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StillILearn said:
steffee, where do you thik that saying came from? My British stepma used to send my father "to Coventry" regularly, but she never told me what it meant. Well, I knew it meant that he was in big trouble with her, but -- you know. :confused:


Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sent_to_Coventry :)
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I'm reading The Brothers Karamazov last night and what do I run across?....a reference to coventry!.:eek: Of course, I have to post it as it immediately reminded me of this thread.

I sent Smurov to tell him that I would not speak to him again. That's what we call it when two schoolfellows refuse to have anything more to do with one another. Secretly I only meant to send him to Coventry for a few days and then, if I saw signs of repentance, to hold out my hand to him again.
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I originally came from Auckland but now live in a small community about 50kms from Nelson. If you look on MonkeyCatcher's map, we are at the top of the South Island.
We have a population of 811 people(apparently) in a 7kms radius.
Our community has one primary school with around 40 children and this is the hub of our social life. It's a very supportive community with someone ready to lend a helping hand if needed.
We are situated in a valley that looks towards the Mt Arthur ranges which are covered in snow during winter. Our temperatures range from -12C to the high 30C's in summer (10F to 100F)
Cattle and sheep farming are the main activities but also deer, olives, blackcurrants, apples, hops and grapes are grown. Until recently a lot of tobacco came from here.
Our land was divided up in England in the 1800's sometime, so we can have some pretty peculiar boundaries. Several place-names are named after villages in Yorkshire, I believe. And Nelson itself was named after Lord Nelson and has a Trafalgar and Hardy St.
I'll try to post a couple of pictures later if I can work out how to do it.
 
SFG75 said:
I'm reading The Brothers Karamazov last night and what do I run across?....a reference to coventry!.:eek: Of course, I have to post it as it immediately reminded me of this thread.


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Wow just seen this. Ok, I've got to read it now :D

Poppy it sounds lovely, it must be great living in such a well-knitted community like that!
 
I'm having no success Muggle, tried copy and pasting and it doesn't work. Was going to wait till my son comes home in the weekend, and get him to help me.
I have one picture I want you to see - it's of our hay-making, we make large square bales(the equivilent of about 10 small ones) unlike the round ones in your photo. People do make what is called balage, a cross between silage and hay. They are round and wrapped in plastic and smell absolutely delicious when opened unlike silage which I think smells disgusting.
Oh, I've just found out they do make round bales further down south.:eek:
 
hi,
i am from romania, but now i am studying in france. i am in rennes, a city in north western france, the capital of the region, bretagne. it is a ... well... student city. so there are a lot of parties, bars, theatres etc. actually there is a lot of alcohol in the whole region. and strikes all the time. now, for example, the students are on strike (i think only the french have this concept of student strike). so we have stopped going to classes for about one month now. and on tuesday there was a national day of strike in france ( some of the workers extended it to wednesday too).
the nice part about the region is that it is very very green, especially as you go to the ocean. only that the shores are quite muddy.
 
aniela-Sounds like quite the interesting place to be!. Modern day sans-culottes no? Glad to hear that you enjoy it(at least that's what I glean from your post) Nothing like that happens where I live.:(
 
Yes Aniela, sounds interesting.

Our lecturers were striking on Tuesday, and several students joined in too. It's good to know nothing changes across the way, eh?
 
of course it is very enjoyable here when the students are on strike. but then there are some other people who have that hobby, and some strikes are not that pleasant (what pisses me off is when people working for the railway company go on strike, and you know what they do?! they go on strike only for the cheap trains, but the trains with an expensive ticket work!). anyway, strikes appear to be some national french habit. the most funny strike was the strike of the people who work on casinos (i guess they were getting jealous seeing so many people becoming rich while they themselves received normal wages).
 
as for the lecturers, maybe there are a lot of them living in france. for example, i could not go on the internet on tuesday because the university library (where i have access to the internet) was on strike.
 
CDA said:
The bunker only has one skylight, for free illumination after power failure, so I can't see anything other than clouds.

BTW, I'm from Bristol, but live in Salisbury.
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Yoohoo, CDA, unhunker man, unhunker.
Glad to hear you've got a nice view of clouds out your sky-light. Clouds are useful, you could tell if you needed your brolly and wellies ( I've translated that for you, in NZ we call them umbrellas and gumboots - just thought you might be interested in that bit of information) or sun-hat and perhaps in dire emergencies, your gas-mask.

I was starting to doubt the accuracy of my trusty atlas or thought they might have moved the borders after seeing that Bristol was not in Wiltshire, but no, there's always a logical explanation to these things.
What would be interesting now, is to hear what you see when you come OUT of the bunker. We know you get around, there have been confirmed sightings of you in California by StillILearn. Are you slap bang in the middle of town, out in a little village or off in the country somewhere?

I know Salisbury has a beautiful cathedral and that Constable painted it ( I have table mats with his paintings) and looking at the atlas you are near Stonehenge and the River Avon. Can you tell us anything about these?
Take a deep breath now and see if you can expand on your usual cyptic one line answers. Awaiting your reply with hopeful expectation.:D
 
steffee said:
Stonehenge is amazing! Truly amazing!!
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I have yet to see Stonehenge, but it's on my list of things to do. I've heard Avebury is more impressive though. They are both quite close to one another, aren't they? :confused: Maybe I'll see both in one hit. :D
 
I've never been to Avebury, but would love to. Maybe I will get to visit both again this summer!
 
How marvelous! Thank you for posting those great links! Beautiful!
Plus, I like and agree with your tagline! :D
 
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