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We are still here and still providing our opinions, advice and comments - sometimes snide comments too!

Welcome home!

Ray

It's up, but we all miss the 'sage of Nova Scotia'

'Turn to Safety' Arch

Fortiter,

Wadeyoumean, still up? it was quiet there for a while but its going full tilt again, welcome back Darrell, hope you did enjoy your trip and had some good experiences, give us a bit of an account will ye

Have fun and take care Leo Van Der Loo

Darrell Feltmate wrote:

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Ya Bet Ya Red Rider!

The Other Bruce

thanks to all, including those who answered directly so I could see that I could post but not receive. There had been some "improvements" to my server resulting in no service. Things are back to normal now. England was amazing. The sense of age and history were a revelation to little old me. I found out that my heart is good. My wife and I climbed up the tower of Durham Cathedral, 365 very worn stone steps around a spiral staircase (pant, pant). the view was incredible. The people were amazing who built that thing. I looked down at Durham Castle and realized there were nine sections of scaffolding on a side where they were doing some restoration. The castle looked like a dollhouse. Meanwhile I was beside beautifully carved stones that must have weighed a ton or two each and found myself wondering "how did they scaffold this place and how did they get these stones up here?" After all, the tower is a good thousand years old.

Isn't the Prince a big fan of restoration versus rebuilding?

Imagine if you will that the restoration of that public building were being done in the US, and try to figure out where they'd put the federally-mandated handicapped access. Had a problem with that at our church when we remodeled, which we finally solved by redesignating the main entry as secondary. Then there were the wider doors I had to hang for the sanitary accommodations....

England was amazing.

I live near Philadelphia and had a very good friend who grew up in England. One day I said something to him about the old buildings in and around Philly. He looked at me and said, "Harry, you have no idea about old buildings. In England we have building that were built in the 1600's. Glad you had a good trip.