Glad to be of service (and sorry about the spelling mistakes).
Drumlanrig was a good exercise, almost as good as Chenies Manor (which gets my vote as the best programme so far).
Colin Wallace
Gehenna - message received. I obviously haven't got the hang of this 'writing under a nom de guerre' business. Using 'Colin Wallace' isn't a very good disguise if you really are called Colin Wallace ...
quote:Originally posted by Colin Wallace: Dear TT Forum,
Glad to be of service (and sorry about the spelling mistakes).
Drumlanrig was a good exercise, almost as good as Chenies Manor (which gets my vote as the best programme so far).
Colin Wallace
Gehenna - message received. I obviously haven't got the hang of this 'writing under a nom de guerre' business. Using 'Colin Wallace' isn't a very good disguise if you really are called Colin Wallace ...
Too true. Perhaps i was a bit too careful - the odds on there being two scottish chappies interested in Roman pot with the same name is surely too great. Still, there was apparently another archaeologist out there with the same name as me, just without the 's' (Yes, female), and I once worked on a Tudor manor house in London which used to be owned by a wealthy Tudor merchant who also shared my name. Spooky
As for the nomme de guerre, those who know me know me, and the rest can guess. From time to time I might need to venture opinions which some posters on here might not like, and I get too many emails at work as it is!
The choice of name seemed somehow appropriate - it refers to the biblical home of condemned souls.
Agree with you on Chenies - it was a nice report to write too - lots of history and background. Best programme to work on though was South Perrott. Keep an eye out for it - should be a good one
quote:Originally posted by gehenna: The choice of name seemed somehow appropriate - it refers to the biblical home of condemned souls.
I'd been wondering about that. I gather the linguists think the word comes originally from the name of a valley somewhere near Jerusalem. The English equivalent would be something like Swindon probably ....
quote:Originally posted by gehenna: The choice of name seemed somehow appropriate - it refers to the biblical home of condemned souls.
I'd been wondering about that. I gather the linguists think the word comes originally from the name of a valley somewhere near Jerusalem. The English equivalent would be something like Swindon probably ....
Crikey, I've just noticed this post.
Oh dear, oh dear!!! Yellow triangle please. I want this person banned!!
Let's not mention a Dark (Port) Vale that some people have to walk through, shall we.
quote:Originally posted by Steve Platt: Okay, I take it back - I was being unfair on Gehenna ....
Or maybe not. My dads family were bargees on the Kennet and Avon at Bradford on Avon. I should imagine their view of Swindon would fit fairly well with a place of condemned souls
quote:Originally posted by Steve Platt: Okay, I take it back - I was being unfair on Gehenna ....
Or maybe not. My dads family were bargees on the Kennet and Avon at Bradford on Avon. I should imagine their view of Swindon would fit fairly well with a place of condemned souls
Both off my Christmas card list.
I'm a Walker and have done it on stage with Tony in Swindon ......to coin a phrase.
quote:Originally posted by Steve Platt: Okay, I take it back - I was being unfair on Gehenna ....
Or maybe not. My dads family were bargees on the Kennet and Avon at Bradford on Avon. I should imagine their view of Swindon would fit fairly well with a place of condemned souls
Both off my Christmas card list.
I'm a Walker and have done it on stage with Tony in Swindon ......to coin a phrase.
Shown shome reshpect!!!
Sorry Chris,
have nothing against Swindon per se, I just don't think it really belongs in Wiltshire. If you could arrange for it to be towed into the suburban nightmare around London it wouldn't be so out of place. Hitch it to the back of a landy, tow it down the M4 and drop it off between Slough and Maidenhead. Just seems like a waste of a good piece of countryside to me. After all, the railways have more or less gone now, what's the point in hanging on to a piece of crumbling industrial heritage any longer than we need to.
quote:Originally posted by gehenna: Just seems like a waste of a good piece of countryside to me. After all, the railways have more or less gone now, what's the point in hanging on to a piece of crumbling industrial heritage any longer than we need to.
Oh dear! Industrial heritage? Groundwell the hidden Roman gem that was missed by someone. People have been here a lot longer that Brunel, Gooch, and Churchward. But they DID make fine engines so us common people could widen our horizons.
Barges, yeah! They are still around ain't they. Don't dismiss what your family made a living at.
You are a part of what they were.
As Tony said, I'm a Walker. My ancestors walked in urine 8 hours a day. Now a days I wade in sh1t for longer.
