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Cameron
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Registered: January 2008
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I tried to see when the last time NW posted and his id has been removed. Is he OK? Any one heard from him lately? How about cossie? Or JimB? Or grasshopper? I sure do miss the guys.
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Thanks for asking.
I'm OK, but going through a lot of changes in my life at the moment. I haven't been here much for some months (no broadband at home at present, due to financial pressures), but drop in from time to time. My ID here changed a little time ago from NW to saxifraga_umbros, so there are some posts under that name.
Some here will remember that I lost my job, unexpectedly, at the start of March. The past three months have been devoted to getting my flat ready to sell, and putting it on the market. It was advertised for sale a month ago, and sold, at full asking priice, within a week.
I've put an offer in on a semi-detached house in Worcester, and am waiting to hear back from them (probably next week). The house is a definite "fixer-upper", and hasn't had anything done to it for around 45 years, so it needs new kitchen, heating, wiring ... most of which I can do myself if I take it very slowly because of my dodgy back, so I should be kept occupied for a couple of years. I really hope that I get it: if not, there are other places in Worcester, not in need of quite so much work on them.
Worcester was chosen 'cos it's a reasonably small market town, easy access to my elderly Mum (an hour by train on a direct line). Property is enough cheaper than London that I can buy outright, hopefully with a bit left over, and no longer having to pay a mortgage will let me live OK on my pension.
I'm still with the lad: he is making good progress in learning to control his impulsive behaviour and overcome his ADHD and OCD, His handwriting is also now also occasionally legible: with the very severe dyslexia he has, that's a significant achievement. I'm not sure if he's really ready for the move - I'd originally thought of moving out of London (which I've been wanting to do for a couple of years now) at a time that suited his progress, but loss of job has brought things forward. I'm not sure how he'll adjust to a life of DIY house repairs and growing our own vegetables, but fingers crossed.
I hope that I'll be back to being a more regular presence here after we move ... currently hoping for middle of August (the lad's TB teatment finishes then, so that's when we're aiming for). I do miss a lot of the people here!
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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Cossie betook himself away. Grasshopper has a real life now, a great thing to have. His online life has waned. That is a good thing, except for us, of course. Jim B I have sen recently, I am sure.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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JimB
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Registered: December 2006
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Hi Cameron,
Thank you for thinking of me. I am doing well in these troubled economic times and have no complaints worth voicing. I seldom post here any more because I was made to feel unwelcome here. Also, I find the content of the forum has changed over the last year or so and topics of interest to me are a rarity.
I hope all is well with you. If you would like to communicate more my email addy is the same.
JimB
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Cameron
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Toe is in the water |
Registered: January 2008
Messages: 70
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Good to hear from you. Sorry you lost your job. I'm glad you were able to sell your home, though. I am sure that will make things easier.
Hopefully, the boy will adjust fine and probably find he loves growing vegetables.
Thanks for writing back.
Cameron
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Cameron
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Toe is in the water |
Registered: January 2008
Messages: 70
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Thanks, timmy. I am happy for grasshopper. I see that NW and JimB have posted. I'm sorry I didn't get an email add. for cossie before he left. I need to lurk less and post more... 
Cameron
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Cameron
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Toe is in the water |
Registered: January 2008
Messages: 70
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I posted recently about how the forum seems so different to me, too. It makes me feel a little sad in a way. It used to have that "Fraternity/Alumni" sort of camaraderie feel. Now it's more activist, which is not bad, just different. I suppose things always evolve and change and I want it to be like I remember it.
It was good of you to say hello, especially since you don't post here much.
Cameron
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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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The forum's tone is set by the posts. That is a truism. There are activist posts because activism is needed. There used to be other posts, too, and those were needed, but they went.
The rather silly thing is that the posters who didn't like the activist posts stopped posting the other posts. Then they (some of them) complained that the activist posts had taken over. Well, that is one of the reasons why the activist posts took over - the others had stopped.
I accept that people can be weird, but that one beats all logic. It seems to have gone like this:
"The forum is what I make it, but I don't like the fact that a lot of the current posts are activist. What I'm gong to do, now, is to stop posting other posts and moan about the quantity of activist ones. That will make the forum like it was when I liked it."
Fail.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Cameron
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Toe is in the water |
Registered: January 2008
Messages: 70
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That is truly not what I meant to say. If it was received that way, I apologize. I don't like whining, either and I didn't intend to do that.
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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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I fear I was tired. I did not, I hope, accuse you of whining. It was a general comment, not a specific one
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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