Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

PasturesNew

Somebody sent me a photo of their food.... it's lovely.... but I couldn't reply as their Inbox is full I didn't say much though ...so no need to clear out space.

zagubov

Right- NPs seem to have a lot of gardens/allotments.
I need a plastic sheet that you roll up to hold garden waste bags open while you tip the contents of you mower into them. Has it a name. We had one for years but it's now falling to bits and we don't know what it's called so we can find a replacement. I've no doubt it's a common everyday item -just can't fidn the right search terms.:mad:

LydiaJ

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

the trouble is, that ILR can be and is cancelled in a range of circumstances. It's "Indefinite Leave to Remain", but "indefinite" isn't the same as "permanent".

Ah I see. I didn't know that. Thanks for explaining.

vivatifosi wrote: »

I don't think it's always that straightforward. My cousin, who was born to a British mother in Australia, has lived here since she was a baby and is now in her 40s. They won't allow her a British passport due to some loophole regarding her father. She has ILR instead.

I once knew a British woman who'd married a South African and had her first baby in South Africa. She tried to register the baby for dual nationality, but couldn't. The person at the embassy or consulate or whatever it was told her that the baby needed two of the three of British mother, British father, and born in Britain, in order to qualify. However, the official said, if my friend chose to leave her husband off the birth certificate and pretend the baby was illegitimate, then she would qualify for dual nationality on the basis of not having any non-British parent. My friend declined and moved back to England before the birth of her second baby, who was then a British citizen from birth. Her elder daughter got naturalised as soon as she was 18, or whatever the age is for it.

That was in about 1970, I think. No idea whether the rules have changed since then.

GDB2222

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

He only ever takes his Israeli passport when he goes to Israel. Like a lot of countries, if you are a citizen, you have to use that passport to enter and exit, in Israel.

Being born in Israel is not something you can hide, though. And being born in Jaffa or Jerusalem would also still be tricky.

Very few people are born in Israel unless they are Israeli - ex-pats and diplomats almost always make efforts to avoid their children being born there, and go to Cyprus or similar instead. That's because it causes grief.

So having "Tel Aviv" in your passport does bring a lot of trouble in its wake.

I've seen a lot of different countries' passports in my line of work, and all those I've seen do list a place of birth.



If you have ILR, you can apply for naturalisation even if you don't qualify by descent.

If your OH's parents or grandparents were refugees from Germany, apparently he can apply for German citizenship. (Well, anyone can apply, but he should get it!) Would this help him in any way?

I vaguely thought of applying, but I can't see any point really. If it looks like the UK will leave the EU, I might apply.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/regaining-citizenship-jewish-american-families-reclaim-german-roots-a-793296.html

GDB2222

misskool wrote: »

i'm still not out of the house but i am dressed.

right, moving now

I'm impressed at your early start. I'm still in my PJs, and it's 12.45!

Off to a wedding this afternoon, so I really ought to go for a brisk walk right now. Yesterday, we did over 6 miles, with me making an exhibition of myself running ever so slowly up Parliament Hill wearing shorts. :eek::eek:

chewmylegoff

vivatifosi wrote: »

I don't think it's always that straightforward. My cousin, who was born to a British mother in Australia, has lived here since she was a baby and is now in her 40s. They won't allow her a British passport due to some loophole regarding her father. She has ILR instead

Isn't that loophole just the right to get a British passport on the basis of parentage though? I.e. it used to be the case that if your father was British you could get one but not if your mother was British or something silly like that?

Regardless of automatic right to a passport you can qualify for British citizenship by virtue of the amount of time you have lived here. OH is on ILR too, but she could become a british citizen tomorrow if she wanted to as she has lived here for 11 or so years (I think you qualify after 4 or 5?)- the only reason she hasn't is that you have to pay £1,000 for the privilege so she can't be bothered. The only reason to get it would be if we were going abroad for long enough for the ILR to expire.

It is also handy travelling on different nationality passports as you can go together to whichever immigration queue is the shortest one - they i.e. they will let her through the EU passport desks if she is with me and vice versa.

Generali

If you have a little time on your hands you might be interested to watch this:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2013/may/26/firestorm-bushfire-dunalley-holmes-family

A very straightforward account of a family, a town and a bushfire.

There is one sentence in the entire thing I disagree with. No Aussie camper would be annoyed by a total fire ban, we all know they're there for a reason. The rest of the 'film' shows why.

Amazing stuff.

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

If your OH's parents or grandparents were refugees from Germany, apparently he can apply for German citizenship. (Well, anyone can apply, but he should get it!) Would this help him in any way?

I vaguely thought of applying, but I can't see any point really. If it looks like the UK will leave the EU, I might apply.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/regaining-citizenship-jewish-american-families-reclaim-german-roots-a-793296.html

We have had that discussion recently too...whether one of us (probably dh) should apply for one of the eligible eu countries.

How many grandparents need to have been German refugees? I think only a grandmother was for dh.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Somebody sent me a photo of their food.... it's lovely.... but I couldn't reply as their Inbox is full I didn't say much though ...so no need to clear out space.

Ok.

I just thought its something you could make easily and cheaply. I have duplicates of appropriate spices so can give them to you so you don't waste money trying.

misskool

PasturesNew wrote: »

It's the haddock that'd be the main issue.... never had it, don't know if I actually like it - so loathe to buy a whole one, which'd stare at me.... and then have to cook a whole haddock, just to see. And it'd probably be stinky, so could only be cooked on a dry/hot day when my windows are fully open and I'm not drying my drawers 3' from the cooking area

Looks like it's £3-4 for a small pack... or a 20 mile round trip to Asda where they sell it by weight 20 miles = £3-4 in fuel, so not to be undertaken lightly... especially if the objective was to save £1-2.

you don't have to make it with smoked haddock. you could prob sub with some chicken breast and the taste won't be quite the same but it would be possible.

been out in garden and had a fire (i know ) but I've only shuffled 1/4 of the stuff to be cleared.

Time for allotment after a quick sushi snack.

I'm dreading what the allotment looks like...but at least I will have some cucumber to plant out in it.

No idea why my gardening is all over the place this year. I'm also a bit more tired but I can't see how I've let myself get so far behind!!