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Forum: Portugal
Aug 6th 2014, 10:27 pm
Replies: 2
Views: 661
Posted By LooseChippings

Re: A villa in the sun with cat?

Thanks very much for this, I'll look into it.
Forum: Portugal
Aug 6th 2014, 3:23 am
Replies: 2
Views: 661
Posted By LooseChippings

A villa in the sun with cat?

We're retired and heading for Faro again in a few days, hoping to find a detached house with garden for a long term or winter let in Central or Eastern Algarve. Our cat is part of the family, but...
Forum: The Rovers Return
Nov 1st 2013, 5:07 am
Replies: 25
Views: 2,524
Posted By LooseChippings

Re: Halloween and feeling like an alien!

Yes, Wolverhampton is not far as the crow flies, but as someone unused to these roads - the speed, twists and turns and endless roundabouts - it's a long way. We like Northamptonshire, it has some...
Forum: The Rovers Return
Nov 1st 2013, 4:51 am
Replies: 25
Views: 2,524
Posted By LooseChippings

Re: Halloween and feeling like an alien!

The great thing about the traditions are that you can leave and come back again a quarter of a century later, and they still carry on - like Corrie! It's the people you leave behind when you move...
Forum: The Rovers Return
Oct 31st 2013, 9:36 am
Replies: 25
Views: 2,524
Posted By LooseChippings

Re: Halloween and feeling like an alien!

After living in 5 different countries, Canada the longest, I'm not sure that I can ever feel I really belong here. The curse of the expat! This is why this forum is such a help, perhaps we are a...
Forum: The Rovers Return
Oct 31st 2013, 9:27 am
Replies: 25
Views: 2,524
Posted By LooseChippings

Re: Halloween and feeling like an alien!

What a wonderfully evocative tale you tell, Bev, and such lyrical prose! You've done my soul good.:starsmile:
Forum: The Rovers Return
Oct 31st 2013, 7:12 am
Replies: 25
Views: 2,524
Posted By LooseChippings

Re: Halloween and feeling like an alien!

No, I don't remember that either, Guy Fawkes ruled and it's good to see it's still going strong. The two events are too close together, and I guess in the long run they'll merge. But much as I love...
Forum: The Rovers Return
Oct 31st 2013, 6:20 am
Replies: 25
Views: 2,524
Posted By LooseChippings

Halloween and feeling like an alien!

This is our first Halloween back in UK. Tentatively asked a neighbour whether we should expect any Trick or Treaters this evening - "Oh no! We don't like that here, it's so American". After 30 years...
Forum: Canada
May 13th 2013, 5:39 am
Replies: 23
Views: 2,018
Posted By LooseChippings

Re: shipping insurance - what to insure?

No, ships don't often sink, but container damage is commonplace - getting dropped during loading, or storm damage at sea when the cargo shifts. We had a couple of thousand dollars of damage on...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
May 13th 2013, 2:15 am
Replies: 24
Views: 3,000
Posted By LooseChippings

Re: Back 6 months and life is good!

Agreed, you have to organise shopping like a military campaign, stopwatch in hand. I think that's why everyone's shopping online and the high streets are struggling.
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
May 12th 2013, 6:34 pm
Replies: 24
Views: 3,000
Posted By LooseChippings

Re: Back 6 months and life is good!

Sunday trading is silly - our little village shop opens quite early, but on Sunday I had to wait at the counter watching the clock until precisely 10 am to buy newspaper, milk and a bottle of wine....
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
May 12th 2013, 6:20 pm
Replies: 24
Views: 3,000
Posted By LooseChippings

Re: Back 6 months and life is good!

The washing machine is [I]resting! No kidding. It locks the door on you, turns a couple of times, takes a tea break, turns, rests, adds a teaspoon of water, then stops for a full lunch break after a...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
May 12th 2013, 10:02 am
Replies: 7
Views: 1,861
Posted By LooseChippings

Re: Reviews of shipping companies back to the UK from Canada?

We shipped from Vancouver to UK last November with Williams. Price was competitive vs. other quotes, service seemed very professional, communications excellent. However one of the 3 packers on site...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
May 12th 2013, 7:32 am
Replies: 24
Views: 3,000
Posted By LooseChippings

Re: Back 6 months and life is good!

Sorry to hear that it may not be on the cards for you, but maybe fate will turn things around? We had the rug pulled out from under our feet when my OH's job ended but it had a silver lining since...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
May 12th 2013, 6:33 am
Replies: 24
Views: 3,000
Posted By LooseChippings

Re: Back 6 months and life is good!

Hello again, feelbritish, are you still hoping to return next year? You're right that we're spoiled in B.C. with lots of floor space, but we managed to find a house here with an old barn. It now...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
May 10th 2013, 10:25 am
Replies: 24
Views: 3,000
Posted By LooseChippings

Re: Back 6 months and life is good!

Thanks, just as well it is working out, we could never afford to do this all over again. But we're happy to live on bread and cheese indefinitely, especially Double Gloucester, Stilton, farmhouse...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
May 10th 2013, 10:17 am
Replies: 24
Views: 3,000
Posted By LooseChippings

Re: Back 6 months and life is good!

Not for long, I'm sure - there are too many pleasant distractions!
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
May 10th 2013, 6:41 am
Replies: 24
Views: 3,000
Posted By LooseChippings

Back 6 months and life is good!

Reporting in now as an "ex" Expat after 30 years near Vancouver. What a roller coaster this has been. In the early days of "ohmygawd what have we done?" BE was an essential emotional crutch as hubby...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
May 9th 2013, 9:31 pm
Replies: 20
Views: 2,835
Posted By LooseChippings

Re: One Year In

Belated congratulations on your one year anniversary! You've been a great source of useful information and I so enjoy your cheerful commentary on your new life in England, and wonderful photos on...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Nov 4th 2012, 4:54 pm
Replies: 15
Views: 1,927
Posted By LooseChippings

Re: UK here we come (again!)

Thank you all so much for your encouragement! Logging off now and will post future notes from our new home.
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Nov 4th 2012, 6:19 am
Replies: 15
Views: 1,927
Posted By LooseChippings

Re: UK here we come (again!)

Actually we bought a new house, mostly over the internet! But I know the village a little and have a sibling nearby. Northants is also very central for travel. We were worried that selling our house...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Nov 4th 2012, 5:59 am
Replies: 15
Views: 1,927
Posted By LooseChippings

Re: UK here we come (again!)

I've heard this - luckily it appears that UK private dentists cost a lot less than here in British Columbia, where dentists are all private. My OH has incurred about $4,000 in charges the past year.
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Nov 4th 2012, 2:54 am
Replies: 15
Views: 1,927
Posted By LooseChippings

Re: UK here we come (again!)

Yes, I read her posts and they're very reassuring. But the cats have to be delivered to Cargo at least 4 hours before the flight and processing at Heathrow will take 4-5 hours, so they have a very...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Nov 4th 2012, 2:48 am
Replies: 15
Views: 1,927
Posted By LooseChippings

Re: UK here we come (again!)

Thanks, and I hope you make it back before too long as well. We were tied in the past by economic necessity but now are free to live in semi-retired genteel poverty in UK. It beats the 5.30 am...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Nov 4th 2012, 2:21 am
Replies: 15
Views: 1,927
Posted By LooseChippings

Re: UK here we come (again!)

Thanks, if1. You'd think that practice (moving) would make perfect but it's a nerve-wracking process!
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