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For anyone interested in this country's history - in case you didn't hear this morning's news - the Domesday Book is now online at: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/domesday
It's free to search and read online, but I think you have to pay to download information.
I went to Bayeux with a friend from school when we were 16 (her parents were there, as well), and we saw the Domesday Book, closed up in a locked glass case, as well as the Bayeux Tapestry. It was wonderful to see the things you learnt about at school right in front of your eyes.
There was an exhibition in London about twenty years ago, which I managed to get into free, as a civil servant, with a group after hours. It was quite an impressive display, and for the public they also had a chap making parchment as you watched.
Sadly, the village where I live now is not in Domesday, being in Wales, but the village which has become a suburb of Hay is just over the border into Herefordshire, and it's there.
We are just inside the Brecon Beacons National Park, and the England/Wales border is the Dulas Brook, which flows into the Wye with Hay on one side and Cusop and Clifford on the other.
We did have a shop called the Kestrel Gallery. They'd come up from London to show the provincials how things should be done. They didn't last a year.
I knew they were going to fail when they threw my dog out, when she ran in to say hello.
amboline, I'm afraid you'd better not come to Hay.
Several of the shops have a resident dog - my dog is one of them. Occasionally I do send her outside when customers appear nervous, or mention that they dislike dogs (once it was a family of Orthodox Jews, who objected to her on religious grounds).
When I take my dog to other shops, I always leave her outside unless she is invited in. This is only common courtesy.
(In the Kestrel Gallery incident, I was standing outside talking to a friend who was waiting for the owner to finish talking on the phone, and I didn't notice my dog sneaking in until she was chased out again - very embarrassing).
Oh, I didn't mean to give the impression that I boycotted the shop because they threw Islay out - I just knew that the shop would fail because of the attitude of the owners in an extremely dog friendly town. I was right, too - the unfriendly attitude carried over to their customers, who seemed rather less important to them than phone calls to London.
I'll help. Has anyone seen the Magna Carta in Lincoln? When you come up to York Amboline you'll be relatively near Lincoln which is a lovely little town.
We are only 45 minutes from York in good traffic. I always use the park and ride which is brilliant.
Psst has it worked do you think? Don't mention anything with fur and four legs.
Evaine - At the risk of Flick saying I don't have enough to do (when I've just spent a couple of hours typing out the minutes I took at a meeting yesterday!) - I looked on the internet and found the following. It may explain the attitude of the Orthodox Jews mentioned in your post:
"Ask Rabbi Simmons
Dogs and Orthodox Jews
Question
As a child growing up in Tel Aviv, I don't believe I ever saw an Orthodox Jew (the ones with streimels, peiyes, and a Prince Albert coat) walking a dog. Is there some sort of religious reason for an aversion to dogs?
Answer
The Talmud does say that it is forbidden to keep a pet that will scare other people, and specifically mentions a barking dog. This is but one example of the Torah's sensitivity to other's feelings."
Nevertheless a barking dog could come in very handy sometimes!!
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It's free to search and read online, but I think you have to pay to download information.
Sadly, the village where I live now is not in Domesday, being in Wales, but the village which has become a suburb of Hay is just over the border into Herefordshire, and it's there.
We did have a shop called the Kestrel Gallery. They'd come up from London to show the provincials how things should be done. They didn't last a year.
I knew they were going to fail when they threw my dog out, when she ran in to say hello.
Several of the shops have a resident dog - my dog is one of them. Occasionally I do send her outside when customers appear nervous, or mention that they dislike dogs (once it was a family of Orthodox Jews, who objected to her on religious grounds).
When I take my dog to other shops, I always leave her outside unless she is invited in. This is only common courtesy.
(In the Kestrel Gallery incident, I was standing outside talking to a friend who was waiting for the owner to finish talking on the phone, and I didn't notice my dog sneaking in until she was chased out again - very embarrassing).
We are only 45 minutes from York in good traffic. I always use the park and ride which is brilliant.
Psst has it worked do you think? Don't mention anything with fur and four legs.
"Ask Rabbi Simmons
Dogs and Orthodox Jews
Question
As a child growing up in Tel Aviv, I don't believe I ever saw an Orthodox Jew (the ones with streimels, peiyes, and a Prince Albert coat) walking a dog. Is there some sort of religious reason for an aversion to dogs?
Answer
The Talmud does say that it is forbidden to keep a pet that will scare other people, and specifically mentions a barking dog. This is but one example of the Torah's sensitivity to other's feelings."
Nevertheless a barking dog could come in very handy sometimes!!