Sept. 28, 2001, 10:57 a.m. (Message 27579, in reply to message 27569)
Thank you Ron I loved it there - yes people could laugh at themselves - and it was incredible lovely to live there - People cared - I went back to Maynooth in Co Kildare, last year after 14 years away - went into the post-office, up to the counter, where this man was sitting (my age) - and he said "Thought it was you when you walked in" - Had I been away? it did not seem like it. To keep to the scottish thread - we did a Burns night at my hubbys work - and could not get Haggis imported - we did get one in as a biological specimen (hubby being a biotechnologist) - but I had to make the rest - arrived at the university cantine with all the necessary bits of sheep - muslin bag instead of stomach - and asked "where's the mincer?" Chef looks at me and says "we haven't got one - here's a knife" - chopped up the innards of what to me seemed like several dead sheep - with a knife - for 70 people. plus made the oat-cakes and danced the night away. It was great. Pia