Dear Bernard: Hope your acting is going well this summer. When you get around to doing the upclose research for the next Starbuck around Fredericksburg — we’ll have a pint (I live in NoVA), eh. Seriously, though, I have another guess about Sharpe’s father. Is he perhaps from Babbenburg/Bamburg and an ancestor of yours? If I take “you” out of Uhtred – I get “thred” and but “me” in (me being “orough”) I get “thoroughbred” and a horse appears! Looking forward to the FORT. As always, Scott