Fandom Snowflake - Day 1 (I am behind!)
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narya_flameDay 1: My Happy Place
It will surprise exactly no-one who knows me to read this, but my happy place is St Andrews, Scotland. I spent four years there as an undergraduate. I loved the town, I love the friends I made there, and I loved being surrounded by history and the sea. (Celebs popping up for the golf on occasion were an added entertaining bonus.) I adored spending cool summer afternoons at the beach or lazing in the cathedral grounds, book in hand - and that was also the period in my life when I first got really into fandom. I shyly posted a couple of one-shots at the erstwhile lotrfanfiction.com, got some good feedback, started chatting to people, and the rest is history.
I work in Manchester now, and live in Clitheroe, neither of which are very much like St Andrews at all - but I married someone I met there (we actually met in the Students' Union on the first night, although it took us eighteen months to get our act together romantically), and we had our wedding ceremony in the university chapel. Some of our friends have done the same thing. In non-wedding years, we try to get up there for a long weekend if we possibly can, to walk the streets and see what's changed - and revisit what hasn't and (hopefully) never will. Dolphin-watching from the end of the pier. Sunset on West Sands. If we're very lucky, the Northern Lights over the Eden Estuary.
I'd love to move back one day, but until my firm decide there's a role for me in our Edinburgh office, I'm happy enough where I am and lucky to have had such a wonderful place to call home for four years.
It will surprise exactly no-one who knows me to read this, but my happy place is St Andrews, Scotland. I spent four years there as an undergraduate. I loved the town, I love the friends I made there, and I loved being surrounded by history and the sea. (Celebs popping up for the golf on occasion were an added entertaining bonus.) I adored spending cool summer afternoons at the beach or lazing in the cathedral grounds, book in hand - and that was also the period in my life when I first got really into fandom. I shyly posted a couple of one-shots at the erstwhile lotrfanfiction.com, got some good feedback, started chatting to people, and the rest is history.
I work in Manchester now, and live in Clitheroe, neither of which are very much like St Andrews at all - but I married someone I met there (we actually met in the Students' Union on the first night, although it took us eighteen months to get our act together romantically), and we had our wedding ceremony in the university chapel. Some of our friends have done the same thing. In non-wedding years, we try to get up there for a long weekend if we possibly can, to walk the streets and see what's changed - and revisit what hasn't and (hopefully) never will. Dolphin-watching from the end of the pier. Sunset on West Sands. If we're very lucky, the Northern Lights over the Eden Estuary.
I'd love to move back one day, but until my firm decide there's a role for me in our Edinburgh office, I'm happy enough where I am and lucky to have had such a wonderful place to call home for four years.
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