British DUers. Where are y'all from?

I'm from Edinburgh,



but now live in Durham.

Now I live in South London, wishing to be back up North. What are you doing in Durham? My cousin is at Uni there.

as an electronic engineer. Right now I'm playing on DU, but I should be jetting off round the world to set up seismometers, however, I've not done any of that yet - only been here 3 months.

How about you?

I'm working in IT support for an Environmental Trust, which after years of prostituting myself to the City is what my conscience has been craving. I just spend too much time here at DU. Setting up seismometers around the world sounds cool. I spent a couple of years seeing the world and it was excellent (mind you I would say that I met my wife in Tanzania). If you meet my Cousin, Alex, say hi, he's a Physics undergraduate ( I think, I get left out of the family loop sometimes, so it may be maths or engineering! ) but he plays for the Uni Rugby team.

From a Louisiana native now living in the City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia, PA.

I last spent a few days in London last November. Lovely time, but I got proof that November is the wettest month in London's wet climate. The most vivd memory is the feeling of rainwater running into my shoes as I changed money at a street-window exchange office.

:shrug:

....I did live in Britain for four years.
Lived in London. Northfields, Ealing, Hammersmith and North Finchley.

And I absolutely love Edinburgh!
One of the most beautiful cities in the world and the Firth of Forth railway bridge is amazing.

I was in Durham last September. It was my first visit there, my Grandad came from there before he moved to Australia back in the 1920's.

I was awestruck by Durham Cathedral. What an amazing place!
I remember seeing the interior of it on movies, not knowing which cathedral it was and as soon as I went inside and saw those amazing columns I recognised them immediately.

You said you are at the uni there. Do you live in Durham Castle?
I had a tour through there and loved that place.
What a great place to live.

Cheers! :toast:

You can live in Durham Castle?

:hi: from Durham, North Carolina to all our Brit and Aussie friends. :pals:

The students actually live in the castle.
And during the summer holidays, it turns into a Bed and Breakfast and anyone can stay there.

An amazing place and situated right next to the incredibly amazing Durham Cathedral.

I would have loved that in my university daze.

My Durham is very small only 20,000 people 1 uni & a couple of prisons which must make up most of the population.

is a mid-sized city here. Population around 200,000. We've been on a boom run since about the mid 70s. My sleepy little mill town is becoming one of those places where the city proper takes up most of the county.

Durham's claim to fame for a long time was the Bull Durham Tobacco Company. Now it's known as the home of Duke University, a love letter to neo-gothic architecture. :D And I'm quite sure in no way Duke competes with Durham Cathedral. ;-)

We also have North Carolina Central Unverity, part of the UNC campus system.

I actually live in neighboring Orange County, but all the towns are so close here it's just easier to say "I'm from Durham." :D

It's been sunny and 85 here for about the past week and a half. Yay! I love early summer!

God I miss it and want to go back!!!

Let me in, you buggers!

P.

but now I'm in MA

I've been to Ferriby lots of times because I have family there. You gotta love that huge bridge

Yep, I remember seeing the enormous freighters towering over the houses down the road, it was disorienting to be riding your bike and watching a wall between houses moving by slowly :)

In particular with a lovely Pagercub who lives in Southampton. But it's just a dream.

Now just North of London.

P.

Home of that whole Wonder Stuff/Neds/PWEI scene, wasn't it?

Burn them, burn them.

But anyway, what was it all about? Have you made other docs?

about gambling, politics and music, but it's not my job. That doc was about a guy who worshipped Welsh/Celtic deities and had has own coven. My major memory of the whole thing is that his dog shat on my foot.

I shouldn't laugh, but I can't help it.

Dog seemed to think so, anyhow. Damn those hand-held cameras!

Dive (my old band) and Fretblanket.

I used to go to see those bands all the time, and once or twice some of them came to see mine! Hoorah!

When you were doing your witchcraft thing, did you hear about the skeleton they found in a witchelm tree (spelling?)? I believe that nobody ever found out who it was, but graffiti started appearing saying, "Who put Bella in the witch elm?".

Spooky.

And yes, the whole town is indeed full of poo.

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Don't remember too much, to be honest. Nice town, though.

Down to Hertfordshire for a while then down further to Hampshire.

(Went to Durham a couple of times for OU Summer Schools - lovely place!)