General Chat

Sheesh you two. If I didn't know better I would say you were half cut :-))).....Make that grin a lol.....lol

Tsk. Here in the civilized world, it's 9 pm!

Actually, in the less civilized western part of the civilized world, it's 6 pm or some such. But we're both just fixing to have din!

Turn over some groats. Do you not want to watch me cavorting with Huge Beringar in front of your eyes day after day?

Would you not swoon and rush to do his every bidding if Sir Hugh demanded your groats?

Serves many purposes, that man.

well now, if you put it that way



maybe Hugh could persuade me to hand over the tips jar!



..................... and it was just about 6 pm in this part of the civilized world

Never mind the grovelling, Mo.

Hand over groats.

S/he who hands over the most may get Hugh on loan for an afternoon to muck out his/her sty.

Perhaps we can invent the lottery ...

One groat (what the h is a groat?) gets you one ticket. Four groats get you 5.

Now of course, the landlady might have some bovver. If she has the winning ticket and gets Hugh's services for the day, she might be bovvered ... and hot ... indeed.



Hmm. Just in case anybody else's manuscript is as mushed as mine, that's
b o v v e r e d
not
bowered.

We need some new scribes here.

JaneyCanuck Today at whenever

Viv started it. Does she have some office I can oust her from?

One most certainly does have an orfice,one is A1 First class hussy,and if one thinks one is going to oust one from THAT lucrative orfice one most certianmently has another think coming!

The 10% fines put behind the bar keeps one in gin alone,and the revenue brought in from the visits made to prince John in his beautiful big castle are a delight to my purse.

Anyone with pretty ribbons for sale to use as bonds to go with my shares in the stocks throwing veg?

A Groat

It was after the French silver coin had circulated in England that an English groat was first minted under King Edward I.

Scots groats were not issued until the reign of David II. Scots groats were originally also worth fourpence, but later issues were valued at eightpence and a shilling.[3][4]

Irish groats were minted first in 1425 and the last ones were minted under the reign of Elizabeth I of England. There were also two more issues, both emergency coinage.[5]

While strictly speaking, the English groat should have contained four pennyweights or 96 grains (6.2 grams) of sterling silver, the first ones issued weighed 89 grains (5.8 g) and later issues became progressively lighter. The weight was reduced to 72 grains (three pennyweights or 4.7 g) under Edward III, 60 grains (3.9 g) under Henry IV, and 48 grains (3.1 g) under Edward IV. From 1544 to 1560 (the weight being reduced to 32 grains (2.1 g) in 1559) the silver fineness was less than sterling, and after the 1561 issue they were not generally issued for circulation again for about a hundred years.

From the reigns of Charles II to George III, groats (by now often known as fourpences) were issued on an irregular basis for general circulation, the only years of mintage after 1786 being in 1792, 1795, and 1800. After this the only circulating issues were from 1836 to 1855, with proofs known from 1857 and 1862 and a colonial issue of 1888. These last coins had the weight further reduced to about 27 grains (1.9 grams) and were the same diameter as the silver threepenny pieces of the day although thicker. They also had Britannia on the reverse, while all other silver fourpenny pieces since the reign of William and Mary have had a crowned numeral "4" as the reverse, including the silver fourpenny Maundy money coins of the present. Some groats continued to circulate in Scotland until the 20th century.

At times in the past, silver twopenny coins have been called "half-groats."

Oh.

Methought it was something one made porridge of.

I be ever more anxious to collect them now. Why, just imagine what they'll be worth in the year, oh, 2009, too.

The scribe who learned me my Latin was named Magister Groat. A fine and gentle man he was.

Terra terrae terrae terram, terra terRAH!

Magister Groat?!!! Did you attend Hogwarts?

Good morrow fellow Grottinghamers........how are ye all this fine day.......and is that MO the Pro I see yonder in the stocks.......I hope not as she was collecting groats for some undergarments.....

.......found my lost piglet, it was asleep in my bed when I returned from the tavern.....

sally the peasant

yaaaaaaaaaaawn


I've only just aroused from my bed


I was dreaming of that there Hugh :)))))))



if sally the peasant has found her missing piglet ............ from where did come the one that I found in the bake shed yesterday?

no no MO


there was more than a leg there ......... and I know a pig's body from a man's body ...........................................


I think!

how say you - more than a leg? What dost thou mean fair lady - explain prithee

there's two sides of bacon curing in the bake house

You can tell the difference in the dark even Sylvia?
They both have bristles,snore,and umm,,make rude noises!

aawww MO

hope all goes well tomorrow!



VIV .............. I was NOT poking around the yard and bake house in the dark



One never knows what one will find if one does that!





on the other hand ....... it could have been a very short human type






sylvia

oh this place looks so deserted


there are cobwebs in all the corners, dustballs under the cots, and someone left some food over in the corner.


I'll just sweep it all out, and maybe someone will come and re-inhabit this so attractive vill




xxxxx