what things look like from different angles
Sandra Dodd
I was looking for the county in which Longfields is in, in England,
and somewhere I have a photo on a blog post, so I was trying to find
it with google, and internal site searches and such. Is the mom of
the family in Longfields on this list, and if so, could you e-mail me?
So I found something bizarre instead.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_named_Sandra
I'm on a list of people named Sandra. That's kinda cool! But for
whatever reason related to Wikipedia's filing or categorization
system, I'm listed not as a writer or educator or what I would've
expected, but as a politician.
I'm a little stunned by that, but I wouldn't even have found it, ever,
if I hadn't been looking for some information I've misplaced.
I can go through book sales from 2008, a big pile of papers in the tax
files. Or I might look on other blogs. Maybe it was in http://thinkingsticks.blogspot.com
I love houses with names. They do that in Mexico and South America
some too. Anyone else here lived in a house or a property with a
name, rather than a number-and-street address or Rt. 1 Box 15 kind of
address (my address when I was a kid).
Sandra
and somewhere I have a photo on a blog post, so I was trying to find
it with google, and internal site searches and such. Is the mom of
the family in Longfields on this list, and if so, could you e-mail me?
So I found something bizarre instead.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_named_Sandra
I'm on a list of people named Sandra. That's kinda cool! But for
whatever reason related to Wikipedia's filing or categorization
system, I'm listed not as a writer or educator or what I would've
expected, but as a politician.
I'm a little stunned by that, but I wouldn't even have found it, ever,
if I hadn't been looking for some information I've misplaced.
I can go through book sales from 2008, a big pile of papers in the tax
files. Or I might look on other blogs. Maybe it was in http://thinkingsticks.blogspot.com
I love houses with names. They do that in Mexico and South America
some too. Anyone else here lived in a house or a property with a
name, rather than a number-and-street address or Rt. 1 Box 15 kind of
address (my address when I was a kid).
Sandra
Bob Collier
--- In [email protected], Sandra Dodd <Sandra@...> wrote:
Bob
>I lived at "The Old Vicarage" in a tiny village called Donnington in Sussex, England, in the 1970s. All very 'Miss Marple'! When my daughter was a baby, we lived for about four months of her first year, including her first Christmas, at a "Rose Cottage" on the outskirts of a village called Littledean in Gloucestershire, England. After that, we lived in a cottage in the village of Whiteshill, Gloucestershire, called "Sycamores", until Bronnie was eight. Though there was only a single (if very big) sycamore tree in the garden, the other had long been removed before we were there. There were a lot of houses in the village that had a name rather than a number. I guess it would be more usual generally in old world places like England.
>
> I love houses with names. They do that in Mexico and South America
> some too. Anyone else here lived in a house or a property with a
> name, rather than a number-and-street address or Rt. 1 Box 15 kind of
> address (my address when I was a kid).
>
> Sandra
>
Bob
idmarthaego
I lived in Jamaica in (the annex of) a house called Malabar, named after the house my mother-in-law grew up in, which was in Oxford, England. Her father was from India, so for a long time I assumed he had named it, but then she told me the house had been named long before. My mother-in-law makes jams and marmalades for friends and family and labels the jars "Malabar". Home.
Martha
Martha
Sandra Dodd
-=-I lived at "The Old Vicarage" in a tiny village called Donnington
in Sussex, England, in the 1970s. All very 'Miss Marple'! When my
daughter was a baby, we lived for about four months of her first year,
including her first Christmas, at a "Rose Cottage" on the outskirts of
a village called Littledean in Gloucestershire, England. After that,
we lived in a cottage in the village of Whiteshill, Gloucestershire,
called "Sycamores", until Bronnie was eight. Though there was only a
single (if very big) sycamore tree in the garden, the other had long
been removed before we were there. There were a lot of houses in the
village that had a name rather than a number. I guess it would be more
usual generally in old world places like England. -=-
Schuyler lives on the outskirts of an old village called Carleton
Rode. Their house is newish, and called "Fornost." It's in the
corner of a big wheat field, between the barns of that farm and a row
of modern council houses (government subsidized apartments, in
American parlance, I think that translates). The road bends sharply
there, so the only part of their property that touches the road is
just the driveway gate. It's wonderful.
"Fornost" is from The Lord of the Rings.
Sandra
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in Sussex, England, in the 1970s. All very 'Miss Marple'! When my
daughter was a baby, we lived for about four months of her first year,
including her first Christmas, at a "Rose Cottage" on the outskirts of
a village called Littledean in Gloucestershire, England. After that,
we lived in a cottage in the village of Whiteshill, Gloucestershire,
called "Sycamores", until Bronnie was eight. Though there was only a
single (if very big) sycamore tree in the garden, the other had long
been removed before we were there. There were a lot of houses in the
village that had a name rather than a number. I guess it would be more
usual generally in old world places like England. -=-
Schuyler lives on the outskirts of an old village called Carleton
Rode. Their house is newish, and called "Fornost." It's in the
corner of a big wheat field, between the barns of that farm and a row
of modern council houses (government subsidized apartments, in
American parlance, I think that translates). The road bends sharply
there, so the only part of their property that touches the road is
just the driveway gate. It's wonderful.
"Fornost" is from The Lord of the Rings.
Sandra
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Ed Wendell
Ed's great grandparents had a dude ranch up in the Colorado Rockies named Silver Crags - really neat old place - it got sold out of the family in the 70's - we looked into buying it back in 1994 when it came up for sale again but the asking price was 1.7 million - a bit out of our league ;) We took a tour of the place along with Ed's mom and she told some fun childhood stories as we walked around - they even let us go through the house (really nice people - saw us gazing at the house and property from the road - asked what we were doing and when we told them that our great-grandparents built the place they invited us in). My mother-in-law's name was still carved into a picnic table at the shelter. There is even a Silver Crags punch they made up that we all drink to this day. We have a huge picture of the place hanging over our couch. Framed along with a picture of his great grandparents, a post card they sent out at Christmas with the same picture on it, and a current picture of the gate post with Silver Crags on it. It is a winter picture in sepia tones and is so beautiful with the mountains, snow, pines and the stone house.
I grew up in Southern Illinois, in a very rural area and most people didn't even have their name on the mail boxes - only a mailbox. Mail was simply addressed to rural route "#" and then the nearest town. For example your name then rural route number, town, state. Our farm had a name but not many mentioned it by name though.
Lisa W.
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I grew up in Southern Illinois, in a very rural area and most people didn't even have their name on the mail boxes - only a mailbox. Mail was simply addressed to rural route "#" and then the nearest town. For example your name then rural route number, town, state. Our farm had a name but not many mentioned it by name though.
Lisa W.
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Robyn Coburn
Does a building name count? When I was a girl in Hong Kong we lived in a
high rise apartment building called "Chungking Mansions". Part of the time
we lived in a boarding house within the building. Then later (next time we
came back to Hong Kong) we lived in a two bedroom apartment on the 16th
floor. Mansions?
Robyn L. Coburn
Robyn L. Coburn
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high rise apartment building called "Chungking Mansions". Part of the time
we lived in a boarding house within the building. Then later (next time we
came back to Hong Kong) we lived in a two bedroom apartment on the 16th
floor. Mansions?
Robyn L. Coburn
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