OVER 50's+ MOVING BACK TO THE UK - Part II
Mar 19th 2011, 11:28 pm
#5056
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Re: OVER 50's & 60's MOVING BACK TO THE UK - Part II
Just about all the slate quarrying is closed. Llanrwst is more sheep farmer territory. I never did go for those farm boys smelly beggers.
Heres one for you, small village, my friend and her Dh moved there. http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-...-31925891.html Looks like the bathroom needs a do over.
Heres one for you, small village, my friend and her Dh moved there. http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-...-31925891.html Looks like the bathroom needs a do over.
Mar 19th 2011, 11:32 pm
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You know if we started a thread on UK property I think we could pass 50/60's thread, in the number of postings, because of our interest in that area. But that would throw it wide open to every one so I'm happy to keep it in our lovely circle.
Mar 19th 2011, 11:33 pm
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Re: OVER 50's & 60's MOVING BACK TO THE UK - Part II
It's Saturday night as I type this and we've had a lovely day. It was beautiful - sunny and dry! 
We got up early this morning and drove to Westfield, a huge mall in Shepherd's Bush. I absolutely hate clothes shopping - but I need new clothes as I've lost (and am still losing) a good bit of weight since moving back to England and my clothes are beginning to look baggy!
Anyway, it's a beautiful mall, we got there nice and early, and I picked up several pieces of clothing from the really nice M&S there.
Tony (a man who LOVES shopping, has the wardrobe of a King, and NEVER pays full price for ANYTHING) got a beautiful Jeff Banks herringbone wool winter coat for next year. Cost: £125...but he got it on sale for £36.50!!!!!!!! He wears Big & Tall and he's ALWAYS finding bargains like that. Really ticks me off.
We only spent a couple of hours at the mall, then headed over to East Sheen to visit Tony's son, daughter-in-law, and grandson. Had a great visit. Chatted over cups of tea, walked to the local park, browsed along the High Street, then wandered back home through an area of beautiful mews cottages.
After that, we did our weekly Tesco shop (yawn) - then came home and watched Ireland beat the **** out of England at the Rugby. (But England has still won Six Nations, overall, on points.)
Tomorrow - another great weather forecast - I'm going to try and talk him into us going down to Polesdon Lacey: http://bit.ly/36tZhO
And next week-end, we're down in Devon for 3 days (we're both taking Monday off work) to visit Castle Drogo and A la Ronde. We expect to have a newborn grandchild (in Plymouth) by then, so we'll probably also pop by there for a visit.
We have two 4-day bank holiday week-ends in April and are trying to decide where to go/what to do. We also have tickets in April to this and this
And that's just us getting started.
So much to see and do ... exactly what we came back for!
We got up early this morning and drove to Westfield, a huge mall in Shepherd's Bush. I absolutely hate clothes shopping - but I need new clothes as I've lost (and am still losing) a good bit of weight since moving back to England and my clothes are beginning to look baggy!
Anyway, it's a beautiful mall, we got there nice and early, and I picked up several pieces of clothing from the really nice M&S there.
Tony (a man who LOVES shopping, has the wardrobe of a King, and NEVER pays full price for ANYTHING) got a beautiful Jeff Banks herringbone wool winter coat for next year. Cost: £125...but he got it on sale for £36.50!!!!!!!! He wears Big & Tall and he's ALWAYS finding bargains like that. Really ticks me off.
We only spent a couple of hours at the mall, then headed over to East Sheen to visit Tony's son, daughter-in-law, and grandson. Had a great visit. Chatted over cups of tea, walked to the local park, browsed along the High Street, then wandered back home through an area of beautiful mews cottages.
After that, we did our weekly Tesco shop (yawn) - then came home and watched Ireland beat the **** out of England at the Rugby. (But England has still won Six Nations, overall, on points.)
Tomorrow - another great weather forecast - I'm going to try and talk him into us going down to Polesdon Lacey: http://bit.ly/36tZhO
And next week-end, we're down in Devon for 3 days (we're both taking Monday off work) to visit Castle Drogo and A la Ronde. We expect to have a newborn grandchild (in Plymouth) by then, so we'll probably also pop by there for a visit.
We have two 4-day bank holiday week-ends in April and are trying to decide where to go/what to do. We also have tickets in April to this and this
And that's just us getting started.
So much to see and do ... exactly what we came back for!
Mar 19th 2011, 11:35 pm
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Re: OVER 50's & 60's MOVING BACK TO THE UK - Part II
The train is a heck of a way from Eglwysbach but there are buses into Llandudno, Conwy etc.
Mar 19th 2011, 11:48 pm
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Re: OVER 50's & 60's MOVING BACK TO THE UK - Part II
Mar 19th 2011, 11:52 pm
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Re: OVER 50's & 60's MOVING BACK TO THE UK - Part II
Of course, glad we are all different, otherwise we would all be competing for the same place
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Mar 20th 2011, 12:03 am
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Re: OVER 50's & 60's MOVING BACK TO THE UK - Part II
I REALLY like Buxton. My brother and I took the bus there in the 90s, OS map in hand and walked across the fields to Arbor Lowe (a henge older than Stonehenge - no big stones though) and the Nine Maidens. I was going to suggest Derbyshire as a much underestimated area of beautiful scenery.
Mar 20th 2011, 12:15 am
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!Here is my plan
:- when Spring arrives, clean up yard, get rid of stuff
- in the meantime go through house, sell things
- List house for sale
- Hectie my Golden has had his shots and microchip, blood test next week
- can move Sept at soonest (6 month rule for dog)
- wait and hope and pray for house to sell
- and then I am on my way
IF my house sells for a reasonable price, I hope to buy a small property in UK but will probably rent for a few months to look around.
Where is up in the air but I am leaning towards SW or Cotswolds.
Mar 20th 2011, 12:20 am
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I know what you mean Tina... I am trying to catch up with the posts !
Here is my plan :
IF my house sells for a reasonable price, I hope to buy a small property in UK but will probably rent for a few months to look around.
Where is up in the air but I am leaning towards SW or Cotswolds.
!Here is my plan
:- when Spring arrives, clean up yard, get rid of stuff
- in the meantime go through house, sell things
- List house for sale
- Hectie my Golden has had his shots and microchip, blood test next week
- can move Sept at soonest (6 month rule for dog)
- wait and hope and pray for house to sell
- and then I am on my way
IF my house sells for a reasonable price, I hope to buy a small property in UK but will probably rent for a few months to look around.
Where is up in the air but I am leaning towards SW or Cotswolds.
Did you find it easy to find a DFEA (I think that's it) vet?
Mar 20th 2011, 12:33 am
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Re: OVER 50's & 60's MOVING BACK TO THE UK - Part II
Close for those of us used to driving an hour to work or whatever but for British people this is a BIG day out LOL!!
I remember years ago I came back to the UK with my (then) husband on holiday, we got up one day and he said "Let's go to the Lake District" we were staying with my mum so of course she was included in the day trip, well she got up and we told her where we were going, well you should have heard her "THE LAKE DISTRICT for a day trip??" Like we were going to Outer Mongolia or the Great Wall Of China LOL!! She then proceeded to make sandwiches and a flask of tea for our arduous journey of 1 and a half hours. 
I remember years ago I came back to the UK with my (then) husband on holiday, we got up one day and he said "Let's go to the Lake District" we were staying with my mum so of course she was included in the day trip, well she got up and we told her where we were going, well you should have heard her "THE LAKE DISTRICT for a day trip??"
Like we were going to Outer Mongolia or the Great Wall Of China LOL!! She then proceeded to make sandwiches and a flask of tea for our arduous journey of 1 and a half hours. Ha ha ha, the ubiquitous flask of tea and sandwiches. I remember as a child feeling quite mystified when my mother would pack this big bag of food and drinks. We never had a car so every Sunday we would go to the bus station and say "Mmmm where shall we go today?". We would get on a bus into the countryside and walk all the way home across the fields, having a picnic at some lovely place along the way. I have vivid memories of woods full of Bluebells and still have a large picture on my wall of such a scene.
Wherever I end up, one of my first purchases will be OS maps to see what ancient places exist out there in the fields, where the footpaths are. I hope to do lots of walking.
Mar 20th 2011, 12:54 am
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Sounds like a great weekend DDL. Do you put the weight loss down to having no car of your own? I do find I am walking a lot more here, even if only to the local shops, as I have no car so have no choice if I need something.
Jeff Banks has a great bedding range, I have my eye on a duvet cover and runner in a local T.J. Hughes here.......so well done Tony on the coat.
I feel like I have come out of a kind of fog this last week as before that I was just SOOOO tired and kind of out of sorts. My head is all over the place as to where to work/live. I am putting the airline job in London to the back of my head as it seems it will be going on for many months ahead.
If I am offered the local job I went for an interview for on Thursday I will not take it as I don't want to live around these parts, so am now looking at Manchester airport or Liverpool city centre. I may have already written this but honestly that Rightmove has done my head in today, it's soooo addictive, I have been all over the country today - I started off looking at sheltered housing this morning in the Wirral and ended up looking at furnished flats in Liverpool central..........aaarrggghhhhhhh
Jeff Banks has a great bedding range, I have my eye on a duvet cover and runner in a local T.J. Hughes here.......so well done Tony on the coat.
I feel like I have come out of a kind of fog this last week as before that I was just SOOOO tired and kind of out of sorts. My head is all over the place as to where to work/live. I am putting the airline job in London to the back of my head as it seems it will be going on for many months ahead.
If I am offered the local job I went for an interview for on Thursday I will not take it as I don't want to live around these parts, so am now looking at Manchester airport or Liverpool city centre. I may have already written this but honestly that Rightmove has done my head in today, it's soooo addictive, I have been all over the country today - I started off looking at sheltered housing this morning in the Wirral and ended up looking at furnished flats in Liverpool central..........aaarrggghhhhhhh
Mar 20th 2011, 12:55 am
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Re: OVER 50's & 60's MOVING BACK TO THE UK - Part II
and now for something different... I just took a break from the computer to have me tea and I got to look at CNN on TV and it looks like all heck is breaking out in Libya with the NATO forces firing missiles like they were M&Ms on Libya. I'm so so glad that this is not a US led effort and I got to admire the British for being one of the leaders along with France in this military operation. I say this because as we all know the UK is trying to cut back on its military spending so it comes as a great sacrifice.
No Doc Martin tonight because it is plead night on PBS.
No Doc Martin tonight because it is plead night on PBS.
Mar 20th 2011, 1:11 am
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! I am not actually terribly impressed but there are only 2 vets on the island and though I would prefer the other one, this one has found a new lab to send the blood tests to that charges about $100 less. Hectie just tore his cruciate ligament and I have put over $350 this vet's way in the past 3 weeks, which has an impact on my monthly expenses.When the blood test results are in I shall do what someone else on this forum did and fax the papers to the pet arrivals area of Heathrow to make sure they are in order.
Still so many details to be worked out
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Mar 20th 2011, 1:26 am
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I am using the DEFRA website as a guide and training the vet ! I am not actually terribly impressed but there are only 2 vets on the island and though I would prefer the other one, this one has found a new lab to send the blood tests to that charges about $100 less. Hectie just tore his cruciate ligament and I have put over $350 this vet's way in the past 3 weeks, which has an impact on my monthly expenses.
When the blood test results are in I shall do what someone else on this forum did and fax the papers to the pet arrivals area of Heathrow to make sure they are in order.
Still so many details to be worked out !
! I am not actually terribly impressed but there are only 2 vets on the island and though I would prefer the other one, this one has found a new lab to send the blood tests to that charges about $100 less. Hectie just tore his cruciate ligament and I have put over $350 this vet's way in the past 3 weeks, which has an impact on my monthly expenses.When the blood test results are in I shall do what someone else on this forum did and fax the papers to the pet arrivals area of Heathrow to make sure they are in order.
Still so many details to be worked out
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