Re: water systems - Re: Beckfoot


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Posted by Peter Ceresole on March 13, 2006 at 00:55:52 from 80.177.22.49 user PeterC.

In Reply to: Re: water systems - Re: Beckfoot posted by Peter H on March 12, 2006 at 19:33:42:

but where do we stop? The Beckfoot damp-course? The Beckfoot phone line - overhead or underground?

You did rather ask for what followed... All fascinating stuff.

But you place us right at the heart of the existential question; why are we here on Tarboard? I know that these are questions that, by and large, the English don't like to discuss but my family were bloody foreigners so it's meat and drink...

Absent new research into AR's life, which has been nicely covered and added to recently by release of that period's security documents, what are the things to talk about?

The train schedules that might have brought Dick to Dorothea on the way to Rio? The locations of all their respective schools? Been there, done that, and it was genuinely enjoyable. English class in the '30s? Good stuff. English plumbing? Doubtless an eye-opener for any AR reader living abroad. Advice for any of them that want to visit the AR haunts?

My belief is that it's all enjoyable, and related to a love of the books. My inclination, for what it's worth, is to let it ride.

If I found myself inclined to go on about the sheer incompetence of the Iraq plan (the lack of one), despite the genuine parallels between my and AR's attitudes to counter-productive wars of foreign intervention, I would restrain myself. After all I haven't married Saddam Hussein's secretary.

Enough already.


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