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Hello, Kenyatta!
Thank you for the info!
I think your father may well be right.
There is the Royal "Welch" Fusiliers, too, which uses the archaic spelling of "Welsh".
And why ever not, indeed!

Hello, Elle!
I won't say anything about the Passchendaele programmes other than they were very engrossing.
I was very "satisfied" with them.
Not sure if "enjoyed" would be the correct word for such an occasion.
I have decided to buy "War Horse", as I took to Michael Morpurgo during the programme!
The variant spelling of sergeant/serjeant I suppose is what happened through the course of time.
I think Kenyatta is correct, that tradition played a large part in it.
I still find "Serjeant" a strange title for a very senior law officer, though?
Must investigate!

Hello again, Elle!
Serjeants-at-law came into being during the reign of Henry II.
it was eventually decided there was not a need for them and no more were created.
The last Serjeant-at-law was Serjeant Sullivan who died in 1959.

Hi, Rusty!
No, you are of course right...I should not have used the word "enjoyed"......although I meant no disrespect.
Perhaps appreciated or esteemed might have been better?
I did not know that "serjeant" is a term for a law officer?
I shall be interested to hear what else you find out about the terminology.
I have still not watched the programme, but I do know of the book, "War Horse", to which you refer.
I believe that it is a children's tale of a horse ridden into battle, who tells "his" story, much as Black Beauty did?

Hi, Rusty!
You will wondering what happened there.......?
It is very strange?
I did not see your second post explaining about the "serjeants -at - law, until after I had FINALLY sent my own post!
I wrote a reply to your first post almost immediately after reading it, but it just wouldn't "go"!
I have been pressing "Send" intermittently for quite a while!
It finally "went" about an hour later.....but I didn't think to go back to the thread to see if there were any other messages in between!
Modern technology, eh?

Hello, Elle!
Technology is akin to witchcraft, in my view!
Especially the "Cloud" and its variants.
I was very taken with the programme and I thought that Kirsty Young did a fine job holding it together.
Serjeants-at-law were more or less done away with in the Judicial Reforms of 1873, I think it was.
They were overtaken by Queen's Counsel, and King's Counsel.
The last English Sergeant=at=law was Lord Lindley, who died in 1921, I think it was.
I looked up War Horse and it is suitable for children over ten, so it should be fine for me, I think?

Hi, Rusty!
A lot of children's books make very good reading for adults!
Black Beauty as I have already mentioned!
All the Narnia books, the Swallows and Amazon series, Winnie the Pooh.......
Oh and "Alice in Wonderland"...!
I am sure that you will enjoy "War Horse"!

Hello, Elle!
And "Little House on the Prairie"!
Just ordered "War Horse" and "The Most Remarkable Woman in England".
That will do for now!
The P&P for War Horse was only £2.76.
It has always been £2.80 before and I have bought dozens and dozens of books on Amazon.
The trader is AlexTheFatDawg who I've dealt with on quite a few occasions, and is dependable.

Hi elle

I think "Winnie the Pooh" was so successful because children loved having it read to them, and parents loved reading it to them!

I still re-read most of "swallows and Amazons" regularly (especially "Winter Holiday" when it snows, though I tend to miss out "Missee Lee" and (less explicably) "Great Northern" (even though I've seen Great Northern Divers off the coast of Scotland).

Hi, Rusty!
There you are , you see!
I have convinced you!
I might order "War Horse" myself........
"Black Beauty" has me in tears.....especially when he loses Ginger.....
I am also going to order the book that Ros recommended to me.
I shall have to look back on the thread to get the details!
I haven't yet come across "AlexTheFatDawg"!
Honestly?
I intended to watch some TV........but must confess to having had a short "zizz"!
Oops! Ah well, I must have needed it!
Time now, I think for a coffee!



Hello, Chris!
I'm with you on Arthur Ransome's books.
but I think we have had this conversation before!
And I have the complete works of Winne the Pooh (boxed!)