May 2012 - Argghhh!

This is what greets you coming into the house by the most common entrance - the garage. What's true in the Castle is true in the outbuildings... This is, however, *not* a "Weapons Free" zone* - weapon status is "Tight" for assigned personnel and "Hold" for visitors!...

Those missiles sure do get toasted a bit when they launch out of the launchers, don't they?...

Is no one paying attention? I leave in a few hours and I think I am The Castle representative. Which is ridiculous when you consider how little I have contributed here this past year. Did you people even vote ? Maggie

...as we recently were, here and here, JTG brought up the Stokes Mortar and its round, so I thought I would poke through the Holdings, and see what we had. This is the result! JTG mentioned the Stokes Mortar of WWI, details of which are available here and here. I would note that Sir Wilfred pretty much got it right the first time - just about everything since has been tweaks. The Wikipedia article has a photograph with a projectile of the type in the Holdings. As you can see, the Stokes round is...

Boq

Ya just can't have enough! ...