Thanks - I think somewhere in the back of my mind I was also aware of the Ship. But Pratchett is too good. The quote: > This, milord, is my family's axe. We ha

Thanks - I think somewhere in the back of my mind I was also aware of the Ship. But Pratchett is too good. The quote: > This, milord, is my family's axe. We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a new blade. And sometimes it has required a new handle, new designs on the metalwork, a little refreshing of the ornamentation . . . but is this not the... axe of my family?