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Old May 11th 2009 | 12:05 am
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Originally Posted by hobbitess
Scared to type anything, will just stick with black

Thats interesting as one of our group planning to go to NS is convinced the furniture is so much cheaper, however as family with two drains on resources I will be taking as much as poss! Including the
The won't work here so don't bother bringing them.
 
Old May 11th 2009 | 2:29 am
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Originally Posted by Simon Legree
The won't work here so don't bother bringing them.
You could have them rewired in Canada which may be expensive and difficult or change the plug and bring bulbs (110V). We did that for two special lamps of mine, we brought enough bulbs to last a long time.

Using UK lamps with UK wiring may cause problems with household insurance, sure I remember someone mentioning that.....
 
Old May 11th 2009 | 2:35 am
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Originally Posted by purple80
You could have them rewired in Canada which may be expensive and difficult or change the plug and bring bulbs (110V). We did that for two special lamps of mine, we brought enough bulbs to last a long time.

Using UK lamps with UK wiring may cause problems with household insurance, sure I remember someone mentioning that.....
Silly me. I thought the OP was referring just to light bulbs.
 
Old May 11th 2009 | 2:36 am
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Originally Posted by Simon Legree
Silly me. I thought the OP was referring just to light bulbs.

You could very well be right!
 
Old May 11th 2009 | 2:02 pm
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Originally Posted by Onefut
only if you promise to stop stalking my fonts
jod done
As you said, jod done.

Thank you.
 
Old May 11th 2009 | 2:24 pm
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If i could do it again........hmmmm

Take the job offer and relocation when it was offered 7yrs ago
But not looking back as i have some fab friends here in town and i actually love our location now....
ONLY thing i would like to change was the selling price of our old house, if we hadnt listened to the estate agent we would of sold it earlier for a bigger profit, O WELL..thats life
 
Old May 12th 2009 | 6:20 am
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not given our address out!
 
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Originally Posted by mardyarse
not given our address out!
sorry, re-phrase: if we could do it again and change something yes, not given our address out!
 
Old May 12th 2009 | 7:03 am
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Originally Posted by mardyarse
sorry, re-phrase: if we could do it again and change something yes, not given our address out!
To who or what company??
Maybe worth giving the info to future people who are looking at doing the move
 

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