When Everything Changes...

[fossyant]

Congrats from me - sounds fantastic.... get the web hooked up, and let us know how it all goes.........

 

[ComedyPilot]

Congrats from me - sounds fantastic.... get the web hooked up, and let us know how it all goes.........

.....they do have the interweb in Canada, don't they?

 

[fossyant]

Probably..possibly carrier pigeon..........

 

[Flying_Monkey]

I think they have huskies drag the messages over the ice...

 

[User482]

FM - sorry for not replying to this earlier. Congratulations! You both must be thrilled.

My own plans are a little less exciting, but my wife and I will both be taking 6 months off work from this December. We plan to do some conservation work in SE Asia, and then go travelling in South America.

 

[snapper_37]

Can you tell I'm happy?

Ooooh, just a bit.

Congrats and good luck.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

My own plans are a little less exciting, but my wife and I will both be taking 6 months off work from this December. We plan to do some conservation work in SE Asia, and then go travelling in South America.

That's pretty damn exciting! Whereabouts in SE Asia?

 

[theclaud]

We will have neighbours to talk to and help out (and vice-versa). There's no police and no CCTV cameras and yet no crime and people leave their doors open. There's an organic buffalo (bison) farm, lots of self-builders and back-to-the-landers and young families and diversity too. It felt 'right' as soon as we got there and the house was just made for us. I've been looking for home all my life, and I think I might have finally found it.

Can you tell I'm happy?

Sounds absof*ckinglutely marvellous, my winged primate friend. Good to hear it's all working out. I think you should do a cycle tour of Britain to visit us all before you go...

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Sounds absof*ckinglutely marvellous, my winged primate friend. Good to hear it's all working out. I think you should do a cycle tour of Britain to visit us all before you go...

If only I had the time... I am planning on doing a trans-Canada in a few years though.

 

[User169]

Good luck Monkey. Just don't put your goats too near the turbines - it knackers them out apparently.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Good luck Monkey. Just don't put your goats too near the turbines - it knackers them out apparently.

Heh heh... I sense an experiment coming on.

The organic buffalo farm is actually right in amongst the already working turbines... there didn't seem to be a problem with the animals dying when I was there. And the swallows were also diving in and around the blades as they disturbed the air in ways that clearly made the insects easier to catch. Linford will be disappointed. Or maybe it only works on imaginary Taiwanese goats!

 

[Fnaar]

If only I had the time... I am planning on doing a trans-Canada in a few years though.

on a tandem with kiddy-trailer in tow?

 

[User482]

That's pretty damn exciting! Whereabouts in SE Asia?

Borneo (I've been talking to a UK charity that does conservation work with orang-utans), but we haven't decided where else yet. I'd like to see some other countries when I'm out there. I know I'll end up turning into a gap-year cliché, but I don't really care!

We'll gloss over the amount of flying I'll be doing, if you don't mind.

Canada sounds fantastic...

 

[jonesy]

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We'll gloss over the amount of flying I'll be doing, if you don't mind.

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I'm sure LLB will have taken note.

 

[Night Train]

Great move, FM, and congratulations.

I have thought of moving to Vancouver, Canada, mainly when a rather attractive woman I was chatting to online suggested we should get married and make babies and she, being of independent means, would provide me with a studio where I could make furniture to my heart's content.

I didn't go to see if she was for real (I belive she was a genuine person though the proposal may have just been a very direct icebreaker) and I will probably be forever thinking 'What if...?'. I should have gone anyway and looked to set myself up over there regardless.


My life change began when my brother died in 1991. It made me, through the grieving process, reassess my life over the next 4 years. I changed almost beyond recognition from what I was and what I would otherwise have become. The changes continued for the next 10 years after that and now I am finally truely 'me' and not what someone else or family would want me to be. I am able to proudly stand up for my values and desires in life without feeling that I need to be what my parents hoped I would be or what my friendships and relationships tried to mould me into.