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[Nigel Rantor]

Robert Shiels wrote:
> Dirk Koopman wrote:
> 
>> And anyway, when you get bored with Slough, there is Windsor (Castle)
>> (which you can see from my old school) and Eton (maybe mess about on/by
>> the river).
> 
> ...
> Yes. It's odd isn't it that there are so many nice places all around 
> Slough. I cycle 50-80km every weekend, starting in Datchet. I've been 
> all over Eton, Windsor, Bracknell, Egham, Ascot, Sunningdale, Marlow, 
> Henley...the list goes on, but I've never cycled through Slough.

It strikes me that Slough is the gutter that all the crap from the 
surrounding areas is, well, sloughed off into...and results in a...slough.

hmm...ever wondered why it's called Slough?

   n