London Calling

[katiesue]

I'm so jealous.

[Prudence]

Whoa - they don't allow knitting needles? Is that all international flights? Just the airline? Just the UK?

[Morrigoon]

Originally Posted by Prudence

Whoa - they don't allow knitting needles? Is that all international flights? Just the airline? Just the UK?

And yet they allow pens.... go figure. Got any dried-up pens around? You got knitting needles! (only put something on the end of them to keep your stuff from slipping off the back)

[mousepod]

George Eliot, Karl Marx, Douglas Adams... all buried in Highgate.

[Not Afraid]

Yes, interesting people there as well, but I'm really going for the fantastic grave markers.

[wendybeth]

If ever I hit Europe, it will be a graveyard tour. I love looking at old cemetaries; the oldest ones here only go back to the late 1800's, unless you count Native American burial grounds, which are seriously lacking in cool looking crypts and interesting epitaphs.

Oh, NA- Tori is looking forward to hearing about your nekkid Daniel expericence.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

Mostly the architecture. It's a beautiful place - and I have a fondness for cemeteries anyways. I've been wanting to visit Highgate for about 20 years.

Originally Posted by wendybeth

If ever I hit Europe, it will be a graveyard tour. I love looking at old cemetaries; the oldest ones here only go back to the late 1800's, unless you count Native American burial grounds, which are seriously lacking in cool looking crypts and interesting epitaphs.

I love visiting old cemetaries. Its fun making up stories about the people buried there. Like this person was having an affair with that person.

The Oakland cemetary in Atlanta was fun. It is run down, but they are slowing restoring it. Margaret Mitchell is buried there, but I was more intrigued by the other stuff: the huge crypts, the twin six-foot-tall urns, the civil war section. Unfortunately, I didn't discover the Jewish section until I was on my way out. I was intrigued by how close all of the graves were together. There was virtually no room between them - almost as if they were stacked up in there.

[mousepod]

Heather brings knitting needles on all the time. I'm pretty sure she uses bamboo needles on the plane - it might be the metal ones that are forbidden.

[Prudence]

TSA allows knitting needles - I knit on both flights this past week. That's why I was wondering if it's a UK-specific thing. I usually take small projects on the plane, like socks, and I only use bamboo for socks because the metal is so slippery the work slips right off the ends. A knitting needle prohibition on international flights might just confine me to this continent!

[innerSpaceman]

Oh, just like that bank-robbery prohibition has been doing for me, lo these many years.