Her comment on life in the US almost 8 years after she had left: "it's so lovely and civilized here!"
Guests from England this weekend
Guests from England this weekend
Old friends who were in the US temporarily, whose daughter shares a Thanksgiving-time birthday with the older of my boyz. She's from Herefordshire, just a few moments away from Wales.
Her comment on life in the US almost 8 years after she had left: "it's so lovely and civilized here!"

Her comment on life in the US almost 8 years after she had left: "it's so lovely and civilized here!"
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
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Re: Guests from England this weekend
Guess you didn't let her view this board.
Just kidding.
I try and be as polite and civilized as I can at all times, even here. But that's just the Steps talking, I can be a bastard if I try really hard.
Glad she liked the US, maybe more will come to that opinion if they get to know us.

Just kidding.
I try and be as polite and civilized as I can at all times, even here. But that's just the Steps talking, I can be a bastard if I try really hard.
Glad she liked the US, maybe more will come to that opinion if they get to know us.
Re: Guests from England this weekend
Guinevere wrote:Her comment on life in the US almost 8 years after she had left: "it's so lovely and civilized here!"![]()
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Living near Wales would do that to you.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: Guests from England this weekend
Hereford is now twinned with Gaza... 
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
Re: Guests from England this weekend
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Re: Guests from England this weekend
Sir,
Please clearly label such posts with the attribution. "The above photographic pun is used by kind permission of Major General George Gordon Meade (dec'd.)"
Yrs., etc.
E. Strobes
Sue, Grabbit and Runne
Please clearly label such posts with the attribution. "The above photographic pun is used by kind permission of Major General George Gordon Meade (dec'd.)"
Yrs., etc.
E. Strobes
Sue, Grabbit and Runne
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts