Roderick Powell

[Roderick Powell]

Father Bill. Keltoi has never come up on google. I wear a kilt is informative in Uk.
I am having trouble with postings as windows and tags do not come up as I would expect.
Cannot answer Steve directly regarding Fishingroddie and deleating such.
There should be more postings regarding Things Cornish with Anne the pleater and others. I wish to reopen and continue things Cornish or reopen as reference to new Cornish thread. I have been following Xmarks forum, for two years but took me four emails to steve to sort it out .One IT Buff said yes this is not a uk webb site It does not work the Same way.. Icons flash up allover the place and whole system crashes forever.There seems to be an auto link but like some others I am not clear if it is my Bt surver or my lap top.One thing I found was that my laptop was overheating if I had it on my lap.might be old laptop syndrome.Lap top tells me upgrade this or that .I installed Google Chrome and could not sortout system. Had the system cleaned out but have my reservations about some of the service engineers. I apologise for using this thread as an s.o.s. but some of forum might have found how to solve these problems. Thanks Roderick............ Cornwall................U.K.

[Roderick Powell]

This is my thitd posting on new found Keltio. Perhaps Father Bill could redirect this to new thread as I have never seen
similar Celtic posting on xmarks.
My Scottish ancestors were Cooks. presumed to have left North West Scotland in 1600's. Scottish friends say I look like a
Pictish Scot. All the smiling faces cover over my text on right hand side of screen.
Captain James Cook worked on a farm before his Career with Whitby Colliers. ref Staithes in Yorkshire.
Captain John Cook drowned in POOLE HARBOUR South Dorset 1725 ; ref Poole Museum on old Quay.
My Granny was Agnes Cook born 1880's Family of sea traders and Captains going back over hundred years.
One of my Cousin's reference is to shares in a Baltic timber ship. A presumption is that the ships went out with Dorset wool and came back with the timber. My mother worked for Bolsons timber as a trainee shorthand secretary probably in 1934.
My Cook Family move to Parkstone after their success in Poole.That is where Agness Cook came from.
Father was a Powell. I am Roderick Hart Powell I am five foot five and weigh nine stone. Look like a medieval mariner from Poole Quay.
My skin is very dark and but not weather beaten.I did have a pair of shoes to wear to School.
Now Agness Cook's aunt may have been called Cookie. Aggie had jet Black hair till she was Ninety.
Patsie ,my cousin looks Indian to me.
I have an Indian Lady living two doors up the road .Her husband comes from Yorkshire. Her boy with his two toddlers lives next door to me.
I have an Italian lady living at the bottom of my garden.Her plot is at right angles to mine.
A Captain Cook came back from his travels with a dark eyed Spanish Maiden. SHE WAS NOT SPANNISH. You go down to far west of Cornwall .Tales of Spanish Raids and Portuguese White slave raids.
My father was out there when they needed them. St Nazaire Dix Nough Quarant. Pardon , Moi , je parle francaise comme une vashe Espanole.
One of my mates is the descendant of a pair of Scottish Privateers. Two brothers who were ship wrecked in the Purbecks in !588 in a gale of wind.They were after the Spanish treasure. Bright red hair. Probably Viking raiders. Story goes that They built a cottage on the beach. My Mate' great uncle was evicted from the cottage in 1941 when the Work up for D Day started.
What did you do in the War Dad ? " I was brain washed into patriotism, Held one round of a small arms ammo in the whole of the war.
We torched up a convoy of our own trucks in a road full of French Refugees south of Nantes a week after Dunkirk to stop the Nazis getting through. after three months on a ship we end up pitching a tented army workshop at Basra. and lived in tents in the sand
for three and a half years. Geographically the Persian Gulf was described as the Backside of the Earth. I understand that navigators explain that Basra was Seven miles inland from the Persian Gulf.
That was not the end if the road. American Diamond 'T 's ,Macks and 3 Ton Chevvies moved north to the Russian Front. for about three and a half years. The British mobile workshop followed the American Units as skilled repair teams. They could understand The Complex sevice Manuals. My old man did not start working on Rolls Royce engines until 1930. They had no spares for the rich Jews RR Cars in Bournemouth . South Coast Uk . He was working six miles down the road from my Cook family Home.
Imagine again the noise from a v sixteen early Herculese Diesel powering a seventy ton gross pay load unit up through a mountain pass of unmade roads on the way to the Russian Front .This kept the Nazis out of Europe.
My father was a Powell, a welsh follower of St Paul. A Celt.
His part in this expedition Came from his love of his countryside.A true Celt.
regiment of tanks had to be moved from America to the the Russian Front . He was one of the N.C.O. Keeping this Expedition to defeat the Nazis rolling. Consider how many tanks were used by the Regiment . What were the Logistics of moving each tank while the Diamond T transporter unit was burning Diesel at Six miles to the gallon ? How many barrels of fuel were needed for the transporter unit to complete its Task ? It was just a days work for my father.
He refered to me and my kilted friends as Haggis Bashers. He had had more serious things to occupy his mind. The only aircraft he ever saw in his war were a patrol of three Gloster Gladiators.
He only ever held one round of ammo during the War.
I take my hat off to him. Another true Celt. That is only half the story .He was involved in another Task. Roderick
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[Roderick Powell]

Weather Patchy yesterday. Had two choices. Seven yard twelve ounce or eight yard eight ounce .This is Lidl £30 Burns Night Cheapy....Will talk about this on another post.
Out the house 0630 with red sky at morning ,shepherds warning and messengers in the sky.It is going to blow...somewhen.
Bit cool in in shirt and Argyll jacket.
Two hours on bus .Yeh weather still OK. Down St Ives..... top Cornish tourist beach and Harbour.
Round harbour looking for contact. done deal on Sarong from Java. Wind starting to pick up.
Went into the museum.Good for a laugh.Go to a local museum and talk about your own village... good stuff....You may have heard of me speak of the Cornish Kilt Flying Championships. This was getting serious.....Sea was starting to break white caps. Had to go to local lookout for some paperwork.
Wind twenty to twenty five knots. Sort of stuff which capsizes sailing dingies.
By keeping my hands on the back of my hips I can stop this Kilt flying.......Got back down the harbour out of the wind and the length of cloth stalled my kilt and every one said how smart I looked.
Had to get a bus connection... Half an hour later on other side of coast...Temperature had dropped.. really cold......Had to go for tactical move to a with draws situation. Warm and comfortable at last. This was five o'clock weather which
felt like seven o'clock weather.
By putting an extra garment on I had made this light weight kilt habitable. This kilt is the same gross weight as my 12oz 7yarder. but blows about more the wind. I would not have expected to have any trouble with my twelve once which I have worn for thirty five years.
By standing out of the wind that 8 oz looked smart. If I can just hold this kilt down I can keep the Up Kilt holiday potographers at bay.
If I do not give them time to check out a good shot they stay out of my way.
I had a long chat with a full time kiltie in Scotland.. His recomendation for the traditional winter is Eight Yard Sixteen Ounce. Hem at the top of the knee cap. Ordered mine from a Cornish Kilt maker last week. Two thirds of the of the price of a Kilt made in Scotland in my rare clan tartan. Should be a real tank. I would expect this Kilt to last a hundred years. I will be wearing this traditional Kilt with just a winter over jacket and I trust that the Traditional wearing of this Traditional Kilt will meet with the approval of the imaginary Sargent Major..................Roderick

[Roderick Powell]

Sailortats, I am trying to reply to your threads but my windows 7 is crashing all over the place and wants to update itself.
Query on using box pleat for summer kilt. Could be next year. I am trying to visualise how this works, not on a school skirt but on 5 to eight yard kilt. please can someone explain. Does this give more pleats and make Kilt stiffer ?

I have an 8 yard light 8 oz Black Watch Lidl Cheapie knife edged pleat. This is really cool, even cold. but has held its shape for a months every day wear. Good Hack Day wear. Would not wear Dancing or to a do. Really light kilt.
Has Gold of Glasgow Lable. Believed to have been made abroad. Certainly not kilt maker standard.

My 7 yard 12 oz Ancient Mackay is warmer but still cool in evenings

My UK order for Cornish manufacture 8 yard 16 oz Black Cornish Tartan is Now a week old. Eighth in line, for delivery. might be two months delivery in Scottish wool. Sort of Directly, Maybe Some when.

You might find bits of these threads any where. Might even sort computer before Kilt arrives.........Roderick