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Andrew C, that sounds sense. Someone in the checkout queue behind me one day said something, and I found myself immediately asking "What part of Canada do you come from?" and she was so delighted at not being taken for an American that we started chatting - and found she had relatives that came from the same area (Cumberland as was) that my ancestry came from!
Tiny world, indeed.
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I was once told that it is very difficult to tell the difference between an American and a Canadian, but the quickest way was to tell that to a Canadian.

The blanket prescribing of Statins has been quoted as a cause of Dementia and Alzheimers’ .

Just the opposite. Research shows that statins reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease by about 30% and vascular dementia by about 7%.

I used to know a Philip Christmas at university.

.. After Culloden many laws were brought in against the Scots and of course the infamous anti-Scots verse of the "British" National Anthem.

Just as an aside, the anti-Scots verse was never part of the anthem. There's quite a long essay about the origin of this verse but to summarise, it seems to have been made up in about 1836 or 1837 by a magazine editor who claimed something along the lines of it having been "heard by the friend of a friend" (I'm paraphrasing here.) http://www.aforceforgood.org.uk/precious/anthem1
Having said all that, the actual anthem is a dreary old Royalist dirge at the best of times

Chatgpt gives the following translation. Slightly iffy in a couple of places but hopefully something to work on.


Beside this wall, Thomas Southouse, Esquire, of ancient lineage from the family of Southouse of Selling in the county of Kent, successively descended through connected generations, laid down the remains of his body. He defended the Abbey of Faversham, decaying among its ruins and ashes, from the ravages of time with learned writings. Then, as a most zealous investigator in uncovering the ancient privileges of the Cinque Ports, as a diligent researcher in elucidating obscure volumes of law, and as an untiring explorer in resolving intricate legal disputes, he distinguished himself. After publishing other works of refined literature, he was seized by an unexpected fate and shortly thereafter died, entrusting his learned soul to God.

In his memory, Elizabeth Southouse, his widow, who survives him, grieving, placed this monument as a token of her love and sorrow.