shotgun

: ) they look like they're up to no good.

Can't quite tell, but I'd say that's a shotgun, not a rifle.

Thanks for the good catch, ronyanosky. The change is made.

So America... no matter the chatter, these boyz are fixed on a mission!

They're definitely up to no good, look at the angles of their hats. You don't set out to help little old ladies across the street or rescue kittens from trees with your hat on like THAT.

Harold Pinter wrote a screenplay called Langrishe, Go down about a declining aristocratic family in Kilkenny ,so must be the same? It was made into a film with Judi Dench and Jeremy Irons - www.imdb.com/title/tt0077830/ . At least part of it was filmed around the Waterford/Kilkenny area and a friend of mine got a walk-on part .

highthorn(Nicky) Crikey, had never connected the two...

No doubt looking forward to the annual May meeting of the Royal Yacht Squadron, held at Claridge's Hotel on May 8th 1913, which he attended with many other titled and benobled gentry. One member who was missing was Captain R. F. Scott, who had recently died leading the Antarctic Expedition. (London Times May 9th 1913)

London Time obituary Tuesday, Oct 26, 1943

SIR HERCULES LANDRISHE Sir Hercules Langrishe, fith Baronet, who dies on Saturday at his family seat of Knocktopher, Co. Kilkenny, was well known in yachting circles. Born in London in 1859, he was educated at Malvern, and entered the army, serving in the 3rd Battalion of the Oxfordshire Light Infantry, and retiring withthe rank of major. Later he served with the Royal Navy, from which he retired with thr rank of commander. A King's Messenger in the period of the last war he carried dispatches to Russia. Elected a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron in 1887, he won the Queen's cup with Samoena in the following year, and later won many other races. He is succeeded by his son Terence Hume, late Irish Guards amd R.A.F., who was born in 1895, was married in 1926 to Joan, daughter of Major Ralph Grigg, and has three sons.

The London Times, Monday, Sep 16, 1918

Commander Sir Hercules Langrishe, R.N.V.R., was fined £2 by the Isle of Wight bench for using a motorcycle without a permit. His solicitor said that at the time he was on Government duty as a King's Messenger.

The magistrates probably realised that Cowes wasn't on the route to Russia (unless you start the journey in Shanklin).

Thanks , nice photo. Ali hossain , Bangladesh.

I have been to Stora Karlsö this summer. The difference in vegetation is striking. There were as I understand much more sheep on the Island in the 19th cent.
Almost the same part of the Island with Stora Förvar 2009

oh, for a minute I thought they we're being hijacked!

Lovely photo...