12 September 2020

Boston

We are in Boston for a week. Yeah - Boston. You heard me right folks.

But not that Boston - the big one in Massachusetts. We are in the little one, the one that gave the big American one its name. Yeah. Welcome to Boston, Lincolnshire.

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  1. The things you learn on the internet. Boston, Lincolnshire was home to Janet Lane-Claypon. A physician who was one of the founders of epidemiology and the use of cohort studies and case-control studies. I am always of these women who helped paved the wave for women everywhere.

    Hope you have a lovely weekend.

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    1. Weekend? We have signed up for a full week Lily! Boston was also the birthplace of the publisher - Pishey Thompson but I guess that you already knew that.

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  2. Many place names here have an English origin. People named their places from home.

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    1. There are two River Esks in England - one in North Yorkshire and one in Cumbria.

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  3. I never knew there was a Boston in England until we moved here. And I still haven't visited it, so you'll have to tell us what it's like!

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  4. Enjoy your stay!
    Many place names in the US are taken from German place names, too, depending on where the founders of a certain settlement/town were from. I gather there is also at least one Stuttgart in the US.

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    1. In America they also have an online camera lens shop called Meike Store!

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  5. My sister in law works there and I know it well. I like the markets there on wednesday and saturday. Have you seen the Stump?

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    1. Is "The Stump" an unfortunate beggar?

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  6. The Boston fens is where some my ancestry originates - South Kyme and Sutterton Fen. What a landscape that is! You can be 10 yards from someone across a dyke, but would have to walk over a mile to reach them. Could be an idea there for enforcing distancing.

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    1. Ah-ha! So you are not a thoroughbred Yorkshireman like me! It is an odd landscape round here Tasker. Like a pancake.

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  7. So your just up the road ..lol ...its quite a pretty place dying by inches on the commercial front , we used to potter there on market day once a month before lockdown. Now we just enjoy our rural isolation

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    1. We are going to investigate Boston tomorrow after a morning's mountain climbing.

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  8. "More Than A Feeling" by Boston is one of my favourite Rock tracks. I see there is a Wetherspoon's pub in Boston Lincolnshire called The Moon Under Water. Named after a George Orwell fictional pub.

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  9. Did you know that Sheffield is twinned with the city I was born in (though never lived there after five days at the maternity ward)? Coincidence? Am torn as told that there is no such thing as "coincidence".

    Anyway, YP, on reading yesterday's news re "Who wants to be a Millionaire" winner YOU popped into my mind. No, not like Athena did into her father's (Zeus) - immaculate conception if there was one. And already fully clad in armour. Still, I was born out of wedlock too.

    Yes, so what popped into my mind on the Millionaire challenge, won by a teacher no less, was you. What with the pub quizzes and all, would you be up for giving it a shot?

    U

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    1. Sheffield is twinned with


      Anshan, China[296]
      Bochum, Germany[297]
      Chengdu, China[298]
      Estelí, Nicaragua[299]
      Pittsburgh, United States[300]

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    2. Yes Bochum! That is where Baroness Ursula was born. Bochum sounds like Boston.

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  10. And what are you doing in Boston?

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  11. And I live in Boston. Not Massachusetts. Not Yorkshire. Boston, Ohio.

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    1. Have a lovely stay. Visit with Rachel.

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    2. He won't be coming anywhere near me if I can help. Anyway I'm tacky working class Joanne. Tut tut the filthy working class.

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