Where the bodies were buried

When I visited Ireland, the people who live there were totally blasé about the ruins of this building or that church out in a field, 3/4 fallen down. It's just part of the landscape to them. The stone often IS carted away and used for other buildings, to save the effort of quarrying more stone. There was an article recently about builders taking down a Mesoamerican pyramid for the stone. To some people it's an irreplaceable monument, to others, cheap building supplies.

Today at work: Blue Willow and Wedgwood dinner plates, vintage booklets on how to paint fine china, a sake/tea pot with 4 cups, as well as a bunch of the usual this-and-that.