pete0 Posted October 10, 2019 Report Share Posted October 10, 2019 Just read an article in the echo saying there's a water park near by in Coventry. Since when has 200+ miles been near by? https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/family-kids-news/first-look-inside-36m-water-17058323?fbclid=IwAR0CUI0jQC8CqQmidKXjDlOFgC1xpREb2rHk9HGaFLasmXILcxo3LbXlMZM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnh Posted October 10, 2019 Report Share Posted October 10, 2019 Her indoors has bad arthritis in her hands. Recently, this resulted in having to have her wedding ring cut off to be made larger by having a gold segment welded in. I got the estimate today (£175) which was less than I expected. I still have the receipt for when I bought the ring in 1959 - 8 pounds 10 shillings. How times change eh. Still it was about a weeks wages at the time. Would have been embarrassing if the jeweller's had charged for a brass segment! MikeO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete0 Posted October 10, 2019 Report Share Posted October 10, 2019 33 minutes ago, MikeO said: 117 miles according to google maps but still not exactly local! https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Liverpool/Coventry/@52.9148796,-2.8134073,9z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x487adf8a647060b7:0x42dc046f3f176e01!2m2!1d-2.9915726!2d53.4083714!1m5!1m1!1s0x4870b151656e22b7:0x4f660f5564f0689!2m2!1d-1.519693!2d52.406822!3e0 Cheers. My mistake, I'd misread the comments about the drive being over 2 hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palfy Posted October 10, 2019 Report Share Posted October 10, 2019 2 hours ago, MikeO said: 117 miles according to google maps but still not exactly local! https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Liverpool/Coventry/@52.9148796,-2.8134073,9z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x487adf8a647060b7:0x42dc046f3f176e01!2m2!1d-2.9915726!2d53.4083714!1m5!1m1!1s0x4870b151656e22b7:0x4f660f5564f0689!2m2!1d-1.519693!2d52.406822!3e0 Love it, if you’re going to post facts make sure you’ve done your homework, because Mike certainly is . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted October 10, 2019 Report Share Posted October 10, 2019 12 minutes ago, Palfy said: Love it, if you’re going to post facts make sure you’ve done your homework, because Mike certainly is . It just didn't sound right because I drove my mum up to Coventry years ago to pick up a car she'd bought and I remember in being a reasonable distance in a northerly direction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palfy Posted October 11, 2019 Report Share Posted October 11, 2019 9 hours ago, MikeO said: It just didn't sound right because I drove my mum up to Coventry years ago to pick up a car she'd bought and I remember in being a reasonable distance in a northerly direction. Most places are in a northerly direction you live MikeO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete0 Posted October 24, 2019 Report Share Posted October 24, 2019 https://iheartintelligence.com/mother-98-care-home-look-after-80-year-old-son/?fb=iis&fbclid=IwAR2dqaQiqCOwmhGH1xUqjA5KcfOVOki3Rm93eoDdOj-MQXpXGouJsPf9K9g Poor bugger finally moves out of his mams at the ripe old age of 80 (to a care home, bless him) only for his mum to come join him a year later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted October 24, 2019 Report Share Posted October 24, 2019 I used to do a lot of work for these people many years ago... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-50165998 ....they produced educational English Literature recordings for O and A-level students (it was while recording for them that I spent the day/had lunch with Judi Dench). I've known about this story for some years and I'm very relieved to say that the guy I dealt with and who produced all the recordings, can't begin to count the number of hundreds of hours I spent recording and editing with him, was one (perhaps the only one) of the "good guys". He was a monk called Edmund Flood and I found a couple of mentions of him in a blog from one of the victims a while back... "I tried to stand up against Pearce, Soper and the whole rotten shower of moral bankrupts in charge of that school in the 1970s. I found myself labelled as a troublemaker and, more seriously, a thief. I believe that Pearce and one of "his boys" set me up for this charge. The only man who defended me was Dom Edmund Flood, a terrifying-looking but deeply good man, who I heard was later exiled to some shithole in Africa for "rocking the boat" at the Abbey. If anyone knows more about Flood's fate, I'd be grateful for information because I remember him with gratitude for his efforts. But they were futile because I was ultimately expelled..." Comment (on blog) followed below, in 2010... "Your courageous correspondent will be sad to know that Fr. Edmund Flood died within the last two years. I believe he was in his late seventies. Sadly for such an intelligent man his obituary indicated that he had suffered from Alzheimer's in his final years. I remember him from my visits to Ealing in the 70's when I think he was indeed regarded as a bit of an odd man out." pete0 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete0 Posted October 25, 2019 Report Share Posted October 25, 2019 https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/hero-ken-loachs-question-time-20719770?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mirror_main&fbclid=IwAR013BgcRv8t1Svg8y1GHkDgytr_jmb57PA2ogjoL7SiU4XXqyKhmzceUMQ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted October 25, 2019 Report Share Posted October 25, 2019 Gotta love karma... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50180755 Romey 1878 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete0 Posted December 11, 2019 Report Share Posted December 11, 2019 https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/boss-stuns-200-workers-handing-21068799?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mirror_main&fbclid=IwAR040jQFfpjkp2CCfEdfnFndQZbsZABRhh_3kbzrhzixmkoKkPXj4-wGamA Romey 1878, Palfy and Matt 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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MikeO Posted December 20, 2019 Report Share Posted December 20, 2019 5 hours ago, pete0 said: Pass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Matt Posted December 20, 2019 Popular Post Report Share Posted December 20, 2019 Well we’re off to the US now for Christmas and New Years in the republican homelands of Ohio and Kentucky. In case I don’t get on much, I wish you all the best for the festive period and will speak to you latest in the new year Sibdane, pete0, Romey 1878 and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romey 1878 Posted December 20, 2019 Report Share Posted December 20, 2019 1 hour ago, Matt said: Well we’re off to the US now for Christmas and New Years in the republican homelands of Ohio and Kentucky. In case I don’t get on much, I wish you all the best for the festive period and will speak to you latest in the new year Have a good one, Matt. Matt 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markjazzbassist Posted December 20, 2019 Report Share Posted December 20, 2019 5 hours ago, Matt said: Well we’re off to the US now for Christmas and New Years in the republican homelands of Ohio and Kentucky. In case I don’t get on much, I wish you all the best for the festive period and will speak to you latest in the new year where in ohio? i live in cleveland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted December 20, 2019 Report Share Posted December 20, 2019 57 minutes ago, markjazzbassist said: where in ohio? i live in cleveland In the sticks south east of Colombus overnight for New Years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markjazzbassist Posted December 20, 2019 Report Share Posted December 20, 2019 13 minutes ago, Matt said: In the sticks south east of Colombus overnight for New Years dang, only about a 2 hour drive from me, not too far. if you ever end up there for a while i'd make the drive to grab a beer man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bailey Posted December 20, 2019 Report Share Posted December 20, 2019 6 hours ago, Matt said: Well we’re off to the US now for Christmas and New Years in the republican homelands of Ohio and Kentucky. In case I don’t get on much, I wish you all the best for the festive period and will speak to you latest in the new year And you pal, enjoy! Matt 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted December 20, 2019 Report Share Posted December 20, 2019 1 hour ago, markjazzbassist said: dang, only about a 2 hour drive from me, not too far. if you ever end up there for a while i'd make the drive to grab a beer man. Thanks Mark, I’ll make sure the wife pens it in next time markjazzbassist 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted December 20, 2019 Report Share Posted December 20, 2019 7 hours ago, Matt said: Well we’re off to the US now for Christmas and New Years in the republican homelands of Ohio and Kentucky. In case I don’t get on much, I wish you all the best for the festive period and will speak to you latest in the new year Our Christmas (minutely planned as is always is due to too many kids and grand-kids) had a spanner thrown in the works this afternoon by mother-in-law becoming bed-ridden by injuring her back. She said she didn't bang it hard (on a book-case) but at 89 and all skin and bone she's a bit flimsy, she was supposed to be flying out to Amsterdam tomorrow but I've now had to take my wife up to look after her for the week-end; managed to rearrange flight for Monday so fingers crossed she'll be up and about by then. Matt 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted December 20, 2019 Report Share Posted December 20, 2019 Well we thought we were but, of course, because were flying through Paris the first flight is cancelled because of a strike... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted December 20, 2019 Report Share Posted December 20, 2019 54 minutes ago, Matt said: Well we thought we were but, of course, because were flying through Paris the first flight is cancelled because of a strike... So you're still in Switzerland? Have you got alternative stuff sorted out? Last minute cancelled flights are a bitch, we had one a couple of years back where the info came via text about twelve hours before take off. I doubtless moaned about it on here, cost us four days off our holiday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted December 20, 2019 Report Share Posted December 20, 2019 1 hour ago, MikeO said: So you're still in Switzerland? Have you got alternative stuff sorted out? Last minute cancelled flights are a bitch, we had one a couple of years back where the info came via text about twelve hours before take off. I doubtless moaned about it on here, cost us four days off our holiday. Yeah, rebooked (the girl was great once I finally got connected)but a different airport now so have to get to Zurich tomorrow morning. all down to the French being French. What I found briefly amusing was the SMS Air France sent, apologising for the inconvenience but to contact this special number between time 9am and 9pm. Received it at 9:15 pm and our connection was at 10am from Paris the next day, so an effectively useless message Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Zoo 2.0 Posted December 24, 2019 Popular Post Report Share Posted December 24, 2019 Driving down to Wrexham for Christmas Eve with my better half to see her folks before travelling back up North for Christmas Day. Merry Christmas to everyone on ToffeeTalk and wishing you a prosperous and healthy 2020. May this be the year of success and happiness. Three points against Burnley would be nice too ! Palfy, Bailey, Matt and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted December 24, 2019 Report Share Posted December 24, 2019 4 hours ago, Zoo 2.0 said: Driving down to Wrexham for Christmas Eve with my better half to see her folks before travelling back up North for Christmas Day. Merry Christmas to everyone on ToffeeTalk and wishing you a prosperous and healthy 2020. May this be the year of success and happiness. Three points against Burnley would be nice too ! Enjoy Zoo. I am spending four nights at my mother-in-laws with my wife in the Mendip hills while she's in Amsterdam (we took her to the airport yesterday and it was one of the most stressful days of my life, won't go into detail). We're right at the end of a farm track in a shepherds cottage around 400 years old, total isolation and peace; Glastonbury Tor in the distance, love it. Christmas will pass us by until we get back on Friday with a big family dinner which is great for everyone other than me who can't eat much and can't drink because I'm driving. Actually don't mind at all because if they're all having a great time that's what matters to me! Matt, pete0 and Zoo 2.0 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted December 25, 2019 Report Share Posted December 25, 2019 Even got sunshine! Matt, Zoo 2.0, holystove and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete0 Posted January 5, 2020 Report Share Posted January 5, 2020 https://inews.co.uk/news/environment/greta-thunberg-sharon-mastermind-mistake-twitter-biography-1355363?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=fb&utm_campaign=ijp&fbclid=IwAR1EmR0JAQ3arZZRubRNaoEvJC1dlTTnvE1to_O4sipGPLhoinBUMTIyX3s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted January 14, 2020 Report Share Posted January 14, 2020 Sorry, need to rant about a few things... It's looking likely that we return to England. I still don’t want to, but there’s more important things and we need to be around family more. The job search is still on going here, with a few avenues still "open" (i.e. not been rejected quickly and are apparently still being processed), so who knows. Hopefully will have enough funds to get us through end of June before we're in relative trouble. However, moving to a cheaper place in Switzerland without a proven income seems near impossible, even though my contribution to the unemployment benefits means I should get 80% of my current salary which should cover a place 80% cheaper than where we currently are. Especially as C is picking up extra hours (and demand) at her school. Add to that we have to give at least 3 months’ notice (i.e. pay 3 months more than we might necessarily need to) … Anyway… June is an important dead line for another reason - E will finish her school year so we wouldn't have to pull her out of what she knows completely and drop her into something new at 5 years old. We'd ideally be able to leave end of June, she says goodbye to school, then have summer holidays whilst we settle in to wherever we find (England or Switzerland). Found out today that we don’t need to register her for the local school in England until 6 weeks before, although we would need a residency (either my parents or sister whilst we find our own place)… which for me and E isn’t an issue. But it would be an issue for C unless I have work, which I may not have by then. To the main part of the rant… When we got married, we had never lived in England and the requirements for the marriage visa was 10 days residence (which we did in a hotel). We then got married and that was that. But, now that we’re looking to settle in England (at which point will be pretty much 10 years married) she can’t apply for a spouse visa unless I have work. That’s even considering I will have back paid all my national insurance, wouldn’t be claiming benefits and have a guaranteed residency even if unemployed! All of this would mean she’d potentially have to leave E with me and commute between Switzerland and England until I found work.... Edit: The rant just got a lot shorter after reading the structure of the visa requirements, which looks like we can apply for C's spouse Visa now... Or maybe not... Even the embassy is confusing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palfy Posted January 14, 2020 Report Share Posted January 14, 2020 25 minutes ago, Matt said: Sorry, need to rant about a few things... It's looking likely that we return to England. I still don’t want to, but there’s more important things and we need to be around family more. The job search is still on going here, with a few avenues still "open" (i.e. not been rejected quickly and are apparently still being processed), so who knows. Hopefully will have enough funds to get us through end of June before we're in relative trouble. However, moving to a cheaper place in Switzerland without a proven income seems near impossible, even though my contribution to the unemployment benefits means I should get 80% of my current salary which should cover a place 80% cheaper than where we currently are. Especially as C is picking up extra hours (and demand) at her school. Add to that we have to give at least 3 months’ notice (i.e. pay 3 months more than we might necessarily need to) … Anyway… June is an important dead line for another reason - E will finish her school year so we wouldn't have to pull her out of what she knows completely and drop her into something new at 5 years old. We'd ideally be able to leave end of June, she says goodbye to school, then have summer holidays whilst we settle in to wherever we find (England or Switzerland). Found out today that we don’t need to register her for the local school in England until 6 weeks before, although we would need a residency (either my parents or sister whilst we find our own place)… which for me and E isn’t an issue. But it would be an issue for C unless I have work, which I may not have by then. To the main part of the rant… When we got married, we had never lived in England and the requirements for the marriage visa was 10 days residence (which we did in a hotel). We then got married and that was that. But, now that we’re looking to settle in England (at which point will be pretty much 10 years married) she can’t apply for a spouse visa unless I have work. That’s even considering I will have back paid all my national insurance, wouldn’t be claiming benefits and have a guaranteed residency even if unemployed! All of this would mean she’d potentially have to leave E with me and commute between Switzerland and England until I found work.... Edit: The rant just got a lot shorter after reading the structure of the visa requirements, which looks like we can apply for C's spouse Visa now... Or maybe not... Even the embassy is confusing! Sounds like a minefield, if you have to return to the UK what part of the country would better suit your employment talents, or wouldn’t that be an issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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