EURO rate
#16
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Val, that's hilarious, I reckon the crowd were clapping at the end cos he was finished - poor old Novo will need a headache pill this morning for sure if he had an evening of that!!
Yay, Stan! Yep, I'm following the euro thing as well, keeping everything crossed it keeps up it's upward crawl which will make our 100,000 euros stretch a bit further - we might even get an indoor loo with the French house at this rate, although from what I've seen in the past it might be more prudent to get an outside one and use the pegs for the washing instead of on me nose!!
Reminds me of one house we looked at near Belves (Dordogne). We were actually looking at the one nearby, and the bloke had an "A vendre" sign on the gate and he was outside when we passed and we got talking to him and he offered to show us around - he was SO proud of his place, and, granted it had a lovely setting and a great bit of land and I was kind of falling for it until we went inside. It was totally unbelievable, but in the bedroom on the ground floor, he actually shoved the bed to one side and lifted a trap door which we thought was the cellar but he kept saying "la fosse, la fosse" really proudly.
Turns out it was the septic tank. Needless to say we left pretty sharpish without having a cup of coffee or a piece of the dodgy looking chocolate cake he was offering .............
Yay, Stan! Yep, I'm following the euro thing as well, keeping everything crossed it keeps up it's upward crawl which will make our 100,000 euros stretch a bit further - we might even get an indoor loo with the French house at this rate, although from what I've seen in the past it might be more prudent to get an outside one and use the pegs for the washing instead of on me nose!!
Reminds me of one house we looked at near Belves (Dordogne). We were actually looking at the one nearby, and the bloke had an "A vendre" sign on the gate and he was outside when we passed and we got talking to him and he offered to show us around - he was SO proud of his place, and, granted it had a lovely setting and a great bit of land and I was kind of falling for it until we went inside. It was totally unbelievable, but in the bedroom on the ground floor, he actually shoved the bed to one side and lifted a trap door which we thought was the cellar but he kept saying "la fosse, la fosse" really proudly.
Turns out it was the septic tank. Needless to say we left pretty sharpish without having a cup of coffee or a piece of the dodgy looking chocolate cake he was offering .............
#17
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you know you'd miss us all too much to stay away for long
You gone local yet and wearing leiderhose
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=OSUgJI...eature=related
You gone local yet and wearing leiderhose
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=OSUgJI...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdIJU...eature=related
If you stop the video at 51 sec, you can see me. I'm the one with the Napoleon hat who is steadfastly refusing to join in the Schaukeling.
#18
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Ha! I can hold my own with a bunch of rabid German football supporters. I'm from the Toon.
#19
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Of course, Novo, of all of us you are probably more able to cope with "rabid German footballers" than anyone! (well praps not better than Ka Ora who would probably shoot em and roast em on his bar b que along with the neighbour's goat!!).
I bet it was a really interesting experience anyway, and glad to see you surfaced ok after all that wondrous German bier.
What would folk predict will happen to the Euro/Pound rate if we get the interest rate cut we are expecting on Thursday? Just heard Richard Branson on News channel saying he tried to get his 400 million out of one of the banks, only to be told "nope, can't have it yet". He said he thought that an interest rate of at least 1% is necessary. That's quite drastic, isn't it?
I am just glad I actually listened (for once) to my Mad Aunt's money whizz husband and kept my £3.58 safe and sound in Lloyds ......
I bet it was a really interesting experience anyway, and glad to see you surfaced ok after all that wondrous German bier.
What would folk predict will happen to the Euro/Pound rate if we get the interest rate cut we are expecting on Thursday? Just heard Richard Branson on News channel saying he tried to get his 400 million out of one of the banks, only to be told "nope, can't have it yet". He said he thought that an interest rate of at least 1% is necessary. That's quite drastic, isn't it?
I am just glad I actually listened (for once) to my Mad Aunt's money whizz husband and kept my £3.58 safe and sound in Lloyds ......
#20
Joined: Apr 2006
Posts: 24,043
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Of course, Novo, of all of us you are probably more able to cope with "rabid German footballers" than anyone! (well praps not better than Ka Ora who would probably shoot em and roast em on his bar b que along with the neighbour's goat!!).
I bet it was a really interesting experience anyway, and glad to see you surfaced ok after all that wondrous German bier.
What would folk predict will happen to the Euro/Pound rate if we get the interest rate cut we are expecting on Thursday? Just heard Richard Branson on News channel saying he tried to get his 400 million out of one of the banks, only to be told "nope, can't have it yet". He said he thought that an interest rate of at least 1% is necessary. That's quite drastic, isn't it?
I am just glad I actually listened (for once) to my Mad Aunt's money whizz husband and kept my £3.58 safe and sound in Lloyds ......
I bet it was a really interesting experience anyway, and glad to see you surfaced ok after all that wondrous German bier.
What would folk predict will happen to the Euro/Pound rate if we get the interest rate cut we are expecting on Thursday? Just heard Richard Branson on News channel saying he tried to get his 400 million out of one of the banks, only to be told "nope, can't have it yet". He said he thought that an interest rate of at least 1% is necessary. That's quite drastic, isn't it?
I am just glad I actually listened (for once) to my Mad Aunt's money whizz husband and kept my £3.58 safe and sound in Lloyds ......
(I was going to invent an even bigger amount...say 2 quid,but don't have a pound sign,stupid portuguese keyboard )
#21
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Sweetie, you watch out - they'll have that 78p regardless - I'd get it out right now if it was me - that's 3.4 cigarettes, that is.
#24
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Hey, Cleri, if you smoke, and have savings with B&B, you might be able to roll up the share certificates and smoke em - probably worth about the same now!!
#26
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Yep, any old port will do too, I remember being caught without fags on a dratted camping trip when I was about 18 and a volunteer youth club worker. Ran out of em at midnight, nowhere in sight, no one to rob, so I found an ingenious way of rolling up Earl Grey tea bags and smoked them. You have to watch out for your hair, but they weren't a bad substitute.
Had nicotine withdrawal in the morning though, should have used the coffee bags .........
Had nicotine withdrawal in the morning though, should have used the coffee bags .........
#27
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Yep, any old port will do too, I remember being caught without fags on a dratted camping trip when I was about 18 and a volunteer youth club worker. Ran out of em at midnight, nowhere in sight, no one to rob, so I found an ingenious way of rolling up Earl Grey tea bags and smoked them. You have to watch out for your hair, but they weren't a bad substitute.
Had nicotine withdrawal in the morning though, should have used the coffee bags .........
Had nicotine withdrawal in the morning though, should have used the coffee bags .........
#28
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Sorry - are you "boggled" by me smoking tea bags or your hangover
Coffee bags can be smoked in order to get the caffeine blast which will help to stop you craving for nicotine in a cigarette.
You are definitely a non-smoker - smokers have all got similar (and sometimes much more frightening and risque) tales of "being caught short" and what they did! Smoking tea and coffee bags is quite tame my friend!!
I won't tell you what my Mad Aunt in Oxford used to do, but it involved magic mushrooms, some sort of humongous fungus on a tree in Whytam Woods and she used to make Loostrife Tea that helped one (let's say) "relax".
A trip to her totally madhouse on Boar's Hill was always hilarious in one way or another.
#29
Joined: Apr 2006
Posts: 24,043
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Sorry - are you "boggled" by me smoking tea bags or your hangover
Coffee bags can be smoked in order to get the caffeine blast which will help to stop you craving for nicotine in a cigarette.
You are definitely a non-smoker - smokers have all got similar (and sometimes much more frightening and risque) tales of "being caught short" and what they did! Smoking tea and coffee bags is quite tame my friend!!
I won't tell you what my Mad Aunt in Oxford used to do, but it involved magic mushrooms, some sort of humongous fungus on a tree in Whytam Woods and she used to make Loostrife Tea that helped one (let's say) "relax".
A trip to her totally madhouse on Boar's Hill was always hilarious in one way or another.
#30
Joined: Apr 2006
Posts: 24,043
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If I was desperate,I could maybe smoke the daily mail......however,the guardian would be favourite