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biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Evri are delivering some tyres today
Probably...
woodbutchmaster
Veteran
Happy New Year one and all from A mild (16c) and sunny SW France. i'm off for a " steel is real" bike ride 
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Just been delivered as good as they always are
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
Sent application to passport agency. It nearly failed because they want a credit card number and credit cards aren't that common in Germany.
Now I had to send a friend's email so she can confirm Beautiful Daughter's identity. This friend is a former civil servant; she is intrigued by this and wonders how the UK government will be able to confirm her identity.
Now I had to send a friend's email so she can confirm Beautiful Daughter's identity. This friend is a former civil servant; she is intrigued by this and wonders how the UK government will be able to confirm her identity.
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cookiemonster
Squire
- Location
- Hong Kong
cookiemonster
Squire
- Location
- Hong Kong
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Pre lunchtime stroll completed
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Glub, glub, glub... Hello, is that Mr Noah? I'd like to see about a boat...
Yep, piddling with rain here chez Casa Reynard. Slept well, have had a quiet morning that mainly involved re-jigging the fridges in the kitchen and utility room, topping up the wood bins and dumping another 1.5kg net of tangerines into the fruit bowl.
Going to grab an early luncheon and mosey off to Tesco to see what's up for grabs on sticker. Plus the cats are cross because I've run out of ham and I am being mithered for ham. I shall have to rectify that just to save my eardrums. Madam Poppy can shout incredibly loudly when she puts her mind to it...
Yep, piddling with rain here chez Casa Reynard. Slept well, have had a quiet morning that mainly involved re-jigging the fridges in the kitchen and utility room, topping up the wood bins and dumping another 1.5kg net of tangerines into the fruit bowl.
Going to grab an early luncheon and mosey off to Tesco to see what's up for grabs on sticker. Plus the cats are cross because I've run out of ham and I am being mithered for ham. I shall have to rectify that just to save my eardrums. Madam Poppy can shout incredibly loudly when she puts her mind to it...
Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
Well, that didn't last. Popped out to get some shopping about 45 minutes after posting that and it started to rain while I was in the shop. Hasn't stopped since and shows no sign of letting up for quite a while.
Looks like an afternoon in front of the radio. Could someone put the kettle on please.
- Location
- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
Passport office has sent a list of documents they need.
This includes our friend's EU passport. It would have helped if they'd told us about this requirement before we asked our friend to conform Beautiful Daughter's Identity. Then we could have checked that this friend actually has a passport.
If she doesn't the UKPA will get a copy of her ID card and like it.
Japanese passports are surlrisingly easier, although you have to visit the consulate when they are in Stuttgart.
This includes our friend's EU passport. It would have helped if they'd told us about this requirement before we asked our friend to conform Beautiful Daughter's Identity. Then we could have checked that this friend actually has a passport.
If she doesn't the UKPA will get a copy of her ID card and like it.
Japanese passports are surlrisingly easier, although you have to visit the consulate when they are in Stuttgart.
- Location
- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
I have ordered some books on Bay of E. Read and Think in French, and Italian. The copies on Bay are half the price of the ones on Amazon, with free postage.
Amazon give the option of seeing a few pages of the French one: You can scroll down to read the text in French with the important words translated beside it.
Amazon product ASIN 1260474577View: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Think-French-Premium-FOREIGN-LANGUAGE/dp/1260474577/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2XU8EFTW58E5M&keywords=read+and+think+french&qid=1672495071&sprefix=read+and+think+french%2Caps%2C96&sr=8-1
I had decided not to buy any more books, but decided that these would be an exception as they would keep the Leetle Grey Cells working.
So far, so good. I was talking to a friend on the telephone this morning about the cruise she is going on for two weeks, starting next week. We were talking about languages and how the Portuguese (the ship calls at Madeira) do not like people talking to them in Spanish, and I said that in Portugal people prefer you to speak to them in French rather than Spanish.
Also despite learning French, German and Spanish, I found Portuguese extremely difficult and gave up trying. She then went on to say that an elderly lady she knows has just started to learn Korean as she wanted a challenge, although she is unlikely to visit Korea. So far so good. But when I went on the the Amazon site and put "Read and Learn French" in the dialogue box, the first book that comes up was......
"Learn Korean". Is someone listening to my phone calls, or is that just a coincidence?
Amazon give the option of seeing a few pages of the French one: You can scroll down to read the text in French with the important words translated beside it.
Amazon product ASIN 1260474577View: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Think-French-Premium-FOREIGN-LANGUAGE/dp/1260474577/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2XU8EFTW58E5M&keywords=read+and+think+french&qid=1672495071&sprefix=read+and+think+french%2Caps%2C96&sr=8-1
I had decided not to buy any more books, but decided that these would be an exception as they would keep the Leetle Grey Cells working.
So far, so good. I was talking to a friend on the telephone this morning about the cruise she is going on for two weeks, starting next week. We were talking about languages and how the Portuguese (the ship calls at Madeira) do not like people talking to them in Spanish, and I said that in Portugal people prefer you to speak to them in French rather than Spanish.
Also despite learning French, German and Spanish, I found Portuguese extremely difficult and gave up trying. She then went on to say that an elderly lady she knows has just started to learn Korean as she wanted a challenge, although she is unlikely to visit Korea. So far so good. But when I went on the the Amazon site and put "Read and Learn French" in the dialogue box, the first book that comes up was......
"Learn Korean". Is someone listening to my phone calls, or is that just a coincidence?
rockyroller
Guru
- Location
- 20 miles northwest of Boston, MA
wow, didn't see this until I did a quote/reply
