The introductions thread

[Emma JC]

Hello, the name is Thomas, I'm 33 and I'm based in the UK. Mostly Oxfordshire, which I travel around on the narrowboat on which I live with my partner. I/we've been vegan for about five years, for ethical reasons. I think I signed up just to discuss whatever with like minded people.

welcome Thomas!

We look forward to your contributions.

Emma JC

 

[Brian W]

Hello, the name is Thomas, I'm 33 and I'm based in the UK. Mostly Oxfordshire, which I travel around on the narrowboat on which I live with my partner. I/we've been vegan for about five years, for ethical reasons. I think I signed up just to discuss whatever with like minded people.

Hi Thomas. I'm from the county below you - Wiltshire - although I live in Sweden now. I haven't been on a narrowboat but I have been on a few barges on the Kennet And Avon Canal. I envy you and your partner. Welcome to the forum.

 

[Second Summer]

Hello, the name is Thomas, I'm 33 and I'm based in the UK. Mostly Oxfordshire, which I travel around on the narrowboat on which I live with my partner. I/we've been vegan for about five years, for ethical reasons. I think I signed up just to discuss whatever with like minded people.

Hi Thomas, welcome! I also live in Oxfordshire! Do you come across that vegan pizza boat on your journeys? We bought some pizza from them this summer.

 

[ThomasCKing]

Vegan pizza boat? No, I'll give it a google, thanks

 

[Lou]

Hello, the name is Thomas, I'm 33 and I'm based in the UK. Mostly Oxfordshire, which I travel around on the narrowboat on which I live with my partner. I/we've been vegan for about five years, for ethical reasons. I think I signed up just to discuss whatever with like minded people.

You live on/in a narrowboat? I had to look that up. That looks so cool!

Around here a narrow boat is a canoe.

 

[Blues]

Hello, the name is Thomas, I'm 33 and I'm based in the UK. Mostly Oxfordshire, which I travel around on the narrowboat on which I live with my partner. I/we've been vegan for about five years, for ethical reasons. I think I signed up just to discuss whatever with like minded people.

Hi Thomas and welcome, one of my bucket list items if I ever get to the UK is to hire a narrowboat and travel around. Its sorta about my pace

 

[Lou]

Hi Thomas and welcome, one of my bucket list items if I ever get to the UK is to hire a narrowboat and travel around. Its sorta about my pace

Now I've added that to my bucket list. It's right after I rent a rowboat and recreate Three Men In A Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog).

 

[Chryssie]

Welcome!

 

[Blues]

Now I've added that to my bucket list. It's right after I rent a rowboat and recreate Three Men In A Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog).

this is the rowboat i wast thinking about Lou

 

[Lou]

This is what I had in mind.

 

[shyvas]

this is the rowboat i wast thinking about Lou
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That's a barge not a row boat. However, I do remember seeing them in historical films where they had rowers, like several hundred years ago.

 

[ThomasCKing]

Used to be pulled by horses, thankfully not anymore.

 

[Lou]

Used to be pulled by horses, thankfully not anymore.

or oxen. but only upriver.

BTW. If anyone hasn't read Three Men In A Boat (to say nothing of the dog) you are missing out on one of the best humorous travel logs of the 19th century.

The Project Gutenberg eBook of Three Men in a Boat, by Jerome K. Jerome

OMG. just discovered there is a movie version

 

[Blues]

That's a barge not a row boat. However, I do remember seeing them in historical films where they had rowers, like several hundred years ago.

We’ll okay I will just settle for a diesel motor puffing along And if I saw Lou and his mates and his dog coming the other way I would invite them over for a meal

 

[fakei]

Hello, this is fakei from Portugal and have been on a strict vegetarian diet. Have near 20 years of experience, the first 15 with how not to become a vegetarian, nor a vegan, and after exhausting all the unsuccessful ways eventually as one.

 

[KLS52]

Welcome!

 

[Chryssie]

 

[Tom L.]

Now I've added that to my bucket list. It's right after I rent a rowboat and recreate Three Men In A Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog).

The first time I heard of this was in a BBC broadcast of some sort of mystery/comedy... some of the characters were into it, and it figured into the plot. I didn't know it was a real story.

 

[Pumpkin-Spice-Vegan]

Hey, I have been vegetarian for a while, but now I am vegan. I feel like I need to make friends who are vegan, as well. I have a few friends who are dairy-free or vegetarian, but only one current vegan. I got into being vegetarian practising Buddhism, and then I realized that dairy and eggs aren’t any more compassionate

 

[KLS52]

Hey, I have been vegetarian for a while, but now I am vegan. I feel like I need to make friends who are vegan, as well. I have a few friends who are dairy-free or vegetarian, but only one current vegan. I got into being vegetarian practising Buddhism, and then I realized that dairy and eggs aren’t any more compassionate

Welcome!