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From: "C. Schoenfeldt" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] While you're waiting - OT
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 10:56:01 -0500
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Jeff, I LOVE your page on cows and the weather on your website!!!

Cynthia

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Piper" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 7:34 AM
Subject: Re: [TMG] While you're waiting - Luxury - was Status of v5.05


> Becky,
> The sun is shining today. It's quite mild and when my daughter finishes
work
> in about an hour we are going to drive up to Bamburgh.
> For our cousins around the world (and the southerners in England who
won''t
> travel north of Watford Gap <G>) Bamburgh is a small village on the
> Northumberland coast, one of the most beautiful streches of coastline in
> England (I am of course biased). A beautiful castle stands on a rock
outcrop
> and was the site of the Northumbrian kings. You can see Holy Island, one
of
> the main sites of Christianity in the British Isles, with it's castle and
> priory to the north. Out to sea a little south are the Farne Islands home
to
> myriads of birds and seals. On the boat trips out the puffins with their
> brightly couloured beaks fly past andon Inner Farne, a bird sanctuary you
> can see them nesting. There are also terns who use your head as taget
> practice with their sharp beaks when the chicks are born. eider ducks,
> associated with St Cuthbert who lived on Inner Farne as a hermit, bob on
the
> water and nest on the island. The seals lie on the roacks of some of the
> remote islands.
> The local hero is Grace Darling who in the on September 7th 1838 rowed out
> from Inner Farne with her father in ferocious storms to rescue 9 people
from
> a shipwreck.
> Bamburgh has been used in many films and the beach was the scene of
battles
> in the epic El Cid.
> There's a lovely little tea room which I hope will still be open when we
get
> there. If not then chips at Seahouses, a fishing port with eeider ducks in
> the harbour.
> We will drive past Alnwick Castle which is Hogwarts in the Harry Potter
> films.
> There is a picture of Bamburgh on my website.
>
> Well Becky have you booked your trip yet?
>
> Jeff Piper
> Stanley Co. Durham
> Land of the Prince Bishops
> www.piper22.freeserve.co.uk

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