[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Why I'm STAYING (long)

[Kathryn Cawte]

>
> Newcastle upon Tyne, England.  In a rather boring house, to be
> honest.  However the office where I work is the former "Holy Jesus
> Hospital" for plague victims now refurbished and also part of a
> former Benedictine priory.  The ceiling is lethal to anyone taller
> than 5'6".  The floors are so old that things slide across them.
> Yes, I do feel lucky.  Fortunately, the toilets and other facilities
> work.
>

Wow, I really envy you. I did some work for my undergrad degree on medieval
hospitals and medicine, I would love to work in a building like that, of
course I live right near St Albans so I might some day. Of course the
problem with really old buildings is that the ceilings tend to be too low
for normal sized people (I'm 5'3" and according to the lads I went to
university with officially a munchkin *grumble*) but the stairs are often
really deep so I have to jump from step to step. Actually you know, Hogwarts
must have particularly high ceilings and doorways in particular or Snape's
dramatic sweeping walks would be punctuated by swearing as he walked into
the doorframes - of course that only covers the corridors and classrooms
because you'd expect the Great Hall and such to have high ceilings.

K