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# it is a nice house
And it does actually have stairs leading to Bedfordshire too!
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Sun 30 Mar 2003, 5:26, archived)
# funnily enough, i went to bedfordshire today.
dunstable, to be precise. it was bigger than i thought it would be. lots of charity shops, though. still, that's the north for you...

/ducks
(I helped save b3ta! 100% of Gibbon, Sun 30 Mar 2003, 5:27, archived)
# heehee
i went to doncaster the other day, and the lights were low, and i enquired a little too loudly if they have electricity this far north.. i think they hate me now...
(I helped save b3ta! rosey, Sun 30 Mar 2003, 5:31, archived)
# when we went to leeds on new years eve
a certain un-named kitten descirbed sheffield as "the giant orange squid of the north", because of the shape of it's street lights. when we went to newcastle the week before last, there were many anguished cries when we got to leeds and i told them that we weren't much more than half the way there. i think they thought that all of the northern cities are within about 10 miles of each other.
(I helped save b3ta! 100% of Gibbon, Sun 30 Mar 2003, 5:40, archived)
# Furthest north i've been is Sunderland I think
went to a University Open day in a car that the speedometer was stuck on 0 the whole time.
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Sun 30 Mar 2003, 5:44, archived)
# My speedo...
...used to go rapidly from zero to a hunderd and back again. All the time. It was fun when I was going past speed cameras.

You should venture up to Edinburgh sometime... we would take care of you and have a night out in your honour.

End of May is good... pub scheduler...
(I helped save b3ta! Mystery_Bob, Sun 30 Mar 2003, 5:47, archived)
# I would very much like to see Bonny Scotland one day
I think the middle of the year is good because of the extra daylight hours i'll have to see it.
(6 year old style logic)
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Sun 30 Mar 2003, 5:53, archived)
# He he he...
...late June it is then. I can always take you on one of Mystery Bob's Mystery Tours.

(I helped save b3ta! Mystery_Bob, Sun 30 Mar 2003, 6:02, archived)
# Why...
...you bloody Southerners and your parochial points of view.

grrrr

Fact - everyone South of Dumfries counts as a Southerner to me. In fact, folk from Dumfries as well.
(I helped save b3ta! Mystery_Bob, Sun 30 Mar 2003, 5:41, archived)
# i think i may have had a cream tea in dumfries once
is it near pitlochrie at all?
(I helped save b3ta! 100% of Gibbon, Sun 30 Mar 2003, 5:43, archived)
# ha ha ha...
...ha ha ha.

*hopes it was a joke*
(I helped save b3ta! Mystery_Bob, Sun 30 Mar 2003, 5:45, archived)
# we went to somewher like that
(this was about 22 years ago - stop laughing at me... you wouldn't know the difference between hemel hempstead and welwyn garden city... - we live in the worst county in england to live in, you know. we're mighty proud of that here at kibbon towers you know).

BTW if my mum had been very modern and not taken my dad's name when they got married, my name would be ian towers, which i'd be more tha happy with (names-wise)
(I helped save b3ta! 100% of Gibbon, Sun 30 Mar 2003, 5:53, archived)
# but instead, your name is
richard towers....

i'm sorry. that really wasn't as funny as i thought it would be
(I helped save b3ta! Or is it?, Sun 30 Mar 2003, 6:02, archived)
# In a country...
...where you are never more than 50 miles away from the sea, you could be fogiven for thinking it'a all pretty close together.

I could probably get from my house to anywhere in mainland Scotland in a couple of hours or so - except maybe some stupidly remote places with dodgy roads.

And the islands... let's just not mention those.
(I helped save b3ta! Mystery_Bob, Sun 30 Mar 2003, 6:06, archived)
# Out of curiosity...
..it's a little over 150 miles from Dumfries to Pittlochry.
(I helped save b3ta! Mystery_Bob, Sun 30 Mar 2003, 6:07, archived)
# is it?
blimey. maybe i'm getting confused. is dumfried by the sea by any chance? (there is a good reason for my asking this, by the way- my dad joined the navy at 16 hoping to see the world and spent the three years stationed in scotland (somewhere beginning with 'd' with a weekend in plymouth and a weekend in sweden to break it up)
(I helped save b3ta! 100% of Gibbon, Sun 30 Mar 2003, 6:13, archived)
# dunfermline
perhaps?
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Sun 30 Mar 2003, 6:19, archived)
# not that I know anything, just guessing.
but this www.hms-fife.co.uk/ www.hms-fife.co.uk/scotland.htm seems to suggest I may have been right.
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Sun 30 Mar 2003, 6:21, archived)
# I can only hope (it wouldn't be unprecedented)
that I haven't linked to your dad's website ;)
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Sun 30 Mar 2003, 6:23, archived)
# possibly
all i know for sure is that he missed his o levels to see the world and didn't - he's making up for it now his retired though, bless him
(I helped save b3ta! 100% of Gibbon, Sun 30 Mar 2003, 6:25, archived)
# Err...
...Dumfries isn't a big naval town - I don't know exactly how far away it is from the sea though (not too close I think).

Dunfermline isn't on the sea itself, but the naval base of Rosyth is very near it (just accross the Forth from Edinburgh). It could have been there.

Dundee is a city with a port, but I'm not sure about navy. Don't think so.

Probably Rosyth - he would have went to Dunfermline for the nightclubs or something.

BTW - in Football terms Dunfermline are my team's bitterest rivals. Boo!
(I helped save b3ta! Mystery_Bob, Sun 30 Mar 2003, 6:31, archived)