Re: Does anyone from england read this newsgroup?

Which would result in some suitably worded comments from this side of the pond!

However, I do agree with you that news posts without content are bad form.

However, quite a few of us are here, what did you want.

I should maybe point out that none of us actually *do* any woodwork as timber and tools are extortionate over here compared to over 'there' :-(

Then how about pointing out that proper names should be capitalized?

In any case, I can qualify. I've been to England twice, therefore I'm from England.

Speak for yourself! Since I retired 10 years ago I have almost re-furnished my house. Mostly Croatian white oak (which is what the Royal Navy used to build its wooden ships). And I didn't spend a lot on tools- everything from Machine Mart.

My dad was born there, does that count?

mac

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My people visited there a LOT starting in about the 8th century. Do I qualify? ya sure, jonnson

Oh, a contact in the dockyard ?

My grandparents were from there. Do I qualify?

Good one ;-) Actually, the RN stopped building wooden warships a while before I was born. And no, I'm not nicking bits off HMS Victory (which is 5 miles away).

Viking invaders eh? You qualify *only if* your people engaged in the raping part of 'pillaging and raping'.

My Viking family records clearly indicate that while our relatives indeed pillaged (to a Viking pillaging is like a mouse is to a cat). But raping did not happen, those young beautiful virgins clearly asked for it. Rod

Me too!

White oak, or Croatian white oak?

As we don't have red oak in the UK (rare ornamentals and that's your lot) and the evergreen oaks are a weird bunch in their own right, our two oaks are regularly known as "common" and "upland" oaks (stone oak, sessile, pedunculate and probably a few other names too) but they're rarely if ever called "white" oak. I've only ever heard the term used when talking with Americans, about American furniture or timber, or very recently in retail furniture shops with globalised catalogues.