Tally Ho!

Longtime blogger of all things Beacon Hill, Back Bay and beyond the Irish Elk has joined that veritable combination of Quorn and Pytchley of the blogsphere, Patum Peperium, presided over Aunt Dahlia-like by the fabulously formidable Mrs. P.

Personally, I think this is an excellent move. My only advice to the I.E. would be not to let Mrs. P catch him heading hounds or not sneaking swigs out of the whiskey decanter.

Oh, and speaking of doing the fox a bit of no good, here's a little nugget I just discovered, only marginally related to the main point of this post and probably of absolutely no interest to anybody but me, and therefore subject to mandatory publication under Robbo's Rules of Blogging: There was an entire Hunt Class of WWII Royal Navy destroyers, each named after a different Hunt. They included: HMS Atherstone, HMS Berkeley, HMS Cattistock, HMS Cleveland, HMS Cotswold, HMS Cottesmore, HMS Eglinton, HMS Exmoor, HMS Fernie, HMS Garth, HMS Hambledon, HMS Holderness, HMS Mendip, HMS Meynell, HMS Pytchley, HMS Quantock, HMS Quorn, HMS Southdown, HMS Tynedale and HMS Whaddon.

Yoicks! Not to mention tantivy and hark forrard!