OVER 50's & 60's MOVING BACK TO THE UK.
Dec 17th 2010, 2:30 pm
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I think I'm related to some people on here (maybe because we were born in the same country
) because we also use to let the old year out by walking out the back door and then walking in the front door and allowing the New Year to come in. Maybe the same poster who said they got their turkey from Chester. Well it was a tradition for us to pick up Christmas 'poultry' from the railway station in Liverpool. It had been sent by friends who were farmers near Chester.
) because we also use to let the old year out by walking out the back door and then walking in the front door and allowing the New Year to come in. Maybe the same poster who said they got their turkey from Chester. Well it was a tradition for us to pick up Christmas 'poultry' from the railway station in Liverpool. It had been sent by friends who were farmers near Chester.
Dec 17th 2010, 2:38 pm
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We bought a Wired Haired Fox terrier pup in England when we were on holiday and we took him on board the plane. He was a sensation on board because the cabin crew loved him and were parading up and down the isle with him('ell with serving the passenger). They even took him into the cockpit to show the deck crew the little fella they had found. We also loved the attention we got from our souvenir.
Dec 17th 2010, 2:40 pm
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I will be alone on Christmas Day - and have done for many years. I plan on getting up - having coffee with Baileys and chocolate fingers for breakfast. Open my presents, call my family and eat some Quality Street. Then I will make dinner - Bangers and Mash with peas and gravy (I can get some real English sausages from Myers of Keswick in NYC)!! Then I'll go for a long walk to Liberty State Park and when I get home have some Cadbury's Hot Chocolate and whipped cream before snuggling down on the sofa to watch some PBS TV!! 
Dec 17th 2010, 2:48 pm
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Hello Barb, Just for the info of all, Got this in the Emails a few minutes ago. I am on their mailing list (Barber's Estate Agents, Shropshire)::-
[SIZE="4"]Greenacres Way, Newport, Shropshire
Rent Per Calendar Month £525
A recently refurbished bungalow which includes a newly fitted kitchen and bathroom, new carpets throughout and it has been freshly decorated in neutral colours. The accommodation affords entrance hallway, lounge with fireplace, kitchen, lean to store room, two bedrooms and a bathroom, there are front and rear gardens including a driveway and pre fabricated garage. The property benefits from gas fired central heating and double glazing.
[SIZE="4"]Greenacres Way, Newport, Shropshire
Rent Per Calendar Month £525
A recently refurbished bungalow which includes a newly fitted kitchen and bathroom, new carpets throughout and it has been freshly decorated in neutral colours. The accommodation affords entrance hallway, lounge with fireplace, kitchen, lean to store room, two bedrooms and a bathroom, there are front and rear gardens including a driveway and pre fabricated garage. The property benefits from gas fired central heating and double glazing.
this is the listing.
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-...-28721500.html
Dec 17th 2010, 2:54 pm
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I will be alone on Christmas Day - and have done for many years. I plan on getting up - having coffee with Baileys and chocolate fingers for breakfast. Open my presents, call my family and eat some Quality Street. Then I will make dinner - Bangers and Mash with peas and gravy (I can get some real English sausages from Myers of Keswick in NYC)!! Then I'll go for a long walk to Liberty State Park and when I get home have some Cadbury's Hot Chocolate and whipped cream before snuggling down on the sofa to watch some PBS TV!!
Thank goodness for PBS .
Merry Christmas from Indiana !
Dec 17th 2010, 3:30 pm
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Celticspirit...What are your son and daughter doing for Christmas could you spend sometime with them. When I feel lonely I give my dog a hug. Dogs are the best they are true and faithful when I lost my dear dog zoey my best friend last year it nearly broke my heart. I still cannot wipe her drool of the window.
Lorac05, your day sounds lovely. If I wasn't trying to lose weight, I'd follow it step-by-step. As it is, maybe I can have just a few Quality Street toffees. Surely they're not that bad for me ...
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Dec 17th 2010, 3:36 pm
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Awwww Trotty dont be sad..
This is the first Christmas in a long time that I am feeling a sense of hope for the future..Christmas is usually a depressing lonely time for me, but for the first time I have something to look forward too. I am sure that my CT will show that I am cancer free, and I can start a new and happy life in England.
I wish the best for everyone on this thread..and hope 2011 brings everyone, what they hope, and wish for.
Jackie
This is the first Christmas in a long time that I am feeling a sense of hope for the future..Christmas is usually a depressing lonely time for me, but for the first time I have something to look forward too. I am sure that my CT will show that I am cancer free, and I can start a new and happy life in England.
I wish the best for everyone on this thread..and hope 2011 brings everyone, what they hope, and wish for.
Jackie
Dec 17th 2010, 3:54 pm
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Nar, Nar, Cadbury Roses Chocolates is the only way to go.
Dec 17th 2010, 3:55 pm
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I will be alone on Christmas Day - and have done for many years. I plan on getting up - having coffee with Baileys and chocolate fingers for breakfast. Open my presents, call my family and eat some Quality Street. Then I will make dinner - Bangers and Mash with peas and gravy (I can get some real English sausages from Myers of Keswick in NYC)!! Then I'll go for a long walk to Liberty State Park and when I get home have some Cadbury's Hot Chocolate and whipped cream before snuggling down on the sofa to watch some PBS TV!!
Honest to god, this sounds like my kind of day. Really. (I love being with myself.
) I hope you enjoy your special time.We're 'walking' as well on Christmas Day, with London Walks. Here's their description of our walk:
Our afternoon walk is all about the man who some think invented Christmas - he didn't! He re-invented it! Before Mr Dickens and his stories came along Christmas was a rather small celebration on the Christian Calender. It was Dickens who words plumped, fluffed and sprinkled Christmas all over the world. So on Christmas afternoon we celebrate him: his words, his life and his Christmas - A Christmas before Cola turned Santa red. A Christmas in the gaslight. A Christmas in London.
The Charles Dickens Christmas Day walk at 2pm and we willbe talking about Charles Dickens' life and books and influences and of course Christmas and Christmas traditions. It explores the alleyways off The Strand and the Covent Garden area, places rich in Dickensian associations.
Great Expectations, Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and Pickwick all make an appearance and the highlights include London's finest Georgian alleyway and the sole surviving piece of Victorian underworld. A very special walk, not least because there is no traffic that day and we have the streets to ourselves.
The Charles Dickens Christmas Day walk at 2pm and we willbe talking about Charles Dickens' life and books and influences and of course Christmas and Christmas traditions. It explores the alleyways off The Strand and the Covent Garden area, places rich in Dickensian associations.
Great Expectations, Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and Pickwick all make an appearance and the highlights include London's finest Georgian alleyway and the sole surviving piece of Victorian underworld. A very special walk, not least because there is no traffic that day and we have the streets to ourselves.
Dec 17th 2010, 5:52 pm
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hi everyone, back from my ceremony, 81 people from 41 countries and 3 Brits lots of Canadians. It went so smoothly and was so organised.
Lovely lovely ceremony, I was very surprised, had a choir of 4th graders singing a lovely selection of American Patriotic songs...
Old veterans led the national anthem, very nicely done, was not expecting it to be so moving.
Couldnt send of Passport ap. though as "they" did not show up, whoever "they" are.
good luck to everyone else going through the process.
Lovely lovely ceremony, I was very surprised, had a choir of 4th graders singing a lovely selection of American Patriotic songs...
Old veterans led the national anthem, very nicely done, was not expecting it to be so moving.
Couldnt send of Passport ap. though as "they" did not show up, whoever "they" are.
good luck to everyone else going through the process.
Dec 17th 2010, 5:58 pm
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Lorac, sounds like a perfect day and if I was not so far away would come with you!! I agree though think my old teeth would prefer chocolate and not toffee, anyone else noticed as you get closer to 60 those darn things( teeth) seem to get more and more brittle and fewer and fewer......grrrr
Denise1, so happy you had a good time.
Fish enjoy your Christmas with family.
And i want to know where the lovely Barb has gone, come back.......
Trotty what you doing Monday afternoon.......wanna do summat ( thats me Lesta speak coming out).
Denise1, so happy you had a good time.
Fish enjoy your Christmas with family.
And i want to know where the lovely Barb has gone, come back.......
Trotty what you doing Monday afternoon.......wanna do summat ( thats me Lesta speak coming out).
Dec 17th 2010, 6:10 pm
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Re: OVER 50's & 60's MOVING BACK TO THE UK.
I will be alone on Christmas Day - and have done for many years. I plan on getting up - having coffee with Baileys and chocolate fingers for breakfast. Open my presents, call my family and eat some Quality Street. Then I will make dinner - Bangers and Mash with peas and gravy (I can get some real English sausages from Myers of Keswick in NYC)!! Then I'll go for a long walk to Liberty State Park and when I get home have some Cadbury's Hot Chocolate and whipped cream before snuggling down on the sofa to watch some PBS TV!!
Must try to get to a Brit shop for some goodies........
PBS - don't know what I'd do without it, honestly.
Will check in on the 25th......
Dec 17th 2010, 6:15 pm
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Honest to god, this sounds like my kind of day. Really. (I love being with myself. ) I hope you enjoy your special time.
We're 'walking' as well on Christmas Day, with London Walks. Here's their description of our walk:
) I hope you enjoy your special time.We're 'walking' as well on Christmas Day, with London Walks. Here's their description of our walk:
Our afternoon walk is all about the man who some think invented Christmas - he didn't! He re-invented it! Before Mr Dickens and his stories came along Christmas was a rather small celebration on the Christian Calender. It was Dickens who words plumped, fluffed and sprinkled Christmas all over the world. So on Christmas afternoon we celebrate him: his words, his life and his Christmas - A Christmas before Cola turned Santa red. A Christmas in the gaslight. A Christmas in London.
The Charles Dickens Christmas Day walk at 2pm and we willbe talking about Charles Dickens' life and books and influences and of course Christmas and Christmas traditions. It explores the alleyways off The Strand and the Covent Garden area, places rich in Dickensian associations.
Great Expectations, Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and Pickwick all make an appearance and the highlights include London's finest Georgian alleyway and the sole surviving piece of Victorian underworld. A very special walk, not least because there is no traffic that day and we have the streets to ourselves.
The Charles Dickens Christmas Day walk at 2pm and we willbe talking about Charles Dickens' life and books and influences and of course Christmas and Christmas traditions. It explores the alleyways off The Strand and the Covent Garden area, places rich in Dickensian associations.
Great Expectations, Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and Pickwick all make an appearance and the highlights include London's finest Georgian alleyway and the sole surviving piece of Victorian underworld. A very special walk, not least because there is no traffic that day and we have the streets to ourselves.
Wish I could join you - wouldn't that be fun?
Happy, Merry Christmas!
Tanto
Dec 17th 2010, 6:17 pm
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Re: OVER 50's & 60's MOVING BACK TO THE UK.
hi everyone, back from my ceremony, 81 people from 41 countries and 3 Brits lots of Canadians. It went so smoothly and was so organised.
Lovely lovely ceremony, I was very surprised, had a choir of 4th graders singing a lovely selection of American Patriotic songs...
Old veterans led the national anthem, very nicely done, was not expecting it to be so moving.
Couldnt send of Passport ap. though as "they" did not show up, whoever "they" are.
good luck to everyone else going through the process.
Lovely lovely ceremony, I was very surprised, had a choir of 4th graders singing a lovely selection of American Patriotic songs...
Old veterans led the national anthem, very nicely done, was not expecting it to be so moving.
Couldnt send of Passport ap. though as "they" did not show up, whoever "they" are.
good luck to everyone else going through the process.
You're one step closer to Blighty - I'm envious.............
Dec 17th 2010, 7:07 pm
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I would like to apologise to Celticspirit and everybody else that thinks I was being mean and nasty.
I wasn't, I was being flippant, which obviously did not come across too well with the written word.
Nobody likes to be called trite and it was obviously this word that raised my hackles.
I have given CS sympathy in the past over her impending divorce, as I have many other people, and yes I do know what it is like to go through one on your own.
So once again I apologise for making waves on what is normally a peaceful thread.
I wasn't, I was being flippant, which obviously did not come across too well with the written word.
Nobody likes to be called trite and it was obviously this word that raised my hackles.
I have given CS sympathy in the past over her impending divorce, as I have many other people, and yes I do know what it is like to go through one on your own.
So once again I apologise for making waves on what is normally a peaceful thread.
