Questions for non-Brits.

Andy, I'm with you on this, well said.  Cumbria and Yorkshire are very similar in some ways.  Tight and stubborn come to mind lol

You express yourself so well Denis, I wish I could do the same.

Don't let Andy pop your bubble, England is still England if you go over with blinders on as I do every year. I keep away from the big cities and the suburbs, I don't eat at foreign restaurants and I try not to watch the news or attempt to pronounce the names of people in the 'local' papers.

I am glad that you also got to meet Ron, and I loved your description of him which is exactly as I found him to be (and tall, did I tell you he was tall?).

Come again, leave the big cities behind and visit those little out of the way villages. I spent a wonderful half hour stuck behind a broken down tractor on a very tiny road leading out of the village of Slaughterford, Wiltshire. There was no going forward and no going backward, the banks were high on each side and full of flowers, a church stood in the middle of a field full of cows. It was heaven itself.

I do so love my country, my countryside.

Steady Dennis, I'll hardly be able to get through the door! I admit to having a smile on my face when I read that post Dennis, but you know somehow I really connect with it because sometimes here in the forum I will say something quite literally, to get the members responding! So yes, I am all of the things that you mention....thank you my friend. I trust Nadia is well? Please pass on my best wishes, I certainly haven't forgotton either of you! Blimey, how could I? Oh, and by the way Andy you heard it hear first 'Ron you are England'.....Thinks, where's that Peter, I've got one up on him at last!

>>>jovial, mischevious, inteligent and passionate man. And sometimes I feel like the over-stuffed chair next to a fire too!

Sue H, I really don't deserve all your praise (oh well if you insist). But thank you also for your love, care and attention that makes for our friendship. I really do have so many friends here in the POE forum despite the banter, which we all know is part of the joy of it all. That's the power of POE!!

>>>Sue H writes: 'I am glad that you also got to meet Ron, and I loved your description of him which is exactly as I found him to be (and tall, did I tell you he was tall?). Sue H, Dennis and his lovely wife Nadia did the C. S. Lewis Tour with me here in Oxford, so yes he would have been able to judge for himself (because like you said, he met me see....tut, tut and ha, ha!). For example the quote about the 'over-stuffed' chair next to the fire! H'mmm, perhaps we don't need to pursue that one! Thank you my friends for all your support and take care!  

Tell us Ron, how long did it take you to pen those reports for Sue and Dennis. Also how much did it cost you to bribe them to post them.

I am Wales. Cumru um bydd.

Don't let Andy pop your bubble, England is still England if you go over with blinders on as I do every year. I keep away from the big cities and the suburbs, I don't eat at foreign restaurants and I try not to watch the news or attempt to pronounce the names of people in the 'local' papers.