Posted by John Nichols on May 28, 2006 at 18:42:57 from 165.91.46.29 user Mcneacail.
In Reply to: Sitting on the Roman Wall posted by Pam Adams on May 24, 2006 at 23:41:59:
Mrs Callum:
I took my wife to a conference in Canada recently, actually I told one of my former PhD students to write a paper for the conference and then I told him I was to busy to review it and so he got my wife involved at my suggestion.
Romantic nights, northern Canadian mountains, wine, soft music, beautiful woman, etc...
I assure you my thoughts were not about sitting on a wall and passing academic papers, most of which were written to obtain the free junket, and mainly cover stuff we already know.
But at this point I will stop. But I am sure that Professor Callum had similar thoughts about his wife, unless he was a MIT man and then we would understand his thinking about the Wall only. Or he could have been like my PhD friend who managed to get his wife pregnant whilst camping in June in Australia in a two man pup tent with 3 kids (This is a true story - and Carla who is now 6 is the cutest kid you have ever seen).
JMN