Preparedness for when

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MAR even if there is a new independent Scotland in the future we'll still be US and it really doesn't matter what label we give ourselves nationally we are still US!!! I'll promise right now to send you supplies of jelly babies through the post to keep you going, whatever happens to the UK!

Comfortable, that's an interesting little word. Comfortable, Hmmmmm, well I THINK we are here in my own little world, we lack nothing that we need , we have enough to eat and I think as long as we're hale and hearty we'll be able to provide much of it for ourselves, we own the house not because we're rich but because we made the decision to use redundancy money to pay off what remained of the mortgage in the early 90s. That alone has given us security. We CHOOSE to live a frugal lifestyle not a deprived lifestyle as I know I could have whatever I wanted (within reason).....I just don't want it all. That may seem odd? I have enough, I have sufficient I'm quite content with what we have achieved and am perfectly at home with how we are now. I don't need the latest of anything, if something breaks I'll save and get another one (at the best possible price of course) if I need it but as with all things sometimes I look and think I don't need it, so we just let it go. I wonder why some people need to always have the newest model, the latest gadget, the most up to date fashion I really can't get enthused by any of them. I have no interest in jewellery, make up, new clothes for the sake of them, work clothes are different (by which I mean clothes that are practical enough to do work in ) they wear out and I won't wear holes when they can't be mended any longer! I'm not needing very many holidays but enjoy very much when I do go away though I could be just as content here and not going away. Perhaps I'm boring, I think I'm lucky!

Frugalsod

Britain - The Balkans of Europe?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuFRiHt9SUI

nuatha

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

I've definitely learnt that here in Welsh Wales there is a difference of opinion between us yur English (ie that we've moved to elsewhere in the same country in our opinion) and many of the "locals" (ie who regard us as having moved to a different country).

It will come out in the wash one day as to which one of us is "correct" on that (ie we have moved to somewhere in the same country v. we've moved to a different country). Meanwhile = my head hurts sometimes......:cool: and there are many different "swings and roundabouts" on that particular front.

And there is a basic problem in comprehension.
If you used the term British instead of English, you might have a point. But expecting the Welsh to be English, it isn't the same country, since the country is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, if you expected the Welsh to be British ...
Incidentally your nationality is British, which may come as a shock.

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

MAR even if there is a new independent Scotland in the future we'll still be US and it really doesn't matter what label we give ourselves nationally we are still US!!! I'll promise right now to send you supplies of jelly babies through the post to keep you going, whatever happens to the UK!

Well said

Comfortable, that's an interesting little word.

It is, it may not be seen as aspirational or fashionable, but it has a rather OS ring to it.

moneyistooshorttomention

Truth to tell Nuatha and I don't know what-the-heck nationality to describe myself as these days.

I basically think of myself as British (and I really am - because I'm English, Scottish, Irish or Welsh) and tend to describe myself as British - but then a lot of non-British people also describe themselves as "British" when they aren't (ie because they have a British passport).

My head hurts.....

So my usual description of myself these days is "British - yes really.....". <insert confused smilie> or possibly "British - English version of....".

I think that happens in some other countries too? Say someone describing themselves as Swedish and then I see they have a foreign name and most certainly aren't blond and blue-eyed or similar.

Perhaps those of us who are "really" the nationality we describe ourselves as might call ourselves "British-born" or "Swedish-born" and even that doesn't cover it.....my head hurts again....

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Does it really matter what your pedigree is? It's the country you have nationality in, that is printed in your passport that is WHO you are. You can of course call yourself anything you like but it's not where you begin or what national stock you are born of, it's where you're a registered citizen that is the truth.

moneyistooshorttomention

It doesn't "matter" in one way - but it is very confusing.

Even giving a specific breakdown of which part of Britain (ie by describing yourself as English, Irish, Welsh or Scottish) can be confusing - as I can think of someone who I think is Indian that describes themselves as Welsh???? My head hurts again....

I think my mother has got it worked out most clearly I can see I have to admit - with her saying "You are whatever nationality your parents are and that means you personally are English because both your parents are English". If I'd been born whilst my father was serving in the armed forces abroad that wouldn't have meant I was that country's nationality (even if I had a passport for that country). I would still have been "British - yes really (ie English version)" because my parents would still have been English.

Add in the fact that I've discovered, since moving to Wales, that there are a noticeable number of English people who describe themselves as Welsh - and you think "But its obvious you aren't" and, on questioning them further, you find that they are describing themselves differently to the facts in order to "fit in" and my head hurts again...

nuatha

Elona I hope tomorrow goes well and you can add to the well of good memories.

Karmacat

nuatha wrote: »

Elona I hope tomorrow goes well ...

From me too - as well as these things ever can.

mardatha

MrsL, the only thing that might make me renounce my Celtic Scottish heritage would be.................
A JELLYBABY-LESS SCOTLAND! :eek::eek::eek:

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I can't think they'd be banned in Scotlandshire, perhaps they'll be made in the image of MS Sturgeon???