wow, I googled mac and wellies and it was scary!

The banker never wears a mac
In the pouring rain
Very strange

it's amazing the things that end up being clarified on the group w forums of all places.

heck yes!

My Dearest PSB, A CRAIC is a fun time had with group of people!!

Louise or Beverley, How do you pronounce that? I don't want to be a vulgar American when I get pissed in the Pub and say what a brilliant craic in Hooky!

Oh, and happy belated St John's Day, Someday I hope to get to Stonehenge on June 21 and celebrate the Summer solstice like the true pagan I am! It sounds like a Jolly Good Craic hangin' with a bunch of Druids!

Have you ever looked at aerial photo's of Stonehenge, you know the ones looking straight down. There are two parallel stones in the middle, to the left of these and situated in between the parallel stones is the huge alter stone, to the right of the parallel stones are two converging stones and this little area is surrounded by a perfect circle of stones. It reminds me of that recent stain in Chicago people were praying to or a O'keefe floral representation or possibly a man in a boat! And that comes back to language, are vulva and vulgar linguistically related (any linguists in the crowd?) I don't personally don't see the association if they are and apparantly neither did the druids (given what they to choose as an alter)!

Save Mother Earth Nah nah nah nah nah!!

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PSB 'craic' is pronounced Crack.

It's an old Irish term, not really used anymore though you do still sometimes hear it. You would use the word to decribed the whole event:- the hospitality, the good friendly atmospher, and all the fun you had.
you could say " We whent down the pub last night and we had a real craic."

I hope I've been a little more helpful this time. If you want anything else clearing up just ask.
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Yeah there's an Irish comedian, who lives in Oz now, named Jimoen who recently made a movie here called "The Craic".

Great detailed description of the word Beverly!!

PSB If you have read the Davinci Code you will know about the design of Christian Churches and vulvas. Of course many Christian celebrations stem from the Pagans.We just had a great series here on our 'thinking persons' TV channel about the Pagans.

Our Republican controlled Congress is trying to destroy our "thinking persons" broadcasting this very day!!

and Beverley your the greatest as well (you too Louise)! I have not read the Code Book but I am familiar with the "secret" from other readings and I love Archetecture (so i am aware of the other principle of which you spoke)! An interesting place I did Visit is Bath England, Deep underground is a Druid alter, followed by a Roman Alter to Minerva (with the original sacrificial stone, poor sheep), a little higher is of course the Roman Bath (Incredible) and when your standing on the Roman stones you see an 11 Century Church (not quite a Cathedral), and when you go in the Church you can see where it once was an ornate Catholic church but remodeled with Vigor during the time of the Tudors! Fascinating, Simply fascinating these humans and their superstitions!!!

thousands of years of blood sacrificed on the same spot, either real or the transfigured Sangria de Christos

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It took months of badgering by others to get me to read the DaVinci Code. And then it took weeks to read it, as I normaly rarely read fiction, as it doesn't keep me transfixed like non fiction does.But I did enjoy the Pagen/Christian stuff. Take that away and you had a pretty basic fiction formula.

PSB We went to Bath last year but we didn't realy have any time to look round any of the buildings, we were just stopping there for the night on our way to Cornwall. But it did seem very beautiful and interesting, me and Alan said that one day we would go back with out the kids and have a propper look around.

But if you like that kind of thing and if you ever get to go to York, in England, then go and visit York Minster, It is so interesting. On that site in the foundations and incorparated into each ones successor are three churches. You go down into the basment and your guided through the ruins and foundations of the first chuch then the second then York Minster. It's a little hard to explain but really is worth the visit you can spend a good hour and half down there, then you get to look round up stairs. But be warned, York is expensive! but worth it. And if you do ever get to go to York its not that far as we could come and meet with you. <img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/smile.gif" width=15 height=15>

Enjoy your Hol,
Me and Alan.

Actually Beverley i have visited York. my first trip over was in the north country arriving in Manchester and driving up through Yorkshire to York. i spent a few days wondering about the Roman walls, the viking village (directly underneath the city center are the remnants of a viking settlement, fascinating), the Medieval street that leads to the Minster and across the bridge where they would hang the heads of the like of William Wallace. On to Whitby and the abbey and dreams of Bram Stoker, into Scotland near Jedburg (infamous for a Mary Stuart indiscretion) and on to Edinburgh Castle and Holyrood (queen waved with Princess Margaret who was in residence there just following my tour). I came back through North Umberland and ended up in this little bed and breakfast just slightly inland from Blackpool. I awoke in the morning, looked out the window and saw Hadrians Wall and spent a day or so exploring the wall and Roman forts (all freshly excavated at the time) before heading down the motorway to Manchester and out on a plane. Great fun that trip. I want to go to the highlands someday and make it into the Hebrides and Skyye (thats where Beaty (Irish form) or Beatty (Scottish form)) is said to come from. I like Laphroag Whisky I know that! But first Wales and the Castles of Longshanks!

That particular trip my 17 year daughter made as an embryo, this time she is going as a young adult!

later

PSB, Cool trip. Blackpool is an hour from where I live, we live in Manchester, Greater Manchester. Though if you ever do make it back this way I wouldn't bother going back there, the only thing your likly to go paddling through this time is all the fastfood rubbish; it's distcusting.

I went to England once in '73. I remember if I went to those places or not. They sound like interesting places to go to...