Trip to Manchester

bumpkin · **November 08, 2014, 18:17:56**

Hi all

Just returned to Aberdeen after spending the last 24h in Manchester attending The Royal Society of Chemistry AGM and Annual Prize Giving Ceremony.

Yours truly was awarded with the Technician of the Year Award, only the second ever recipient of the prize and first ever winner from The University of Aberdeen.

Pride doesn't even start to describe it, a superb evening, good food, plentiful alchohol and a bit of kudos to round the night off!

asathorny · **Reply #1: November 08, 2014, 18:46:23**

Brilliant, wonderful, well done

tla · **Reply #2: November 08, 2014, 18:50:17**

Congratulations!

Shambles · **Reply #3: November 08, 2014, 19:16:56**

Remarkable achievement, congrats

Initially I wondered why you posted it in World News, but I sure feel it deserves to be there after reading up on the qualifications required to even get nominated

eye30 · **Reply #4: November 08, 2014, 19:23:52**

Well done Brian and you deserve it.

Thanks for the pics and you do scrub up well in your native attire.

Hope the friendly folk of manchester looked after you.

AlanHo · **Reply #5: November 08, 2014, 19:26:11**

Great achievement Brian - congratulations.....

Asterix · **Reply #6: November 08, 2014, 19:37:07**

Congrats Brian.

Surferdude · **Reply #7: November 08, 2014, 20:09:00**

Well. What a wonderful surprise.

Very well done, friend. You DO look happy. And so you should.

FatBoy · **Reply #8: November 08, 2014, 20:25:24**

I can't add any more than has already been said above. Well done, Brian!! You do look chuffed, and so you should. From the FatFamily, congratulations!!

Phil №❶ · **Reply #9: November 08, 2014, 20:56:55**

Excellent achievement.

I couldn't even understand the title of your paper, let alone the contents.

Dazzler · **Reply #10: November 08, 2014, 21:01:18**

Like I said on facebook, that's awesome Brian and even more impressed now I've seen the close up.. not many people have two middle names!

Doggie 1 · **Reply #11: November 09, 2014, 10:46:42**

Congratulations, Brian. Great job.

Very risky wearing a kilt in Manchester though.

I didn't realize you liked living on the edge.

Shambles · **Reply #12: November 09, 2014, 10:52:08**

Quote from: Doggie 1

Very risky wearing a kilt in Manchester though.

He was just hangin' out, so to speak.

Doggie 1 · **Reply #13: November 09, 2014, 10:53:21**

Quote from: Shambles on November 09, 2014, 10:52:08

Quote from: Doggie 1
Very risky wearing a kilt in Manchester though.

He was just hangin' out, so to speak.

Meat & two veg for dinner?

**Reply #14: November 09, 2014, 10:55:41**

Congratulations Brian, great achievement

Surferdude · **Reply #15: November 09, 2014, 11:16:02**

Interesting thing about Brian.
I think the only two forum members he's met are both Aussies.

FatBoy · **Reply #16: November 09, 2014, 11:27:27**

Quote from: Surferdude on November 09, 2014, 11:16:02

Interesting thing about Brian.
I think the only two forum members he's met are both Aussies.

I think I know those two. I've met one and just missed the other.

bumpkin · **Reply #17: November 09, 2014, 14:41:52**

Thank you all for your kind words

Indeed I had a great time in Manchester, the kilt was one of three at the ceremony (but the only award winning one

) and the people of Manchester were extremely complimentary.
Actually our experience was that Manchester is a much more welcoming place than Aberdeen, despite the fact that it rained pretty much for the whole time we were there, I have finally found somewhere wetter than home!!

I had not thought that I had only met Oz members of the forum, indeed this is true, wish I had had more time down south and been able to have had a shambolic enounter, but perhaps next time!!

eye30 · **Reply #18: November 09, 2014, 17:56:30**

Good job you didn't have a wander down canal st in the kilt......then you would have been smothered with welcoming.......

The Gonz · **Reply #19: November 12, 2014, 11:21:12**

... up the canal?

eye30 · **Reply #20: November 12, 2014, 15:27:12**

Quote from: The Gonz on November 12, 2014, 11:21:12

... up the canal?

http://www.canal-st.co.uk/

Aussie Keith · **Reply #21: November 16, 2014, 00:27:50**

Congratulations on an outstanding achievement.