[Magdalen] Happy Christmas

[Ann Markle]

And I thought it was so lovely that your church provided a service for the
bog people (a swamp here in the US, Marion, not a loo).  They're definitely
underserved!

Ann

The Rev. Ann Markle
Buffalo, NY
ann.markle at aya.yale.edu

On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 2:16 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> To spell cheque, bog is a word, as indeed it is -- just not the one I had
> in mind. (the big people's service). We have quite a bit of swampland
> around here. As a matter of fact, a neighbor was draining a pond by his
> house and found a large bone. He had experts come in, and they ended up
> camped out in his yard for a while and extracted an entire skeleton of a
> mammoth. This area was a swamp back then.  I don't think anyone calls it a
> bog ....
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