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daisydaisy
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The smell of Brut always reminds me of what us teen girls wore when the lads sloshed it on - Aqua Manda. Is that still around? I've not noticed it.
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Welease Woderwick
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The Government's demonetarisation thingy has been a complete fiasco, as confidently predicted. Some folks still haven't been able to change their old notes after queueing for days on end - it's not bad for folks like us as, although we live in a fairly small village, we are only a couple of miles from town; but for folks in remote rural areas it has been quite disastrous.
No money = no food = hungry children!
Meanwhile some market stallholders have massive stocks but no customers as folks just don't have the cash - food is rotting in the shops.
Still tonight some banks haven't yet got the new notes.
In some other countries there would have been riots on the streets but here people just get on with it - thank God for the Indian sense of the ridiculous.
...and for shopkeepers like a friend of ours who runs a little corner shop down by the river who is letting regular customers have things on the slate and pay when they get the money.
Anyway I treated myself to a litre of Caramel Butterscotch ice cream and may indulge in a bowl of it a bit later.
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Anyway I treated myself to a litre of Caramel Butterscotch ice cream and may indulge in a bowl of it a bit later.
Your little bit to help the economy!
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Ariel
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Originally posted by daisydaisy:
The smell of Brut always reminds me of what us teen girls wore when the lads sloshed it on - Aqua Manda. Is that still around? I've not noticed it.
It wasn't but it's been relaunched recently. I used to love the soaps and could never decide which I liked best, Aqua Manda or Aqua Citra. I'd get some, but it doesn't look like there's anywhere locally that stocks them.
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L'organist
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And what about Hai Karate and Charlie?
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Ariel
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Some things are better not dug up from the past.
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Anyway I treated myself to a litre of Caramel Butterscotch ice cream and may indulge in a bowl of it a bit later.
Your little bit to help the economy!
You used to be able to get butterscotch up here. Most US chains have stopped selling it, as it is not popular in the Father country, though it retains its popularity here. One the rare occasions I have bought it, I look for local brands, not the huge corporate brands flooding our small market.
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Piglet
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And what about Hai Karate and Charlie?
Charlie was never one of my favourites (a bit too heavy on the patchouli for my taste), but Wild Musk was. I discovered a while back that Wal-mart still stock it, and I've just remembered that I forgot to look for it when I was in there earlier this afternoon.
Ariel, that day out sounds lovely - tapas and wine, shopping and coffee and CAKE - heaven! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Ariel
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The cake was "shimmer cake", which is the coffee shop's Christmas special. It's chocolate and salted caramel sponge in layers, with elaborate chocolate icing and little edible golden decorations (no, not real gold leaf), so that the outside of the cake looks to be covered in tiny gold discs and there's what looks like a sparkly golden malteser on the top.
I hadn't intended to have cake, but it looked so pretty I couldn't resist.
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Welease Woderwick
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Many, many years ago [1977?-ish] when I was still working in Residential Child Care a grotty little teenager [in reality quite a nice lad] was given some Blue Stratos for Christmas by his fairly awful mother - his opinion of the stuff was about equivalent to mine - and then one day he crept up behind me in the games room and sprinkled some all over me.
I had to absent myself from duty for half an hour to go and change and have a very thorough shower.
Even after all these years I can still remember his name - and I hope and pray he got away from his mother at some point!
My then boss used to use Old Spice, so hardly setting a good example to the kids.
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In my family sometimes mum used to bring out the most fabulous looking cakes to remarks like:
That looks so lovely, it seems a shame to cut into it, but...
Temptation always won out over aesthetics.
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These days it seems that almost everything you get in decent restaurants, whether sweet or savoury, looks too pretty to eat.
It never actually is, though, is it? ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
It's a glorious autumn day here: 10° and hardly a cloud in the sky. Long may that continue - at least until we can get our hands on our snow-tyres ... ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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I escaped to the farm for the weekend while Mr Boogs and Boogielet2 sanded the floor and painted the walls. All is ready now for the new pupster, who arrives tomorrow.
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If you've just sanded the floors, won't the new puppy go skeetering all over the place?
It's been a glorious day here - it was 15° when we left the flat this afternoon. 15° in November!!! Hope the sky keeps clear for this super-moon we're supposed to get tonight.
We've been asked to join a choir at the local university (their conductor has recently re-joined the Cathedral choir) to bolster their numbers for a concert they're doing, and our first rehearsal with them is this evening. It's going to feel strange - I haven't sung for anyone but D. for about 20 years, and he hasn't sung for anyone else for almost as long.
We'll see ...
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Did anyone actually see the super moon? We had too much cloud ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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Ariel
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No, the supermoon was hidden by supercloud. I did get it this morning on the way to work but it didn't look especially huge.
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They have a different moon in southern Ontario, and it really wasn't a very big one. It was extraordinarily bright, and the cat loved it, though he's stopped climbing trees to see if he can catch it.
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A not quite fully formed supermoon was very cool balancing on cranes and tall buildings on Sunday night walking down the Thames. I should have taken more photos than I did.
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I was deeply annoyed with myself that I didn't get back out in time to take a picture of the most splendidly clear supermoon hovering just above the horizon at the end of the road as I got off the bus to walk the 300 yards home after work yesterday evening. It was amazing!
By the time I got out again, it had moved and was covered up with cloud. The morning views in the other direction wasn't nearly so splendid.
It will live long in the memory, though.
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It was a beautifully clear night here, and the moon was certainly very bright, although maybe not quite as big as I was expecting (we didn't actually see it rise, so we may have missed the biggest bit).
The choir practice was really rather fun - Latvian folk-songs, Chinese folk-songs and a song about how to make chilli con carne all seem to be on the programme. There were eight of us from the Cathedral choir, out of a total of about 25, so we didn't feel quite as ancient as we might have done, and most of the rest seemed reassuringly amateur, so I didn't feel like a numpty.
Fortunately, the conductor didn't seem hugely bothered that our sight-reading didn't produce perfect results straight away ...
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Welease Woderwick
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It was a slightly misty night here in The Torrid Zone so no visible detail, which was a bit sad - but it was very bright.
It is now some ridiculous hour on Wednesday morning in an hotel room in Larger Local Town and I am just going to catch an early train north. Tomorrow morning I get to Mysore [DV] for my friend H's birthday. I suppose I'd better get a shower and get some clothes on as I am not exactly presentable yet.
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Mollie is here, she's a little poppet - see my 'Room' blog for a photo 🐾🐾🐾
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She's adorable. May we borrow her to accustom her to cats?
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She's adorable. May we borrow her to accustom her to cats?
Of course!
My friend has broken her leg and has cats, so we'll be visiting her for cat socialisation
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Please give her a cuddle from me (as if she weren't getting enough cuddles, I'm sure!).
What a cutie -- with a very important career ahead of her.
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Mollie is here, she's a little poppet - see my 'Room' blog for a photo 🐾🐾🐾
Too cute for words
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Mollie's adorable - may you both have health to enjoy each other's company!
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After much falling through of deals, I have found a flat that looks like it might be a "go", meaning I can leave after six months on a camp bed in my mother's dining room. It's not a lovely flat (yet!) but I don't care - I can unpack my books and DVDs from the various attics in which they have been stored since I left the last place and start trying to live again instead of just existing.
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Unpacking your books! I hope all goes well in that. I loved moving in here by myself after four years with DIL and eldest son. It is hard to think I have been here 5.5 years now. I am an introvert although I.do get out. It is lovely to have my own space to return to and retreat into. I hope all the arrangements go well for you.
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Teekeey Misha
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It is lovely to have my own space to return to and retreat into. I hope all the arrangements go well for you.
Thanks - that's the part I'm looking forward to the most.
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Ariel
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Good luck with that, Misha - there's nothing like having your own space.
In other news, I had my first Christmas card of 2016 yesterday. Anyone else had - or sent - any yet? I haven't even begun to think about it.
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Yes, I got one a month ago from my next-door neighbour, who at the time was concerning us with how depressed she was. So I ended up reporting it to her mental health team as a possible suicide note.
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Ariel
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Well, let's hope it wasn't and that things have looked up for her.
October is probably the earliest anyone here has had a Christmas card, admittedly. Last night I was tempted to take out the Christmas decorations early - I love the fairy lights and the glitter, but I'll wait until Advent starts. Might be time for a new tree, the current one's looking a bit tatty.
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Welease Woderwick
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So here I am in Mysore and a very kind lady in a local bank helped me out by changing a Rupees 2000 note for me - in the present [government induced] cash crisis in the country I was very grateful - I have enough money but just not in the sort of notes one needs for buying stuff here.
One thing I have needed to buy is Krack, which is completely unrelated to Crack or even Craik in the Irish [or Scottish?] sense, but which is a medicament for cracked heels. The pharmacist was immensely helpful - aren't pharmacists nice people? - and I came away with what he thinks is the best of the various brands.
Perhaps it just has the biggest margin for him but he was still very nice about the whole thing.
I met some tourists when I got back to the hotel and they were looking for an exchange place to change some Euros, I didn't realise that tourists anywhere still carried foreign notes with them - why? Nearly 20 years ago I went round the world on plastic - you land in a new country and you go to an ATM at the airport and you get the local currency. No problem. I think Uncle Pete might carry a few Canadian dollars for when he gets home but he funds himself here by ATM, as I advise everyone who visits us to do.
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October is probably the earliest anyone here has had a Christmas card, admittedly. Last night I was tempted to take out the Christmas decorations early - I love the fairy lights and the glitter, but I'll wait until Advent starts. Might be time for a new tree, the current one's looking a bit tatty.
Driving home Tuesday evening I saw my first decorated house. Usually the lights don't start going up until Thanksgiving weekend (24 November this year). Mine will go up 24 December.
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Pigwidgeon
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
I met some tourists when I got back to the hotel and they were looking for an exchange place to change some Euros, I didn't realise that tourists anywhere still carried foreign notes with them - why? Nearly 20 years ago I went round the world on plastic - you land in a new country and you go to an ATM at the airport and you get the local currency. No problem. I think Uncle Pete might carry a few Canadian dollars for when he gets home but he funds himself here by ATM, as I advise everyone who visits us to do.
About ten years ago I arrived in England with no pounds. I was with a group (people I hadn't known before the trip), and when we stopped for lunch I immediately headed for the ATM at the motorway rest stop. It rejected my debit card. Had I been travelling with a friend I would have been less concerned. However, our wonderful bus driver assured me that it was an off-brand ATM and I should try one at a bank when we reached our destination (which I did, and it worked!). He also offered to lend me money for lunch, but I used my credit card. I now always buy some cash before heading to other countries (and, like Pete, have a little bit of U.S. cash for when I return home).
Does anyone remember using Travellers Cheques? They certainly seem to have gone the way of the dinosaurs.
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I might have a few twenties with me (I carry cash until I clear the last Canadian airport) but I do indeed fund myself at the ATMs.
The last time I used traveller's cheques was in early 2004, when I travelled to Sri Lanka (where ATMs were scarce on the ground (although a friend used ATMs there during a 3 month stay.) They were a PITA in both Lanka and Kochi then, and would be even more of a pain now.
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Until quite recently, you had to make sure you had about a fiver in Canadian dollars to finance the ritual bee-line for Timmy's* on arrival at the airport ...
* Tim Horton's - Canadian coffee-shop chain, who only started taking debit or credit cards a few years ago.
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On the subject of domestic decorations, there don't seem to be many here yet, but one of the flats across the road from ours has a whole load of outdoor lights, another has a single Advent candle-bridge in the window and one seems to have taken out a couple of those big red-and-yellow outdoor candles and left them outside his house but not actually set them up and lit them yet.
D. left all our decorations except the candle-bridges behind when he cleared the old house, so we're going to have to start afresh, although it may not be for this Christmas as it doesn't look as if we'll be in our own place by then.
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It's good to be able to use a card when you're there, but I'd always take cash with me, basically because you can't always be sure of finding a cashpoint on arrival, or it actually working, or accepting your card if it does. You know where you are with cash; also, if it's stolen or lost, it's a finite amount, whereas with a card your account could be emptied or run up to the max.
Basically I just think it's more reliable, I suppose. In recent months I've started paying for things in cash instead of by card - it's actually quite a good way to save money as it makes me stop and think before I part with it.
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D. left all our decorations except the candle-bridges behind when he cleared the old house, so we're going to have to start afresh, although it may not be for this Christmas as it doesn't look as if we'll be in our own place by then.
I'm amazed that with all of us Americans talking about moving to Canada (and crashing the Canadian immigration website the day after the election) that no one has bought your old house.
(Yes, I did seriously consider moving north, but it just isn't practical. Plus I don't think I can handle a real winter anymore.)
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Last night I was tempted to take out the Christmas decorations early - I love the fairy lights and the glitter, but I'll wait until Advent starts. Might be time for a new tree, the current one's looking a bit tatty.
Does it help or hinder if you were to know that the book of Celtic devotions for Advent that I use started last Friday?
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Originally posted by Piglet:
D. left all our decorations except the candle-bridges behind when he cleared the old house, so we're going to have to start afresh, although it may not be for this Christmas as it doesn't look as if we'll be in our own place by then.
I'm amazed that with all of us Americans talking about moving to Canada (and crashing the Canadian immigration website the day after the election) that no one has bought your old house.
(Yes, I did seriously consider moving north, but it just isn't practical. Plus I don't think I can handle a real winter anymore.)
Current thinking is that if a US citizen does in fact qualify to come to Canada (which could take a fair period of time to establish), it could take 6-18 months to process the paperwork and deal with all the other formalities. Come for a visit, stay a while -- no process so far as I know. Actually to move here...that's a much different and much harder process.
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But I gather that quite a few US citizens took Canadian nationality in order to avoid being drafted to Vietnam.
I have personally known one, and according to him, he was not alone. Did they apply whilst 'visiting?'
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Back to the weather:
It was really rather beautiful going down to Cardiff this morning. A lot of trees are still showing Autumn colours as the leaves haven't yet dropped. We had a thorough frost this morning, and so everything had a coating of white. The white on the vivid colours was stunning.
Then the rain started.
Cardiff on an international (rugby - Wales v Japan) day tends to get very busy, as the Millenium Stadium is within walking distance of the city centre. Darllenwr had a meeting at Llandaff, so I had a lift down with him so that I could go to the Christmas market. Between the cold, the heavy rain showers and the crowds, I wasn't that sorry when he rang to say that his meeting had finished early and so I could catch a train to meet him!
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Piglet
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... I'm amazed that with all of us Americans talking about moving to Canada (and crashing the Canadian immigration website the day after the election) that no one has bought your old house ...
You're not the first to suggest that, Pigwidgeon - one or two people have said I should put it up on Facebook.
We're fairly sure that the latest offer is dead in the water ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif) but the agent said there have been a few more viewings. I wish she'd just get her finger out and sell the bloody place ... ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
If our experience of moving to Canada from the UK is anything to go by, it's a bit of a nightmare - it took us seven years to get Permanent Residence and it seemed to us that every time we crossed one hurdle, they'd invent another one, or just change the rules so that the applications we'd made were no longer valid and had to be done again.
Even when we applied to renew our Permanent Residence cards, the applications were sent back, saying there was something wrong with the photographs (which were done by professional photographers specialising in that sort of thing), but not actually saying what was wrong ... ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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Even when we applied to renew our Permanent Residence cards, the applications were sent back, saying there was something wrong with the photographs (which were done by professional photographers specialising in that sort of thing), but not actually saying what was wrong ...
Too flattering perhaps? ID photos generally should only bear a passing resemblance to the person, or show them in a quite unflattering light.
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Pigwidgeon
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Too flattering perhaps? ID photos generally should only bear a passing resemblance to the person, or show them in a quite unflattering light.
Your comment reminds me of Erma Bombeck's book, When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home.
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Originally posted by Piglet:
Even when we applied to renew our Permanent Residence cards, the applications were sent back, saying there was something wrong with the photographs (which were done by professional photographers specialising in that sort of thing), but not actually saying what was wrong ...
Too flattering perhaps? ID photos generally should only bear a passing resemblance to the person, or show them in a quite unflattering light.
My last one went through instantly. There must be a message that I didn't pick up at the time.
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But I gather that quite a few US citizens took Canadian nationality in order to avoid being drafted to Vietnam.
I have personally known one, and according to him, he was not alone. Did they apply whilst 'visiting?'
That was, I hate to remind you, a long time ago and things change.
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Originally posted by jacobsen:
But I gather that quite a few US citizens took Canadian nationality in order to avoid being drafted to Vietnam.
I have personally known one, and according to him, he was not alone. Did they apply whilst 'visiting?'
That was, I hate to remind you, a long time ago and things change.
John
In 1977, on Jimmy Carter's first day as President, he pardoned all drat dodgers.
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All in all, about 100,000 Americans went abroad in the late 1960s and early 70s to avoid being called up. Some 90 percent went to Canada where, after some initial controversy, they were accepted as legal immigrants... While Canadian authorities at first indicated they would be prosecuted or deported, in practice they were left alone. Canadian border guards were told not to ask too many questions... Those who had fled to Canada faced prison sentences if they chose to return home. In the end, an estimated 50,000 draft dodgers settled permanently in Canada.
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