I hate getting shots, but it's best just to get it over with.

On a building that size, two crews could only lay two courses in a day.

One of the might-have-beens of railway history, however, would have altered the appearance of Monsal Dale considerably. The western portion of the Lancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast Railway (projected in 1891), from Chesterfield to Warrington, was planned to cross the dale and the Midland Line by a viaduct 543 yds. long and 272 ft. above the bed of the River Wye.

She thinks her son is some kind of superachieving prodigy.