Stanleysteamer said:
This goes over my head as we only ever make Seville orange marmalade, in fact W has just bought the ingredients and will be on it this weekend. Will she make yet more of it with a whisky additive?
Let's hope so!
We have Dutch friends who crave it so much she messes with them by sending them pics of the oranges before, etc etc etc!!!

Lime marmalade is for kids and wusses! ditto lemon.
There, I've said it!
"Helmet on" time!
:eek: :eek: :eek:
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Can't stand any of thrm
 
Stanleysteamer said:
This goes over my head as we only ever make Seville orange marmalade, in fact W has just bought the ingredients and will be on it this weekend. Will she make yet more of it with a whisky additive?
Let's hope so!
We have Dutch friends who crave it so much she messes with them by sending them pics of the oranges before, etc etc etc!!!

Lime marmalade is for kids and wusses! ditto lemon.
There, I've said it!
"Helmet on" time!
:eek: :eek: :eek:
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I quote:
High blood pressure: Taking bitter orange, especially together with caffeine, might increase blood pressure in healthy people. Avoid using bitter orange, especially in combination with stimulants such as caffeine, if you have high blood pressure
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Imagine for a moment that you had bought a holiday home in Scotland or Wales. Obviously you would have expected to have been able to go there whenever you wanted to.
Then something bonkers happened and all of a sudden you needed to go through complex and time consuming paperwork to spend a reasonable amount of time there and this was limited so if you went there for 6 months you then couldn't go again for 6 months? How would @Brown for instance feel about that?
That is how we and thousands of other Brits feel.
Why the flip should one have to take Welsh or Scottish citizenship just to be able to go to the place where you pay a full year's local taxes?
The whole thing stinks. Especially as any European who wants to come and spend 6 months over here just has to saunter over. No need for a visa or anything.
Thankfully the frogs realise the unfairness of this and in the very near future we will no longer have to go throught this.

And no, I never voted leave.
So I really am having trouble understanding your post. I think it is tongue in cheek.
It is easy to both get into France and back if you want to go for 90 days or less, but any longer than that and it is a different story, UK to France. Pain in the rear. The other way it's a piece of pistachio.
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And that my friend sums it nicely as it is 👍👍👍
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Imagine for a moment that you had bought a holiday home in Scotland or Wales. Obviously you would have expected to have been able to go there whenever you wanted to.
Then something bonkers happened and all of a sudden you needed to go through complex and time consuming paperwork to spend a reasonable amount of time there and this was limited so if you went there for 6 months you then couldn't go again for 6 months? How would @Brown for instance feel about that?
That is how we and thousands of other Brits feel.
Why the flip should one have to take Welsh or Scottish citizenship just to be able to go to the place where you pay a full year's local taxes?
The whole thing stinks. Especially as any European who wants to come and spend 6 months over here just has to saunter over. No need for a visa or anything.
Thankfully the frogs realise the unfairness of this and in the very near future we will no longer have to go throught this.

And no, I never voted leave.
So I really am having trouble understanding your post. I think it is tongue in cheek.
It is easy to both get into France and back if you want to go for 90 days or less, but any longer than that and it is a different story, UK to France. Pain in the rear. The other way it's a piece of pistachio.
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Well, they've been doing so over the last three or four years. During the Covid years they delighted in having different rules to England. I passed police roadblocks but never got pulled myself. In that part of the world as a middle aged man in a Land Rover with a roll of fencing wire in the back I'm virtually invisible. The police were pulling in young women in hatchback cars mostly. I did check the rules each time I travelled and farming, forestry and land management were never restricted. Bodies like the NFU and Country Landowners' Association are pretty powerful in that respect. You can't easily be completely off grid in this country but the next best thing is to be on as many grids as possible. If you're not allowed to travel as a holidaymaker, you can travel as a farmer, for example. Recently of course there's been a lot of talk about charging people who have second homes, via higher rates of council tax for example. There are people in the Welsh Assembly Government who would like a hard border. One of the difficulties with Wales is that there isn't really an 'economy' as such. There's a thriving public sector which creates a middle class, and a bit of work in tourism which is rather seasonal. There's farming of course, but the overall drift of agricultural policy is less on food production and more toward enlisting farmers in doing odd jobs like mending dry stone walls and planting trees, countryside stewardship and the like. So no matter how much you'd like to live in Wales, if you want a job you have to look towards England, or even further afield. So any property you have there is likely to be occupied less than full time.

Looking back to the Thatcher years in this country, she's actually starting to look like quite an astute politician.There was lots of anti-European rhetoric at home to keep the Eurosceptics happy, yet she never threatened the wider European Union project, or Britain's part in it. I never understood it at the time, but in hindsight that was probably rather clever, and balanced the constituencies of opinion in a way that David Cameron and Nick Clegg were incapable of doing.
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Imagine for a moment that you had bought a holiday home in Scotland or Wales. Obviously you would have expected to have been able to go there whenever you wanted to.
Then something bonkers happened and all of a sudden you needed to go through complex and time consuming paperwork to spend a reasonable amount of time there and this was limited so if you went there for 6 months you then couldn't go again for 6 months? How would @Brown for instance feel about that?
That is how we and thousands of other Brits feel.
Why the flip should one have to take Welsh or Scottish citizenship just to be able to go to the place where you pay a full year's local taxes?
The whole thing stinks. Especially as any European who wants to come and spend 6 months over here just has to saunter over. No need for a visa or anything.
Thankfully the frogs realise the unfairness of this and in the very near future we will no longer have to go throught this.

And no, I never voted leave.
So I really am having trouble understanding your post. I think it is tongue in cheek.
It is easy to both get into France and back if you want to go for 90 days or less, but any longer than that and it is a different story, UK to France. Pain in the rear. The other way it's a piece of pistachio.
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Yes, it was entirely tongue in cheek. Good to see you have the nub of it readily to mind.
In your situation the French make it hard, the Brits not so much. So we know who it is that is being awkward.
Now, how does Msr. Le Grenouille fare if he has a second home here in the UK and wants to go back and forth 6Mths at a time?
What is the situation then? How hard do we make it for him, do you know?
 
DanClarke said:
Yes, it was entirely tongue in cheek. Good to see you have the nub of it readily to mind.
In your situation the French make it hard, the Brits not so much. So we know who it is that is being awkward.
Now, how does Msr. Le Grenouille fare if he has a second home here in the UK and wants to go back and forth 6Mths at a time?
What is the situation then? How hard do we make it for him, do you know?
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But you are missing the point the UK caused the issue (freedom of movement )
 
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