Which boarding school in Salisbury was that, Max? I was at the
(non-boarding) grammar school about 5 years later than this, and can think
of 3 girls' boarding establishments in the City off the top of my head, one
extremely posh. As for the Plain, that's my spiritual home -- my poem about
it, 'Plain', is on Anny's Fieralingue site -- and I well remember sitting on
the altar-stone at Stonehenge in the moonlight, on the way back from the pub
with a boyfriend. Incidentally, sitting was all -- them days was stricter!
Do please give her my regards, and tell her it's all still there.
joanna
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Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 6:24 AM
Subject: snap 18 april 07
> Now she's seventy, she enjoys
> recalling certain moments
> when she was young.
> Early years in Egypt?
>
> 'My birthday party - picture this:
> we English girls on camels
> on a race around the Pyramids.
> Yes, and the Sphinx.
>
> Boarding school in Salisbury -
> very strict discipline.
> But after class, senior girls were free
> to cycle for miles on the Plain.
>
> Stonehenge - we propped
> our bikes on the stones -
> open and deserted but for us.
> Another age, it seems.'
>
> I waited for a third -
> the Acropolis?
> The talk swerved elsewhere.
> Another time, I'll ask.
>
>
> Max Richards
> Doncaster, Victoria
>
> Wednesday 18 April 2007
>
>
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