Hey, you Amurrican would-be tourist, you, quit knockin' our Stately 'omes!
How are our antiquated nobility supposed to pay their exorbitant death
duties if we can't get you yanks to come over and buy tickets to walk around
our draughty mansions and look at our moldering furniture and pictures of
our dead forebears?
Lawrie
PS Even some of the art museums have some half-way decent pictures.
-----Original Message-----
From: KILE, PAUL D <Paul.Kile@Aerojet.com>
To: 'mgs@autox.team.net' <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Thursday, December 10, 1998 8:31 AM
Subject: RE: Kelvin's MG Tour of England
>This sounds like great fun, I wish I could go. I went to the UK for a
>similar adventure in the summer of 1997, met Kelvin and Paul Hunt, went to
>Abingdon, saw a lot of museums, parts houses, and met Syd and Malcolm
Beer -
>an MG nut's dream. Also satisfied my airplane interests by going to
Duxford
>and Shuttleworth - GREAT collections, and even got to see everything from a
>Bristol Boxkite to a Hawker Hurricane fly at the Shuttleworth evening
>flypast.
>
>My trip was with a friend and fellow car nut, and therein lies the rub. I
>had to swear that the next trip to the UK would include my WIFE, and that
>SHE would have control over the itinerary. So I will have to be content
with
>my memories of the 1997 trip as I get dragged from stately home to art
>museum and back...
>
>Cheers
>Paul Kile
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