British adventures

[livredor]

I've been wandering round the UK since Sunday evening, including two interviews, and I'm now chez parents.

Comments

[simont]

Sorry to hear you won't be in the Carlton after all. Ah well, next time perhaps.

I'm entertained to hear that you found geek pizza "welcoming". It's been about four years since I went to it (coeliac diagnosis rather put a crimp in the idea), but my general memory is that that wasn't a word a typical newcomer to the group would use, due to the generally ... robust ... tone of the usual sorts of discussion and debate. Though, of course, they took exactly the same tone with each other as they did with newcomers, so yes, they were in fact welcoming in the sense of rapidly coming to treat you just like one of them. It's just that not everybody realised it :-)

[cartesiandaemon]

I'm entertained to hear that you found geek pizza "welcoming".

I think we were slightly lucky. We never overlapped at pizza, but I expect the character is still similar. Pizza is always interesting, but only sometimes sociable, as it were, but several of the most technical people weren't there, and dropping one sociable person into the mix often turns the whole party sociable.

[syllopsium]

There's nothing wrong with lots of lovely Indian food - I have plenty, and lots of it isn't 'curry' (although, granted, restaurant food tends to be less healthy than home cooked some of the time).

Feh at the clinic. You're not fat!

Here's hoping on the jobs :)

[feanelwa]

Yes, I was thinking that - I've only met you a couple of times but I recall you as being not especially fat or thin.