Originally Posted by between two worlds

All GREAT news charleygilr!! thanks so much for telling us what's going on--well done on the job, sounds nice--bungalow sounds lovely and you will have son to help with the garden etc!!!!

Keep us posted, these updates are wonderful,

Tina

Originally Posted by Mummy in the foothills

Hey Rod you should contact the movie theatre and ask them why they don't do a matinee for seniors once in a while, so you can all go and have fun in the daylight hours. I bet you aren't alone in this.

Originally Posted by DDL

Any single expat hairdressers on their way back home? Here's a classified ad in this week's The Lady magazine:
How the other half lives, eh?

Originally Posted by charleygirl

Judes, wonderful update, so very happy for you, Barb, bargains galour to be had here!
Just a very brief update as i am soon yes only 7.30 but at 8 a.m heading out the door to prepare food for about 150 people for the party tonight.
I had a horrible job finding something new to wear yesterday.. i do find clothes expensive and the fashion is Mary Quant type dresses, er great if you have an hour glass figure... which i do not hahaha. Tried on 13 dresses yesterday and in the end said Sod it and went for coffee and an iced bun.
Paid for my rental yesterday............get the keys Monday, cant wait, the lady has a bottle of champagne in the fridge she wants to open with me....
I guess it was her family home her dad was a chec immigrant and he built it, she has had a hard time letting go after he has passed and her mum in a home... It is just beautiful inside with no expense spared..
have a great weekend everyone.
x

Originally Posted by judes

Ok here I am again and Im HOME !! sorry I have been so tardy in replying but things sure got hectic, We both worked up unto 2 days b4 flying and as we are in the tourist trade it was madness. Then we moved from our house ( the one we sold but the sellers let us rent ) to a chalet at our work, slept on plastic covered mattresses for 2 horrible nights . On our day of departure the floods hit, boy what a mess, almost didnt make the airport, but when we did we were dropped at the wrong departure bit, so we called a porter who helped us get to the correct one, except it wasnt and said porter had disappeared so we ended up pushing and kicking and dragging our multiple luggage down the departure hall with my 84 year old Mum dragging along behind ! the adventure continued, we had to much luggage and some was overweight so we ended up paying off the national debt just to get a load of junk home. A very nice lady advised us to carry on one of our bags to save us $70 which we did but we forgot my DH leatherman knife and a heavy spanner was buried in that bag so were searched and it was confiscated !! He was not a happy man, especially as I packed a pyrex dish simply because it was new and I was stupid, DH tells anyone daft enough to listen that I got a dish home and he lost $200 of tools because of it ( gross exaggeration ) anyway we survived the 7 hour flight ( advice, avoid American airlines like the plague, BA they are not ) Saying good bye to my dear friends ( who gave us 3 going away parties ) did not cause me to shed a tear, but seeing no1 son standing waiting at Heathrow did it for me so very happy to be back. The house is not complete, looking at 2 weeks , but it is so sweet, think I am going to call it Rundell's Cottage after my lovely Gran. We have got a car (Peugot 307S) and got insurance for $300, insured the house for around $140 ( sorry pounds, no pound key) and bought the bed. The sofa is giving us big headaches, off searching again tomorrow if I can con DH into coming ! the bottom line is this just feels so RIGHT, I am where I am meant to be. Seeing our 18 month old in bed with her
" Grandman" being read a story was the icing on the cake. Sorry if Ive rambled, I do come on here a lot but havent had time to add anything, so today you all have to suffer !!

Originally Posted by jasper123

Judes I wondered when we would hear from you again, lovely first post on U.K. soil, and really great to hear you already feel that home is where you need to be, so the start of the rest of your life my friend is just ahead of you,
I felt the same way since I steped foot on English soil nine & half months ago, it sure feels good to be home dosent it I know this is where I want to be ------ for good!!!! from now on.
Rodney.

Originally Posted by judes

Ok here I am again and Im HOME !! sorry I have oday you all have to suffer !!

Originally Posted by billy76

Hi Everyone !!!
I and my fiancee are concerned about my eligibility for a spouse visa knowing that I am a Non-European currently a postgraduate student and I am working part time which delivers an income of around 400 pound a month. My fiancee's income is 350 pound a month and she is currently disabled and on benefit -She is English. According to the HO guidance available on their website, we fulfilled all the requirements except the maintenance requirement as our joint income is very low 750 pounds a month. However, I am not sure that the following information could help: I have a saving account of 10.000 pound with Santander in UK and the equivalent of 25.000 pound in my saving account in my Country in North Africa split between Local Currency and Euros. In Addition, I have my own house back home that is worth the equivalent of 70.000 pound and I have recently signed an internship contract with an international company based in USA, UK and Germany. This is a 6 months contract to prepare my master's thesis in their office in Germany and they will be paying me 400 Euros a month the equivalent of 350 pounds a month. My fiancee's dad who owns two houses jointly with his wife -my fiancee's mum- has promised her to write a support letter in case we need it knowing that he earns above 30k pounds a year and has savings as well. Please let me know if this could be helpful to fulfill our maintenance requirements as my fiancee has been looking for a job for quite a while and it looks to be really hard to get one these days. Moreover, I hope you could help us with a sample support letter that my fiancee's dad will need to write in support to our case. Thank you very much in advance

Originally Posted by Beedubya

BTW re trying on all those dresses, I find the clothing here a little smaller than Australia so you may not be the size you thought you were or maybe it's all those chips LOL!!

Originally Posted by judes

It just feels right somehow Rodney doesn't it ? wish we could agree on a bloody sofa tho !!

Originally Posted by sallysimmons

Judes, it's so nice to hear how happy you are - or will be once you agree on a sofa Can't wait to see pictures of the house!

Charleygirl, it sounds like you're the perfect tenant for that nice lady. She can rest easy knowing you'll take care of her house the way it deserves. Congrats again on finding it!

Bee, did we know you smoked? We've all been picking on Rodney and leaving you alone ... until now!

Originally Posted by dontheturner

Welcome home to the Judes Family!
Always a cuppa, up in Shropshire. What the hell is a Leatherman Knife? Perhaps Saddlers use them? Don

Originally Posted by judes

A leatherman knife is a good quality multi tool knife, his came with a leather holder which the damn customs man insisted we kept! Why, he took the knife away !!