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Hello to Z, Maude, T-bird and Bob. Talk amongst yourselves! As I said to Z in a separate e-mail, my son went to the same high school in Atlanta as she did. Ain't it a small world, really?
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Re: Welcome new members
Mon, November 8, 2004 - 9:02 PMHellew - I used to be an American in Bwitain, but then I moved back to the Good ol'.
Or the Bad ol, as it is right now.
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Tue, November 9, 2004 - 8:32 AMI am trying to keep it on the straight and narrow, if that's what you mean. Just today I harrumphed loudly at a racist anti-travellers headline and refused to join a raffle because I oppose gambling. And my blog has a button that says "I have had it up to here with Tony Blair".
And to think, I used to be an anglophile!
Btw, you can join this tribe even if you don't currently live in Britain.
Btw, I love your nickname.
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Tue, November 9, 2004 - 8:46 AMYou go, Debonator (just trying it out for you)
I have to say, weather aside, I'd trade my political mess over here for your political mess. I wasn't a huge fan of Tony, but you know, at least the UK has a true multi-party system. Ironic, don't you think? In a country where you have relatively limited choices for everything, they have a multi-party system. Over here, where there are entire grocery store aisles devoted to shampoo alone, we get...two: party A or party B.
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Tue, November 9, 2004 - 3:15 PMWelcome to the tribe Dread Pirate. Yes, I agree about the political irony.
I live in the Midlands, a town called Hinckley, about 12 miles SW of Leicester. I work in Nottingham, which is a one-hour train journey each way. Every. Work. Day. For. The. Past. Six. Years.
No, really, there are some things I like and even love about the UK. None of them are shopping. I am very attached to the hundreds of lambs and sheep I see every day on the way to work, but then I realise that people eat them (Not me though). I am starting to babble. Sleep deprivation. -
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Tue, November 9, 2004 - 3:44 PMI know what you mean, I got attached to the Ayrshire lambies gambolling across the hillside - a friend sent me a fresh photo this spring during lambing season.
I lived in Musselburgh, near Edinburgh, for 3.5 yrs. My in-laws are there, we speak to "Nana in Scotland" every weekend (I have twin baby girls). I used to work in Leith. Lucky me, only 1/2 hr commute after dropping off the hub every morning...He was the reason I moved to Scotland, BTW.
Shopping I do not miss there either!
What brought you to the Midlands?
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Tue, November 9, 2004 - 11:14 AMHey everybody <waves wildly> Good to meet you. Thanks for the welcome Deb, and I still can't believe the Grady connection! A-mazin'. And yet, the longer I live, and the further away I move, I am beginning to believe in the concept called six degrees of Grady :p
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Tue, November 9, 2004 - 3:25 PMI checked with my son and he tells me that your cousin Lauren is one of his close friends from Grady and he still sees her. Pretty cool, huh.
I love the internet. I put on my blog a very short post that it was my birthday (5 November) and I was 52. I got a comment from a woman also named Deb whose birthday is also 5 November but she was 50.
Another time I was on a little bitty mailing list with about 7 or 8 members. It turned out that one of the members, an Australian woman, was born at the exact time of the exact day that I was, except it would have been about 13-14 hours earlier because it was in Australia. Later she came to the US for a conference and we were able to meet in person.
The thing is, I think you can pick almost anything and it will have a six degrees concept: six degrees of Woodstock. Six degrees of spelling bees. Six degrees of the Food Network. IOW, if every one in the world is within six degrees of someone who went to Grady High (and they probably are, or at least if you say the English-speaking world or some minor restriction), it could be that everyone in the world is within six degrees of someone who was at Woodstock or appeared on a certain TV network. -
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Tue, November 9, 2004 - 3:51 PMO my gads, he knows my crazy cousin? Oh lawd. I cannot believe this one. But, yes, six degrees of just about anything. -
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six degrees...
Wed, November 10, 2004 - 12:54 AMeven kevin bacon?
my ex-g/f's best friend lived in woodstock years ago (many.) there was this woman libby that she knew there. as it turns out, when steely dan won a grammy a few years ago the singer (donald fagen) thanked his wife libby--yes, the SAME libby from woodstock...
oh, i forgot to mention i'm a HUGE steely dan fan...
so my story is i'm in los angeles, and would LOVE to live in britain. london, manchester or glasgow--mostly for the music scene (i'm a dj.) possibly even brighton.
never been to the uk, but i might pass thru early next year.
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Thu, February 24, 2005 - 10:42 AMHi everyone,
Thanks for the invite Debra.
Jay -
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Thu, February 24, 2005 - 10:47 PMHi Jay. Glad you could make it. -
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Thu, July 14, 2005 - 6:35 AMhi im sort of a half and halfer ,i live mostly in the washington dc area with my family but spend great amounts of time in angel islington with my best freind simon h of the band the green ray-he knows just about everybody in london so it wouldnt suprise me if we meet a freind or two here-i just got back from a five week uk trip where we did london then stonehenge solstice then glastonbury -AND ILL never be the same!!!!!!!!!!!what an experience -nice to meet you all ,please feel free to become freinds,luv and peace be with you and yours ,sherry -
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Sun, July 17, 2005 - 4:55 AMWelcome Sherry. It sounds like you hit all the hippie high points in your trip over here.
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Sat, January 14, 2006 - 4:05 PMGreetings. I just found this little place on tribe.net, much to my delight. I currently live in the States but am in love with a man from London. I went to London for the first time in November and thought it was amazing. My boyfriend and I have been flying back and forth to spend as much time with each other as we can.
I've done all the research into immigration and I know that the only viable way for us to be together is to someday get married. If things continue to go well between us, then that will indeed be the plan. I'm a bit daunted by the notion of having to sit before immigration and of having to complete all the necessary paperwork and prove that our relationship is legitimate. It seems unfair that honest people in love have to go through so much difficulty just to be together properly.
I know that people are able to bridge the ocean and eventually marry. Anyone with any experience in this matter, please feel free to contact me and share your thoughts and wisdom.
I also look forward to learning more about the U.K., its culture, politics, and people. I've always considered myself a bit of an anglophile, but I never imagined that I might one day find true love and move to the U.K.
Anyway, I'm rambling now. I just wanted to introduce myself.
Thanks!
