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A S- this use of the word 'arsenal' interests me too.
I have
.177 airpistol (good for starlings)
.22 air rifle (rabbits, possums at night)
.22 5-shot Ruger (ditto, daytime use)
.22 & 10 gauge rifle/shotgun combo (family heirloom)
.303 WW1 vintage rifle (ditto)
12 gauge shotgun-I'm sure journalists would label this an arsenal (it's all in a double-locked police-approved gun-cabinet that is bolted into concrete.)
And if they -hypothetical journalists- knew about my edged weapon collection! Over 170 items, from mere to a 17thC Austrian boar spear!
(Kept at various secure localities...)I've collected knives et al since I was a small child: they ( rocks & sticks) were our first tools as a species - and if you dont think a flint knife is a *very* effective tool, well, I can demonstrate?
So: arsenal.
One person's set of cooking knives (o, remiss of me! I havent added those in!) & a couple of practical killing tools - guns- is an arsenal, to some folk. Others see it as entirely practical toolkit for country living.I am a gun-licence holder. No licence is required to own a collection of knives (and other edged tools.)
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Wow! They're all sweetened!
Yep, I know sugar as a flavour enhancer, but-back to a little joy-gem I've discovered - savoury potato gems(not a dot of sugar)...cheers all, and great to get the receits-
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A S - agree with your comments, especially about training police officers for using firearms...I've used various forms of firearms since I was a kid, always either for target shooting, or kill-for-food. The rules are the same:know your weapon, ammo, & range; check your target, check what lies in front of & behind target, NEVER shoot at anything you cant clearly see...and practise-
A lot of police officers dont now come from rural backgrounds, and their firearms training & practise is - inadequate.
And I thoroughly tautoko your last paragraph, as a gun-licenced person.
A major problem is the number of *unlicenced* gun-owners out there, and, as you write, amnesties dont work. I dont know what would work: people who are criminally inclined will keep their weapons until they're seized...
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O, I should've added to the family cheesy receit - we cook these in the oven on a greased tray-
fried breads can just get so hazardous late at night!
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Playtime, so I've spent it further looking at drop scones (Google, the 1892 Young Ladies' Cookery( Dunedin), my Nanna's cooking notebook,
Tui's 3rd Cookery book, and Aunt Daisy's Cooking & Household Hints.)Ta dah! We're into name-territory again.
Almost all sources give 'drop scones' as 'Scottish/Scots pancakes' aka
pikelets. Almost all sources include quite a bit of sugar and specify them as girdle/griddle cooked (the only one that doesnt is 'sunflower dropscones' - distinctly savoury, butter *cut in* & ovenbaked.)I was taught, very early on, how to make scones - which were *always* girdle or oven-baked; potato cakes (which are *not* potato scones!) and pikelets - my mother's side of the family is Orkney Scots (o, and Kai Tahu, but that's another matter), and have strong links to Edinburgh. These, along with potatoes (kumara were rare & sought after) and porridge, were our basic starch...you had to know how to make & bake 'em.
I really look forward to your drop scone receit Amy!
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given the shape of it - possibly-
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Ian ! Using a very old joke that I used in a short story in the 1980s..but love the rest of it-
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With, erm, a very strange digestive tract & anus-