Journal
June 3, 2003

The wool mills at Saltaire in Yorkshire.  The village of Saltaire was created by Titus Salt for his workers.

Unusual little chapel in Saltaire, also built by Titus Salt

Glenda at the lower level of the Five Locks at Bingley

The upper lock of the Five Locks at Bingley and a view of the countryside and the two levels of water

Two narrow houseboats have entered the Five Locks at Bingley and are traveling down the river by help of the locks

Two houseboats in one of the Five Locks at Bingley

Two houseboats coming out of the locks at the Five Locks at Bingley

Two narrow houseboats in the upper lock at the Five Locks at Bingley
The lock master to the left
Notice the much lower level of the river below

The two narrow houseboats in a lower lock at the Five Locks at Bingley

Hanne at the lower level of the Five Locks at Bingley with the overflow channel to the right

Glenda and Hanne with the moor in the background.  We were out looking for a brooding Heathcliff near Haworth

The main street in the small town of Haworth where the Bronte sisters lived at the vicarage near the church

Glyn with his parents, Ken and Glenda, Hanne and me in the living room of his and Marie's new house in Knaresborough.
Glyn and I first met in London when Glyn was 7 months old and I was 4 months old.

After nearly a week of touring England and seeing miles and stone walls and millions of sheep, and stopping in pubs for fish and chips, mushy peas, haggus (sheep bladder stuffed with rice and vegetables), crinkle cut crisps (potato chips), bloody sausage and stumpy jack cinder, we picked up on some of the following differences between American English and British English:

napkin (never ask for a napkin in a restaurant) = diaper
bonnet and boot = hood and trunk of a car
boot park sale = parking lot where items are sold from the trunks of cars
lorry = truck
rambler wandering on footpath = hiker walking on trail
naked light = open flame
give way = yield
caravan = camper
petrol at moto = gasoline at filling station
skates = slippers
settee = couch

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