MoT TestBash 2025 - Recollection of Brighton

May 17, 2025

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Fletcher Lynd Seagull's memories of Brighton seafront and West Pier circa mid-80s

I'll be attending my first MoT event, Brighton TestBash 2025, this coming October. Also, I'll be returning to my adoptive hometown of the Eighties, where I'd lived and worked.

I noticed Rosie's posted memory, 'It's space seagull in real life. Making plans for TestBash.', it's image of the seagull looking out across the seafront - seemingly in reflection of past lives - brought to mind a much cherished book of my teens, Jonathan Livingstone Seagull by Richard Bach[1] and a thought to share these old photos, fished from a box of keepsakes, as memories here.

Enjoy and looking forward,

- Síon

[1] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bach, coincidently also father of Jon and James Bach [2], both noted software testers
[2] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Marcus_Bach

Síon Heaney
QA Senior Specialist
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Graduate (Philosophy & CS) from Stirling University '93, living in PNW past few decades. Quite the varied life as a QA analyst by profession, an artist by passion, and insightful one by far
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