Softus said:Those are not facts, but matters of wildly inaccurate opinion and supposition. So much so that it makes me doubt the verity of your posts in general.
The term facts Sir was not meant to indicate that I was about to put some across, but merely a reminder that things aren't always clear cut. It made sense to me when I posted it, but not when I read it back.
One thing I did wish to clear up was that he wasn't on his way to the "menders" but had been in the pub for most of the afternoon/evening and had told several people that it was a shotgun. Probably as a jovial response to inquisitive friends saying "what you got there John?".