Well thank you for that!
And I quote "Neither of us suffer from high blood pressure so we don't give a flip about it!"
Plus I don't think eating marmalade is really the same as "taking bitter orange".
so as above, "thanks for that!"
I see I DID need my helmet!
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Yum yum!!Morning all, sunrise is pretty ...
Marmite and butter melted on crumpets is great ...
Although the doors on the rightMorning all, I hope everyone is well.
tis a damp windy start. Yuk, Tis a bit wet to be clambering about on the roof. Prob do a wee tidy up.
No way im staying in the house I'll get given stuff to do so...............
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I do have a grand-daughter who lives in Wales. she lives with a bloke with a PhD who is mentally a bit, well, he had a break down and now works in a warehouse. We don't know what she does as she changes jobs quite often! But i have a feeling she did for a while work in Bristol.
Shame about the Tata steelworks.
but then such is progress. And of course a lotin Wales voted for Brexit seemingly not realising howm much many of them were benefitting from money directly or otherwise from the EU!Still, glad you don't yet need a visa to visit your holiday home!
Yes, Wales got a good deal out of EU money over the last 30 years. It seems like every road widening scheme, community centre, business park and coastal defence project relied in no small part on EU money. Not to mention the support for farming. The last few thousand jobs are disappearing from what's left of the steel industry. Tata has just trousered a handsome subvention from the government of around half a billion to convert their furnaces to electric arc, but I wouldn't be surprised if they shut up shop in Wales completely in the next few years with rising energy costs. I think the broader problem was that a large number of ordinary people felt left behind by the European project and by the governing classes and their associated cadres of professionals. Having a secure job that is fulfilling and provides an adequate wage, having decent schools for one's kids, having healthcare which is easy to access, timely and effective, finding housing that is affordable and offers security, being able to keep it warm at a reasonable price, maybe even the prospect of a little rising prosperity as time goes by. All these things have been taken away from large swathes of the population over the last ten or fifteen years, in the new zero-hours-contract, minimum wage gig economy. So people are going to vote for things the middle classes disapprove of!I do have a grand-daughter who lives in Wales. she lives with a bloke with a PhD who is mentally a bit, well, he had a break down and now works in a warehouse. We don't know what she does as she changes jobs quite often! But i have a feeling she did for a while work in Bristol.
Shame about the Tata steelworks.
Still, glad you don't yet need a visa to visit your holiday home!
WhiskyLassie
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I did consider it but didn't want a lecture after falling inOooohhhhh!
Please don't fall in through it!!
sorry, just had to do it!!
WhiskyLassie
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Just see it's more for you and wWell thank you for that!
Firstly, do not confuse or conflate the French populatiom at large with their politicians. The French by and large like Brits and many are very grateful for what we did for them or with them in the two WWs.
(Many Parisians who work in public interfacing businesses, are "difficult" with Brits but then they are difficult with everyone!!)
However Politicans, some of them, like to kick the Brits as they think it is a vote winner. But they trod a fine line, most of them, at the time of Brexit as Frexit was very distinctly on the cards, and they weren't the only country thinking like that, for similar reasons.
So when it came to dealing with any exit agreement "they" i.e the yuropeeens, were bound to deal with us harshly in order to "encourager les autres" to NOT go for it!
And of course Barnier just happens to be French. Their chief negotitator could have been any nationality.
So it is not the French that have made it awkward it is the whole of the Schengen area and they have simply applied to us what they apply to people from all countries outside the Schengen area. We queue up with Merkins, Chinese etc etc. so not especially awkward.
So yes, they can come in for 6 months at a time and I have no idea if the Brit immigration peeps stamp their passports or not.
So if M. Grenouille has a "Résidence secondaire" in le Royaume-Uni he can go there for 6 months at a time, no visa needed.
Over that I don't know. I expect it would be like if we wanted to do the same thing, i.e.e some need for a residence card.
But to visit for up to 6 months, apart from a valid passport
"You may also be asked to prove that:
- you’re visiting for tourism
- you’re able to support yourself and your dependents during your trip (or have funding from someone else to support you)
- you’ve arranged accommodation for your stay
- you’re able to pay for your return or onward journey (or have funding from someone else)
- you’ll leave the UK at the end of your visit"
- So fractionally easier than what we had to provide to get the visa, plus they don't have to pay the £250 it costs us each year, plus transport to and from the smoke twice.
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Hippo
Lord Hippo
A rust bucket spreading salt. Chuckle.
Ow! Bet that stung!Mornin.
+6 and drizzle
Get something done today now it's warmer
Had to get my green and red thumb lanced and treated yesterday
Putting hinged drivers seat back in camper shortly
Stay warm and dry all
Once got some brass in my thumb, NEVER again.
Hurt like flip!!
I got copper in my finger tip Thursday, that was very uncomfortable ...
Seville Orange is exactly that - bitter orange. Do a google for effects of Saville oranges.And I quote "Neither of us suffer from high blood pressure so we don't give a flip about it!"
Plus I don't think eating marmalade is really the same as "taking bitter orange".
so as above, "thanks for that!"
I think you might have mis-read the quote - '' might increase blood pressure in healthy people''
WhiskyLassie
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Interesting to know, usually it's people that raise my blood pressure
I'm sure there is a chemical reason why brass or copper is so much more uncomfortable in human skin than steel or cast iron. I think I might have a tiny bit still in my thumb after the business of the tap before Xmas. Just formed a bit of a bump at the mo.
Hope yours heals soon.
That's a lot !!...that it is going to be an expensive month for Energy.
£142.xx this week. That's hard to sustain really. Imagine £560 of your £850 pension going on just keeping warm and systems running. Luckily, the weather is turing.
Mines around £28 per week at the moment
At this time of the year mine is just a bit lower than that mainly because I am using a small electric heater inside the motorhome 24 hrs a day. Come the end of Feb. that will cease and I will be back to about £15 - £18. It must be noted that I use oil for heating etc. and that is about another £15 a week at this time of the year. My bungalow is very well insulated and always toasty with the winter thermostat set at 20 degrees between 7am and 10.30 pm - very little heat is lost overnight and I often have my bedroom window open - unless the outside temp goes into the minus - then I close it!
