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Pia Walker

Re: Incredible Dance escape this year ?(plus the tiniest "peep")

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