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Haha, I have a funny “running away” story that took me from Oxford to the Isle of Wight.. hitched down there with a friend (this is maybe 42 years ago)… got over to the isle and it was dark. Had no idea where we were, so pitched the tent. In the morning, stuck our heads out of the tent to find ourselves in the middle of a roundabout outside sainsburys or similar. Packed up, got over the water somehow and jumped on a train back to Oxford.

Don’t suppose you were anywhere near the MG factory when you were younger?

mike 5mo ago

Funny 😂

No, I grew ip in London

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TallNupinks 5mo ago

Nice. I grew up close to Oxford. We were in the country recently so took my wife there to show her. Such a beautiful city and area.

mike 5mo ago

Yes, my wife works in the centre of Oxford, we have free parking in Jericho because of it 😄

TallNupinks 5mo ago

Ha, that’s worth a small fortune!

Did you go to uni at Oxford?

mike 5mo ago

No, I'm thick, I didn't go to University, I just built the Internet instead 😂

TallNupinks 5mo ago

We must be the proverbial two short planks then. Sounds impressive to say “I was at Oxford” though. In reality I ice skated my way through college at CFE, and then fell into my IT job… that was in the days of the employment agency with job ad cards in the window.

mike 5mo ago

There's still an ice rink in Oxford.

This was me:

https://web.archive.org/web/20011202034512/http://www.densitron.net/corp/

TallNupinks 5mo ago

Did you happen to be in Oxford in the mid-eighties? Or still in London then?

mike 5mo ago

I moved to Oxford in 2003.

TallNupinks 5mo ago

Had to revisit the scene of many a mad weekend! Miss this so much

mike 5mo ago

Is that Cherwell boathouse?

TallNupinks 5mo ago

That’s the one 👍

mike 5mo ago

It's nice there.