MoT TestBash 2025 - Recollection of Brighton
17 May 2025
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,
- SÃon
[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
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,
- SÃon
[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
SÃon 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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