FAQ's

Oh yes you are Lyn! You can't fool me keeping it hidden in a nicely wrapped package which seems to have been delivered to this forum at least 1,097 times now, and we've all had a peek inside!

Ruth---I was born in Lancashire, but spent many, many happy years living in Colorado Springs and actually got a very good education there in the '60s, and many teachers taught their subjects interestingly enough for me to want to find out more. I emailled the current Principal about a year ago to thank the school for what they'd done all those years ago.

It was in my final year in Canada, boredom set in, and started to show in my grades. My Dad was in the Canadian Forces.

Ref another posting about Festus---met him once in Las Vegas while we were on vacation, but he looked a lot more like Ken Curtis, born in Colorado.  Lovely chatting with you as well; you'd be surprised at the memories you've brought back.

Intelligent? Lyn certainly is despite the lenghts she sometimes goes to, to try and hide it! Andy is very insightful with his observations he writes about, and Ron?  He's in a class of his own--and makes sure I double check my postings for punctuation, learnt the American way. As for myself, graduated in the class of 68 1/2. Unfortunately, nobody else was in it when I did. I've since tried to compensate for it one way or another, successfully or not. 

 

hi ruth,

will TRY and give you an answer.  FENS...you will find alot of this in the cambridge area.  very flat area. would have been water logged at one time (Ely use to be an island).  WOLD i think is a wooded area, and FELL i think you would fine like if hiking over the hilltops. 

if i am wrong, hope someone can correct me.....

Hi Ruth

You mentioned the Magna Carta in your post yesterday but did you know that at Runnymede (about six miles from Windsor) there is an acre of land belonging to the USA? 

"A Memorial Stone is set is an acre of green land given to the United States by Queen Elizabeth II in 1965 to commemorate the life of John F Kennedy..

"To get to the monument you have to climb a stone path of fifty steps, one for each year of his life."

Unfortunately I've searched through PoE and can't find any photos!  Maybe I'll look out my old photos and scan them in.

Jo.... Re: Magna Carta...I didn't know that! just goes to show one never stop learning no matter how old and decrepit one is lol .

On 7th June 2008 20:56, Ruth Gregory wrote:

I think there are fens in Massachusetts, aren't there, Diana?  I think Fenway Park was named after fens.  As for fells, the only fell I ever heard about was the one in Cats.  ".......the fiend of the fell."  Wold - no clue.