aaaw, bugger!
on 3/12/01 6:19 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm sorry to say that the England/Ireland trip that Sal and I planned for
> July will have to wait. With the continued reports of hoof and mouth
disease,
> we thought it would be best to wait for that particular trip.
Now this bums me out completely. I was really looking forward to meeting
with Ashara and with Chris planning an event around her arrival here in the
Blighted Land, it was a cool promise for summer.
and....
From: Michael Paz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Attention Englanders and Irelanders
didn't you already have that once or twice???
Enquiring minds want to know???
We're feeling a bit like the pariah of the western world over here with this
disease decimating our livestock and threatening the health of herds in
other countries. I understand that people arriving on flights from the UK
are having to step through some kinda puddle of disinfectant to prevent
spreading our plague abroad. That could be tabloid poo-talk but one never
knows. It seems a bit over the top but not being too closely involved with
matters agricultural I can hardly take umbridge. It's a bit rough on the old
Blahniks (sp?) however. I remember as a kid in the seventies (I think it was
then) when our livestock were last afflicted by this disease and the effects
on our farming community were devastating even as far north as my very
Highland neck of the woods. It was grim and a little medieval with all those
piles of animal corpses being put to the torch. Gaads!
Anyway, we of the Sceptred Isle will make every endeavour to make the
Topsfield fest this autumn and hopefully free of portable 'bugs'.
Les (Londinium)
