Rob told me a bit about this in a hurried (postal) note from Gatwick,
Judy, I'm still gaping at it all.
(when things do get straight you'll have to come down to Leicester and
have a meal in Starlight with me and Lydia. I can show you now where
it is believed Richard the Third is really buried: it's a small car
park with some trees in it, you have to see it!)
2008/6/27 Judy Prince <[log in to unmask]>:
> Glad you and Doug and Sweet P asked!
>
> Having sold my house in Virginia on 16 June, I flew to Gatwick Airport
> 24 June (bad air day, as you will see), was detained for 3 hours,
> denied entry into the UK, told I'd be scheduled to fly out the next
> morning back to Virginia. Turned out I was permitted 2 days outside
> the Detention Center in Gatwick before taking my "guaranteed" seat on
> a flight back to Virginia on Tuesday, 26 June.
>
> BTW, the 2-day "holiday" in Horley, Surrey, nearby Gatwick was
> FABULOUS!!! I highly recommend Ye Olde Six Bells Pub:
> <http://www.camrasurrey.org.uk/horley/default.htm>
>
> As the site says, the pub dates from 1403, and has valid claims to be
> one of the oldest pubs in the UK. Most important, for me, is that
> it's food is thoroly sensational.
>
> Now I'm back in VA (have rented lovely digs, in the short term, next
> to Old Dominion University), and I see why my detention at Gatwick
> may've been part of the Immigration folks' plan to hold down drug
> trafficking (no, I don't do drugs, don't deal them, and don't plan
> to).
>
> If you click on <http://www.allabouthorley.co.uk> and scroll down
> past "Pub Chef to Appeal" (8.04.08) and "34 Years for Murdering Pub
> Chef" (27.02.08) and "Pub Chef Denies Murder" (5.02.08), you'll see
> "Heightened Security at Gatwick Airport" (24.01.08).
>
> And, yes, the chef did work at Ye Olde Six Bells Pub. Don't know if
> he was a good chef, but the current one +definitely+ is!
>
> Best,
>
> Judy
>
> On 6/27/08, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> What about your bad air day? Some noxious gases vented from some
>> underground cavern?
>>
>> On 6/27/08, Judy Prince <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> so ask me about my bad air day.
>>>
>>> judy
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
>> "I began to warm and chill
>> to objects and their fields"
>> Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
>>
>
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David Bircumshaw
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