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    Wow..thats a long note for the end of the day here.  Here's my 2p worth
    
    Suffolk is a reasonably large county on the East of England.  Part of
    it is on the coast and there are several large rivers running through
    it (eg. the Ouse and the Stour), no doubt there will be lots of smaller
    tributaries coming from them all, and many will have bridges (like the
    one you mentioned) over them..this is common even today.
    
    I'm no expert, but think Suffolk is quite rural and therefore it would
    be difficult to pinpoint and exact dairy farm withourt a name..guess
    you would have to speak to someone who knew the place well.
    
    Its a pity you can;t remember the surname and many farms are named
    after their occupants - and even if the farm is non-existant today,
    often current places are named after them.  Bear in mind that lots of
    farms are owned by the church/parish and sublet to families (although
    the lets do tend to be passed from generation to generation)
    
    You probably already know that a lot of English surnames come from a
    persons occupation or craft (Did you sing too? - Richard
    Carpenter..sorry, bad joke! ;-) )
    
    Can't shed much light on battles either unfortunately.
    
    You might want to explore the geneology conference to see if anyone
    there can give pointers - I would suspect that the folks there will
    have an interest in history.
    
    Jackie

    >>	Thanks for the info, and I'll take your suggestions to heart, love!
                                                                     ^^^^^^
    
    >>(Think I can learn to speak "proper" English (vs American English) in
    >>under a few weeks from all of y'all? :-) )
    
    I think you'd be better of keeping your American English..makes
    for much more interesting conversation (just ask Chris! :-) )
    
    Oh...and not all English people use 'love' at the end of a
    sentance...some positively *hate* the term being applied to them.  
    One of the people I used to work with used to go crazy when someone said 
    that to her! :-)   I think its a regional thing though.  Others
    comments?
    
    Jackie
    
    

    >>	Thanks for the info, and I'll take your suggestions to heart, love!
                                                                        
    
    
    	Yes, I absolutley detest that word too....it really winds me up!!!
    
    	But seeing as Stretch is new, we can let him off!
    
    Deb_cheeky!

    
    aww...can't we tease him for a little while first? ;-)
    
    Jackie_mischief!

    no - it wouldnt be fair!!
    
    we can all se what kinda mood you're in Jackie!!!
    
    Deb_giggling!

    pout! 
    
    0;-))
    
    Jackie

    what does 'pout' mean....  Excuse my ignorence but I havent heard it
    before!...
    
    Sheby-curious...

    
    
    
    don't you pout when you don't get your way?
    
    :(  <---- pout
    
    Chris
    :)

    it's a really childish face that ya put on when you cant get ya own
    way, for instance in Jackies last incident....when she wasnt allowed to
    wind up Stretch.........
    
    
    Deb

    aha... Now I know!  Thanks Deb...
    
    Happy Sheby :-)

    
    
    >>And who says Jackie hasn't been able to wind me up?!? (Oops! :-)
    >>Jackie, I'm sorry! I said I wouldn't tell... <smirk!
    
    Bad boy..I thought that was supposed to be secret! ;-)
    
    Jackie
    
    

    Hmmmm....I'll have to thing about that one!
    
    
    OK...just this once!
    
    :-)
    
    Jackie

    
    Its called a form-feed.  Ctrl L should do the trick, but don't put too
    many in as it wastes space and our host might not like it! :-)  
    
    Jackie

    NOW...
    
    I know How It Works!!!!!, too. :-))
    
    Sheby

    >>RE: -< No whippin's today! >-
    
    >>	Pleeezzzeee!!! <GRIN! :-)))>
    
    No, I carry the halo's, not the whips!  Sorry, you'll just have to look
    to someone else for that :-)
    
    I might make you stand in the corner sometime though! ;-)
    
    Jackie

    Hi Strech,
    
    Sheby is a shortened version of my name. I use it to make other peoples 
    life easier..(It is easier to pronounce). My real name is Shebnem 
    (this is the English spelling..).  I am originally from Turkey, 
    I have been living in England for 6 years and still my English
    isnt perfect and I still have my accent!
    
    I've been working in Digital since August and I am only here for a year
    as I am a placement student and I go back to university at the end of
    September. 
    
    Other than that I love having fun, going out, meeting new people etc
    etc.
    
    Well that is alittle about me!!!  Nice to meet Ya..
    
    Sheby ....
    

    Hmmm...
    
    I hope so....
    
    Sheby :-)

    
    
    
    what's SOSDD???
    
    
    			TELL US A! :))))
    
    
    Chris
    :)

    
    
    I think someone should ask A what SOSDD means! :))))))
    
    Chris
    :)

    yes, I am intrigued Ann.........
    
    
    go on - tell us all.....
    
    Deb

Whoops, sorry, it was a genuine notes clash, but I couldn't be bothered
to delete anyway...   :o)


H.

    
    
    what H? the note about the SODDS?
    
    I think someone aughta ask A about that.
    
    Chris
    :)

    re -1
    
    I hope that was a typo!
    
    Jackie :-)

    
    
    
    re -1  
    
    hehehehehehe
    
    
    yup typo!!!
    
    but I think I'll ask A about the SOSDD
    
    Chris
    :)))

    Why don't you ask Ann about the SOSDD, then?
    
    Jackie :-)

    yea well, you find out, can someone let the rest of us know........who
    are rather confused......!!
    
    Deb_Working_hard!

Well, I've been racking my brains for suitable suggestions, and I've
come up with:

	Same Old Sh***y Daily Duties


H.

    
    
    I know!!!
    
    
    
    
    I think I'll ask A about the SOSDD!!!
    
    Chris
    :)

    
    
    I am confused!!!!
    
    sheby

    
    
    Hey, why don't you ask me about SOSDD!
    
    IT's  Same Ole Shi+ Different Day!
    
    Are you Happy NOw?
    

    
    Yes, Thank You... :-))
    
    Sheby

    
    
    
    not back to the SOSDD thing again!!?? :))))))
    
    
    Chris
    :)

And then we have DSDD.....

lola

    
    Lola - where ya bin Girl ????
    
    
    
    Shelley

Yep, I'm afraid so:


Stretch,

Thanks for the e-mail re SOSDD...



H.  :o)

    LOLA!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    Where have YOU been hiding lately then babe?
    
    
    Deb_wondering?

    
    
    LOLA!!!

    
    Still going on about SOSDD!  
    
    Sheby......

Lola,

DSDD must be the optimsts version of DODSS I take it...?  :o)


H.

    
    
    
    DODSS
    SOSDD
    SODDS
    
    
    this topic is getting SADD!!! :))))
    
    Chris
    :)

    
    Yeah move it over to the Euro_sad conference thats where it belongs ;-)
    
    
    
    Shell

    Any more..... 
    
    My brain cant cope with all that at this time.. You have to understand
    it is nearly 5:00pm.. and my brain stopped functioning..
    
    Sheby

Here's another one:

25 minutes before I say TTFN...   :o)


H.

    I would think the first D in DSDD  stood for Different
    
    ??
    
    Jackie

    TTFN is not too diffucult is it?  
    
    Sheby ...
    

    not at all Sheby!!
    
    btw: HI!! - I forgot earlier!!
    
    

    Hiya Debs,
    
    How ya doin...
    
    Sheby

    Sheby!! - Im just fine, a kind of stressed day, but with ::FRIENDS
    keeping my company, it\s all worthwhile!!
    
    Deb

    Glad to hear that.. I am the same, I cant really say I had a good day.. 
    I am happy that I am with :Friends..
    
    Sheby

>    this topic is getting SADD!!! :))))
 
Same albatross, different day???

I'm here DEB!!!!

CHRIS!!!!

Lola

    
    Hey - what about me - you left me out Lola :-((
    
    
    
    
    Shell

>    I would think the first D in DSDD  stood for Different
    
>     Jackie


Yuppers, Jackie...Different Day Different $hit...

Lola

Oh no....I would never leave you out Shell!!!!!  DDSS...Different Day Same Shell
!!! 

Lola

Which reminds me, a friend from N.Z. may be visiting and I have requested
that she bring me a beautiful shell!!! 

Lola

Anyone around?

I know this is naughty...

set up ----->

SNARF!!! Now I need someone to share it with....

Lola

    
    
    	Lola! You bad gurl....;*)
    
    

>    	Lola! You bad gurl....;*)
    
 ;->>>>>>

Chico,

I needed it BAD!!!!!!   

Lola

    Yes, I am here but I am leaving now... Soo Have a good rest of the
    day... (whatever is left anyway..)
    
    Sheby.......

    
    Bye Strech...
    
    Sheby

    
    I've been by the wayside for far to long to be any other way.
    
    A

    
    Hey STRETCH,
    
    Hardly an angel! -)
    

    
    And while I'm here I may as well snarf this!
    

    
    You sure are hearing things aren't you STRETCH!?
    
    A

    
    
    Imagination is a wonderful thing......ain't it STRETCH......Ya must
    have a window in yer office to stare outta ta see the fantasies of
    life wander by.....:-)
    
    
    C
    

    
    Hi Craig!
    
    A

    
    
    
    Afternoon Ann.....How ya been?.....:-)
    
    
    Craig
    

    
    
    Stretch....ya nee to get a window seat.....makes those mental vacations
    much more exciting......light fluffy clouds rolling by...fantasy meadow
    full of unicorns and imps and dragons and other wonderous
    sights...where time stands still and your every wish/desire is at
    hand....:-)
    
    
    C
    

    
    Not doing to bad Craig, now that the snow has melted away.
    How are you doing?
    
    STRETCH, I say you indeed have a window seat!
    
    A
    

    
    MOVE, did you say me mind being moved.  I'm the master of moving.
    
    

    
    Just fine Ann..........lots of rain, maybe some snow tonight.....and
    then back to rain on thursday.....
    
    
    C
    
    

    
    
    Why not STRETCH.....a little more of the white stuff never hurt
    anything......we are supposed to get snow fluries
    overnight...temperature is going to be around +4C (40F).....so
    it will be the wet stuff, but it should not amount to any
    accumulation....
    
    
    C
    
    
    

    
    
    STRETCH....I was tired of the white stuff starting in November last
    year....
    
    
    C
    
    

  I am 90% sure we have had our last snow storm of the winter here in Greater
Boston. It poured all day today.
  I expect Ottawa has at least one more snow storm coming.

>    remember) and that I was part of some sort of revolutionary action or
>    militia of farmers and commonfolk protecting their land from an unseen
>    enemy. [Presuming that I was 34, as I "recalled", this would place the
>    YEAR at circa 1777 AD.] My last remembrance of this existence was being,
>    literally, blown to pieces from several rounds of musket fire from
>    multiple directions.

  Are you sure "you" didn't move across the pond sometime before 1777? A lot
of Englishmen moved to America in this time frame. And this incident sounds a
lot like any of several battles in the American Revolution.

    
    Stretch-
    
    I'm no expert, but I believe BLACK47, the band, took the name from a
    bad year of the famine when the potato crop failed....turned black and
    rotted in the fields.
    
    /jen (who is lucky some of her ancestors survived!)
    

Stretch,

Yes there was a big famine Ireland last centuary I believe (1847
perhaps?).  The "potatoe famine", but my history is absolutely appaling
anyway, so at best, I can only be vague and unsure about what I've just
told you!


H.  :o)

OK, sorry about the notes clash...

I was writing my entry, when I had to leave it and go and attend to
something else!


H.  :o)

    
    Stretch-
    
    Glad to help with the question.  I've been to Ireland on trips before
    and had the solemn experience to go to some of the areas hardest hit by
    the famine...and sadly look upon the mass graves of those that didn't
    make it.
    
    But it is a beautiful country with much rich history and wonderful
    people.
    
    /jen 

    
    Well Stretch, in keeping with the "HELP" of this notes subject, if you 
    plan a trip and would like some travel advice, don't hesitate to ask.
    
    I've been to Ireland, England, Wales, France, New Zealand, Australia,
    Bermuda, Canada, Mexico, and of course parts of the US.
    
    /jen

    
    Ah...but the more you travel the more you will see that America is a
    very special place and we are fortunate in many ways.  
    
    I have friends in Ireland that pay 46% income taxes.
    I have friends in England that routinely worry about being blown up.
    I have friends in Wales with little hope of a good job.
    I have friends in Australia that can't shop after 5:00 p.m. (heavens!
    :^))
    
    Not to mention things like lousy plumbing, pollution, lack of valuing
    of diversity, etc!  
    
    /jen

> I have friends in England that routinely worry about being blown up.

Whoops, d'ja vous (sp?):

An IRA bomb went off in London yesterday evening (Earls Court area). 
Luckily, it was in an empty house in an isolated area, and there were
no casaulties.


H.

    How about the man who blow himself up.....
    
    We also had some bomb scare here in Winnersh in Digital! 
    
    Sheby

> We also had some bomb scare here in Winnersh in Digital! 

You mean within the last week, or that one a couple of months back
(February?)?


H.

    
    
    Hey H-man
    
    what did ya have for lunch?
    
    Chris
    :)

> what did ya have for lunch?

According to the menu, it was a "Thai Vegetable Curry" - it was a bit on the
watery side for a curry!   :o)

Choc moose for afters...


H.

    It was couple of months back.. Someone was playing a joke probably..
    
    Sheby

    Hi!!!
    
    Jeepers!! - I feel like Im driving through one of those tunnels where
    you drive by a light every 5 seconds, Im in and out like a yo yo
    today!!
    
    Now, Im just going to lunch - late night again, I can see it
    coming.....
    
    Scott - I mailed you back, we have to talk about your last mail
    babe......
    
    see yaz laters!!
    
    
    Deb_Dashing_about!

    That Major Tom song was more the late 70's wasn't it?

    
    
    The david Bowie Song - Ground control to Major Tom was in the 70's bt
    he also did Ashes to Ashes, also about Major Tom in the 80's.
    
    
    Shell

    
    
    Hey Shell. Like that tune that's in your p_name!! :))
    
    Ole ole
    ole ole feelin Hot hot hot!
    
    
    Chris
    :)

    
    Thats what I was thinkin' of when I changed my P_name Chris ;-)
    
    
    
    Shell

    Hi folks !
    
    I'm no Bowie buff, but one of the guys in my group says it was in the
    early seventies, and the song was Ziggy Stardust.  I think ?
    
    
    
    							Scott H.

      The Major Tom I know was in the 80's and right now I can't think of
    the singer but it wasn't Bowie (I think).
    
    JC

    Charley,
    
    	There was also a song "Major Tom" by PETER SCHILLING that was
    released somewhere in the early to mid 80s. My original question was
    whether or not these two songs were tied together somehow and if they
    were based upon a REAL person named Major Tom? If so, I'd like any
    other info - for curiosity's sake...
    
    STRETCH

    
    Stretch - 
    
    I'm not sure if the 'major tom' is/was a real person, but I do remember
    hearing about a condition some of the astronauts experienced...an erie
    pull from the depths of space...an irrational temptation to unteether
    during space walks in order to float away into the vastness of space
    forever.   Thankfully none of them ever went thru with it!
    
    /jen

    /jn: Thanks for the info...Do you know if they call this phenomena the
    "Major Tom" Syndrome or something???
    
    STRETCH

    Thats who I remember Peter Schilling.
    -JC

    "Major Tom"'s off his A DIFFERENT STORY (WORLD OF LUST AND CRIME) CD. I
    was wondering if he's done another CD or anything yet that hasn't hit
    the States???
    
    STRETCH

    probrobly, were sheltered. at least here in CO.
    
    JC