#Hello from UK
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Hello Marlene, I'm pleased you are visiting the UK – but for garden visits
March is a bit early in the year! Let me know where you will be based, and
I'll try and find some which are open before Easter – the traditional
"start date" for garden visits over here!
If you are in London, Kew Gardens would certainly be worth a visit, lots
of very good bulbs, world famous glasshouses, (including one which is
pretty new), and the garden of the Dutch House (though the house is
closed). If you go up to your "native" Yorkshire, the Harlow Carr gardens
about 5 miles outside Harrogate also have superb bulbs and other spring
plantings.
I live in Lincolnshire – (just south of Yorkshire) – and use a PC clone; my
excuse for it being a 33mhz 386 is that I use it for graphic design and
DTP, (but 80% of the time an 8086 would do me, as I spend more time using
it as a typewriter working with my husband in our small architectural
practice: he is still quicker with a pen than I am with CAD – and he is
quite unconvinced by anything to do with computers!)
I'd love to know where in Yorkshire you were born: it is a county I know
quite well: we lived in Beverley for a time, and visit York pretty often.
Jeannie,
How wonderful to hear from you! I was born in Laisterdyke . . . now torn
down . . . a neighborhood of back-to-backs in Bradford, near St. Mary's
Church. My father and his family were born in Shipley, in a section that
has also been torn down and now is a shopping district. I have many
relations in the area, however (both my parents were the youngest of large
families), so have opportunities to poke around their youthful haunts and
get a feel for what it must have been like living there in the thirties and
forties. I feel grateful that after the war mum and dad left (some of
their brothers and sisters have been on government assistance for forty
years and haven't moved from in front of the television in all that time),
but I have never really felt like an American, and keep going home and
pondering returning for good. Not necessarily to Yorkshire, but to the UK.
Mum and dad retired ten years ago to Canada – Vancouver Island.
I have an old IBM XT, 1982 vintage, and pine for an update but can't really
justify it. I am a college teacher and technical writer, and really only
need speed and graphics when I am (a) late on a deadline or (2) playing!
Nice to make your acquaintance. Let's keep in touch. Oh, if I wanted to
meet other UK compusers . . . is there a magazine people read?
Marlene