Thank goodness. We've got back to England ! Unfortunately, while my sources are quite clear for Scotland, Israel and, as you've been saying, Bolivia, they are murky about England. Hard to see thru the mists of steaming chicken soup.

It does look as tho' people kept turning up on these islands. The reasons are not always clear, which explains why a common response round here to many questions is "Haven't got a clue". There were Picts, Celts, Australians (prematurely), Bolivians, Angles (the cute ones eventually developing tax havens and the theory of gravity - they were a very serious lot back then - and the obtuse ones building Stone Hen (as the quickest way to make battery farms,) and inventing the Industrial Rev ...... sorry, bit a drift there. There were Jutes (Jewish people, naturally, don't look so surprised), Normans and Celts, who brought the rest of the food - potatoes, leg of lamb, haggis and no greens (so no change there.)

   What time's part two?


   Sorcha - the nicest thing I've read today, so far. And yet, we can't argue with the manuscripts. Well, they will insist on remaining silent.


   Ivor