Reply #22: We'll be in Cardiff next weekend [View All]

[tenshi816]

from Fri.-Mon. for the Bank Holiday weekend. Hubby and older son going to the football (soccer to you and me) championship game, me and other son visiting Cardiff Castle, as well as having a little wander around the bay. I'm really looking forward to it.

We didn't move to Inman Drive until 1980 and I'm having a hard time remembering the names of any of the neighbors! I was far younger than any of them in my immediate vicinity - academics and retired missionaries affiliated one way or another with the seminary, and very few children. My daughter's friends all lived down streets on the other side of the school, the Avery St./Winnona Dr./Poplar Cir. area. The only one I remember was from a family whose last name was Moore, a Catholic family (like us) who had several children.

Buying a pub - very exciting stuff! Are you planning to get one that's also a B&B, or are you sticking to the pub/restaurant format?

You'll have to let me know when you get a place so that we can make a trip down for a meal and a drink or three. Especially if you buy a pub in Cornwall! It would be lovely to meet another DU fan on this side of the water. Whenever we take holidays within the UK, the SW part of the country is at the top of our list of places to go. I also like the area around Bath, and hubby went to university in Bristol, so he has lots of happy memories of that area.

Re Shrub - I've been lucky, I guess. I've literally met not one single person over here who is a fan of his - comforting I know, except it's hard to rage against the machine when everybody around agrees with me! Everyone here knows they can't do anything about him and it doesn't affect their day-to-day lives anyway, whereas I see him and his minions destroying the country I love so much and it makes me feel helpless that I'm so far away. So I hang out at DU, mostly lurking, on a daily basis.