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  • Where are you from?
  • Taff
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    Havant near Portsmouth.

    Another forum I was on had a google maps setting showing the locations of all members…

    nickf
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    Rothbury
    Whitley Bay
    Lots of places in the middle, but Watford for the last 15 years.

    tomaso
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    Born London
    Grew up in Eastbourne
    Now living in Lancaster and not missing the South.

    rondo101
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    Bristol.

    Live in the city centre & have a 10-minute commute to work (on a bike, MUCH longer in the car), but have decent trails within riding distance and Quantocks, Mendips and the South Wales trail centres all within 50 miles.

    mustard
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    from Larne, NI.
    Have now been in Edinburgh for 13ish years (came for Uni and never left)

    trailofdestruction
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    Lake District born and bred. Now live just down the road from bjj.andy.w

    Lived all over the place inbetween.

    MrSparkle
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    Born: Bury
    Dragged up: Bolton
    Live: The Lost Kingdom of Darwen.

    cheshirecat
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    Born in Wallasey, Merseyside (when it was Cheshire). After living in North Wales, Africa, London, Buckinghamshire, Sheffield, Leicester (I think that’s it), I’m now back in Cheshire (South Wirral). Less than 10 miles from where I was born.

    DezB
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    Another forum I was on had a google maps setting showing the locations of all members…

    Nah, that was this one.

    dirtygirlonabike
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    I’m from Helensburgh. Now in Edinburgh having been here 13/14ish years. Like mustard, i came here for uni and never left as i love edinburgh, except for the cold wind. 🙂

    andytherocketeer
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    Born in Kent (Kentish Man)
    then Southampton (uni), Guildford (more uni), Putney, Bristol (well Filton), and the top MTB/skiing destination that is the Netherlands 😉 , before ending up in Germany.

    ThurmanMerman
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    Frome, Somerset.

    Not a natural Froman, though: Baaf* born an’ bred.

    (*Bath).

    woody2000
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    Born: Bradford
    Lived: Bradford, Leeds, Halifax
    Live: Briggarse

    Another well travelled Yorkshireman. 😀

    cheers_drive
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    Born: North Norfolk
    Have lived:
    Coventry
    Milton Keynes
    Nottingham
    Live now: Bristol

    mboy
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    emsz – Member

    Born in Banbury, brought up in Gloucester

    Nobody is “brought” up in Gloucester emsz… “Dragged” is the word you were looking for… 😉

    Me, born in Worcester, now live in… Worcester! Travelled far then… Well actually, have lived in a number of different places over the years, just moved back to the area 2 years ago after getting a bit homesick I think…

    surfer
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    I’m now back in Cheshire (South Wirral). Less than 10 miles from where I was born.

    Me too, Heswall (playground of the rich and famous)

    Drac
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    Morpeth but I now live in Alnwick, I didn’t move far.

    ourmaninthenorth
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    From: The South

    Live: The North

    CharlieMungus
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    andytherocketeer, when were you at Surrey Uni?

    monsteryeti
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    Born and raised in Nam….. Cheltenham!

    Back here now!

    King-ocelot
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    Surfer my girlfriends from Heswall, Its a nice part of the world, hoping to move back there.

    I’m from Stafford now living in Chester, lived in London too.

    andytherocketeer
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    CharlieMungus, 1992-93

    CharlieMungus
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    hmmmm, postgraduate? What dept?

    LoCo
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    Wiltshire, Nr Erlestoke

    Now the Valleys 😀

    andytherocketeer
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    just a 1yr Masters – EE dept. (well the SatComms part of EE)

    CharlieMungus
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    Keats???

    actually, no Keats was not andy

    rob-jackson
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    Born – Sheffield
    Lived – Derbyshire/Cambridgeshire/Peak District/Manchester/Sheffield
    Live – Peak District

    billysugger
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    Halifax.

    GHill
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    Originally from Workington on the Cumbrian coast.

    Currently living in Glasgow.

    All kinds of places during the time in-between.

    CharlieMungus
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    andytherocketeer a contemporary of Sammut?

    schnullelieber
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    Democratic People’s Republic of Croydon.

    andytherocketeer
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    ?
    I assume you are/were there as student or prof?
    Don’t recognise the name.

    konaboy2275
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    Born in Lancaster, lived in Morecambe until I was 20 so nearly a Sandgrownun, now live in Prestwich but that will hopefully change if we can sell our house…

    CharlieMungus
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    I assume you were there as student?

    how about Donnchadh? (pronounced Doniker?)
    Ken Cullen?

    andytherocketeer
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    Ah yeah remember Donnchadh (is that really how you spell it?). Thinking about it was Tony Sammut the French (or French Canadian) guy? Others in the same year: Marcus Robinson, Michael Scharfe, Kumar (no way can I spell or pronounce a SriLankan name),…

    CharlieMungus
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    Sammut was Maltese but from Pompey really.

    crispo
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    Was born in North Lincolnshire (the Humberside) then moved:

    Texas,
    Oklahoma,
    North lincs,
    Prague,
    North lincs,
    Hamburg,
    Newcastle (for uni),
    Now settled inbetween Preston and Chorley!

    drain
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    Born in Khartoum, Sudan, Welsh by nationality (Sudo-Welsh, as some would have it 🙂 )

    Brought up in various parts of Africa. Been trending in a south-westerly direction since uni at St Andrews, via Manchester (blech), West Yorkshire (ace), Worcestershire (superb), Wiltshire (fun), have now been in Zummerzet for a couple of years and ab-so-lutely loving it here.

    intode_void
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    Born in Durham, lived in;
    Exmouth,
    Arbroath(ish),
    Yeovil,
    Poole,
    Lincoln(ish),
    Bury St Edmunds,
    Vrysoulles (Cyprus),
    Kambia (Sierra Leone),
    Stafford,
    Wolverhampton
    and am now in Chester (but trying to convince my SO that it’s time to move on)

    Spud
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    Nottingham
    Perth (Aus)
    Nottingham
    Manchester
    Nottingham

    Can you see a pattern here…

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