Theres an old folk story about a lost british soldier in Revolutionary New England ( Some say he was irish.) Our protagonist picks up a rock and puts it in his billy and knocks at a farmhouse. He explains hes making stone soup but lacks a potato. Fascinated, the mistress gives him a spud. He repeats this at successive homesteads collecting carrots, onion, some salt, a bit of meat and even a bottle of ale and bread to go with it. My kits? close to the others, with the addition of some good stories to put other people at ease and an ear to hear theirs <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />.