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Forum: Central, South America & Mexico
Apr 9th 2024, 12:43 am
Replies: 9
Views: 945
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Guyana - a curiosity

It iw their primary language but what has that got to do with anything?
Forum: Central, South America & Mexico
Apr 7th 2024, 2:07 pm
Replies: 9
Views: 945
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Guyana - a curiosity

Lots if you are a citizen of guyana, or a certified oil or gold mining engineer via one of the exploration companies otherwise none.
Forum: Rest of the World
Mar 28th 2024, 10:19 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,103
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Back in the Day

Here in Grenada, beautiful stamps depicting nature are a big business still for the postal corporation, Tourists still seem to like and buy them. They actually dont put glue on the back any more,...
Forum: Barbados
Jan 3rd 2024, 9:46 am
Replies: 3
Views: 636
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Solicitor for Wills

Remember a will that is written in clear unambiguous english, properly witnessed, is unlikely to be a problem, the only weasel words are those related to handling trusts, and also the statement that...
Forum: Barbados
Jan 3rd 2024, 9:41 am
Replies: 3
Views: 636
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Solicitor for Wills

I am in a similr situation. I have serious legal representation in the UK, they wrote my will and was advised that they could write it in plain english which though not as bullet proof as a uk...
Forum: Rest of the World
Jan 1st 2024, 12:59 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,103
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Back in the Day

No never, but I did have a relative who owned a sports car manufacturer, that folded but it became a famous sports car dealer…. Porsche west London was owned by the Fraser Nash Co. Old man Nash...
Forum: Rest of the World
Dec 24th 2023, 3:16 pm
Replies: 310
Views: 32,103
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Back in the Day

I’ve had a German car with French tyres that never needed air in its tyres ever.

BUT they never had air, they were nitrogen filled, apparently the gas has bigger molecules or something like that. ...
Forum: Rest of the World
Dec 12th 2023, 7:46 pm
Replies: 310
Views: 32,103
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Back in the Day

Remember! I still have one in London, a 1930’s Bentley supercharged. Scary device, if you get it wrong, it’ll break your fingers.

It lives in air conditioned splendour 360 days of the year, and...
Forum: Rest of the World
Dec 2nd 2023, 9:28 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,103
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Back in the Day

Oh yes, i have no doubt that other civilisations revered numbers. Masons for example dont refer to god, the organisation believes in a higher being but what you call it is irrelevant. They refer to...
Forum: Rest of the World
Nov 6th 2023, 1:51 pm
Replies: 310
Views: 32,103
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Back in the Day

Its also about geometry, any freemason can explain:

Classical antiquity. The Pythagoreans invested particular numbers with unique spiritual properties. The number seven was considered to be...
Forum: Central, South America & Mexico
Sep 24th 2023, 12:44 pm
Replies: 9
Views: 945
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Guyana - a curiosity

The route to guyana is either via panama or trinidad from the caribbean, but i believe there are also a few direct transatlantic services to the region?
Forum: Central, South America & Mexico
Sep 24th 2023, 12:41 pm
Replies: 9
Views: 945
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Guyana - a curiosity

Guyana is definitely the new eldorado in that region, GDP growth since 2020 is about 80%, there are massive resources, some of which are still very much in their infancy. Oil is this years or...
Forum: Barbados
Aug 17th 2023, 7:04 pm
Replies: 7
Views: 1,113
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Self Build

Of course to add insult to injury, its the deemed value, plus shipping and insurance cost, on which duty gets charged then vat on all the preceding....
Forum: Barbados
Aug 17th 2023, 7:03 pm
Replies: 7
Views: 1,113
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Self Build

VAT is charged on the value that customs deem the tools to have - unless you have an exception that confirms they are duty free. The odd drill will likely be allowed as personal effects then you are...
Forum: Rest of the World
Jul 18th 2023, 12:42 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,103
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Back in the Day

Love to meet up one day, here or there?

we all have an interesting story, but never get maudlin, there is more always.

this is penned to use an obsolete word on Ariapita ave in port of Spain...
Forum: Rest of the World
Jul 4th 2023, 12:45 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,103
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Back in the Day

Men love the concept of children but not so much the work, expense even. I remember a report saying a child by majority costs the same as a high end Porsche.

This man prefers to love his lovers,...
Forum: Rest of the World
Jul 4th 2023, 12:41 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,103
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Back in the Day

I think men and women are remarkably similar generally but individual variation is wide. In other words women are as horny and love sex as much as men do, but men and women individually vary a lot...
Forum: Rest of the World
Jun 30th 2023, 8:45 pm
Replies: 310
Views: 32,103
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Back in the Day

Relationships are complex for sure. I spent 30 years with a wife who I eventually divorced some years after she decided a physical relationship was no longer something she was interested in.

I...
Forum: Rest of the World
Jun 3rd 2023, 6:45 pm
Replies: 1
Views: 671
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: moving uk state pension payments abroad...

Have you ascertained what the route for payment with them to your country is?

if there is no partnership then it can’t happen .
Forum: Barbados
Apr 15th 2023, 10:38 am
Replies: 7
Views: 1,113
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Self Build

As i'm not quite so big on 'grumpy old man' as you, i'll simply say

Have a nice day!

NB technically in the caribbean they are usually a part of one of the structures re-enforced rafts, not...
Forum: Barbados
Apr 14th 2023, 1:15 pm
Replies: 7
Views: 1,113
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Self Build

A reply from Grenada, not Barbados, but - some of this is relevant.

Sheds here are mandatory! Well they are always the first thing to go up.... Necessary to protect cement and other things from...
Forum: Barbados
Apr 8th 2023, 10:56 am
Replies: 6
Views: 922
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Welcome Stamp Questions

You realise the cost of the visa and that you cant extend it after 12 months - that was discussed then but i dont think they ever allowed it. If it is your intent to relocate permanently this is not...
Forum: Barbados
Apr 8th 2023, 10:49 am
Replies: 6
Views: 922
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Welcome Stamp Questions

The answers are yes to the apt, and i think yes to the car but i cant prove that 100%, but you can of course rent one long term, the procedures are all online in various websites. You need to have...
Forum: Caribbean
Jan 31st 2023, 10:05 am
Replies: 2
Views: 884
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Fawlty Towers in the caribbean

Well it occurred. A small number of people actually turned up to toil in the sun. They did about the same as the government team would do in about the same time, but curiously it was the same...
Forum: Caribbean
Jan 26th 2023, 9:51 am
Replies: 2
Views: 884
Posted By uk_grenada

Fawlty Towers in the caribbean

The machinations of people in the caribbean continue to give me great amusement.

I live in a community that has a community interest group on whatsapp. So- someone decided that a patch of rough...
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