Has anybody heard from BEN HAINES?
Sep 6th, 2004, 08:44 PM
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He's posted pretty much ten times a week in the past four months, since this question was asked, and answered in May...
http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=34497156
I can't help but think that we should enjoy the pleasure of Mr. Haines' company for a goodly long time to come yet...
Best wishes,
Rex
http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=34497156
I can't help but think that we should enjoy the pleasure of Mr. Haines' company for a goodly long time to come yet...
Best wishes,
Rex
Sep 6th, 2004, 11:07 PM
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Mr. Haines e-mailed me his list of recommended restaurants for my trip to London. I was overwhelmed by the list and his generousity in helping me out. We did eat at several of the places he recommended and want to thank him again for his help.
I am fairly new to this forum so didn't know about his feet until I read the thread Rex posted. Mr. Haines-I hope you are feeling better and are able to get around more. You are truly a kind and helpful gentleman.
I am fairly new to this forum so didn't know about his feet until I read the thread Rex posted. Mr. Haines-I hope you are feeling better and are able to get around more. You are truly a kind and helpful gentleman.
Sep 13th, 2004, 08:41 AM
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As you were writing these kind things about me, I was spending a week at the Science Festival in Exeter of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (like the triple A, but smaller). On foot I hobbled, but between buildings I moved by bicycle, and I found that despite taking regular morphine my mind was wide awake. I greatly enjoyed the cut and thrust of debate, and put in not a few questions of my own. Now I am back home, and looking forward to the many lectures we have here in London. The current list is at http://victorianresearch.org/lectures.html, but I shall double it in a month.
My nurses think it possible that I shall recover to a great extent.
Thanks to you all.
Ben Haines
My nurses think it possible that I shall recover to a great extent.
Thanks to you all.
Ben Haines
Sep 13th, 2004, 10:08 AM
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Hurry up and get well soon, Mr. Haines. We're counting on you. Somehow I picture dozens of lost tourists wandering around the UK lost in train stations unable to find their way without your expert help!
Sep 13th, 2004, 10:36 AM
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Ben,
Could I please have your London restaurant list? I would appreciate it very much.
Thanks!
Monica
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Could I please have your London restaurant list? I would appreciate it very much.
Thanks!
Monica
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Sep 13th, 2004, 01:22 PM
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Ben - - good to hear from you. I trust you have probably read Bill Bryson's "Short History of Everything", which I have just started to read.
If not, and if I were ever to hear any such dreadful news as to your being bedridden and on your last breath - - I think I would come read it to you.
If science is not an even more wonderful thing than travel, then I don't know what is...
If not, and if I were ever to hear any such dreadful news as to your being bedridden and on your last breath - - I think I would come read it to you.
If science is not an even more wonderful thing than travel, then I don't know what is...
Sep 13th, 2004, 01:33 PM
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Mr Haines
Good to hear from you. And it seems we weren't too far apart - I spent the week with 20+ university friends in a huge house just by Bovey Tracey and the wonders of Dartmoor. Such a beautiful area and so much to do.
Wishing you a speedy recovery,
Kavey
Good to hear from you. And it seems we weren't too far apart - I spent the week with 20+ university friends in a huge house just by Bovey Tracey and the wonders of Dartmoor. Such a beautiful area and so much to do.
Wishing you a speedy recovery,
Kavey
Sep 13th, 2004, 03:25 PM
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Very best wishes for your continued recovery Mr. Haines!! Thank you more than words can say for your incredibly valuable contributions here that have provided so any of us with wonderful experiences and memories to treasure...
Sep 13th, 2004, 04:34 PM
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So glad to hear that you have enjoyed the festival, Mr Haines.
Looking forward to the complete list next month, I am all green with envy.
Hopefully next spring comes, you will be happily on night train somewhere in the world again.
Looking forward to the complete list next month, I am all green with envy.
Hopefully next spring comes, you will be happily on night train somewhere in the world again.
