What of?? The handshake? I haven't got any of that but I have the permit on me with the big fat 'A' in the upper left hand corner. The 'A' obviously stands for 'Advanced'.

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Here you are then Adee.

This one was taken about 2 years ago when I passed my 'Standard' course.



This one was taken yesterday.



And yes, the camera that was used was extremely crap on both occasions... and I have erased most of the permits' identities.

Theoretically speaking, I could drive this car.... if only we had these in our force.

cooooooool....

But how comes you get to pose all smiley in your licence photo? I did in mine! But it's not supposed to be allowed....

Dear Charlee.

The smile comes from 3 weeks of pent-up intense concentration and relief. This is a police permit, not a DVLA licence as such, so we're allowed to show a little emotion.

You have seen the other guy... big cheesey old grin... looked quite worrying actually as if he was a paedophile!

What's with the red eyes? Policemen can get stoned too?

Well.. I did celebrate today with a cigar but it didn't exactly get me high!

I don't know what's up with my eyes in the photos. A lot of it is down to the crappy resolution of the camera used and where the photo was taken but my eyes are slightly 'pander-ish' with the recent lack of sleep.

So it's a combination of both I guess Charlee. At least I have the weekend off to recouperate before going back on Monday for an early start.

I still can't quite believe I passed. It's all good. Firearms next for me I think.

Fire arms? Noes....

My friend's just become a policeman.

I was talking to him the other day, he was doing some plain clothes op the other week... so weird. And he nearly got stabbed by a 15 year old.

Unfortunaelty it is a danger that this job brings with it... you take the rough with the smooth and when you have a close encounter, it kinda makes you see things in a different light. I tell you that if I survive these next 24 and bit years, I will have plenty of stories to tell the grandchildren. I have already a novel and I've only done just over 5 years.

At the end of the day, it's just a job but what a unpredictable one it is.

Wow thanks and congrats, that car looks wicked but I would never imagine they would have it in the police force

Did you forget yourself for a minute there?

Maybe...

That would be a yes.

You started whatever that thing is that I never remember or understand that you're doing this year yet?

what's the second biggest city in the entire UK?

Birmingham.

O__O? and that city has come up in a conversation... twice in my life?

Well I dunno....

It's a crap hole tho.

lol yes, more money than I thought it was

I was making a map to Kevin to look at and I've only just realised how close you are. It's been ages since I've been to Oxford...but damn...i'm sure it was further away than that.



I guessed for Mugi and Vuong...i couldn't pin point exactly...XD

you live far from london O__O how long a drive is that?

oh wait, no you don't, i just realized how tiny england is.

About half an hour...45mins-hour to central London.

look closely and you can see that I can catch the motorway from Luton which goes directly in a straight line to London, it's not that far out at all.

Just beneath the word 'Joe!' you see a place called 'Rochester'. I'm near there. We're rather bunched up here.

^^ awww Charlee... thanks for the thought.

May aswell add Takashi too....

Dumbass

Well I dunno....

Here's hoping when you say that you live outside of Oxford you actually mean like waaaaaaay West of it.

Hmm....ok

Does anyone know what happened to metier9?

wjere does bixie live? ^__^

Watch as Charlee will draw a place called hell and add Bixie's name in.

Can I be on the map too?

I live in Wandsworth, that tiny little text right underneath the big red square.

I guess that means I live the closest to Central London here, which is certainly not cheap (even though I'm a cheapskate).


Yeah, where is Peanuts these days?

meh. that is kinda close. 45 minutes is like... my old house to the airport. pretty much all the way across the city. so that means from one side of london to the centre is like as wide as toronto is altogether.

I want on the map 2, except i wont fit as im roughly in the same place as Jagger...

Where do you live Erex?

Well I dont actually live in the town, told you before, Boars Hill is just outside.

I can't remember exactly where silim used to live, but I believe it was very close to Jez.

^I remember him said he lives in Kent.

And I wonder what happen to him?

If you want to be placed on the map (i'm making one with a prefessional map thingy) then just tell me the place you live. (honest I won't hunt you down )

I'll tell you , please come and visit me for a cup of tea

If you want on Adee, just say.

A Village/Town name will do.

Also I would love to pop in for tea.

Hey sephy mind placing me in there? Anywhere around Stockwell/Brixton is good.

Here you go.

Thanks, appreciate it. Other Londoners should get into this aswell, though i suspect it might get tight for space after a while.

That font............for a second there I thought we had a 'lez' to the right.

Sorry man it was hard to find a colour that would show up properly
Maybe you're right I should change the font.

Also I'm going to keep the names closer to the areas or get a bigger mark where people live. it's hard to tell the actual whereabouts of people.

hahaa charlee's map fails.

Very good Sephy... just for your info, I'm just on the top left hand side of 'Strood'... but that's pretty close.

Silim lived in Gravesend, which is where I used to live.

I'll need this for when I visit the UK.

^And give us a suprise?

BTW I live in Chorley, which is far off from London.

im lying on the cardboard box under a bridge in islington northlondon

Mine lacks the arrows....





Sephy, do THE WHOLE of england so we can include those northerners toos!