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Even we had an ice warning this week....

Dull but dry here.

I thought the US intelligence personnel were based at Menwith Hill?

PS: Years ago I remember someone from Lancashire Polytechnic; maybe this was the place that was given its charter as Bolton University?

I love Psalm 16: Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust. 2 O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee; 3 But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight. 4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied...

I was referring ironically I guess to Cromwell's 'charming' men executing the Earl of Darby...

Charming...

@Pearl : Someone has said that the UK is from a North American perspective like a vast, open air museum. There is such a lot of absorbing historical sites...

Well, this is from the Bible Belt over here, anyway: forums dot thewelltrainedmind dot com

It's good for young ppl to learn how things ppl now take for granted came about by a long process of technological development. Lancashire in particular was at the heart of the industrial revolution.

Did you hear about the noisy banquet in Italy that caused a famous building to lean? The leaning tower of pizza...?o_O

You guys don't get your coastline iced up for months, sometimes - as parts of Canada do... :) Ontario is supposed to have an ocean going outlet on Hudson Bay, but it's often iced up...

I was thinking in relation to ink, for example: if Christian young men and women are using ink in very effective, conversation-starting witness for which they have many opportunities thus opening up for them, then far better to be encouragers and enablers to keenly witnessing young Christians...

Yes, Britain has an insular climate affected by the Gulf Stream, right? Here in Canada it's a Continental climate, with cold winters and hot summers.

Seems to me that when journalists report someone has 'attacked' someone else, it really serves to make it sound more exciting and maybe sell more newspapers or get more website clicks.

It was indeed extraordinarily repressive. When Tyndale the English Bible translator was strangled and burnt at the stake, it was in the southern Netherlands, under Spanish rule.

Sometimes channels of communication can be developed via foreign students which can last a lifetime. Sounds like Bolton has become very cosmopolitan.

Yes, many years can change people's outlook on some things, right? Sounds like this mom in the first quote, below, I saw also has gone through some sort of enlightening experience; and the second quote seems to be from someone who is comfortable and content with it: Source...

It looks priceless; over here it would be regarded as such, anyway.

I've been in the area but not for many years. I attended an event at UMIST many years ago.