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Main Forums => Living With HIV => Topic started by: Archimandrite6PF on November 26, 2012, 05:17:55 pm
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Hi,
I'm new to this. Been HIV+ since 2003. On meds since 2008 and doing ok, sometimes! Anyone in the UK? Or better still, anyone in Scotland?
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Welcome Archie,
You and I share the same year of discovery. Yes, there are folks from the UK on this site.
Em
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Not from the UK, but I'd be happy to respond to an invitation to visit! lol! Last time I visited I was in Fife and on the Isle of Mull...and then up to family lands in Glenn Shee up the A93.....would be happy to return :-)
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Hi Archie!
Yep...im in Scotland!You can PM me any time.I was only diagnosed this year...so its been a bit of a rollercoaster!
Britchickx
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I'm in UK - England tho xx
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Isle of Man here (aka "The Rock").
I used to be a commercial fisherbitchman (queenies and scallops) back in the 90s, and one summer instead of putting the queenie net on, we left the scallop dredges on and headed north to Scotland where the scallop season lasts all year. It's seasonal here, from November 1st to May 30th. We left home before the season here ended and stayed nearly six months in Scotland.
I've been in most fishing ports on the west coast as far north as the Caledonia Canal, through the canal (kept watch on the sonar for Nessie - no luck) and down the west coast as far as Arbroath.
We were based out of Stonehaven most of the summer. One of my most favourite summers ever. Stonehaven is a lovely town - reminded me a lot of the town where I live on The Rock.
My skipper was originally from Campbeltown so we stayed there a few weeks as well. We didn't go out for long trips - our longest were usually only 36, occasionally 48 hours so having a base and place to land (and get a pint!) was always important.
Where in Scotland are you? If you live in one of the coastal towns in the areas I described, I may have been there for a few pints. :) I really miss 80 shilling! Can't get anything like it here - some say our local bitter is close, but I vehemently disagree.
Welcome to the forums, by the way! I'm curious about your name choice - it's unusual and yes, I know what it means. Google is my friend. ;D
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Hi there
Welcome to the forums.
I was born and breed in Perthshire, spend my youth between Glasgow and Edinburgh, but I now reside in New Zealand after spending 20 years in Australia.
Hope you keep in touch with the guys here, they are a pretty good bunch.
Aroha
Jan
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Eng-er-land me
I was born and breed in Perthshire
@Annie - breeding sheep for the market I am sure
- matt
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Eng-er-land me
@Annie - breeding sheep for the market I am sure
- matt
Would you believe the first time I ever ventured near a sheep was when I arrived in NZ... :D
True story.
Aroha
Jan :-*
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Scottish here, but living down in England now!
Ann, whenever I take friends home to Scotland, I take them to visit Dunottar Castle outside Stonehaven ;) then we go into the town for fish and chips! Haha, love Stonie :)
Archie, glad to hear you are doing well. I miss Scotland loads...!
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Ann, whenever I take friends home to Scotland, I take them to visit Dunottar Castle outside Stonehaven ;) then we go into the town for fish and chips! Haha, love Stonie :)
I used to hike up to the castle when I needed some quiet "me time". Living on a 50ft fishing boat with two old cantankerous gits (both well over 50 - I was in my early 30s) could be rather trying at times.
The butcher's shop (on the square) made the best homemade steak pies I've ever had (not "single" pies, they were made in big trays - no kidney!). It would be well worth a trip back to Stonie just for one of those pies. They were melt-in-your mouth goodness.