May 2023:Quickfire A to Z of anything/everything

[Hell Razor5543]

Not everyone's favourite bathmate:

John Wyndham liked them.

[NewcastleFalcon]

Most will have come across the film Kes

......A Kestrel for a Knave


...better known of course for the film "Kes" a wonderful film from the early 70's.

Well Greg Davies has done a documentary called "Greg Davies: Looking for Kes" its on BBC Four Iplayer just now. Worth a watch if like me you have an affection for that film.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m ... ng-for-kes

Other threads told us a bit more

Come on, it was set in Yorkshire, Barnsley to be precise..

But hang on I wonder where the phrase "A kestrel for a Knave" comes from...

There it is...a kesterell for a knafe

The novel’s title is taken from a poem found in the Book of Saint Albans(1468) "The Book of Hawking, Hunting, and Blasing of Arms". In medieval England, the only bird a knave (male servant, or man of low class) was legally allowed to keep was a kestrel.

Juliana Berners
Juliana Berners is mentioned in the 1486 edition, but little is known about her life. She is said to have been the Benedictine prioress of the Priory of St. Mary of Sopwell, near St Albans in Hertfordshire. She was probably born into the nobility, which would explain her level of education and her love of field sports. It is not clear how much of The Book of Saint Albans was written by Juliana Berners, but she is most commonly associated with the treatise on hunting.

Wonder if any trace remains of the Priory of St Mary of Sopwell

Regards Neil

[myglaren]

I'm jumping in with another triple for K day:

Spoiler: show

I think the above might be a Garrett, but I mean this company:

[Armidillo]

Since you've all gone to bed, I'll chime in with potentially the last 'K'. The photos I am putting up for this thread will hopefully all come from recent cruises around Australia's North coast. We live in the SE, so the whole of northern Australia is terra incognito to us (CitroJim probably knows the the tropical North better than us, as he lived in Darwin for some years).

This is the seed pod for kapok, which I assume many of you are familiar with as stuffing for pillows, mattresses, sleeping bags, upholstery etc. (pre-synthetics of course). Grows wild all around the tropical northern coast. This was taken on an island off N Queensland.

[CitroJim]

L-day can only begin with a bottle of LHM

[MattBLancs]

Not to forget the magic juice is also available in orange as well as lime flavours!

LDS (strangely distorted image from Amazon)

[NewcastleFalcon]

Onto my "L" selection

Time to correct a major internet worldwide shortage.

There is only one picture on the entire internet of a late 70's Lancia Beta Coupe in Verde Finlandia so I have photographed my photographs of mine which there appear to be only two!



The interior was just a touch garish, very probably tasteless, but interesting

Luckily Tony Harrison on flickr has preserved a photo of it for future generations to enjoy

1978 Lancia Beta HPE S2 interior DSC_6446 by Tony Harrison, on Flickr

Regards Neil

[Gibbo2286]

I just put the washing machine on so.....Laundry. and at some time Later today the Lavatory.

[mickthemaverick]

L is for Limerick
There was a young fellow called Dave
Who bought an old van feeling brave
He fixed all the trouble
And threw out the rubble
Now think how much money he'll save!

[NewcastleFalcon]

Every single "traditional" County of the United Kingdom got its FCF day in the spotlight, all 92 of them. A terrific selection of random posts for each and every one of them from the gathered wisdom and quirkiness of the FCF congregation of contributors.

Today's County in the spotlight Part 1, the first 46.
https://www.frenchcarforum.co.uk/forum/ ... hp?t=70838

Today's County in the Spotlight Part 2, the second 46
viewtopic.php?t=71387

There are 5 "L's" of the 92 Traditional Counties of the United Kingdom. Click the name for a link
Lanarkshire, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and Londonderry


The County Flags make a nice montage

County Flags "L's"

Neil

[Armidillo]

Litter.

Not likely to be anyone's favourite subject, and I'm sure Jim will be dismayed to see it, because this is a beach near to Gove (Nhulunbuy) - a mining town on the Northern Territory coast (Australia). Not just an isolated patch, this stuff extends all along the beach.

Inevitably some of this garbage will be from local sources, but the vast majority has come from S E Asia, pushed south by winds and currents until it lands on Northern Australian beaches.

[mickthemaverick]

I hope I'm not the only one who remembers this L:

BFTW

[myglaren]

Lorngette, Faberge.

[NewcastleFalcon]

One of our "L" counties has this listed Building


F Original

Neil

[myglaren]

Yep, definitely listing.