quote from: Techno on 28 September 2015, 02:42:03 PM
Sorry.....

He's not you know..... 

 

I am so confused... 

V/R,
Jack

I think that just means you're normal.

But in a nutshell, at a quarter past 3, Techno made some Aztec figures that fought at the Battle of Flodden and ate Cheese and Pickle Sandwiches.

Yingtongyingtongtiddleeyepo!

Quote from: bigjackmac on 01 October 2015, 04:15:36 PM
I am so confused...  V/R, Jack

Don't worry, Jack....I didn't get that one either. 
Cheers - Phil

It was of them cryptic clue thingies... 

"It was of them cryptic clue thingies..."

I was going to say 'I like cheese and pickle sandwiches,' but if that's some sort of code, there's not telling what you guys just set me up for!!!   

V/R,
Jack

Battle of Flodden
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"The Battle of Flodden or Flodden Field or occasionally Battle of Branxton (Brainston Moor) was a conflict between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland. The battle was fought in the county of Northumberland in northern England on 9 September 1513, between an invading Scots army under King James IV and an English army commanded by the Earl of Surrey. It was a decisive English victory. In terms of troop numbers, it was the largest battle fought between the two Kingdoms. James IV was killed in the battle, becoming the last monarch from the British Isles to suffer such a death."

Off to make a cheese and Branston pickle sandwich now :-)

 

Ooooooooh !

Now I understand.
Cheers - Phil (Can't stand cheese and pickle......YUK !)

Oh no! Techno's pickleist!