Eva Amsen, the UK welcomes you!
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And Europe welcomes you back, despite what some English have to say about the concept.
Raingear, bulky coat or umbrella? I’ve seen plenty of folks on bikes with brellies…
I told youse guys, Cambridge is ‘semi-arid’.
Welcome, Eva!
When’s the pub night so we can welcome you in person?
Good call. Hey, seeing as no one is left in the Toronto hub, why don’t we re-name it ‘London MkII’? Or ‘Cambridge’, which is the same thing really.
Welcome, Eva!
Welcome, Eva! Good luck in your new home.
Thanks guys =)
And actually, there are TONS of people left in the Toronto hub!
Welcome Eva, have a good start in Cambridge.
That snowman is not supposed to look like Eva, is it?
Good luck with everything, Eva! And I have a snowbunny for you as a welcome to frozen Europe:
…can’t wait for spring!…
No, Steffi. I can assure you that Eva was not in mind when it was made, but I like the photo.
That is an awesome snowbunny, and I love that there’s a small human trying to eat the snow in the background.
…that’s one of my most favourite small humans (there is another one’s hood just sticking out behind the bunny’s butt). Although I have no idea what was going on there, let’s just say that the stunt would not be considered outside the normal range of behaviour 🙂
I have two small humans of my own. Nothing surprises me any more.
Hope life and work in Cambridge are wonderful, Eva!
I enjoyed my brief visit there last year. If the weather is grim, you can always find some bright colors in the Winter Garden:
Cornus spp., about this time last year
Welcome Eva! (Although I’ve had the pleasure of saying that in person already 🙂 I can confirm she’s a pro at playing “Guess Who” even with jet-lag…)
Just to clarify, the Toronto forum is definitely still active and has a new proto-hub leader, Jeff Sharom. And @Richard, Cambridge is definitely not London MkII! 😉
As for the Cambridge pub outing – I’ll put up a post about it today. All welcome!
I’ve done the saying hello on the internets to people who have been sat across the table from me, too 🙂
You’re right, Lou. Cambridge is more like Oxford Mk II. My bad.
Everyone is warmly invited to the Cambridge (not London or Oxford Mk II) pub meet; let us know your prefered dates on the team blog
As I said over there, Lou, I have plans to be in Cambridge this Saturday!
Unless my MkII brain is malfunctioning because it’s Monday, isn’t this Saturday the 30th? In any case, I’ll be around and happy to meet up if you need a tour guide or drinking companion!
You’re right. I had 6th in mind for other reasons.
Welcome to over there, Eva. I’d make you a snow something or other, but as you probably know it’s p*ssing rain here in Torontonia at the moment.
Cambridge – what I can tell you about it is that the traffic is atrocious. Don’t suppose that’ll bother you much though. Good train service to Londinium though, should you wish to attend a -piss-up- science blogging event, or such.
Cambridge drivers do one speed, town and country. And never look behind them.
The traffic doesn’t seem worse than downtown Toronto. For reference: to get from my house to the highway there, there were two options, and the most convenient way was to go through Chinatown, where pedestrians cross at random (diagonally, at leisurely pace) and store owners put their wares out on the very edge of the sidewalk (using an entire driving lane for overflow/sitting/customers/boxes) and there’s a traffic light every few meters. That was the most convenient way. The other way was just as slow, slightly further, but with fewer people unexpectedly jumping in front of your car. And heaven forbid you try biking in Toronto: only other cyclists can see you if you’re on a bike – you’re invisible to any pedestrians and cars. So, bring it on Cambridge; I laugh at your traffic!
But I’m looking forward to both pub + RPG (and any possible combinations thereof)
Cambridge is a sleepy market town of 110,000 inhabitants. It hosts East Anglia Polytechnic. Toronto has 2.5 million people, the CN Tower and a lake.
Bit of an unfair contest.
Eva: I would so ride my bike in Cambridge (although I have never lived there but visited) and that seemed much better than to even consider a car… and walking is sort of nice but it is faster to bike.
Hope you enjoy it snow there now? or just slush and rain (as I think it is in UK at the moment) Looking forward hearing some more aobut the move and new feelings in changing place like switching Toronto to Cambridge (two places I always hoped I would live in once but never have suceeded in)
“Toronto has 2.5 million people, the CN Tower and a lake.”
The lake is kind of counting against it’s bigness, though. It would be even bigger if the city could sprawl south of downtown! My favourite part of Toronto is in the lake, though (the Toronto Islands – residential part, not touristy part. Except for the petting zoo in winter – I like visiting that too, and so do the animals.) I don’t yet have a favourite part of Cambridge.
Welcome back to this side of the Atlantic, Eva!
I hope you appreciate the effort that’s been made to give you a Toronto winter, so you feel at home for your first few weeks.
Eva, I mentioned the lake because it represents what could be a huge amount of real estate, allowing Toronto to become less crowded. Because you’ve got the lake, it crowds everyone into a smaller space.
Anyway, I’m telling your new employer about your apostrophe abuse. Ner.
I’m foreign!
What’s that got to do with it?
I don’t speak English!
Hang on, what’s your new gig, again?
Online….somethingsomethingmumbles.
Booooooooooo!
Bloody deserter.
Anyway, Ontario doesn’t need another ‘London MkII’ – it’s already got one!
I hope the move went OK, Eva, and the culture shock isn’t too extreme! I know a few Canadians in Cambridge (at the last count, 8 friends from the BC Cancer Agency have moved there, although some of them have already left and one of them is a Kiwi), so if you meet anyone from Vancouver, say hi from me!
Heh just after I moved to the Land of Oz it seemed like half of Cambridge came over for one reason or another.
I heard on good authority that Cambridge had at one time a hockey team (ice, folks, ice hockey). I also heard that it was populated with Junior C-level ex-patriate Canucks.
Strap on some skates, Eva, you could probably make the team handily. 😉