Dealing
Oct 18th 2005, 5:55 pm
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Dealing
Not cards or billy - I mean dealing with facts 
You've left the UK, in many cases permanently (with the exception of the occasional trip back). To rip-off a Brandon Lee interview, you only get to do stuff so many times, and you have no idea how many that is going to be. By moving away, you have instatntly reduced that number where stuff in Britain is concerned. So, does it bother you that next time you visit a place in the UK, it may be the last?
There are just too many places to go! Do you think its as or more important to find new places?
You've left the UK, in many cases permanently (with the exception of the occasional trip back). To rip-off a Brandon Lee interview, you only get to do stuff so many times, and you have no idea how many that is going to be. By moving away, you have instatntly reduced that number where stuff in Britain is concerned. So, does it bother you that next time you visit a place in the UK, it may be the last?
There are just too many places to go! Do you think its as or more important to find new places?
Oct 18th 2005, 6:12 pm
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Re: Dealing
Originally Posted by Chorlton
You've left the UK, in many cases permanently (with the exception of the occasional trip back). To rip-off a Brandon Lee interview, you only get to do stuff so many times, and you have no idea how many that is going to be. By moving away, you have instatntly reduced that number where stuff in Britain is concerned. So, does it bother you that next time you visit a place in the UK, it may be the last?
There are just too many places to go! Do you think its as or more important to find new places?
There are just too many places to go! Do you think its as or more important to find new places?
As someone interested in UK family history and gardening, there are so many places I want to go that it kills me to be stuck here so much of the time. That said, I make the most of my time and use any excuse to go somewhere new in the US. I've covered most of Texas (duh) but never been to the Pac NW so that's high on my list.
The other thing is -- as important as where you go is who you go with. You can make memories that last a lifetime with good friends, no matter where you are.
Oct 18th 2005, 6:26 pm
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Re: Dealing
Originally Posted by Chorlton
Not cards or billy - I mean dealing with facts
You've left the UK, in many cases permanently (with the exception of the occasional trip back). To rip-off a Brandon Lee interview, you only get to do stuff so many times, and you have no idea how many that is going to be. By moving away, you have instatntly reduced that number where stuff in Britain is concerned. So, does it bother you that next time you visit a place in the UK, it may be the last?
There are just too many places to go! Do you think its as or more important to find new places?
You've left the UK, in many cases permanently (with the exception of the occasional trip back). To rip-off a Brandon Lee interview, you only get to do stuff so many times, and you have no idea how many that is going to be. By moving away, you have instatntly reduced that number where stuff in Britain is concerned. So, does it bother you that next time you visit a place in the UK, it may be the last?
There are just too many places to go! Do you think its as or more important to find new places?
Oct 18th 2005, 6:39 pm
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Re: Dealing
Originally Posted by snowbunny
Depends on what you want to see. There's that "1,000 places to see before you die" book, which title depresses me cos ain't no way I'm seeing 1,000 different places given the time I have left.
Oct 19th 2005, 5:06 pm
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Re: Dealing
Originally Posted by snowbunny
Depends on what you want to see. There's that "1,000 places to see before you die" book, which title depresses me cos ain't no way I'm seeing 1,000 different places given the time I have left.
As someone interested in UK family history and gardening, there are so many places I want to go that it kills me to be stuck here so much of the time. That said, I make the most of my time and use any excuse to go somewhere new in the US. I've covered most of Texas (duh) but never been to the Pac NW so that's high on my list.
The other thing is -- as important as where you go is who you go with. You can make memories that last a lifetime with good friends, no matter where you are.
As someone interested in UK family history and gardening, there are so many places I want to go that it kills me to be stuck here so much of the time. That said, I make the most of my time and use any excuse to go somewhere new in the US. I've covered most of Texas (duh) but never been to the Pac NW so that's high on my list.
The other thing is -- as important as where you go is who you go with. You can make memories that last a lifetime with good friends, no matter where you are.
All true - I love the wide open spaces out here, and you're right about who you share it with. Its just that when you go back and visit those places that used to be a few minutes away, it takes on a whole new significance now.
Oct 19th 2005, 5:30 pm
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Re: Dealing
Before I left the UK there were a few lasts I was concerned with:-
Last time I had to sit on the M1 in rush hour
Last 5 times I had a good quality fish supper
That was the last time I saw my furniture (hopefully it should be here soon)
Last time I had to experience British 'customer service' (using the term in it's loosest possible!)
Last time I had to sit on the M1 in rush hour
Last 5 times I had a good quality fish supper
That was the last time I saw my furniture (hopefully it should be here soon)
Last time I had to experience British 'customer service' (using the term in it's loosest possible!)
Oct 19th 2005, 5:33 pm
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Re: Dealing
Originally Posted by Chorlton
All true - I love the wide open spaces out here, and you're right about who you share it with. Its just that when you go back and visit those places that used to be a few minutes away, it takes on a whole new significance now.
"you won't be around forever boy, you gotta grab life with both hands"
Oct 19th 2005, 5:52 pm
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Re: Dealing
Originally Posted by snowbunny
Sure -- because you realise what you were missing while you were there -- what you could have been doing, and that the UK has a lot to offer. But so do other places, and you're here now, so.....
"you won't be around forever boy, you gotta grab life with both hands"
"you won't be around forever boy, you gotta grab life with both hands"
Oh yeah, don't get me wrong, I've got big plans for this place - I just wondered how everyone else thought about the subject
Oct 19th 2005, 5:56 pm
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Re: Dealing
Originally Posted by Chorlton
Not cards or billy - I mean dealing with facts
Oct 19th 2005, 5:58 pm
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Re: Dealing
Originally Posted by Eskimo
showing your age there mate
oh what do the young 'uns say these days?
Oct 19th 2005, 6:00 pm
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Re: Dealing
Originally Posted by Chorlton
oh what do the young 'uns say these days?
I think they all do Charly
Oct 19th 2005, 6:01 pm
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Re: Dealing
Originally Posted by Eskimo
I think they all do Charly
probably truewhen I were a lad, we 'ad to walk ten miles in the snow to work down 't pit...
Oct 19th 2005, 6:48 pm
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Re: Dealing
Originally Posted by Chorlton
Not cards or billy - I mean dealing with facts
You've left the UK, in many cases permanently (with the exception of the occasional trip back). To rip-off a Brandon Lee interview, you only get to do stuff so many times, and you have no idea how many that is going to be. By moving away, you have instatntly reduced that number where stuff in Britain is concerned. So, does it bother you that next time you visit a place in the UK, it may be the last?
There are just too many places to go! Do you think its as or more important to find new places?
You've left the UK, in many cases permanently (with the exception of the occasional trip back). To rip-off a Brandon Lee interview, you only get to do stuff so many times, and you have no idea how many that is going to be. By moving away, you have instatntly reduced that number where stuff in Britain is concerned. So, does it bother you that next time you visit a place in the UK, it may be the last?
There are just too many places to go! Do you think its as or more important to find new places?
I like finding new places...I'm a great fan of road trips............
