Originally Posted by Mummy in the foothills

Send Bee (she can take her sister as a thanks for letting me stay), I bet she could do with a tour after all that interviewing and flat hunting.

Originally Posted by Beedubya

Oh yes Pauline I am up for it!!!!!!!!!!! Though my sister is in Turkey and will be off to Paris next week, maybe I could take my other sister or even my mother LOL!!

What about Rodney and his mum? Or Jackie and her mum? I never even thought of that thinking we HAD to fly out of the USA...........not thinking of those of us that are already here!!

Originally Posted by Beedubya

Then I stand corrected, maybe it's just that the Aussie's seem to have claimed it as their own invention LOL!!

Wow no way are we having HOT weather like you down south. Well a few days have been hot enough for even me to sit in the shade, but not every single day. It is 8.19am here and is overcast but I have noticed that the mornings tend to be like this and then the sun comes out about 12 o clock.

On Friday night we had a massive storm, lightening, rain and even HAILSTONES and an hour later it had gone and the next day on Saturday was a lovely sunny day, so it's a bit more of a mix up North I think.

Originally Posted by Pistolpete2

You've got me there!

I'm thinking of spending time in the Canterbury area and Herne Bay is one of the hottest places in the UK, in spite of being on the coast. Plus the humidity can be unbearable in the south east. I've lived thirty years in Bermuda so know all about humidity and high temperatures. Don't particularly want to replicate that! Scotland sounds good!

The trouble is, the British Summer is the star attraction.

Originally Posted by Beedubya

You now have the digital free channels Rodney, it was introduced area by area in and around 2009, when I was in the Lake District it was just coming into play and my old TV wouldn't pick up any of the new channels, just the standard BBC, ITV and so on. So your Sony TV is one of the new digital TV's, and what a cheap price for a Sony 42".

Originally Posted by jasper123

Oh thanks a lot Barb for the info, I had no Idea about the introduction of the digital free channels in 2009, I wondered why when we bought this new TV we could all of a sudden get all these extra channels ----- I love it !!!!

Originally Posted by Beedubya

Oh yes Pauline I am up for it!!!!!!!!!!! Though my sister is in Turkey and will be off to Paris next week, maybe I could take my other sister or even my mother LOL!!

What about Rodney and his mum? Or Jackie and her mum? I never even thought of that thinking we HAD to fly out of the USA...........not thinking of those of us that are already here!!

Originally Posted by dunroving

It's called Freeview, if you are getting it from a regular aerial (i.e., not connected to a Sky dish):

http://www.freeview.co.uk/

We can't get it where I live, so I went with Freesat, also free, but needs a Sky dish:

http://www.freesat.co.uk/

Kinldy donated by the government, essentially for free. Isn't it wonderful living in a socialist country?

Originally Posted by windsong

It's got me thinking about Scotland again, too. Who wants crowds of people, gridlock and heat!

Originally Posted by dunroving

It's called Freeview, if you are getting it from a regular aerial (i.e., not connected to a Sky dish):

http://www.freeview.co.uk/

We can't get it where I live, so I went with Freesat, also free, but needs a Sky dish:

http://www.freesat.co.uk/

Kinldy donated by the government, essentially for free. Isn't it wonderful living in a socialist country?

Originally Posted by windsong

What more could anyone ask for - free TV stations, NHS, beautiful countryside, trains . . .

The rest is gravy!!!

Originally Posted by Mummy in the foothills

Great idea, that way someone gets to use it and no plane tickets to Buy, Jackie, you or Rod, could toss a coin or two, but watch out those two lived in Vegas

Originally Posted by dunroving

Kinldy donated by the government, essentially for free. Isn't it wonderful living in a socialist country?

Originally Posted by Pistolpete2

As cheers mentioned a while back, the Scots want to stay put in the Lothians and Fife in retirement while the English invariably move to places like Devon and Dorset.