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You mustn't forget your yoghs and your eths either Judy! 2008/6/29 Judy Prince <[log in to unmask]>: > I definitely appreciate your compassion, Doug (it was a deeply unfun > experience), and hope your hope proves to be Reality! > & re lovers: I had thought I was being so discreet! ;-) > > If I may piggyback here a query to Robin re Ye Olde Six Bells Pub in Horley, > Surrey: > > Please xplain that "thorn" or "wynne" or wotever alphabeletter begins "Ye". > My kidhood friends and I in the USA useta refer to the sweet fake-old > American shops as "Yee Oldee Ice Cream Shoppee"----mocking those spellings > that were as mysteriously passed along to us as that damned droop-tailed > "s"! > > Beft, > > ferioufly fenfual joodlef > > 2008/6/28 Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>: > >> Utterly gobsmacked by this, Judy. >> >> Fear & loathing everywhere as political failure increases. And now the >> poets & the lovers suffer too? >> >> Hope you get fast tracked next time right on through... >> >> Doug >> >> On 27-Jun-08, at 11:17 AM, Judy Prince wrote: >> >> 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 >>>> >>>> >>> >> Douglas Barbour >> [log in to unmask] >> >> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ >> >> Latest books: >> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) >> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 >> Wednesdays' >> >> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html >> >> In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field >> general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by >> hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he >> has to use shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his >> troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained >> ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy's >> defensive line. >> >> In baseball the object is to go home! >> >> George Carlin, RIP >> > -- David Bircumshaw Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/ The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk