Over 40's Moving Back and Catching Up
Apr 20th 2011, 7:40 pm
#1336
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Apr 20th 2011, 7:44 pm
#1337
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Re: OVER 50's & 60's Chit-Chat & Daily Catch-Up Thread
We drive on the same side over there and it is mostly the same but some different road markings and signs......
But after a few local "trips" up and down roads to visit family I felt pretty confident BUT not enough to go on the motorway tomorrow as my brother suggested.
He said I should drive and he would sit next to me on our way to Manchester but I have chickened out, that is TOO much for a learner like me.
Apr 20th 2011, 7:47 pm
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Re: Off-topic posts from over 50's/60's thread
They call them window washers in the US as far as I can tell. I live in a very modest 3 bedroomed colonial-style house in New Jersey and it has insect screens and (thin) glass storm screens. A couple of years ago I was having the gutters cleaned - it's essential here as there are many trees and the rainfall can be very heavy indeed. The gutter cleaning company also washes windows, so I asked for both jobs to be done.
I had a massive bill - $95 for the gutter cleaning and a whopping $400 to clean the bloody windows!
Needless to say, the next time they get professionally cleaned is when I put the house on the market.
:curse:
I had a massive bill - $95 for the gutter cleaning and a whopping $400 to clean the bloody windows!
Needless to say, the next time they get professionally cleaned is when I put the house on the market.
:curse:
I think most streets in Pompey have there own residential window cleaners, and you see its so easy for those guys cause in my town just about all houses are terraced houses so you get a whole city of thousands of streets with hundreds of houses in every street all joined on to each other, 
Apr 20th 2011, 8:37 pm
#1339
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Re: OVER 50's & 60's Chit-Chat & Daily Catch-Up Thread
http://www.itv.com/itvplayer/video/?Filter=232364
For all Coronation Street lovers, Farewell To Liz..........shown about an hour ago on the telly here and uploaded to ITV player already!!!
Liz McDonald has left Corrie after 20 years.
For all Coronation Street lovers, Farewell To Liz..........shown about an hour ago on the telly here and uploaded to ITV player already!!!
Liz McDonald has left Corrie after 20 years.
Apr 20th 2011, 8:42 pm
#1340
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Re: OVER 50's & 60's Chit-Chat & Daily Catch-Up Thread
Mummy in the foothills.....This is what the sponge looks like. I think you can also get it at Amazon. I am sure if you ask in Lowes or Home Depot they will have them I think thats where I got mine from.
http://www.parish-supply.com/dry_cleaning_sponge.htm
http://www.parish-supply.com/dry_cleaning_sponge.htm
Apr 20th 2011, 8:48 pm
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Re: OVER 50's & 60's Chit-Chat & Daily Catch-Up Thread
http://www.itv.com/itvplayer/video/?Filter=232364
For all Coronation Street lovers, Farewell To Liz..........shown about an hour ago on the telly here and uploaded to ITV player already!!!
Liz McDonald has left Corrie after 20 years.
For all Coronation Street lovers, Farewell To Liz..........shown about an hour ago on the telly here and uploaded to ITV player already!!!
Liz McDonald has left Corrie after 20 years.
Apr 20th 2011, 8:57 pm
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Re: OVER 50's & 60's Chit-Chat & Daily Catch-Up Thread
Yes she has, but hasn't been discounted for coming back for a little occassional visit, it was all a bit teary really LOL!!!
Apr 20th 2011, 9:04 pm
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Re: Off-topic posts from over 50's/60's thread
Have been to Australia but can't remember ever eating the bacon there so I don't know what you left behind bacon-wise. Over this side of the world we can either get Canadian bacon which is a bit like ham though comes in round discs or American bacon which is streaky and very fatty. So that meaty heart of English back bacon is greatly missed until somebody thinks of importing it.
The fatty American bacon does just fine here moistening the breast of a roasted local chicken.
Apr 20th 2011, 9:25 pm
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Re: Off-topic posts from over 50's/60's thread
Exactly Peter - B&B style. And just to be in the dining room at breakfast time and to smell the wonderful British breakfasts being prepared - totally delightful!!
I was just looking at some of the "gastronomical delights" at the link you posted - Lancashire hot pot, etc. and, granted I am not much of a cook, but everything I cook here tastes the same and nothing like the dish would taste if cooked in Britain. My mother was a good cook and even with her USA-cooked British meals, the taste wasn't the same. I don't know if it is because, even though we use the same ingredients, they are different or what the problem could be.
I just know there's nothing like being in the UK and eating the dish the way it is supposed to taste.
I was just looking at some of the "gastronomical delights" at the link you posted - Lancashire hot pot, etc. and, granted I am not much of a cook, but everything I cook here tastes the same and nothing like the dish would taste if cooked in Britain. My mother was a good cook and even with her USA-cooked British meals, the taste wasn't the same. I don't know if it is because, even though we use the same ingredients, they are different or what the problem could be.
I just know there's nothing like being in the UK and eating the dish the way it is supposed to taste.
Apr 20th 2011, 9:25 pm
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Re: OVER 50's & 60's Chit-Chat & Daily Catch-Up Thread
http://www.itv.com/itvplayer/video/?Filter=232364
For all Coronation Street lovers, Farewell To Liz..........shown about an hour ago on the telly here and uploaded to ITV player already!!!
Liz McDonald has left Corrie after 20 years.
For all Coronation Street lovers, Farewell To Liz..........shown about an hour ago on the telly here and uploaded to ITV player already!!!
Liz McDonald has left Corrie after 20 years.
I'm getting old 
Apr 20th 2011, 9:27 pm
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Re: Off-topic posts from over 50's/60's thread
As far as I know Pete, EVERYTHING is ON TOPIC here.............
Apr 20th 2011, 9:30 pm
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Apr 20th 2011, 9:51 pm
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Re: OVER 50's & 60's Chit-Chat & Daily Catch-Up Thread
http://www.itv.com/itvplayer/video/?Filter=232364
For all Coronation Street lovers, Farewell To Liz..........shown about an hour ago on the telly here and uploaded to ITV player already!!!
Liz McDonald has left Corrie after 20 years.
For all Coronation Street lovers, Farewell To Liz..........shown about an hour ago on the telly here and uploaded to ITV player already!!!
Liz McDonald has left Corrie after 20 years.
(oh, another exciting thing about moving to Switzerland is that one can get the English TV stations....when I was in the serviced apartment (near Zug) I was watching Corrie
). I'm never going to learn German if they have English TV there...
Apr 20th 2011, 10:09 pm
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Apr 20th 2011, 10:12 pm
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Re: OVER 50's & 60's Chit-Chat & Daily Catch-Up Thread
