Whatever happened to.....
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I'm stunned... no really...
The last I read you had bought a house, handbuilt your own wooden framed greenhouse, bought an old Landy, got a job... everything you needed...
What went wrong??
Last edited by unclebuck; Sep 1, 2008 at 10:05 PM.
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hello jobseeka'z 
my favy wavy SN all timers are; in order of no importance
NACRO- aka D0ctorWho, Pastor, Suhail, Fluffer, Malvinas, Basal_lobe (Tel, get a fecfkin grip old yin
), Scoob New, TORQUEamada, JDM, D70, D50, Doplo, vaJYEna, Dolopo, Proctor What, ArtistFKAN, UndaCouvert,...................................... ...............
aka me,
Alan your friendly neighbourhood cabbage head 
my favy wavy SN all timers are; in order of no importance
NACRO- aka D0ctorWho, Pastor, Suhail, Fluffer, Malvinas, Basal_lobe (Tel, get a fecfkin grip old yin
), Scoob New, TORQUEamada, JDM, D70, D50, Doplo, vaJYEna, Dolopo, Proctor What, ArtistFKAN, UndaCouvert,...................................... ...............aka me,
Alan your friendly neighbourhood cabbage head
Blimey yes, some blasts from the past there! Malvinas, fluffer especially.
Are you claiming you're all of those??
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Yes, we bought a house. Lovely little stone cottage with 3/4 of an acre, open fires, miles from anywhere. It was very picturesqe. We did indeed hand-assemble a large cedar-framed greenhouse, and we grew all sorts of stuff (and my wife sold it to local restaurants). I worked in the bike shop for about 9 months (which was fun and very enlightening), and then got a job back in IT running a 16-strong development team in a small webdev company.
We never bought a LR.
We were up there for nearly 5 years, but last April just decided - quite out of the blue - that we wanted to return to our old stomping-ground and be closer to friends and family. An unmissable opportunity came up at a big US investment bank (this was before the credit crunch
) and so we sold up and moved down in July. It was a great adventure, and if we went back in time we'd definitely do it again - no regrets at all.
But OTOH, it's nice to be back down here, seeing much more of our friends, and having a slightly more relaxed life.Downsides of moving back?
-No decent hills to throw myself off on the Slayer.
-Doing the commute into the City (although it's better than when I last did it - no more slam-doors).
-House prices back to being the number one topic of conversation.
Upsides of being back?
-Better weather.
(today, excluded, obviously)-Seeing all my old mates for City drinks/pizza
-No Scots.
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