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Granieee Sat 14-May-11 18:01:18

Hello everyone
Come on you lot where are you?
Please just your area or town
I am in Marske By the Seas on the North East coast.
Love and hugs

em Sun 26-Jun-11 19:15:15

Hi Lynne - good to hear from you. Sorry to say I've never visited Derby!
Don't know when you last visited but there's lots happening here right now!!

lynne Sun 26-Jun-11 20:41:36

Em..back up regularly our brothers, parents etc are there in the Ferry...only one's who haved moved away.

Annobel Sun 26-Jun-11 20:43:14

I had a spell living in the Ferry and a year in Barnhill, at the beginning of my teaching career. Small world.

baggythecrust! Sun 26-Jun-11 21:01:35

Is this Broughty Ferry you guys are talking about? I lived in Barnhill for a year when I was a student. Used to cycle into Dundee.

Annobel Sun 26-Jun-11 23:05:55

Yes. The Ferry is Broughty, though there is also West Ferry where I lived for a few months until I got fed up with my landlady,,, or was it the other way round...
That was quite a cycle ride, Baggy.

baggythecrust! Mon 27-Jun-11 06:44:01

Yes, it was quite a cycle ride, Annobel, but I was young and fit. What always baffled me was that whether I was cycling down the Tay estuary to the Ferry or up it to Dundee, I always seemed to cycling against the wind!

Oxon70 Mon 27-Jun-11 10:47:35

I lived in Dundee for years, had my first child there in the DRI. I took my driving test in Broughty Ferry ...no traffic lights and no Zebras then!
Been looking lately at Dundee online....changed a bit....and I am collecting old pictures, first saw the town in 1958...

lynne Mon 27-Jun-11 12:11:01

Annobel...did you teach at Barnhill Primary or Monifieth high perhaps??

Baggy you must have been fit to cycle that distance ! Uphill on the way there

harrigran Mon 27-Jun-11 12:19:21

When I hear Broughty Ferry it brings back memories. In 1956 my father had to go and work in a shipyard and he lived in digs in Broughty Ferry. Why so memorable ? well he left home in January and my sister was born in October. Nothing unusual in having a baby except my mother was 47 and she thought her family was complete grin

baggythecrust! Mon 27-Jun-11 12:34:31

Oxon70, I took my driving test in Broughty Ferry too!!!! Small world, indeed.

Annobel Mon 27-Jun-11 13:43:45

Lynne - No it was Dundee High School, just for two years until I escaped to Africa.

em Mon 27-Jun-11 17:28:41

Well thank you ladies!
I sometimes think Dundee is seen as a bit of a backwater and you have reassured me. Hopefully you all plan to visit when the new V&A opens in a couple of years time. Plans look spectacular, jutting out onto the river.
I'll organise a party!!
Those of you who were students- Dundee Uni or College of Education?

lynne Mon 27-Jun-11 18:03:54

College of Education, Park Place

em Mon 27-Jun-11 18:16:07

lynne - same here! And my mother before me. College of Ed moved out of the city centre for a long time but is now back in the middle of the University campus in a fine new building.

lynne Mon 27-Jun-11 20:18:33

Always thought Gardyne Road was a bit away from the heart of student life!

vanessalottie Mon 27-Jun-11 20:51:59

Hi all, I am from Northampton.

janreb Wed 29-Jun-11 17:31:53

I am in Cornwall. Was born in Birmingham but love Cornwall.

annemac101 Wed 29-Jun-11 17:46:20

Hi, I'm from Glasgow. Anyone else from here?

supermum48 Wed 29-Jun-11 21:40:24

I am in Appleton Thorn, Cheshire, but possibly moving to Hartley Wintney in Hampshire next year. Does anybody live near either of those places?

nannym Thu 30-Jun-11 06:52:49

Hi Supermum48. I live in Ellesmere Port, which isn't all that far from you. Do you ever visit the Outlet Village?

supernana Thu 30-Jun-11 12:48:22

vanesslottie I was born in Northampton in 1941. My late parents and grandparents all proud Northamptonians. I now live beside the sea in Kintyre, Scotland. smile

biggran Fri 01-Jul-11 12:04:05

Hi,

I'm new here. I have fetched up in Worcester (England) but like some others my father was in the forces so I happened to be born in Germany - on British territory tho'. I spent my secondary education years in Carshalton Surrey. moved to Leeds for Uni and stayed a few years, then to Cheltenham and I've been here 20 years but I feel I have no roots and don't belong anywhere. Reading where everyone else is has left me feeling dislocated and unsatisfied again. I'd move, but I can't decide where to go!! Does anyone share a sense of rootlessness?

baggythecrust! Fri 01-Jul-11 12:17:13

Yes, I do, biggran. Home has to be where I am!

supermum48 Fri 01-Jul-11 12:48:46

Yes nannym I do go to the designer outlet sometimes. Quite like Roman Originals, Marks and Spencer's outlet and Famous Footwear.

Bunch Sun 03-Jul-11 13:44:48

I have lived in Bedfordshire for the last 35 years, but grew up in Surrey. We have a small second home in the South of France where we spend several weeks during the summer (there as I write this!). One day, when France is no longer practical, I hope we will settle for a small place in either Devon or Cornwall as I love them both.