UK Aeclectic Members - Where do you live?

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 02 Nov 2004, and now archived in the Forum Library.

Major Tom	02 Nov 2004
I've noticed a recent surge in the number of new members who identify their location as somewhere in the UK and Ireland. I thought it might be useful if we identified regions where there are concentrations of members. Sorry that my UK regional knowledge only really extends to England. We could use the information to plan Aeclectic meet-ups. ;) Now, I don't want to exclude anyone from voting, so I've included some options that will appply to just about everyone from around the Globe. I'm rather hoping people will feel comfortable enough to identify their region here on the thread. To get things started let me say that I live in deepest, darkest, East Anglia, that is, Framlingham, Suffolk. :eek:

rabble	02 Nov 2004
I live in Australia - Brisbane, but I was born in The Midlands! West Midlands, if I want to be true to your poll :)

Teranar	02 Nov 2004
I'd love to see some Aeclectic meet ups in my part of the world. Anyone live around the Southeast part of the United States?

Sulis	02 Nov 2004
I'm in Nottingham which is in the East Midlands. Love Sulis xx

Emily	02 Nov 2004
I'm in the West Midlands. :)

loveinspirit	02 Nov 2004
i also live in the west midlands, kind of feel like an alien as i only lived here for 7 months

Anna	02 Nov 2004
The North West of England And we have our very own Tarot Cafe too!! We will be meeting for the first time on 13th November in Liverpool. Anyone who is intested and can get there is welcome :)

Kiama	02 Nov 2004
Well, I was born in East Anglia, moved to Dorset at the age of 8, and finally came to live here, in Cardiff, Wales a couple of years ago. And here's where I'll be staying for quite a while, I hope. (There are loads of Cardiff Tarot folks here... Quite a thriving community in fact. :D) Kiama

Osher	02 Nov 2004
In The Smoke!

Bean Feasa	02 Nov 2004
Hi Major Tom, I'm not sure what you're getting at here. Do you mean to ask where people who are born in the UK are now living? I hope you're not suggesting that Ireland is part of the UK (I'm talking about the Republic now - we won't get into the Northern Ireland thing). 'Cos, ahem! We're very touchy about our independence over here }) P.S. I mean this question in the best possible taste and tone :) I also don't mean to get political I'm just honestly wondering what this poll is about. blessings, Kate

Moonbow*	02 Nov 2004
South Coast born and bred....... And.... I am definately coming to the next meet.... Moonbow*

IDN	02 Nov 2004
Shrewsbury, Shropshire Regards, Ian

Jewel-ry	02 Nov 2004
South Coast - Southampton Would love to get involved in a study group. I had planned on going to Framlingham but the dates turned out to be too close to my planned hospital stay. ~

Cariad	02 Nov 2004
Live in the North West and will be meeting CharmingPixie and others on the 13th of Nov for our first meet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Love B

gareth.	02 Nov 2004
In the wilds of north Wales.I would welcome knowing whether any members near.Liverpool sounds risky as involves crossing the border! (joke!)

katie_here	02 Nov 2004
but Salford to be more precise. I would love to go to a mee, and I may possibly be able to make the 13th November. I didn't realise there were so many people from the UK here on Aeclectic.

MAR	02 Nov 2004
I live in North America :D

Neville Surrell	02 Nov 2004
I was born and now live in the East Midlands

Major Tom	03 Nov 2004
Quote: Originally posted by Bean Feasa I hope you're not suggesting that Ireland is part of the UK (I'm talking about the Republic now - we won't get into the Northern Ireland thing). 'Cos, ahem! We're very touchy about our independence over here }) I think the question is plain enough. :) Where do you live in relation to the UK? Nothing about where you were born - just where you live now. :) Ireland is indeed an independent nation. :D I'm sorry if my ordering of the options for the poll in any way offended. There's lots more people here who actually live in the UK! Come on people it's time to vote. }) I think it's absolutely brilliant there's a tarot cafe organising in Liverpool. :D Well done Charming Pixie. :) I love to see something similar in East Anglia. Hmmm - need a venue... what's a good way to find a venue? I can look around Ipswich. ;)

Bean Feasa	03 Nov 2004
My apologies, Major Tom, I can't think what made me make such a crotchety post. Unless it was because I was so exhausted - flew home from Durban over the weekend (about 24 hours travelling in all). Only to find my heating system had broken down, and no lights upstairs. :( Went wading through new posts in Aeclectic for distraction - read your poll post hastily and posted hastily. Excuses, excuses, but anyway, sorry, and good luck with identifying your concentrations of citizens. :) :) :)

WolfSpirit	03 Nov 2004
I live in Europe. In the Netherlands, to be more precise, in the south of the country, in a town called Breda.

Penelope	03 Nov 2004
I'm a Yorkshire lass born and bred in sunny Scarborough, now living in a beautiful rural area of Illinois.

PuerAeternus	03 Nov 2004
South Coast. Sussex by the sea.

Little Baron	03 Nov 2004
Currently in Kent; but have been known to move around, hehe. Yabs

Major Tom	07 Nov 2004
There's lots more people living in the UK at Aeclectic than have voted. When I looked, only 21 people from the UK had voted. :eek: Please! Have your vote in this poll. The poll itself is entirely anonymous. You do not have to identify where you live in order to vote. No one will know how you vote unless you tell us yourself. ;) I've rather found that trying to get Aeclectic members in the UK together to be a bit like herding cats. :laugh: Frustrating for me and annoying for them. :laugh:

katie_here	07 Nov 2004
Have you noticed that people in other countries (many sizes larger than ours) will travel for hours to get somewhere to meet someone, but in England, if it involves a journey on the the motorway, or is more than an hour from home, people start to get panicked and treat it like a major expedition, not to be undertaken lightly, and not without a flask of tea and some spare sandwiches in case of hunger or thirst!. lol

Sulis	07 Nov 2004
katie_here wrote: Have you noticed that people in other countries (many sizes larger than ours) will travel for hours to get somewhere to meet someone, but in England, if it involves a journey on the the motorway, or is more than an hour from home, people start to get panicked and treat it like a major expedition, not to be undertaken lightly, and not without a flask of tea and some spare sandwiches in case of hunger or thirst!. lol I was thinking about this just last week when I went up to Wigan to visit my family. It's exactly 100 miles away - takes us a couple of hours on the motorway (unless the M6 is a nightmare which is often the case) and I always think of it as such a long journey. A few years ago though my husband and I used to put on free rave parties and we thought nothing of driving 100 miles for a night out :) Love sulis xx

carly	07 Nov 2004
Scotland myself...tartan...haggises and whatnot... 'Tis currently about minus gazillion degrees outside (and inside :)) From North Ayrshire, on the West, anyone else here about there?

Major Tom	08 Nov 2004
katie_here wrote: if it involves a journey on the the motorway, or is more than an hour from home, people start to get panicked and treat it like a major expedition And so it is a major expedition! :laugh: Don't forget your cards. ;) I know there's still lots and lots more folk who haven't voted. :eek: TABI members should feel welcome to identify themselves. :laugh: And of course, as TABI admit, they'd prefer to keep all contact to email. :joke: :laugh: We might be burned as witches if we all got together, or drowned. :laugh: Please vote. Better yet, speak up. :) Here there be dragons. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Shining_Moon	08 Nov 2004
Righty Oh then! Have voted home counties but is probably more like South Central - Oxfordshire to be precise! I think that a aeclectic meet up would be great - I'm certainly up for it! But I curious Mister Major... where are you based? Blessings Vix

Shining_Moon	08 Nov 2004
Major Tom wrote: We might be burned as witches if we all got together, or drowned. :laugh: Now hang on there me laddo! I am a Witch! :D So might as well get hung for a sheep as a lamb eh? Anyway, it' as Granny Weatherwax says.."What's the point of being a Witch if no-one knows you are?" I'll get me coat. Blessings Vix

Scorpion	10 Nov 2004
Born in London, grew up in darkest Kent and now living in West Yorkshire just about sums it up.

huredriel	11 Jan 2005
CharmingPixie wrote: The North West of England And we have our very own Tarot Cafe too!! We will be meeting for the first time on 13th November in Liverpool. Anyone who is intested and can get there is welcome :) I'm so jealous!!! :) Isn't there anyone else from Essex here? I've lived at numerous addresses in the UK but have now settled right next to Southend-on-Sea, although have to commute to London for work. x Huredriel

inanna_tarot	11 Jan 2005
Bouncing between Shropshire where all my lovely family are :) And Cardiff, where the lovely university is.. okie, maybe not lovely but its pretty and I get to talk/be organised and herded by Kiama ;) I think shes an expert in the field, so ask her for some guidence MajorTom! Sezo British Tarot readers rock!

Island Dreamer	11 Jan 2005
Looks like I'm the only one in South West England :P Actually, come to think of it, you can't get any further south-and-west than the IOS :D Although I do get to visit in-laws in Birmingham rather more now that our autistic teenage daughter is at a Specialist Residential school on the UK mainland. Dreamer

fluffy	11 Jan 2005
Hi, there i'm in Bognor Regis (south coast) the sun capital of the UK (ha,ha) actually it really is the sun capital. I would love to meet up with some aeclectic members from the south coast, but could not drive further than 100 miles without a severe panic attack and at least 3 weeks planning (not really) so let's see if we can sort something out. Love fluffy

tatsi	11 Jan 2005
I live in North America -- Texas to be precise. tatsi

Azezel	11 Jan 2005
I'm South coast, About three miles off the south coast. The I of W to be exact.

Jewel-ry	23 Feb 2005
Thought I would bump this since there seems to be more people from the UK who have decided to join us :)

bleuivy	23 Feb 2005
Huh - don't know why I didn't see this thread earlier. Thanks for bumping it up, Jewel-ry. Anywho, I live in West Yorkshire, in dire Bradford to be exact. Bit of a change from Washington, DC where I used to live. :) I would love to have a meetup at some point, but I doubt there are any AT-ers in my neck of the woods. Mind you, I define my neck of the woods relatively broadly. As a run-of-the-mill American, I have been known to drive 13 hours to go to the beach, and think nothing of driving 350 miles to visit friends or family for the weekend. We Americans practically live in our cars, which is why we like them so big, I think. (Cars here are just tiny - they look like toys!) One of the things I've found the hardest to get used to since moving here in September is the conception of distance. I don't think I'll ever be able to view 100 miles as a long way. But you know what they say: "100 miles is a long way to an English person; 100 years is a long time to an American." I already say chips instead of fries, though, so who knows? ;)

similia	23 Feb 2005
Well I'm all the way down in Australia, but I'm happy to be an honourary UK Aeclectican, if that means a free place to stay when visiting the UK ;)

prudence	24 Feb 2005
Hi just thought it was funny how this post is for the folks in the UK but more north americans have voted on the poll than anyone else. (not saying anything bad here, it's just odd) astrid I just figured out why we north americans are into these polls...we like to see our vote ACTUALLY COUNTED for a change! (sorry to get all political)

psychic sue	24 Feb 2005
Im in Birmingham, all you west midlandites! I'd be happy to meet up sometime.

Stregaverde	24 Feb 2005
I'm in northern Italy, Bologna to be exact (well, a bit outside Bologna, in the foothills of the Apennines, to truly exact). I'd LOVE to come to a UK AT meetup sometime, though--Ryanair would get me there cheaply! :D I'm a certified Anglophile, and seize any opportunity to visit Merry Olde England. Hey, bleuivy, we should get together and chat at said get-together--I'm a transplanted American, too. :)

Sinner	24 Feb 2005
London here, never been to a meeting before, but I'd be inteested to find out more if there are any nearby.

caridwen	24 Feb 2005
huredriel wrote: I'm so jealous!!! :) Isn't there anyone else from Essex here? I've lived at numerous addresses in the UK but have now settled right next to Southend-on-Sea, although have to commute to London for work. x Huredriel YES!!!!!!Me. But I no longer live in sunny blighty! I live in Asia, have done for the past five years but will be back for a while anyway hopefully by the end of this year after a stint in France... Went to college in Soufend, went to school in Chelmsford, grew up just outside Maldon in one of the Dengie hundred villages. Essex born and bred but never tell, afraid others will kill me after;)

Moonbow*	24 Feb 2005
Island Dreamer wrote: Looks like I'm the only one in South West England :P Actually, come to think of it, you can't get any further south-and-west than the IOS :D Although I do get to visit in-laws in Birmingham rather more now that our autistic teenage daughter is at a Specialist Residential school on the UK mainland. Dreamer The Scillies - lucky you! Is it blustery there this time of year? I wonder if you get to the mainland Cornwall much. My favourite place in the West is St Just and Zennor - just beautiful.

huredriel	24 Feb 2005
Sinner wrote: London here, never been to a meeting before, but I'd be inteested to find out more if there are any nearby. Oooh yes a London Aeclectic meet up - yes please. Caridwen, let me know when you're back. Bet you miss it just a little ;)

bleuivy	24 Feb 2005
Stregaverde wrote: Hey, bleuivy, we should get together and chat at said get-together--I'm a transplanted American, too. :) Hee hee - excellent. I always enjoy meeting other American expats. It's good to hear the accent every once in a while. I'm not sure I could make a meetup in London, though. Well, not any time soon. I haven't any income at the moment, so a ticket to London is a bit out of my reach. But something a bit farther north would probably be doable. Any northerners want to have a get together? I suppose you southerners would be welcome too. ;) York, Leeds, and Manchester are all nice. If not, I'll sit this one out and wait for the next aeclectic UK gathering.

huredriel	24 Feb 2005
bleuivy wrote: York, Leeds, and Manchester are all nice. Well I might be able to do a York one later in the year, hopefully visiting family in Darlington then :)

Majecot	24 Feb 2005
Ha... ok I only voted so I could see the results... and I do see there that 31 % of us here are smart asses... that is why 26 of us from North America have voted on a UK poll...Tom, I think to lessen tempation you should have left off the "other" countries....hehe

MeeWah	24 Feb 2005
Since North America is included in this poll, that is what I voted to indicate my location. Too far from ye all :(

caridwen	25 Feb 2005
huredriel wrote: Oooh yes a London Aeclectic meet up - yes please. Caridwen, let me know when you're back. Bet you miss it just a little ;) I will, I do miss it. I'd love to meet up and talk Tarot with you. Hopefully, if all goes well, I'll be back in Maldon with me mum by Christmas...not likely but hopefully:)

Major Tom	25 Feb 2005
Majecot wrote: Tom, I think to lessen tempation you should have left off the "other" countries....hehe I wouldn't wish to 'exclude' anyone. The question the poll asks is where you live in relation to the UK. ;)

Dylan	25 Feb 2005
I live in Sheffield, right on the Derbyshire border.

Chubby Mummy	25 Feb 2005
huredriel wrote: I'm so jealous!!! :) Isn't there anyone else from Essex here? I've lived at numerous addresses in the UK but have now settled right next to Southend-on-Sea, although have to commute to London for work. x Huredriel [center] ~~ Not too far from Essex! Im in hertfordshire!!~~ [/center]

Island Dreamer	25 Feb 2005
Hi Moonbow* :) Quote: The Scillies - lucky you! Is it blustery there this time of year? I wonder if you get to the mainland Cornwall much. My favourite place in the West is St Just and Zennor - just beautiful. It's been JOLLY COLD here this week - even frost three mornings, frequent snow and hail and sleet showers, and a bitterly cold fierce wind. I have lost tender plants in the garden - they've shrivelled up and gone all brown :( We returned to the islands on Tuesday (half term trip to Disneyland Paris with the teenage offspring) and didn't catch the helicopter till 4.40pm so we spent the afternoon driving around the Lands End Peninsula down to Lamorna Cove, Porthcurno and the coast. Weather looks good for the weekend though - hope everyone in the UK gets to see some sunshine and blue sky! Dreamer

katie_here	25 Feb 2005
I would just like to add a question from my part of the UK. What is snow???????? we've seen some fluffly likkle bits floating down from the sky but thats about it! p.s. I know what cold is.... spent the first week in Feb in Denmark (Amager, which is on the coast) and it was bloody cold there.

Bagpuss	27 Feb 2005
I'm originally from Ipswich but now in the depths of rural suffolk on the east coast, miles from civilization...

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