[sdiy] Juergen's Scottish visit (very OT)

[Magnus Danielson]

From: "Tony Allgood" <oakley at techrepairs.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Juergen's Scottish visit (very OT)
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 19:51:34 +0100

> >> Back again from a wonderful two weeks in Scotland.
> >> Very nice country !
> 
> >Hmm... I'd really love to go there...
> 
> >Did you bump into the good gentleman Tony Allgood?
> 
> More likely to bump in Colin Fraser than me. I live in Penrith. Which
> although its very close to the border, its very much in England. In the
> seventeenth century around here, one could get seriously hurt for
> getting the two sides mixed up.

Hm... then I got this thing about you being scotish all wrong
then... ah well... not the most important aspect of classification on
your personality, just a feature... ;)

> And you can get quite close to that very same atmosphere late on a
> Saturday night in Carlisle :-)

Oups! ;)

> Totally off-topic anecdote: When I first came up to live in Cumbria I
> was visting a local town called Kirby Stephen, I got into a conversation
> with a very old local farmer. I said I had moved up to live in Appleby,
> eight miles up the road.
> 
> 'Nay lad, yer don't want to live there' Why not I asked. 'They were on
> the wrong side'. In the county cricket championship, I said trying to
> knowledgable. 'Nah, you daft bugger, the king, they supported the King'.
> Confused, I left him to it, but someone explained later that he really
> didn't like Appleby. And they did indeed support the King. In the
> English Civil War in 1644. He really was very old... or having me over
> :-)

No, that's just how we Europeans are... ;^)

Cheers,
Magnus