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So you live in the suburb sprawl around Washington, DC in Maryland!

Posted by Timbo in Oz (A) on March 28, 2007 at 15:23:00

In Reply to: Re: MD = ? Timbo MD = Maryland posted by G Squared on March 28, 2007 at 14:40:48:

I was in Baltimore in 98 for HL7's annual get together, and spent the Monady following with your HFA nearby. Spending time with the lady whos was 'writing the rules' under the Kennedy Kirschbaum Bill. I voted on that the week before, too.

I cannot remember the Hotel's name but it was not far uphill from the Orioles park, and the street behind it had a good 24/7 place with sensibly priced grog. Down the road from the front of the hotel was a good Fish and Chip joint.

I know about Maryland, named after Queen Mary, Charles II's daughter, married to William III (King Billy to the Irish) and co-regent with him. She gave it to recusant Catholics who wanted to resettle away from the now fixedly Proddo UK. I ween a lot of Micks went there too!

My SUITE - as an International guest HL7 had made sure we got suites - and my 'need' for a small fridge to keep soy-low-cal milk and my medications in. Most US hotels minibar-fridge-machines are unable to provide this space, see ;~)}.

So I used 'ter ask for anothery, unlike the othery,' and fill it with cheaper booze from shops nearby! Yer don't ask, ...... !

I loved that 18c part of town that you go to in a flat bottomed mini-ferry, all them bars and eateries. crabs and crabs, and we visited Antietam fer a whole DAY, too maaaaate.

And being an old grunt I walked the entire field and lay down in the muddy sunken lane and elsewhere, to really feel the lie of the ground. Climbed the lil ole tower too. But Bwookie'll confirm that lying down IS still the only way 'to get' the ground your on. EG. for siting MG's !

AYMWImagine ah jus' lurved training young horificers/candidates in how to site M60's and L4Brens! BSEGrin of fond memories from 'that bastard Beetle!' aka WO2 Bailey! I wouldha got wet too, iffens I didn't bring a half shelter for ME to lie on! And no I did NOT share it!

The Army's guide at the park-centre and I got on like a house on fire, we did, so he included me in the tour as an extra commentator. I neraly got him to swap hats. I've always wanted me a lemon-squeezer, but he reckoned he couldn't trust me to SEND him a slouch hat aka 'Hats, Kakhi, Fur- Felt'.

(He was real interested in my being a green-jacketer, too! ? Ask!?)

Antietam was the most deadly one day battle in the Civil War, and in human history to that day. It is a heartbreak place, especially the Burnside Bridge where the crick is ALWAYS fordable anyway!!!!!!

And, the cemetries, which are in some ways more beautifully set - Viz. the one on the rounded hill just NTh of Sharpville town and East of the road - than ours in Flanders and Picardy - in France?

Am I allowed to mention France here? Some bits of France, like the windmill hill at Pozieres, are more thickly sown with Australian dead than anywhere else in the world. Isurava 1942 in PNG - while truly a horribly ferocious battle, still just doesn't hack it with Pozieres or Fromelle.

Oh yeah?!

back to bawl'maw! and DC.

I did that central bit of Wash. The Lincoln Memorial was very affecting, the aerospace, the museums and galleries, took a whole DAY - and held a Stainer violin for a few seconds. more? ask!

Running on empty I was, mostly. But then I'm NOT a slowie at all, me.

wish i'd a know all youse back then, coulda bludged a day and bed or two on me way back across the good ole, eh?

Warmest

Timbo in Oz
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio Scrounger

And gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!

'Still not saluting.'

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