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On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 15:22 +0000, Phil Gibbons wrote: > Hi, > Ho back! I'm an "out of area" list member - we were going to return to the ancestral grounds (note the surname!) last year but chickened out for a few years when we realised how hard it would be to run our small property company from that distance with pre-school and young school age kids ... so I lurk from rural Oxfordshire, where we moved in the interim. How many remote lurkers are there, I wonder? One day we will arrive in Devon or Cornwall - and thanks for the beers in that interesting pub in Helston summer before last with a couple of the lads. As a family (sister and her kids and us) we are establishing a pattern of regular family hols in the Coverack area and will be down that way towards easter as well when the days lengthen. So perhaps, when I am off that way, I can time it to be around when there is a dcGlug somewhere within range...? It's odd turning into a typical Cornull grokel for the spring/summer/early autumn, but such is economic reality. My family was a classic emigration from north Devon/Cornwall border area in the late 19th century, settled after various adventures in Canada, and I and my sister both ended up back in Blighty in the 70s (met English partners and never got back). So when we are well enough found economically we will be returning out "west". How many returners have generational links, I wonder? Perhaps, with the growth of communications based economic activities, prosperity will return to the atlantic peripheries. Then, perhaps not and they will once again become utterly marginalised at the end of the world, lost in their mists... -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html