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NDG, the first dress is too old for you. The second one could work, but the neckline is worrying - makes it look too formal and difficult to match jewellery to.
(split infinitive but who cares.)I'm a Forum Ambassador on the housing, mortgages & student money saving boards. I volunteer to help get your forum questions answered and keep the forum running smoothly. Forum Ambassadors are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an illegal or inappropriate post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com (it's not part of my role to deal with this). Any views are mine and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.com.0 -
OH is having a mid life crisis - he wants a soft top (car).I'm a Forum Ambassador on the housing, mortgages & student money saving boards. I volunteer to help get your forum questions answered and keep the forum running smoothly. Forum Ambassadors are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an illegal or inappropriate post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com (it's not part of my role to deal with this). Any views are mine and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.com.0
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PasturesNew wrote: »How much money?
Could be worthwhile hiring a freelancer to create you an app that does it with a recursive algorithm..... and selling that solution to recoup your costs.
It's around $20 to get pop for a year (then you can obviously export it at will) but I don't want to pay for it because when I went to yahoo they let you do it for free - I'd have never gone for them otherwise - and they didn't give fair warning of the changes.
It's probably easy enough to code but, to be honest, with the way yahoo changes their interface every few months it would be a nightmare to maintain the app.“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens0 -
I'm pretty glad I'm a man. Wedding = suit. Pretty much any suit is ok.“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens0 -
lostinrates wrote: »One of the odd features of my memory post brain break is often the shorter words or the right ones just don't surface and I have to talk around the word, either descriptively or ipAmerican fashion. Both my parents comment on this repeatedly....they curse my early years education. I 'ise' things far to often because the correct concise word just isn't there. It's quite funny though, to be so very pompous, really. I also get word order wrong, which dh and my parents pick up on often too. Dh thinks I often get word order as if I were 'from the French, translating'
I don't think you write pompously, in fact I think you write very eloquently. Syntax errors are, to me, the most charming feature of non-native speech so I think that sounds quite lovely!
I have a few pronunciation quirks from a childhood in an international school, most have ironed out over time but the odd one persists.0 -
Itismehonest wrote: »Gap yahs are a relatively recent invention. They certainly never happened back in my day.neverdespairgirl wrote: »My Dad had a gap year - he did his A levels just after he turned 17, and went and worked for a year in a youth hostel in Bavaria. That must have been <thinks> 1967 - 8.
Anyone less "yah"-ish than my Dad at 17 is hard to imagine - he was born and brought up in a working class family in Wallasey (across the river from Liverpool) and went to a grammar school.
They have been happening for a lot longer than they've been called "gap years". When I had mine, it was just called "taking a year out". I did A levels just before I turned 17 (I'm an August birthday person) and then spent a year working at a lab before I went to university. (Oxford wouldn't let me "defer my entry" unless I spent it doing something physics-related.)NDG, the first dress is too old for you. The second one could work, but the neckline is worrying - makes it look too formal and difficult to match jewellery to.
(split infinitive but who cares.)
You have not managed to actually split an infinitive in your post. You do, however, have a hanging participle, but that's much less worth objecting to.
Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.
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I was never taught all that stuff about English things. It wasn't taught at school at all..... and I don't know the first rule from a faux pas. If I don't offend, I must just be lucky 0
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They have been happening for a lot longer than they've been called "gap years". When I had mine, it was just called "taking a year out". I did A levels just before I turned 17 (I'm an August birthday person) and then spent a year working at a lab before I went to university. (Oxford wouldn't let me "defer my entry" unless I spent it doing something physics-related.)
I left school in 1969 & definitely don't remember them back then. Of course, there were by far fewer people going to university back then, anyway. The options were normally straight to work, to a college specialising in one's chosen trade/profession or straight to uni.
I did pass English language O'level at 15 but have forgotten most of it since then.
Purists tell me that my syntax is appalling but, in my defence, I've spent a great deal of time speaking with people for whom English is not their first language.
I still spend a large part of each day using other languages. Unfortunately, I'm equally as dreadful in 'foreign' :rotfl:0 -
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Suit's a suit. C&A sale.lostinrates wrote: »Lounge, morning or morning grey?0
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