Sue Carlson Dunn
July 5th 03, 12:00 PM
"Katherine Burgess" > wrote in message
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>
> "Sue Carlson Dunn" wrote >
> > Someone (Katherine possibly?) posted a lovely saying quite a while
> > ago: "In America a hundred years is a long time, in Britain a
hundred
> > miles is a long way." It's true - well, the British bit anyway!
;-)))
>
> How odd that you posted this today, Sue. Keith and I went out for
dinner
> tonight, and we were discussing that very thing with our friends.
There are
> people here who are amazed that houses which are 200 years old are
still
> being lived in, while over your way, there are many much older! And
I have
> to drive 600 km on Sunday, just to get to the ferry so that I can
start my
> vacation!
> It's all relative, I guess.
Indeed, bits of my crumbling pile were built either in 1608 or 1613 -
no one's quite sure - certainly the plumbing dates from that era ;-))
And I'm always finding interesting fragments of pot and old chinaclay
pipes when digging the garden.
--
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>
> "Sue Carlson Dunn" wrote >
> > Someone (Katherine possibly?) posted a lovely saying quite a while
> > ago: "In America a hundred years is a long time, in Britain a
hundred
> > miles is a long way." It's true - well, the British bit anyway!
;-)))
>
> How odd that you posted this today, Sue. Keith and I went out for
dinner
> tonight, and we were discussing that very thing with our friends.
There are
> people here who are amazed that houses which are 200 years old are
still
> being lived in, while over your way, there are many much older! And
I have
> to drive 600 km on Sunday, just to get to the ferry so that I can
start my
> vacation!
> It's all relative, I guess.
Indeed, bits of my crumbling pile were built either in 1608 or 1613 -
no one's quite sure - certainly the plumbing dates from that era ;-))
And I'm always finding interesting fragments of pot and old chinaclay
pipes when digging the garden.
--
Sue CD...quietly unravelling in Cumbria...
Pot Luck Crafts www.howhill.com
Sue's Project Pages www.howhill.com/projects
Please take off your shoes to email me!