On 4-Dec-2005, Mephistopheles <no-fixed@address.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 15:19:12 GMT, "abc" <abc@wxyz.org> wrote:
>
> >
> >On 1-Dec-2005, rolex@webmaster.com (Rolex) wrote:
> >
> >> << Attached file: CASTL201.jpg (121,898 bytes) >>
> >
> >Now *there's* a place I would like to rebuild - and install central
> >heating
> >- after I win the lottery. (You don't know where this one is, by any
> >chance,
> >do you?)
>
> I once lived in a castle too, for several months. under unhappy
> circumstances. My first "billet" as a wartime evacuee. Knole Castle,
> Sevenoaks, Kent., now N.T.
>
> I still remember with joy, watching the deer browsing 6 feet away
> beyond the window where we were eating.
>
> I was billeted with one of my sisters, later blown to pieces manning a
> search-light battery, her first posting in the ATS!
>
> R.I.P.
>
> Mephi
Oh, Mephi! The way my screen is set up, I could only read as far as you
watching the deer browsing, and I thought how lucky you were, for I never
saw deer during my short five day stay in a castle. Then I read on, and can
only echo the same thoughts for so many we have known: R.I.P.
Take care.
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