[HLUG] hi

[j michaelson]

hi andrew,

i'm glad to hear that birmingham's got a lot of public transport,
because the bus service in hereford is bloody awful.

i agree with you on the australia, nice place to visit, but i wouldn't
want to live there.

john.


On 5/30/06, Andrew Hodgson <andrew.hodgson at allpay.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Birmingham is a good place to get work, there is a lot of public transport
> etc.  if I was offered a job there I would grab it :).
>
> Glad to hear you had a good time in Australia, I think a lot of people go to
> Australia/Nz with emigration plans, but often the reality is a lot different
> and it wouldn't work out - I know several people who have gone over there
> for a few months, did work, but ended up back here.  I wouldn't want to go
> there for anything other than a holiday.
>
> Andrew.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
> [mailto:herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of j michaelson
> Sent: 29 May 2006 23:57
> To: linux users group - hereford
> Subject: [HLUG] hi
>
> hello everyone,
>
> sorry i haven't posted for a while. been kind of busy.
>
> i had a good time in australia. i did the inkscape talk at south
> australia linux group and it went pretty well. i'd only got there the
> day before and i was heavily jetlagged and fairly disorganized, but i
> seemed to do ok. there was quite a bit of interest in graphics based
> on xml, because a lot of the coders there could see interesting things
> that they could do with it. i gather that their talks are normally
> highly technical so my talk was a bit of a change. after the meeting a
> load of us went off to a restaurant for pizza and beer. there are some
> cool people there.
>
> with the talk out of the way i could relax and get on with my holiday.
> the kids were on holiday for the first two weeks so the first half of
> my holiday was based around them. after they went back to school i
> moved into the youth hostel association in the city centre. highly
> reccomended. i spent a lot of the third and fourth weeks exploring
> adelaide city. i also met up with some of the people from the lug and
> stayed with them for a few days and gained the nickname "english".
>
> i managed to fulfill some of the australian stereotypes. i went to a
> friend's place for a barbie and threw some prawns on whilst getting
> people to tell me to "throw another shrimp on the barbie". i eat some
> kangaroo, had a meat pie floater (meat pie, floating in pea soup with
> a splash of ketchup) and i drank a lot of cooper's pale ale, which is
> the drink of choice for south australians. i also bought myself a
> traditional leather hat (no corks) which did a great job of keeping
> the sun out of my eyes, it also works very well at protecting me from
> english rain. more people should wear hats in this country.
>
> i enjoyed myself out there, but it didn't work out like i'd planned.
> i'd gone out there with emigration in mind, but my daughter's mother
> is already thinking about moving on, so that doesn't seem like it's
> going to happen. not sure what i'm going to do now. i'm doing a bit of
> temporary work to restock the coffers and then i want to move on, i'm
> thinking about birmingham initially, but maybe ireland later.
>
> should still be in hereford for a while, so i'll be able to catch a
> few more meetings.
>
> john.
>
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