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Forum: Australia
Feb 19th 2026, 10:32 pm
Replies: 39
Views: 11,640
Posted By Rainydaze

Re: Update on Passport Requirements when entering the UK from February 2026

Yes, that's what I'm thinking. Making a silver lining out of a cloud!



It's hard to disagree. Those extra rights to travel, work and live freely in both Europe and Britain, lower visa fees for...
Forum: Australia
Feb 18th 2026, 7:17 pm
Replies: 39
Views: 11,640
Posted By Rainydaze

Re: Update on Passport Requirements when entering the UK from February 2026

Playing devil's advocate, but my mother has asked me why I don't just get my daughter an Irish passport, to which she is entitled. As Irish citizens have the common travel area privilege. And the...
Forum: Australia
Feb 3rd 2026, 6:48 pm
Replies: 39
Views: 11,640
Posted By Rainydaze

Re: Update on Passport Requirements when entering the UK from February 2026

Thank you Rhubarb, that is reassuringly straightforward.
Forum: Australia
Jan 21st 2026, 4:44 pm
Replies: 39
Views: 11,640
Posted By Rainydaze

Re: Update on Passport Requirements when entering the UK from February 2026

Exactly! ETAs and mandatory entrance/exit for its citizens on that country's passport are not policies invented by the Brits.

I won't deny it's going to he a pita bureaucratically, but nothing,...
Forum: Australia
Jan 20th 2026, 12:23 pm
Replies: 39
Views: 11,640
Posted By Rainydaze

Re: Update on Passport Requirements when entering the UK from February 2026

Thank you so much as ever, Pollyanna, for this information. It definitely clarifies the situation for me.

Although I grew up in both Ireland and Northern Ireland, I was born in England in the...
Forum: Australia
Jan 19th 2026, 4:51 pm
Replies: 39
Views: 11,640
Posted By Rainydaze

Re: Update on Passport Requirements when entering the UK from February 2026

Oh my goodness, its quite a torture trying to fathom this. I don't know if I'm adding 2 + 2 and getting 5. Hoping someone can clarify. Apologies if this is a stupid question!

I'm a dual...
Forum: The Barbie
Jan 12th 2024, 6:48 pm
Replies: 466
Views: 76,871
Posted By Rainydaze

Re: Shrimps On The Barbie

I read an interesting book several years ago, “Why You Are Australian.” It was written by a woman for her children, and it was a memoir of her decision to leave the UK and return to Australia to...
Forum: The Barbie
Jan 9th 2024, 6:02 pm
Replies: 466
Views: 76,871
Posted By Rainydaze

Re: Shrimps On The Barbie

Saw a mouse-sized cockroach in a department store today. Checking out the jewellery bargains. Live and let shop.
Forum: The Barbie
Jan 5th 2024, 12:08 pm
Replies: 466
Views: 76,871
Posted By Rainydaze

Re: Shrimps On The Barbie

I haven’t heard that one in a long time, but yes. Thanks Old Sparkles for the link to its origin.
Forum: The Barbie
Dec 31st 2023, 11:45 pm
Replies: 466
Views: 76,871
Posted By Rainydaze

Re: Shrimps On The Barbie

I thought grubby always had that secondary meaning of distasteful or sordid. Easy to see the tabloidisation (!) of grub as someone of unsavoury character. It’s a word my FIL (in his late 70s) uses...
Forum: The Barbie
Dec 25th 2023, 11:10 pm
Replies: 466
Views: 76,871
Posted By Rainydaze

Re: Shrimps On The Barbie

I haven’t been back for 7.5 years. I’ll probably need an interpreter when I finally visit, I’m sure the slang has well and truly moved on :lol:
Forum: The Barbie
Dec 25th 2023, 9:00 pm
Replies: 466
Views: 76,871
Posted By Rainydaze

Re: Shrimps On The Barbie

Firies is my favourite diminutive. Also like bushies (bush flies) but only the word, not the actual pest.
Forum: The Barbie
Dec 25th 2023, 8:55 pm
Replies: 466
Views: 76,871
Posted By Rainydaze

Re: Shrimps On The Barbie

Sorry, only just saw your reply, old sparkles. I love that idea! Ferries before Facebook. Very plausible. I travelled on the ferries a few times as a teen to visit family in England. I definitely...
Forum: The Barbie
Nov 30th 2023, 8:17 pm
Replies: 466
Views: 76,871
Posted By Rainydaze

Re: Shrimps On The Barbie

Here’s a controversy. ‘Minging’ was a term of disparagement in Northern Ireland when I was in my first year of high school, in 1984. No idea where/when it originated, but it’s obviously been...
Forum: The Barbie
Nov 11th 2023, 12:51 pm
Replies: 466
Views: 76,871
Posted By Rainydaze

Re: Shrimps On The Barbie

The thread makes me realise how some milder swear words are dying out, like dipstick. I don’t hear that often anymore, and definitely not in Aus.

I like git. Very straight to the point.
Forum: The Barbie
Nov 7th 2023, 2:17 pm
Replies: 466
Views: 76,871
Posted By Rainydaze

Re: Shrimps On The Barbie

Why do you think so? I read that it’s come via an archaic Spanish gesture equivalent to the v-sign.
Forum: The Barbie
Nov 3rd 2023, 4:56 pm
Replies: 466
Views: 76,871
Posted By Rainydaze

Re: Shrimps On The Barbie

I always assumed berk was a fairly benign expletive. Definitely not in the same league at the c-word.

I nominate skitter, a term used in Ireland to signify hot splattering cow poo at the moment of...
Forum: The Barbie
Sep 16th 2023, 1:59 am
Replies: 76
Views: 14,603
Posted By Rainydaze

Re: Will I Vote In The Referendum?

Good question! I think in part because I don’t think the issues have been interrogated enough before voters go to the polls. A longer national conversation could have given proper time to debate...
Forum: The Barbie
Sep 15th 2023, 10:19 pm
Replies: 76
Views: 14,603
Posted By Rainydaze

Re: Will I Vote In The Referendum?

I’m not a citizen, so I am watching on. I think clarity is lacking in both camps. And whatever the outcome, I will bet my bottom dollar that there is no consensus on why we got that outcome.
Forum: Back Home
Sep 14th 2023, 7:01 pm
Replies: 11
Views: 5,656
Posted By Rainydaze

Re: Home 10 years!!

That’s a lovely full circle OP.

I am nostalgic about going home but realistically I know we have a better life and less binfires in Australia. Bushfires, yes, but less crises. Plus DH Is...
Forum: The Rovers Return
Jul 26th 2023, 7:03 pm
Replies: 13
Views: 6,231
Posted By Rainydaze

Re: How things change..

It sounds as if life has given you some good fortune after recent hardships. A new job will also offer the opportunity for new connections. There is so much upheaval everywhere at the moment that I...
Forum: Canada
Jul 26th 2023, 12:09 am
Replies: 13
Views: 2,026
Posted By Rainydaze

Re: Death of my beloved husband in Nova Scotia

I’m very sorry for your loss, Alvic.

I have no practical advice to offer but agree with PP not to rush any decision about returning to NI. And I say that knowing it is a choice I may face myself...
Forum: The Barbie
Jun 13th 2023, 1:26 pm
Replies: 466
Views: 76,871
Posted By Rainydaze

Re: Shrimps On The Barbie

Smoko is alive-o and well. My favourite shortform is firie. As well as arvo. I had a funny book years ago, a guide to Australia, which explained that words were shortened to expedite the time your...
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