My Arms and Heraldic Items

[Troglodyte]

You're right. It makes fascinating reading.

I particularly like the added drama in the rendition of Richard Currie's mantle on his arms.

Now you have your arms, all your goods and chattels (wife, children, dogs, dinner-service) can be liveried accordingly. Such fun..!

[Father Bill]

*all your goods and chattels (wife, ***

Good Lord, Trog, you do like to live dangerously, don't you!

[Troglodyte]

Good Lord, Trog, you do like to live dangerously, don't you!

...and then I woke up in hospital, Doctor!

Extensive contusions and lesions is what it says on the chart at the end of the bed. The consultant thinks the bandages can come off soon, but I will be crippled for life..!

The female of the species is a strange creature - she hates violence, except when she's inflicting it on her husband. I can't think why that would be.

[Troglodyte]

You're right. It makes fascinating reading.

I particularly like the added drama in the rendition of Richard Currie's mantle on his arms.

Now you have your arms, all your goods and chattels (wife, children, dogs, dinner-service) can be liveried accordingly. Such fun..!

Here we go...

A flicker of memory from childhood - I must have been aged six or seven when I was first charmed by this book, which was published in the 1950s - but I knew I was thinking along once-right lines. I guess the 'rules' still hold true, even if we might apply them through the more refined sensibilities of our modern age.

But what better authority to follow than these authors?