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Hello everyone. Just retired as an engineer, had enough of being dicked around by rubbish employers over the last few years, sold up in the UK and have just settled in Norway (I'm a Brit, my wife's Norwegian).
Jimmy
Jimmy
- Woody
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Welcome Jimmy
Engineering must be well paid if you can afford Norway
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We were just lucky and inherited a house that belonged to my wife's family. I could retire a little early and invest the proceeds from the sale of our UK home (much to the disgust of our children who thought they were getting it!).
Prices here are mixed, some things (beer!) are very expensive but other things are not so bad. I am just getting started with home brew. There is a thriving home brew community here, most people I have met here so far brew their own, perhaps not surprising given the prices! I have already met one farmer that has a large scale brewhouse and also a still. Our village has a home brew club, that has about 50 regular members which is most of the men in the village!
Prices here are mixed, some things (beer!) are very expensive but other things are not so bad. I am just getting started with home brew. There is a thriving home brew community here, most people I have met here so far brew their own, perhaps not surprising given the prices! I have already met one farmer that has a large scale brewhouse and also a still. Our village has a home brew club, that has about 50 regular members which is most of the men in the village!
- Ex-Ascot
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Welcome Jimmy from both of us here in Botswana. Pretty friendly bunch here. Just don't read the thread on site funding gives a bad image. Hope you report on life up there every day on TRABB.
'Yes, Madam, I am drunk, but in the morning I shall be sober and you will still be ugly.' Sir Winston Churchill.
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Welcome Jimmy
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Welcome.
My necessaries are embark'd: farewell. Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave.
- CharlieOneSix
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A warm welcome from north of the border, Jimmy, and we look forward to your posts.
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Another engineer, that's good because we are rather outnumbered. Welcome.
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Last munth I cudn't spel injuneer - now I are one.
Welcome to you.
Welcome to you.
- Wodrick
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Welcome Jimmy, as OM15 has it outnumbered. Civil or Mil ?
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And welcome and blessings, from someone who was a controls engineer when he had an honest job back then!
- Fox3WheresMyBanana
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A warm welcome from another snowbound country!
I'm a great fan of Norway and Norwegians
Så her er vi på fyllefest igjen!
I'm a great fan of Norway and Norwegians
Så her er vi på fyllefest igjen!
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Welcome Jimmy, I too am another retired engineer and I hail from the land Downunder, where beer is still reasonably priced.
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Welcome to the group. I was born in England but since retiring I have lived in Orkney which was owned by Norway until 1468.The Orkney Norway Friendship Association was set up in 1978
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Warm welcome from way down south.
- G~Man
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Hola.... Not an engineer, but welcome
Life may not be the party you hoped for, but while you're here, you may as well dance.
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Thanks for the very warm welcome. I was civil, an LAC, but my interests now as far as aviation goes is gliding. Not been able to find a club near to us yet, which was a part of the reason for joining here.
I've been asked to pay a subscription to stay, but having had a look around here I'm afraid there's not much relating to gliding, so I'll pass on subscribing and continue my hunt for a gliding club elsewhere. Not sure I want to get embroiled with contentious topics around cost cutting and the impact on safety, either, yet fear that is exactly where I'd end up here if I stayed!!!
Thanks again, cheerio and best regards to all those still struggling on in the industry,
Jimmy
I've been asked to pay a subscription to stay, but having had a look around here I'm afraid there's not much relating to gliding, so I'll pass on subscribing and continue my hunt for a gliding club elsewhere. Not sure I want to get embroiled with contentious topics around cost cutting and the impact on safety, either, yet fear that is exactly where I'd end up here if I stayed!!!
Thanks again, cheerio and best regards to all those still struggling on in the industry,
Jimmy
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A good decision Jim.JamesM wrote: ↑Sun Oct 02, 2022 4:50 pmThanks for the very warm welcome. I was civil, an LAC, but my interests now as far as aviation goes is gliding. Not been able to find a club near to us yet, which was a part of the reason for joining here.
I've been asked to pay a subscription to stay, but having had a look around here I'm afraid there's not much relating to gliding, so I'll pass on subscribing and continue my hunt for a gliding club elsewhere. Not sure I want to get embroiled with contentious topics around cost cutting and the impact on safety, either, yet fear that is exactly where I'd end up here if I stayed!!!
Thanks again, cheerio and best regards to all those still struggling on in the industry,
Jimmy
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OK Jim, that's fine. You can still 'read' all but members' posts.
I assume that's 'goodbye' to Ribrash as well, then?
I assume that's 'goodbye' to Ribrash as well, then?
- Undried Plum
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Hjertelig velkommen ombord, Yimmy.