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Root Veg Serf. Hir Oes i'n Llyw Annwyl!

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Loyal serf of & Catchfart to the Bretwalda of #Wülferhampton. Grower & retailer of the best-ish root vegetables in Mercia. Owner of Þe Newe Crawlinge Bastarde. BUY GRANNY R'S TURNIP GIN (57 varieties)

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I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but, if you're a fan of "stories for chaps" I must recommend Percy F Westerman. 47 novels available on Gutenberg. A lot of them about, and written during ,the Great War, and offer a whole new perspective.

www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho...

06.02.2026 20:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Right, everyone sit in a circle round the Mead Hall table and hold paws...

06.02.2026 20:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No blue tent in the garden?

06.02.2026 19:57 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

More if you include the sky and the Cayman islands

06.02.2026 19:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think Sexton Blake is mentioned in Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy Sayers as being popular with the office messenger boy!

06.02.2026 19:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

But unless she's her son by an earlier marriage, or it's in her own right, then he's probably the only son of a dead Earl/Duke, which makes him a live Earl (or Duke)?

06.02.2026 19:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

r for Republican? Very offensive

06.02.2026 19:00 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Nice line "we saw that in COVID, people coming out in droves..."

I think some people didn't read the instructions.

06.02.2026 18:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Refuck-run council, innit. Everything's cheaper.

No, wait...

06.02.2026 18:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Casa Guidi

www.landmarktrust.org.uk/properties/c...

06.02.2026 18:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So if he's a Bart he's Sir, yes? And he must be a younger son otherwise he'd be Lord Lawless/ Earl or Duke of wherever.?

06.02.2026 18:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

To be fair, a sawn-off seax is a pretty useless object

06.02.2026 18:44 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

and brought back the duty-frees, for when they're allowed?

06.02.2026 18:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That reminds me

Can Queen Victoria Eat Col Apple Pies

06.02.2026 18:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Bloomers?

05.02.2026 18:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Advert for a 72cm long extended toenail clipper

Advert for a 72cm long extended toenail clipper

Technology is here to save you, Lord.

Or you could just promote a serf to Grand High Nailclipper Helm

05.02.2026 18:20 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ooh, bit of a bugger

05.02.2026 18:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Bet it's Omeprazole

05.02.2026 18:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

No, if the problem is a locked knee joint then he may not be able to reach his toes, but he could still extend his leg.

But General decrepitude*, you may have a point

* not to be confused with Major Decay

05.02.2026 18:01 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You clearly have a promising career ahead impersonating AI

05.02.2026 17:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Bloody ingenious

05.02.2026 17:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He'd say No, and they'd believe him.

05.02.2026 17:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Grow the big toenail as well, Lord, then with one loud "Hai!" and a kick you can take your enemy's throat out. Useful skill in battle.

05.02.2026 17:32 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

It'll save a fortune for the taxpayer - who could possibly object to that? Might be enough to take 1p off a pint.

05.02.2026 17:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Very small single bedrooms with a small desk and 24/7 CCTV (for their security)

05.02.2026 17:29 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

No brainer I'd say.

05.02.2026 17:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
An ornate crown - the Plock diadem

An ornate crown - the Plock diadem

...and Polish 'food'

Maybe Wulfie will lead us in the longship (if we can borrow it again) for a pillaging expedition to, say, Plock? There is good plunder in its 38m high cathedral

We'd have to sail via the Baltic & carry on up the Vistula*, but we could stop in Denmark for cake.

* ooh, missus!

05.02.2026 17:23 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Cabbage covered in corn-flakes and deep-fried? Yum.

05.02.2026 14:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

And the Irish speaker is the Ceann Comhairle (Head of the Council)

The speaker of the Senedd in Wales is the Llywydd, which can be translated into English in many ways, so it isn't! It literally derives from Steersman (on a ship) - llyw is a rudder.

05.02.2026 13:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Good point.

05.02.2026 13:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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