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Re: Absence in Scotland.



Niven,

If you're still with us, many happy returns of the day, to both you and your
brother.
Your influence in this discussion group is both stimulating and reassuring,
and not really
too bloody-minded!
Toni S.

Niven Sinclair wrote:

> As I shall be away in Scotland to film the remaining Sinclair Castles and
> to celebrate
> my 76th birthday with my twin-brother John (who is even more bloody-minded
> than I
> am) I will be unable to respond to e-mails requiring my attention and/or
> response for
> the next week.
>
> It will be a pleasant change to be able to breathe the air of my native
> heath and to
> listen to the soft  voices of those highlanders who live North of
> Inverness.  It is a different
> World from the hustle and bustle of London where my 'phone never stops and
> where there
> is always someone waiting to see me outside my office door.
>
> There are also e-mails to answer but, in the main, that is a pleasurable
> pursuit.  It is
> a form of relaxation except when my computer decides to go on strike by
> refusing to
> produce an "attachment" which someone has thoughtfully sent for my
> enlightenment.
> It has a built-in resistance to anything which is 'appended' and which
> requires changing
> from Eudora to Word.
>
> John Sinclair Quarterman has done an immense service to the Clan.  He has
> brought
> us together and, because we are being kept at arms length, the exchanges
> are usually
> friendly.
>
> Until April.
>
> Niven Sinclair
>
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