― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 08:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― RickyT (RickyT), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 08:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 08:43 (twenty-two years ago)
But adolescence in Tavistock, west Devon.
and now in a little Wiltshire village.
(well not right now, actually - right now, a cost office in sleepy Swindon).
... but folks still in NW1 - or NW3, to be accurate. There's nothing like a decent pension.
― jon (jon), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 08:44 (twenty-two years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 08:44 (twenty-two years ago)
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 08:45 (twenty-two years ago)
― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 08:45 (twenty-two years ago)
― donna (donna), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 08:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 08:49 (twenty-two years ago)
― di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 08:52 (twenty-two years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 08:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― angela (angela), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 08:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 08:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― Plinky (Plinky), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 08:59 (twenty-two years ago)
― OCP (OCP), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 09:01 (twenty-two years ago)
― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 09:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sam (chirombo), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 09:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 09:12 (twenty-two years ago)
― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 09:12 (twenty-two years ago)
― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 09:13 (twenty-two years ago)
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 09:25 (twenty-two years ago)
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 09:26 (twenty-two years ago)
― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 09:26 (twenty-two years ago)
― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 09:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 09:32 (twenty-two years ago)
0-18 mths: St John's Wood, London18mths - 2yrs:Hampstead, London2-6yrs: Nantmel, nr. Llandrindod Wells, Mid Wales 6-18yrs: Peckham, London18-21yrs: South Manchester (Whitworth Park and Rusholme, with university holidays back in Peckham and then my parents' new home in near Charlbury, Oxfordshire)21-22yrs: Withington, South Manchester22-23 yrs: Crookes, Sheffield23-25yrs: Hackney, London25-29yrs: Stoke Newington, London29yrs- : Park Circus area, Glasgow
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 09:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― stevo (stevo), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 09:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 09:50 (twenty-two years ago)
Everything of any interest about me can be deduced from the above (i.e. not a great deal).
― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 09:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 1 October 2002 10:04 (twenty-two years ago)
― gazza, Tuesday, 1 October 2002 10:09 (twenty-two years ago)
What a waste that first quarter-century was. And then it got worse before it got better.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 10:10 (twenty-two years ago)
0-7 Dronfield (North Derbyshire)
7-18 Newbold Chesterfield
18-21 Bournemouth and Newbold
21-22 Walton in Chesterfield and Bournemouth
22-23 Just Walton
23-26 Willesden Green
26- now Walthamstow
― chris (chris), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 10:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 10:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 10:27 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 10:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 10:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 10:33 (twenty-two years ago)
re : immediate future, weighing up a) Dunedin b) Melbourne c) London
― Ess Kay (esskay), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 10:34 (twenty-two years ago)
1969/70? swansea1970/3? bolton1974? newton aycliffe1974/9 darlington1979/89 ryton (near blaydon in gateshead)1989/92 low fell in gateshead1987/8 cambridge, green street1988/9 cambridge st paul's road1989/90 S staircase, tree court, caius college1990 somewhere way out in little shelford1990/1 back in to cambridge gwydir street, mill road1991/2 camb. green street again1992/3 camb. milton road, gilbert road1993/98 then down to london nw21999/01 w92001/02 w4
― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 10:37 (twenty-two years ago)
― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 10:37 (twenty-two years ago)
22-28yrs (1982-1988): Nightmare years - trapped in redbrick thatcherite cul-de-sac suburbia paying Daily Mail readers' mortgages for them while being psych-sandblasted by 80's ideologies of 'style' and 'dynamism'. Whoopee.
― Ray M (rdmanston), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 10:39 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 10:46 (twenty-two years ago)
― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 10:50 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sam (chirombo), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)
― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 10:55 (twenty-two years ago)
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 10:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 11:03 (twenty-two years ago)
Not that I think London is go great or anything, but if you're a confirmed city type like me then I can't really see the point of living anywhere else but the capital...
― Andrew L (Andrew L), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 11:03 (twenty-two years ago)
― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 11:08 (twenty-two years ago)
*1 family still live in the house that grandad bought (newly built?). at one stage there dad's two brothers and father lived in the same road, mother's siblings and mother lived one and two roads over.*2 met mike. hopefully didn't contribute to the 'waste of time' he mentions.
andy
― koogs, Tuesday, 1 October 2002 11:23 (twenty-two years ago)
― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 11:38 (twenty-two years ago)
0-13 Brazilia, Brazil14-23 Welling, kent
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 11:41 (twenty-two years ago)
Oh blimey no! That year was the exception (but academically it was wasted). Strictly speaking we didn't meet while you were a Lufbra resident tho'.
I wonder what proportion of people who move to London from the provinces get sick of the place in their mid-late 30s (or earlier) and move out? I was told years ago that many/most people* who move to the capital describe this arc into disillusionment. I think I must still be on an upward trajectory. Glasgow sounds awfully nice though.
(* - 'people' probably just restricted to middle-income UK citizens in full-time work with looming adult responsibilities).
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 11:45 (twenty-two years ago)
I'm not nbored of London in the slightest..... yet. I fear I may be at some point though, unless I become more "comfortable"
― chris (chris), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 11:47 (twenty-two years ago)
was that Christ's Hospital by any chance?
― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 11:49 (twenty-two years ago)
― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)
― H (Heruy), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)
― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)
That doesn't seem quite right somehow. Perhaps I got some times wrong. Those are all the places though!
― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 11:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 12:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 12:05 (twenty-two years ago)
― Plinky (Plinky), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 12:06 (twenty-two years ago)
but he's also lived in Bournemouth! When were you there Peter? I was there from 91-95.
― chris (chris), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 12:11 (twenty-two years ago)
Looks like I'm the only North American that reads ILX at breakfast.
― Miss Laura, Tuesday, 1 October 2002 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)
Ns dad went to Caius. rock on! (actually i think this was brought up when we did the whole terrifying oxbridge threads about a year ago)
― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 12:20 (twenty-two years ago)
0-1 RAF base in Stafford1-4 Stamford, Lincs4-21 Around Wakefield, West Yorkshire21-29 Tulse Hill, West Norwood, Honor Oak, Gipsy Hill - Sarf London.
Also curious about Ray's Birth-Pub and MJ's current whereabouts.Michael see the Local Pub thread - the two I mention are the Railway Tavern and the Railway Bell.
― Simeon (Simeon), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 12:21 (twenty-two years ago)
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 12:24 (twenty-two years ago)
Barca, Prague and San Sebastian (mmmm, great Tapas) Funnily enough I was talking to a bloke from San Sebastian at the black and white balls, terribly nice chap.
― chris (chris), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)
― RickyT (RickyT), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 12:36 (twenty-two years ago)
London: Yeah, I moved there at 28 and left at 35, but it was as much due to financial/life frustration as to 'disillusionment' - but then what do you mean by disillusionment, I suppose.... I couldn't ever see myself being able to have a life of my own because I could never afford a flat of my own, and being near so much casual opulence and other people's comfort was driving me into crazyness and embittered misery. The arts/cultural life was great, but after a while I always felt like a lower-class eager moth fluttering round self-assured middle-class lightbulbs.I left through making a major break in my work life - going freelance to try to make more money - going to Southampton for an 18-month contract.Then 'that thing' happened - as I came back to London less and less for weekends througout '96, it began to 'wear off' and seem unpleasant to me, both for exactly the reasons that some visitors report - crowding, dirt, rudeness, urban crazies - and because the area I knew and had lived in (off Powis Square) kept changing, and got even *more* trendy and poncified and expensive and less cosmopolitan than it had already become over the previous 7 years. So I lost my sense of (and desire for) 'connectedness' to W11......
I don't even like visiting London much now. A couple of my friends from those years still live there (N1), and tell me that even they are finding it more and more brutal to deal with......
― Ray M (rdmanston), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)
I did technically live in Streatham for 6 weeks once, but that's as far as my London existence went or will ever go.
― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 12:40 (twenty-two years ago)
― gabriel rodriguez-doerr (gabe), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 12:51 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sam (chirombo), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 12:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 12:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― ragnfild (ragnfild), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)
I mean - Stroud? *Hertfordshire*??
The Nipper's full breakdown would be interesting to read.
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 1 October 2002 12:58 (twenty-two years ago)
― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)
I've spent a long weekend a couple of miles from there, Sarah (assuming you mean Forres). It was beautiful.
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)
Next: Vienna and Hinterbrühl bei Mödling, Austria.
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)
― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)
College years: Williamsburg, VA.
Since graduation: Washington, DC.
― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 14:39 (twenty-two years ago)
We used to travel to RickyT's Billingshurst (to buy fags/shoplift them if no cash), on trains with carriages with separate compartments. Occasionally this funny old bloke would offer us magazines to look at ...
― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― Josh (Josh), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)
― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 1 October 2002 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 1 October 2002 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)
Ray: yeah, that pretty much catches what I guess I meant by 'disillusionment'. I suspect there comes a point for a lot of people where they simply get sick of being almost continuously broke for a lifestyle (even if that lifestyle is no more luxuriant than a 2-bed flat in Z3, a travelcard and a few meals out/cinema trips) and a locale that holds no thrill for them any longer. I still love going over Westminster Bridge at night, (nearly) all my friends are here and the idea of moving any further out (other than *away all together*) is a non-starter (rest of South East England = rubbish).
The meanness of Londoners is a chimera in my opinion.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)
Hardly. ;-)
In order -- Bremerton, Washington; Coronado, California; Aiea, Hawaii; Coronado; Mare Island, California; Coronado; Saratoga Springs, New York; Coronado; Los Angeles; Irvine, California and now Costa Mesa, California. Spot the pattern.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)
1-14 (Dec 1981 - Aug 1994): Swanscombe, Kent
14- (Aug 1994 onwards): Portland, Dorset
― robin carmody (robin carmody), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)
― dleone (dleone), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mitch Lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)
Julio got so used to writing Brazil he forgot Brasilia is written with a s!!
― vic (vicc13), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)
*sigh*
― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mandee., Tuesday, 1 October 2002 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)
― simon trife (simon_tr), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 17:46 (twenty-two years ago)
― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― g.cannon (gcannon), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)
hehe...yes of course!
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― cameron, Tuesday, 1 October 2002 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alfie (Alfie), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)
Berkeley/Oakland/SF (UC Berkeley, then dot-com mania) 1991-2001, 18-28
Los Angeles (Happy Return - South of West Hollywood, but North of Park La Brea - no real name for it - West Hollywood adjacent?) 2001-? 29-?
feeling the need to live someplace completely different - top choices are Shanghai, Paris, or Berlin. But California is perpetually rather nice.
I will pint anyone in LA.
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)
― mbosa, Tuesday, 1 October 2002 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)
Ah, now you tell me. ;-) Seeing the Chameleons at all?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― Vinnie (vprabhu), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)
Eep. Am I the only Texan on ILX?
― JC (JC A.), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)
― luna.c (luna.c), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 20:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)
Nope
― dleone (dleone), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)
Michael J. interesting to read that you spent four years in West Cumbria. Is that what you mean about it getting worse? I used to visit my grandmother in Maryport every year.
― David (David), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)
― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 21:39 (twenty-two years ago)
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 1 October 2002 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― brg30 (brg30), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)
Total distance: about 150km
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)
― nory (nory), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)
― Rex, Tuesday, 1 October 2002 22:23 (twenty-two years ago)
― keith (keithmcl), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)
I hope to be back in New York in a couple of years.
― Arthur (Arthur), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 23:59 (twenty-two years ago)
Most tempting, if I can make it up there. Start a separate thread!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 00:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 01:13 (twenty-two years ago)
The benefit to the States is that you can move Very Far Away at the drop of a hat, without needing new currency, fluency, or shoes.
― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 01:19 (twenty-two years ago)
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 07:05 (twenty-two years ago)
Maybe the NE Somerset/NW Wiltshire/SE Gloucesertshire border is the real missing metropolitan black hole to which all ILEers must be drawn.
― jon (jon), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 07:20 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dave M. (rotten03), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 07:21 (twenty-two years ago)
1980-1983 St. John's, Newfoundland1983-1988 Toronto (Brampton, actually)1988-1993 St. John's, Newfoundland (It was better the first time)1993-1999 Toronto (Oakville, actually)1999-present Princeton, NJ
― Dave M. (rotten03), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 07:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 08:07 (twenty-two years ago)
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 08:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 08:44 (twenty-two years ago)
This thread is getting like ILEFriendsUnited.
― Mooro (Mooro), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 09:03 (twenty-two years ago)
― di smith (lucylurex), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 09:07 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mooro (Mooro), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 09:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― Graham (graham), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 09:22 (twenty-two years ago)
Top Tip: Vintage Nipper talk can be found in the recent thread about contemporary poetry.
I originally thought Jerry the Nipper was to Everett True what Little Frank was to Frank Sidebottom.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 09:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― Perry Bernard (panterus), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 09:35 (twenty-two years ago)
1) 'Bringing up Baby'(1938)[In jail] Susan Vance: Anyway, David, when they find out who we are they'll let us out. David Huxley: When they find out who you are they'll pad the cell.
Susan Vance: Hey Flatfoot! You ain't gettin' no place. Come here...Yes you. Come on. Haul it over. Haul it over. You want someone to talk don't ya?...Get me out of this cooler and I'll unbutton my puss and shoot the works...Yeah, I kinda had you fooled for a minute, didn't I?...I could make a sucker out of a copper. What did I tell ya my name was? ("Susan Vance"). Vance...that's my society moniker. But the mob all calls me Swingin' Door Susie...Now ya pegged me. Come on toots. Open up, open up...Listen, I'll talk. I'll talk so much it will make your hair curl. Susan Vance: Aw, quit beefin', get wise to yourself, the heat's on Jerry. Constable: Jerry? Jerry? Ain't his name Bone? Susan Vance: Bone. Aww, you mean to say you don't remember Jerry the Nipper? Constable: Jerry the Nipper. Make a note of that Doc. David Huxley: Constable. She's making all this up out of motion pictures she's seen. 2) 'The Awful Truth' (1937)Lucy Warriner(played by Irene Dunne, talking about her husband, played by Cary Grant): Well, don't look at me you like a little drink yourself. We call him Jerry the Nipper. Like's to sneak it when nobody's looking. So cute about it too.
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 09:38 (twenty-two years ago)
― stevo (stevo), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 10:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 11:37 (twenty-two years ago)
― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 12:02 (twenty-two years ago)
― michael wells (michael w.), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 12:05 (twenty-two years ago)
― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 12:05 (twenty-two years ago)
― katie (katie), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 12:17 (twenty-two years ago)
0 - 4 months: N. London4 months until 18: Heywood, nr Rochdale18 - 26: Lancaster26-26 and a bit: Kensington, C. London26-27 and a bit: Hammersmith, W. London27-27: Canonbury, N. London27-now: Blackheath, S. London
― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 13:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 13:18 (twenty-two years ago)
And I *so* am really from Sidmouth.
― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)
― mandee, Wednesday, 2 October 2002 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)
― Madeleine (Madeleine), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)
― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 3 October 2002 04:58 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 3 October 2002 05:17 (twenty-two years ago)
― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 3 October 2002 05:28 (twenty-two years ago)
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 3 October 2002 09:11 (twenty-two years ago)
Loughborough = home of Ladybird books? There used to be a pic of a giant ladybird at the station.
― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 3 October 2002 09:16 (twenty-two years ago)
Used to be, now situated about 20 yards to my right. (Strand, London)Incidentally, I soon inherit (professionally) all the artwork for the old ladybird books. I'll get to scan and archive all those childhood memories - Rumplestiltskin, Chicken Licken, Yay!
― Simeon (Simeon), Thursday, 3 October 2002 09:25 (twenty-two years ago)
http://www.whitechapelbellfoundry.co.uk/
― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 3 October 2002 09:28 (twenty-two years ago)
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 3 October 2002 09:51 (twenty-two years ago)
17-18 Glasgow
18-21 Edinburgh
21-22 Greenock
22- present Edinburgh
― leigh (leigh), Thursday, 3 October 2002 11:10 (twenty-two years ago)
18-20 Manchester
20-21 Portsmouth
21-22 Manchester
22-26 London (E3,N19,TW1,SW19,EC1)
― Chris rough, Thursday, 3 October 2002 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 3 October 2002 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― Madam Plinky (Madam Plinky), Thursday, 3 October 2002 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)
― robin carmody (robin carmody), Thursday, 3 October 2002 23:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― Douglas Wolk, Friday, 4 October 2002 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)
― Kim (Kim), Friday, 4 October 2002 02:04 (twenty-two years ago)
― joan vich (joan vich), Friday, 4 October 2002 12:36 (twenty-two years ago)
― gabriel rodriguez-doerr (gabe), Saturday, 5 October 2002 02:06 (twenty-two years ago)
― vic (vicc13), Saturday, 5 October 2002 02:19 (twenty-two years ago)
uh... n~?
― gabriel rodriguez-doerr (gabe), Saturday, 5 October 2002 02:35 (twenty-two years ago)
― bnw (bnw), Saturday, 5 October 2002 02:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― vic (vicc13), Saturday, 5 October 2002 02:52 (twenty-two years ago)
― gabriel rodriguez-doerr (gabe), Saturday, 5 October 2002 02:53 (twenty-two years ago)
― Rockist Scientist, Saturday, 5 October 2002 02:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― joan vich (joan vich), Saturday, 5 October 2002 09:30 (twenty-two years ago)
― Livvie, Saturday, 5 October 2002 09:59 (twenty-two years ago)
― di smith (lucylurex), Saturday, 5 October 2002 22:10 (twenty-two years ago)
It's something that I discovered in San Francisco thanks to Esperpento. Then there was the tapas place in Seattle and my heart was forever given over to goodness.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 5 October 2002 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)
*Summers off from college, obv.
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 5 October 2002 23:28 (twenty-two years ago)
ñ
Don't forget the semicolon at the end or it won't work. If you want a capital Ñ (do they ever happen in Spanish? I dunno) then just capitalise the N at the start but not the rest:
Ñ
― hell, open a windle (reb), Saturday, 5 October 2002 23:40 (twenty-two years ago)
― Rebecca (reb), Saturday, 5 October 2002 23:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 6 October 2002 00:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 6 October 2002 09:49 (twenty-two years ago)
― vic (vicc13), Sunday, 6 October 2002 11:01 (twenty-two years ago)
the idea of slicing me up for stotties appeal though for some bizzarre reason...
― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Sunday, 6 October 2002 12:06 (twenty-two years ago)
― amy (amy), Monday, 7 October 2002 01:35 (twenty-two years ago)
― amy (amy), Monday, 7 October 2002 01:37 (twenty-two years ago)
― Andy K (Andy K), Monday, 7 October 2002 01:41 (twenty-two years ago)
Very wise. :-)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 October 2002 02:07 (twenty-two years ago)
I want to make my emoticon look like a drunken clown with a moustache. Why can't I do it, why?
― Arthur (Arthur), Monday, 7 October 2002 02:39 (twenty-two years ago)
(Clown with moustache and bow tie.)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 7 October 2002 02:48 (twenty-two years ago)
tsk aw alright. london w10 all my years
― bob zemko (bob), Monday, 7 October 2002 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)
Why is there no mention of Letchworth on ILM? Disgraceful!
― dog latin, Saturday, 9 November 2002 13:36 (twenty-two years ago)
Moved to Cheltenham (Dad was with GCHQ). Family home still there.
Manchester Uni at 17 to to Mod Lang. Hated it. Dropped out half way through first year
Oxford Brookes Uni for three years, somehow emerged with degree in German and French despite partying too much and not doing nearly enough work
Melbourne, Australia for 2 years
Hong Kong for 4 years
Returned to Oxfordshire, where I now live happily in a little hobbit hole in depths of the countryside
― C J (C J), Saturday, 9 November 2002 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)
― robotchant (sine), Saturday, 9 November 2002 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)
Not giving any dates coz then I'd have to stop lying about my real age.
Harlow, Essex (only to be born)Cheshunt, HertfordshirePietermaritzburg, South Africa (only for a summer, though)Cheshunt, againFairfield County, CTSlingerlands, NYAlbany, NYQueens, NY (LIC and Astoria)London - Swiss Cottage, brief spells in Tooting, Harpenden Herts, Islington and now Hoxton
― kate, Saturday, 9 November 2002 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)
― Rebecca (reb), Saturday, 9 November 2002 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 9 November 2002 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)
Sorry, it's getting late. /coat
― dog latin, Sunday, 10 November 2002 05:59 (twenty-two years ago)
MinneapolisRural MinnesotaRural South DakotaColombus OhioNew Jersey (too young to specify where.... close to NY city?)ColoradoPark City UtahRural Oregon (mushroom farm)Olympia Washington (convent)Northern Minnesota (native american reservation)Berkeley, CAMinneapolis
― Dan I., Sunday, 10 November 2002 06:48 (twenty-two years ago)
I was considering starting a thread called "Where are you from?" to discuss the question itself. I'm sure I'm not the only one here who can't easily answer the question.
Earlier, I was thinking about how as of next year, I will have been living in the Bay Area twice as long as I've lived anywhere since I was 11 years old. Yet I have always been a renter here, and it seems unlikely that I'll ever be able to buy property here. I don't know that many people and it kind of still feels like I just got here.
I was born in Chicago, so I have often answered the question with "the Chicago area" (if I just say "Chicago", and they are familiar with the city, they will immediately start asking me about certain areas, and I'll always have to explain that I haven't lived there since I was a kid and am not familiar with the geography, and then I'll feel like a putz for talking so giving them so much info about me in the first few minutes of the conversation).
Lately, I've just said "nowhere in particular", but that might even be worse than opening with specifics.
I don't even know what sports teams to root for. I always used to root for Chicago teams, but they all suck in the sports I like, and I really care less and less about being associated with the city in any way as I get older - even though I still have a lot of extended family there.
Anyone else have this problem, or even care about this sort of thing?
― Highly trained BBQ chef (rockapads), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 02:45 (fifteen years ago)
it's not where you from but where you at.
― carne asada, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 02:58 (fifteen years ago)
The longest (by far) that I've stayed in one place was the six years before, during, and after by last bout of uni. So that's usually what I answer when prompted. Much simpler than attempting to answer honestly.
― A Foul Night-Weird (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 03:18 (fifteen years ago)
West Oakland, CA. Currently residing in Berkeley and looking forward to going back to Lundun.
― Blancminaj (Spinspin Sugah), Monday, 31 May 2010 20:45 (fifteen years ago)
Born in Portland, Oregon. I've lived either in or near it more or less all my life. Currently I live in a bedroom community south of Portland's city limits, but I've also lived in SE, NW and SW Portland at various times.
― Aimless, Monday, 31 May 2010 21:08 (fifteen years ago)