They dun't need financial checks if yer not borrowing but eye bet they made some identity checks. When yer sent the money uk to france yer own back would have done checks int background. All part of standard fraud checks.
Obvs the purchase of the land had to go through the Frog equivalent of the solicitor who acts for the state anyway, so he checked our IDs. As for the bank, they just asked us what the money was for we told them, that was that. Ditto the building costs. Which did not involve the "notaire". Every time we send money over the exchange people ask us the reason which is always for maintenance, taxes and living costs associated with being over there. Never a problem.
 
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Australian?
Screw top bottle?

Seriously???????🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Only joking!!
We aren't snobs usually but when you see programmes about how the aussies make wine producing millions of gallons of the stuff in plants that look like an oil refinery, when you know that to "oak" wines some of them just dangle net bags of oak chips in the vats like tea bags, etc etc, I'm afraid it puts us off somewhat.
Not tarring them all with the same brush mind. There are some jolly good ones to be had.
This one sounds OK
"Classic Aussie Shiraz with rich blackcurrant flavours and a smooth, lingering finish.

“This family owned, Riverina-based business has always aimed higher than most of its peers, and has not hesitated to use winemaking methods more commonly reserved for higher priced wines…” James Halliday"
 
Australian?
Screw top bottle?

Seriously???????🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Only joking!!
We aren't snobs usually but when you see programmes about how the aussies make wine producing millions of gallons of the stuff in plants that look like an oil refinery, when you know that to "oak" wines some of them just dangle net bags of oak chips in the vats like tea bags, etc etc, I'm afraid it puts us off somewhat.
Not tarring them all with the same brush mind. There are some jolly good ones to be had.
This one sounds OK
"Classic Aussie Shiraz with rich blackcurrant flavours and a smooth, lingering finish.

“This family owned, Riverina-based business has always aimed higher than most of its peers, and has not hesitated to use winemaking methods more commonly reserved for higher priced wines…” James Halliday"
I very much like the "19 Crimes" Red wine from Australia. Very smooth and tasty. c. £7/btl.
 
Can someone tell me what "queued" means on an email which is just a picture, that I am trying to send from my flipping mobile to my laptop about 3" away from it?
It hasn't moved and I don't seem to be able to find out how to post the flipping thing.God I HATE mobile phones.:mad::mad::mad:
 
You do know that we have been burgled twice and our shed broken into once? 🤣
Thankfully the peeps that dun it are a local gang so they now know there is no point as we never leave anything behind that is useful to them. ;)

Yer utter scum :mad: id board the windows up & send the wife home & have enough food n beer for a couple of weeks
& wait for them to come in then smack them about with a baseball bat. Needs to be the alloy ones as the wooden ones
do break but then you have 2 bits, one for each hand 🤣🤣
 
If anyone else is on "Nextdoor" they will probably read endless sorties of being in supermarkets when peeps walk in, fill trollies and just push them out the "in" door. The staff having been told not to intervene for danger of getting hurt by the thief.
I read them on my local one.
Yes, I've had students who've worked for major retailers in part time jobs and they tell me that's what they're told by their employers. Plus 'There's no point calling the police because they don't come'. This isn't for people with the odd bag of crisps or packet of sausage rolls, it's trolleyloads of stuff. So while I wasn't actually present at my homeless acquaintance's escapades, the account didn't seem to be too outlandish in the light of what I'm hearing elsewhere. And what I'm reading in the local news. One or two people might be making this sort of thing up so as to be able to tell melodramatic anecdotes of course, but when a larger number of people tell you the same sort of thing, you start to wonder whether it might actually be happening.

I'm old enough to remember many moons ago when organisations like Class War (remember them?) were glorifying shoplifting, and making it seem chic and subversive. Now it just seems rather sordid.
 
Yer utter scum :mad: id board the windows up & send the wife home & have enough food n beer for a couple of weeks
& wait for them to come in then smack them about with a baseball bat. Needs to be the alloy ones as the wooden ones
do break but then you have 2 bits, one for each hand 🤣🤣
The thing is that they know when you've gone. Last time was exactly one week after we'd left and I'd gone back to work. I had to take a week off work without being able to warnt he headmaster in advance. Fortunately he was OK about it.
But yes, I get what you say and would love to do that!!
Did I tell you about the peeps in the same village who woke up to find that the guard dog who was sleeping outside their bedroom door, as usual, had killed a burglar during the night?
We were in the vets and told them about our burglary, she said that that morning the police brought a dog to them to check it wasn't mad nor nuffin. They said it wasn't so it didn't get put down as it was judged to have simply done its job! Then she told us the story. Whoever it was in the village has kept very quiet about it, as we don't know who it was.
Another pair of neighbours got burgled and told us that their dog was in the house but didn't bark, so they have to assume that he knew the burglars and didn't see them as the enemy!
They trooly is scum! :mad: :mad:
 
The thing is that they know when you've gone. Last time was exactly one week after we'd left and I'd gone back to work. I had to take a week off work without being able to warnt he headmaster in advance. Fortunately he was OK about it.
But yes, I get what you say and would love to do that!!
Did I tell you about the peeps in the same village who woke up to find that the guard dog who was sleeping outside their bedroom door, as usual, had killed a burglar during the night?
We were in the vets and told them about our burglary, she said that that morning the police brought a dog to them to check it wasn't mad nor nuffin. They said it wasn't so it didn't get put down as it was judged to have simply done its job! Then she told us the story. Whoever it was in the village has kept very quiet about it, as we don't know who it was.
Another pair of neighbours got burgled and told us that their dog was in the house but didn't bark, so they have to assume that he knew the burglars and didn't see them as the enemy!
They trooly is scum! :mad: :mad:

Wooof 🤣
 
Glad you get it so cheap! It is a nice wine isn't it?
It is between 3 and 4 times cheaper than ones in most places in the UK.
I tried to photograph the wine we were drinking with our dins this evening, on my flipping mobile.
The pic is on the phone but I cannot email it to my lappy to upload it here.
(Steam coming out of the ears!!!) :mad: :mad: :mad:
It is one of the ones we only consume on high days and holidays. Named after one of the daughters of the owner of the vineyard, who is a lovely woman.
€20 odd at their place so a lot cheaper than what you can buy it at if you can even find it in a wine shop, which you can't easily!
Lovely, oaked, white wine which went very well with the Pork Stroganoff I cooked for us.
 
We watched the whole thing.
W being a retired IT auditor was not surprised that the so-called "forensic accountants" weren't very good.

The whole thing was down to computer faults and then to people going in and mucking about with stuff, which they should never have done and, as far as she knows, is totally illegal.
So she feels that the post office should have sued Fujutsu, not the sub postmaters as they should never have been allowed to have so much power to do what they did.

Felt so sorry for the poor victims.
Contract was supply and support. Fujitsu would have always had access.
 
If anyone else is on "Nextdoor" they will probably read endless sorties of being in supermarkets when peeps walk in, fill trollies and just push them out the "in" door. The staff having been told not to intervene for danger of getting hurt by the thief.
I read them on my local one.
Sainsberrys has started fitting extra barriers to reduce this. Forces yer to travel in and oot past more cameras. It were on the news about staff being hurt so backing away. So everyone knows.
 

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