The Good News Thread

[CrinklyLion]

I got offered a job today!!!!  After 6 months of job-hunting, I start on 17th Jan!!!! 

Huzzah! Proper good news that is, well done.  Will that mean a relocation?

[newtoncap]

I got offered a job today!!!!  After 6 months of job-hunting, I start on 17th Jan!!!! 

Huzzah! Proper good news that is, well done.  Will that mean a relocation?

Yes, I will be relocating, down the A1 a couple of hundred miles.....but close to the east coast mainline, so will hopefully still come for the Yorkshire/Xmas Pudding Ride 

[Wowbagger]

Is "down the A1 a couple of hundred miles" code for "That London"? 

Congrats on the job, by the way.

[Deano]

I got offered a job today!!!!  After 6 months of job-hunting, I start on 17th Jan!!!! 

Huzzah! Proper good news that is, well done.  Will that mean a relocation?

Yes, I will be relocating, down the A1 a couple of hundred miles.....but close to the east coast mainline, so will hopefully still come for the Yorkshire/Xmas Pudding Ride 

I was going to say it's bound to be an improvement on Bish Vegas, but then there's always Rotherham..

Congrats

[Canardly]

Grats

[SlowCoach]

I got offered a job today!!!!  After 6 months of job-hunting, I start on 17th Jan!!!! 

Huzzah! Proper good news that is, well done.  Will that mean a relocation?

Yes, I will be relocating, down the A1 a couple of hundred miles.....but close to the east coast mainline, so will hopefully still come for the Yorkshire/Xmas Pudding Ride 

Congratulations. Just to let you know that Pease Pudding will travel 200 miles south and it still tastes ok (I know - I have to organise regular shipments to the smoke for my son).

[newtoncap]

I was going to say it's bound to be an improvement on Bish Vegas, but then there's always Rotherham..

Congrats

Ha ha....Afghanistan would be an improvement on Bish Vegas !!! 

[Karla]

I got offered a job today!!!!  After 6 months of job-hunting, I start on 17th Jan!!!! 

That's excellent news!  What, where and do you have a good cycle commute to get there?

[Cudzoziemiec]

Everybody I know seems to be in better health at the start of 2011 than they were a year ago.

[her_welshness]

I got offered a job today!!!!  After 6 months of job-hunting, I start on 17th Jan!!!! 

Huzzah! Proper good news that is, well done.  Will that mean a relocation?

Yes, I will be relocating, down the A1 a couple of hundred miles.....but close to the east coast mainline, so will hopefully still come for the Yorkshire/Xmas Pudding Ride 

Congratulations. Just to let you know that Pease Pudding will travel 200 miles south and it still tastes ok (I know - I have to organise regular shipments to the smoke for my son).

Many many congratulations to you Newtoncap, you must be thrilled!

[Wowbagger]

The sun set at 4 o'clock this afternoon. In a couple of days it will rise before 8 a.m. Then we'll really know the back of the winter is broken.*

Sumer is icumen i-i-in
Loudly sing cuckoo!




*This is a deliberately untrue statement. If It puts Its mind to it, It can still be cold and snowy right through to April.

[Bledlow]

'Lhude', not 'Loudly'!

Living where it was probably written, I feel protective of the oldest known secular song in English. I don't mind modern translations, but can't abide mixed-up versions.

Sumer is icumen in,
Lhude sing cuccu!
Groweþ sed and bloweþ med

And springþ þe wde nu,
Sing cuccu!
Awe bleteþ after lomb,
Lhouþ after calue cu.
Bulluc sterteþ, bucke uerteþ,
Murie sing cuccu!
Cuccu, cuccu, wel þu singes cuccu;

Ne swik þu nauer nu.
Pes:

Sing cuccu nu. Sing cuccu.
Sing cuccu. Sing cuccu nu!

[arabella]

As featured on the wicker man

[Chris S]

Yay. Pick of the Pops 1105AD 

[Canardly]

That song before or after they nailed him to the fertility tree?

[Gus]

 Statistic  news from denmark :

In 1989 110 cyclists was killed on danish roads   

In 2008 54 cyclists was killed on danish roads 

and the somewhat good news

In 2010 19 cyclists was killed on danish roads 

A massive improvement, but still too many dead cyclists.

[clarion]

That's pretty impressive.  What's making the difference?

[Mrs Pingu]

I rode my bike today, for the first time since....I can't remember, but it was about the 15th Dec. 

[Quint]

I rode my DF (Dawes Sardar) for the first time since my vertigo returned two and a half years ago, bit uncertain but no serious spins

[Gus]

That's pretty impressive.  What's making the difference?

the government focused on some of the problems there appears to be  again and again.
Main focus have been on right turning lorries(  That will be left turning in the UK)

[clarion]

I think we have a lot to learn from you.

[jogler]

5-0

 

I am happy chappie

[RichForrest]

No more surfing from the phone, I finally have a phone line and broadband in the new flat 
 

[Kim]

It's a crazy mixed-up future we live in where getting a phone line means you don't have to use your phone...

[Quint]

Swy it's called on-line