Jill wrote:
> Ginny wrote:
>>> We don't but there is a great little book in our range
>>> http://www.poultry-books.co.uk/pigeonsdoves.html
>>> You might want to put it on your birthday list ;)
>>>
>>>
>> Nice. Maybe I should leave a list around the house for the family
>> although I haven't noticed it produce any presents in the past. LOL
>>
>> This it the site I have been reading. I just love the history behind
>> all the old buildings you have in the UK.
>
> so far I have a letter discussing the building of a mill here in 1755,
> and a map draw up just before that without any signs of buildings so I
> am taking this as an approximate date of establishemnt of the current
> settlement, but as we have a neolithic burial cist in our wall and a
> number of standing stones, crannogs, chambered cairns etc its obviously
> been a busy place since the last of the ice left 10,000 years before
> present.
> I have found most of the people who are recorded as having lived,
> worked, been born, died and married from the farm, but have yet to learn
> all about their lives.
>
It must be fascinating living with so much history. When my mother
visited UK in the 1970's she stayed with friends in Wales whose house
was listed in the Doomsday book. I thought that was just mind boggling.
> Would love to visit but...
>
> When you do -- you know where we are.
>
>
I shall certainly keep that in mind. Thankyou. :)
--
Ginny - in West Australia
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