Trucklement's Yummy Assortment

2013-10-07T18:28:44Z

Palfrey: sp

These are the dog biscuits that were favoured, in life, by [[Vetinari]]'s faithful friend [[Wuffles]]. There is still a posthumous order for them from the Palace, as Vetinari still lays one on the grave of his dog every week. (But not the yellow ones. Wuffles never liked the yellow ones).

No doubt made by an [[Ankh-Morpork]] manufactury of pet foods and snacks, and on sale either direct from the makers or from such good stores as [[Grace Speaker]]'s on [[Pelicool Steps]], or [[Clancy]]'s of [[Long Hogmeat]].

==Annotation==

I was in Waitrose today doing some shopping. OK, so it's usually ASDA, but I won a tenner's worth of vouchers entitling me to a free shop at possibly the most expensive supermarket in the western hemisphere. No point in buying regular groceries - in Waitrose? - when you can get them at two-thirds or half the price in ASDA, so we used them for what they are good at, exotics or specials you can't find anywhere else. So imagine my surprise to find jars, bearing an olde-England label, advertising the contents as being from the Tracklements company. Has Terry branched out into pickles and condiments? After all, his description of [[Wow-Wow Sauce]] suggests he knows his stuff about autocondimenting. Is this another spin-off from Discworld? Is it a franchise product where Terry allows use of the name in return for a percentage of every jar sold?

I decided to look it up. And truth is stranger than reality.

The firm began in 1970 as Wiltshire Tracklements pickles and preserves. They are based in the English county of Wiltshire. One of whose prominient residents is of course....

A "tracklement" is an English dialect word for any sort of accompaniment for meat (as are dog biscuits, from the dog's point of view).

So - coincidence? Terry slightly adapting the name of a real-world pickle maker? Are these neighbours, friends or just known to TP, who he has written into Discworld?

Or going into dialect English and picking up the same obsolete word?

Regina Rust

2013-10-07T18:19:14Z

Palfrey:

Eldest and possibly only daughter of [[Rust|Lord Rust]].

By the events of [[Snuff]] she is a grown woman, described by [[Havelock Vetinari| Lord Vetinari]] as "a hot-headed, ferocious woman, very difficult and very smart".

With the disgrace and exile of her brother [[Gravid Rust|Gravid]] to [[Fourecks]], after he had been found to have been using [[goblins]] as slaves and smuggling lethal [[troll]] drugs into [[Ankh-Morpork]], Regina is set to inherit her fathers position and title upon his death.

Given that Lord Rust is now ill and infirm it seems likely she will soon become Lady Rust and have control of the Rust family and power. Lord Vetinari complained to [[Samuel Vimes| Commander Vimes]] about this, stating that he would have preferred to have dealt with her brother Gravid, who is lazy idiot rather than his forceful and astute sister. Once rather feels he protests too much, and might relish the challenge. But it is unlikely Regina will make life easy for Sam Vimes or Vetinari, as it is to be expected she will hold them responsible for her brother’s exile and slight to her family and try to exact revenge.

[[Category:Discworld characters|Rust, Regina]]
[[Category:Human characters|Rust, Regina]]
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