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honoury, even.

I've added you both - I've got Sussex down as part of Wessex, so I guess Brighton's in.

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I live in Bristol and pay Wessex Water for my bill.
So let me in.

I live (out of termtime) in Somerset, and my parents occasionally get bills from Wessex Water. Is that close enough?

I think if you *feel* like you're in Wessex, that'll do.

Oh, by the way, does eeryine here know about the Oxford meetup on the 2nd Nov?

I know of it, don't think I'll be able to go, though..

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Hello BlueBottle,

Turvy suggested I come to you with my request for a SPY smiley - I love the other ones you've done...

A Spy smiley might incorporate a large eye and a Walter K Peanut ( hope I've got the brand of hardware right! Perhaps a bottle of Bollinger tucked in there somewhere? At the moment I am having to use the - as a player of 'The Great Game' - but I think it lacks something ....

Oh also, I qualify for Wessex-ness. I live somewhere between Poole and Portland - is there a Wessex smiley?

Hope you can come up with something

The Scarlet One!

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Wow, sparkly!

Go Berkshire!!!
Go Berkshire!!!

sign me up please

Im from Wokingham, Berkshire

Tubaman

Hi, live in Swindon centre - ready for the inevitable attacks and unfavourable remarks and prepared to put up a defence!

The list will soon be updated - honest!

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Sign me up please.

I grew up in Liverpool but I think I'm well and truley settled down here now. Went to Uni in Egham, Surrey for a year before running screaming down to Southampton Uni. Somehow managed to get a degree( how did that happen) while commuting in from Poole for my last 2 yrs (lived in St Marys/next door to debenhams for 1yr and in Glen Eyre for another). I know own an ickle bungalow in Bournemouth (near the new B&Q). Temped for Liverpool Victoria in Bournemouth for a year and then somehow landed a job working at Soton Uni...so I'm back to driving 70 miles a day through the new forest.

Was thinking the other day about what I would do and where I would go if hubby threw me out on the street and I have to say Southampton feels like home to me now, I don't like Bournemouth, its far too up itself for me, too serious.

It's nice to go home again and see ScouseLand but Southampton has a similar feel to Lpool...apart from a serious lack of confidence, and the parks/trees are wonderful.

Not another person who attended Southampton Uni? I was in Connaught Hall myself - but it was a great time there. Didn't get the degree, though...

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The scarey thing is that I didn't just go there I *work* there. It's very odd to be allowed in the staff club. And meetings with my old tutor (not to mention the fact that I wear a suit instead of jeans and a t shirt)

So what's your job at Southampton Uni now? Don't worry - I promise I won't let any Southampton Drop-Out's beat you up at all

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Wow! Another researcher in Bournemouth!

What makes you say Bournemouth is serious and "up itself"?

Job at the uni, I do stats for the admissions department and they give me money for playing about with excel...but don't tell my boss, I'm trying to cut down on h2g2 at work

Bournemouth is only serious in comparison to Soton

So you feel that Southampton doesn't take itself seriously?
And have you visited Bournemouth's IMAX much?
Please let me know all what you think about Southampton in the conversation "Talking About Hampshire" and Bournemouth in the "Talking About Dorset" conversations on your left.
<-- as sadly they're neglected, and I do enjoy talking about Southampton to other people who've lived there.

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Sorry got interrupted by hubby and didn't want him to see me slagging off his hometown to all and sundry.

Bournemouth as a town cetre irritates me, the pubs *are* too posh and too concerned with appearences, it is hard to relax in bournemouth, there is a very judgmental feel to a lot of it (or rather my experience of it). I also *hate* shopping in Bournemouth and if you'd ever tried to push a wheelchair up a couple of those bloody hills you would know why. Poole is quite nice, a bit more relaxed and easygoing but it is a bit dull. In comparison to the two soton in a lot more fun, the uni attracts all sorts of nutters (raises hand) and I think the size of the uni and the number of students makes it a much more relaxed fun town to spend town in (I say this having lived in St Marys for a yr). It also has one of the highest concentrations of porn shops I've ever seen.

I think that too be honest Soton reminds me more of Liverpool while bounremouth feels a bit like southport (minus the nutty old men who want hitlers daughter to rule the world). There are parts and people in soton I can't stand (subltey pointing at the oceanography centre and the label fiends in west quay) but there are other bits that I can't get enough of (the uni buildings...even the ship ones, the older buildings around dock gate 4, the wannabe goths hanging around the bargate). I even like the way that the town centre is obsessed with building more and more shopping malls. And compared to bournemouth sotons parks are amazing...none of this poncy bedding plant shaped like a clock thing just hundreds and hundreds of beautiful trees and landscaping.

Oh and I think the Imax is gorgeous, if slightly badly designed, I bet it doesn't have combined heat & power to take advantage of all the heat through the glass. Shame about jumping jacks being in the building though (awful place).

Oh dear...I keep doing this, it starts as a small comment and just keeps on growing.

PQ (avoiding working)