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Forum: USA
Dec 25th 2012, 11:42 am
Replies: 2,189
Views: 336,260
Posted By Jimc_usa

Re: UK Foods in the US Share your finds!

I buy ready made pastry and make the rest myself. I am not a great cook but it works:)
Jan 24th 2008, 3:02 pm
Replies: 16
Views: 2,532
Posted By Jimc_usa

Re: Anyone getting a UK government pension?

I want to thank you - I was VERY pleasntly surprised. I would never have know without you guys and these boards. I will get a terminal gratuity and a monthly pesion until 65 when my government...
Forum: Spain
Dec 24th 2007, 4:37 pm
Replies: 1
Views: 540
Posted By Jimc_usa

Gas or oil furnace?

My sister has a new house outside Alicante - has yet to put in central heating furnace - advice as to whether gas or oil?
Forum: Spain
Dec 4th 2007, 2:48 pm
Replies: 49
Views: 4,922
Posted By Jimc_usa

Re: Rugby in Spain.

I am a computer in another life :D
Forum: USA
Dec 4th 2007, 1:01 pm
Replies: 127
Views: 7,858
Posted By Jimc_usa

Re: What do you miss most?

Black puddings :D
Forum: Spain
Dec 4th 2007, 12:16 pm
Replies: 49
Views: 4,922
Posted By Jimc_usa

Re: Rugby in Spain.

I am new to the forum - my sister has moved to Spain and I am reading everything I can. I live in the US now but played rugby for over 20 years.
Forum: Spain
Dec 3rd 2007, 7:46 pm
Replies: 49
Views: 4,922
Posted By Jimc_usa

Re: Rugby in Spain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_union_in_Spain

If you Google you will get a lot more
Forum: Spain
Nov 30th 2007, 11:47 am
Replies: 11
Views: 10,543
Posted By Jimc_usa

Re: Living in Pinoso

Thank you very much
Forum: Spain
Nov 29th 2007, 6:08 pm
Replies: 11
Views: 10,543
Posted By Jimc_usa

Re: Living in Pinoso

Thanks - just trying to get as much information as I can before we get there.
Forum: Spain
Nov 29th 2007, 2:55 pm
Replies: 11
Views: 10,543
Posted By Jimc_usa

Re: Living in Pinoso

Another question - we are staying downtown Alicante and my sister lives in Torre Del Rico near Pinosa. What is the drive like?
Forum: Spain
Nov 29th 2007, 2:36 pm
Replies: 11
Views: 10,543
Posted By Jimc_usa

Re: Living in Pinoso

We are going to Alicante for Christmas - is the car boot sale every week and can I get directions from downtown Alicante? Thanks
Nov 29th 2007, 1:03 pm
Replies: 18
Views: 977
Posted By Jimc_usa

Re: Fluckin hilarious

The irony of the US justice system is when a liberal judge lets off the criminals and a "well meaning" judge has had enough of cell phones :D
Nov 27th 2007, 4:31 pm
Replies: 2
Views: 496
Posted By Jimc_usa

Re: Spike Milligan anyone?

Personal Quotes
"Money couldn't buy friends but you got a better class of enemy." - Puckoon 1963

"World peace could be a possibility...if it weren't for all those damned foreigners!"

"I don't...
Nov 27th 2007, 4:15 pm
Replies: 84
Views: 14,084
Posted By Jimc_usa

Re: Anyone from Manchester?

I am not sure which was the posh part. We finished up living down Queensway in Clifton.
Bolton Road was the "top road" and Manchester road was the "bottom road". So every Friday night we would go...
Nov 21st 2007, 8:45 pm
Replies: 84
Views: 14,084
Posted By Jimc_usa

Re: Anyone from Manchester?

Bloody hell - I'm from Swinton - small world eh? I remember the Wishing Well and the Palais before that. I used to go to the Talk of the North in Eccles, those were the days
Forum: USA
Nov 21st 2007, 7:50 pm
Replies: 127
Views: 7,858
Posted By Jimc_usa

Re: What do you miss most?

I miss the Saturday afternoon football match and a good pint of bitter.

I miss the bread, the pickled onions, oxo cubes and Bisto gravy.
I miss a good curry, liqorice allsorts and real tea.
I...
Nov 15th 2007, 11:41 am
Replies: 16
Views: 2,532
Posted By Jimc_usa

Re: Anyone getting a UK government pension?

Thank you so very much - I had no idea. Been gone to long I guess.
I have emailed the pertinent depts and await an answer.
Nov 14th 2007, 5:15 pm
Replies: 16
Views: 2,532
Posted By Jimc_usa

Re: Anyone getting a UK government pension?

I believe you have to have 22 years before you get a pension.
Nov 14th 2007, 2:11 pm
Replies: 16
Views: 2,532
Posted By Jimc_usa

Re: Anyone getting a UK government pension?

Thanks for the info - I printed the form from their web site and mailed it off today. I included my army rank and number so they should find me.
I didn't keep up any payment - didn't know I could,...
Nov 14th 2007, 12:13 pm
Replies: 16
Views: 2,532
Posted By Jimc_usa

Re: Anyone getting a UK government pension?

Thanks for the web site - I emailed them and got a reply within 24 hours.
I will email them for a forecast. I was in the British army for 12 years and a couple of years before that working - so...
Nov 13th 2007, 4:35 pm
Replies: 16
Views: 2,532
Posted By Jimc_usa

Anyone getting a UK government pension?

I am a couple of years away from UK pension age and I wanted to get all the scoop on how to clain and whether it was worth while doing so, We go back to the UK every couple of years, so I thought it...
Sep 4th 2007, 1:07 pm
Replies: 13
Views: 1,679
Posted By Jimc_usa

Re: Minneapolis anyone?

Actually married an American girl, 35 years ago and came to the US in '79,
but thank you anyway. Chicago is where I first landed and the traffic frightend the hell out of me until I got used to it....
Aug 14th 2007, 7:21 pm
Replies: 25
Views: 1,016
Posted By Jimc_usa

Re: England can have him!

Smacks of "Big Brother" to me!
Aug 14th 2007, 7:18 pm
Replies: 21
Views: 831
Posted By Jimc_usa

Re: English Premier League football

Surely you're not serious. Rooney may have a mouth on him, but nobody deserves to have his foot broken by a bad tackle.
Aug 9th 2007, 7:30 pm
Replies: 47
Views: 2,822
Posted By Jimc_usa

Re: Visa overstay

I wondered what a shoe had to do with it? :D
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