In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Haywood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >I am a great lover of Brough, once the only ward of the City of London to be >outside of the city walls. I am a regular at Borough Market, the cathederal >is a lost gem of London and Tate Modern a real testimony to the fact we can >really do art in this country.
Brough is on Humberside, although there's also one in Westmoreland. My mother-in-law, when moving to Brough some years ago, failed to specify to the removal men which one. The results were predictable. Borough too is nice. I have happy memories of working there before university, in a laboratory with a view of what seemed the biggest brick wall in existence: the arse-end of Bankside power station. We tested dodgy pharmaceuticals. These included strychnine tablets, exported to the middle east as aphrodisiacs. Strychnine causes the muscles to contract and go rigid. The fatal dose was six of the tablets, which caused everything to go permanently rigid. Overdoses made you die with a smile on your face - the so-called risus sardonicus, caused by the facial muscles contracting. Damn fine cathedral. Wassail! -- Martin E Phillips http://www.g4cio.demon.co.uk Homebrewing, black pudding, boats, morris dancing, ham radio and more! The Gloucester-Sharpness canal web page http://www.glos-sharpness.org.uk
