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Re: OVER 50's+ MOVING BACK TO THE UK - Part II
Originally Posted by sallysimmons
(Post 10329370)
We used to put them in the oven. I think that was cheating too :confused:
Scientific evidence re: spider and conkers http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=pdZRMM2VSR4 (hint, it's rubbish!) |
Re: OVER 50's+ MOVING BACK TO THE UK - Part II
Originally Posted by jasper123
(Post 10328674)
Yes cheers I would love to play a game of conkers with you, how did we get the conker on the end of the string? did we make a hole through the conker and thread the string through and tie a knot in the end? cant quite remember, but you had to smash the others conker by hitting it with force and smashing it right! anyway great fun, we had a lot of things to amuse ourselves when we were kids didn't we ----- and all these things were free :)
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Re: OVER 50's+ MOVING BACK TO THE UK - Part II
Originally Posted by jasper123
(Post 10328674)
Yes cheers I would love to play a game of conkers with you, how did we get the conker on the end of the string? did we make a hole through the conker and thread the string through and tie a knot in the end? cant quite remember, quite a few people on here like me and you cheers and of course Don and many others were born before TV was invented, and no vcr,s or computers, so no playstations ;) etc etc
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Re: OVER 50's+ MOVING BACK TO THE UK - Part II
Originally Posted by dontheturner
(Post 10330191)
I can remember Dad having only the old Accumulator, and rather large High Tension Battery, for the Radio,to listen to Neville Chamberlain's announcement of the outbreak of war, on it......Wowee!
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Re: OVER 50's+ MOVING BACK TO THE UK - Part II
Originally Posted by mikelincs
(Post 10329917)
We used to use one of those old meat skewers, the metal ones that had a twist in htem, you can still get them in places, and carefully make the hole from the shiny surface to the hard bottom piece, you did it that way because if you tried the opposite way you always got a small split on the surface which was a starting advantage to your opponent. We would never play with, or against anyone who had either baked or pickled their conkers, it jsut wasn't fair.
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Re: OVER 50's+ MOVING BACK TO THE UK - Part II
Originally Posted by ukgalch
(Post 10325781)
I came onto this forum hoping it would be full of tips for moving back...like eligibility for health care and such like! Should I be looking elsewhere?
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Re: OVER 50's+ MOVING BACK TO THE UK - Part II
maybe time to start part III ? :D
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Re: OVER 50's+ MOVING BACK TO THE UK - Part II
On a lighter note, I do enjoy reading the posts still, I just move on if it gets boring or silly, there is still good info here and we can still post questions to bring it back to topic
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Re: OVER 50's+ MOVING BACK TO THE UK - Part II
Linda,
Nice to hear from you. That diversification probably came about because the thread sometimes became very slow. On topic. We are planning an investigating trip May of next year. North Wales, Cotswold and Kent. Cheers |
Re: OVER 50's+ MOVING BACK TO THE UK - Part II
Originally Posted by bandrui
(Post 10330820)
You make a very good point, ukgalch. The Chit-Chat thread was started as a home for the general chit-chat but it seems that this thread is now more of a social chat room than of any real assistance to those planning a move back to the UK.
So thread closed, please continue the "chit-chat" here. Other topics can have separate threads, so feel free to start those if you have questions about certain subjects or want to share info. Thanks all Sue |
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