Back from the UK
Apr 22nd 2011, 9:38 am
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Re: Back from the UK
I use to drive 1000 km a week for work when I was in the UK.......I seriously dont miss the UK motorway driving.
So you went on holiday and enjoyed it......does that not happen on every holiday??
So you went on holiday and enjoyed it......does that not happen on every holiday??
Apr 22nd 2011, 10:01 am
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Re: Back from the UK
Apr 22nd 2011, 10:30 am
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Apr 22nd 2011, 10:44 am
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Re: Back from the UK
It wasn't that, I just didn't see the relevance of the post which seemed to come out of left field and have been posted on the wrong thread ?!?
Apr 22nd 2011, 11:13 am
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Well, I've just spent two weeks in the UK and it was bloody great. I reckon anyone who is coming here from there for "a better life" or "for the kids" is seriously off their rockers.
As an aside - it was a bit of a road trip, coming in quite a bit more than 2000km. Not that I minded the driving - even though they were busy it was a pleasure to drive on roads that contained actual skilful drivers that know how to communicate with other road users properly - you know eye contact, indicating, letting you pull out etc. It's not all good though, there are lots of speed cameras every where now... sigh.
As an aside - it was a bit of a road trip, coming in quite a bit more than 2000km. Not that I minded the driving - even though they were busy it was a pleasure to drive on roads that contained actual skilful drivers that know how to communicate with other road users properly - you know eye contact, indicating, letting you pull out etc. It's not all good though, there are lots of speed cameras every where now... sigh.
The situation in the UK is going from bad to worse. Just wait till they f^*k about with the NHS, which they will do (they're just waiting for a "bad news week" first). Arts, culture, education, public sector employment - all being reformed or destroyed by those tories. But yes, the pub gardens are lovely in springtime with birdsong.
Apr 22nd 2011, 11:35 am
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Re: Back from the UK
It was obviously a reference to post #28 
Apr 22nd 2011, 12:01 pm
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Re: Back from the UK
Oink said "Does anyone go to any music festivals when they go back home?" the response was sarcastically Ottawa is home and it goes from there.
I thought it was typical UK sarcasm (humour) I'm surprised you didn't see it that way.
Or maybe I'm reading too much into it.
Apr 22nd 2011, 12:01 pm
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Re: Back from the UK
Honestly, I like where I live now - but going back shined a light on the things that I have given up to come here. Some of those thing (such as sitting in a beer garden having a pint with my brothers on a warm sunny day) I miss at an almost visceral level.
Apr 22nd 2011, 12:07 pm
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Of course there is a bit of that. The fact that it was warm and sunny whereas in Vancouver we are currently heading for the coldest april on record didn't help either.
Honestly, I like where I live now - but going back shined a light on the things that I have given up to come here. Some of those thing (such as sitting in a beer garden having a pint with my brothers on a warm sunny day) I miss at an almost visceral level.
Honestly, I like where I live now - but going back shined a light on the things that I have given up to come here. Some of those thing (such as sitting in a beer garden having a pint with my brothers on a warm sunny day) I miss at an almost visceral level.
Apr 22nd 2011, 12:31 pm
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Re: Back from the UK
Will you be in Fort Mac or Suffolk in the first two weeks of July?
Incidentally and apropos to Woodefords Wherry......I had a cunning plan for my business trip to Europe back in Dec that saw me arriving from Holland to Norwich Airport late Friday afternoon to be collected by my folks and transported to the Fur and Feathers (Woodefordes brewery tap) at Woodbastwick for several pints. Sadly the December snows in Europe put paid to that.
