Just read Sharpe’s Fury: Great stuff, as always. The pedant in me was aroused however to see you’d written rostrums not rostra – but , bugger me, when I went to check in the OED it said rostruns was a legit alternative to rostra: so one up to you and no score for the pedants! I do hope to see young Sharpe back in India again sometime. Best wishes Steve Ainsworth, Halifax England