After arriving in Goring, we had a quick nap and some din. After the food we decided to take a walk, and due to some exploration we found the Jonh Barleycorn pub just a couple blocks away.
Super low ceilings? Check.
All local patrons? Check.
Weird pool/snooker like game? Check
Gentlmen with the worlds largest collection of cheese labels? Err, check?
We met a number of very nice people at this pub--a drunk guy that explained the 'rules' to the game; a doctor and his wife that enjoy politics and cider; and an elder gentlemen who has collected ~140,000 cheese labels.
With autographs from the makers.
I have around ten minutes of footage of our conversations, but it gets more interesting than that. For one je was an engineer on the Soyez/Apollo flight. For number two, it turns out he is a professor at Oxford
Now, this could all be a tall tale. But when someone fetches their notebooks of cheese labels, gives you the equations they used for the Soyez, and gives you their contact info at Oxford it certainly has a power of truth.
I'll post the interviews as soon as I can transcode them.
Arthur Johnston, your 8th great grandfather, was a physician in
ReplyDeleteParis and William was a professor at the Univ. of Sedan. He was an
accomplished Latin poet and left a large legacy of published poems
and eulogies. In 1624, Dr. Arthur Johnson returned to England/Scotland and subsequently served as physician ordinary to Kings James I and Charles I (probably between 1624 and 1630) but returned to his hometown, Aberdeen, about 1630/31. There, he practiced medicine and was named Regent of Kings College in Aberdeen. He died in Oxford, England in 1641.I wonder if he grave is very near you there in Goring?