[modeleng] Re: the wife...

  • From: Allen Messer <al_messer@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:28:31 -0800 (PST)

Peter, you have found a rare jewel!!

Al Messer
--- peter.chadwick@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> >And then you woke up......<
> No, it's quite true. She happens to be the only
> person in the world to 
> have driven both Lion, the oldest working
> locomotive, and Crofton's 1812 
> Boulton and Watt beam engine, the oldest working
> steam engine. (Yes, I 
> know Birmingham Museum claims theirs is, but it
> doesn't work, just goes up 
> and down, while Crofton actually does its original
> job). She's also a 
> C,Eng, MIET...........Our wedding reception was at
> Crofton Beam engines, 
> and the honeymoon involved the Severn Valley, the
> Tal-y-llyn and the 
> Festiniog.
> 
> As for training other wives, I doubt it, Alan.  Her
> job is training people 
> to use software to design integrated circuits, and
> then she spends hours 
> training Girl Guide leaders  and training the
> trainers of Guide 
> leaders....
> 
> 
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