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  • droopsnout
    droopsnout Posts: 3,620 Forumite
    Savvy_Sue wrote: »
    Good news is that I got .9857 euros to the £ in M&S this morning
    Hope your DS has a great holiday, Sue, but I can't accept that exchange rate as "good news"!!

    It'll be good news when £1 is back at 1,50€!
    Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. - Thomas Sowell, "Is Reality Optional?", 1993
  • sandy2_2
    sandy2_2 Posts: 1,931 Forumite
    droopsnout wrote: »
    Had friends for dinner last night, and now jiggered.

    Were they tasty, can we have the recipe
  • droopsnout
    droopsnout Posts: 3,620 Forumite
    Warm them up, serve with bread and wine, add spice. Delicious!
    Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. - Thomas Sowell, "Is Reality Optional?", 1993
  • Francophile
    Francophile Posts: 765 Forumite
    droopsnout wrote: »

    It'll be good news when £1 is back at 1,50€!

    Do you think that's ever likely to happen?
    Member #7 SKI-ers Club
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  • droopsnout
    droopsnout Posts: 3,620 Forumite
    No - but I'm not well known as an optimist, lol!!

    "Experts" I've heard interviewed seem to think that it may get back to 1,20€ or 1,30€ by June/July. But I bet they've barely more idea than the rest of us.

    Hope you and all the family are having a great New Year, francophile. Is DH out on his bike?
    Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. - Thomas Sowell, "Is Reality Optional?", 1993
  • donny-gal
    donny-gal Posts: 4,661 Forumite
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    HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE

    Just back from our trip out in the 'van, hardly got above freezing, also had freezing fog and a hoar frost, but we had a great time, think someone should question our sanity.

    Will catch up and be back later.
    DG
    Member #8 of the SKI-ers Club
    Why is it I have less time now I am retired then when I worked?
  • droopsnout
    droopsnout Posts: 3,620 Forumite
    WB, d-g!

    Remind me to tell you some time of our New Year camp near Lancaster.
    Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. - Thomas Sowell, "Is Reality Optional?", 1993
  • Savvy_Sue
    Savvy_Sue Posts: 47,384 Forumite
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    droopsnout wrote: »
    Hope your DS has a great holiday, Sue, but I can't accept that exchange rate as "good news"!!

    It'll be good news when £1 is back at 1,50€!
    :rotfl: Well, the good part was that it was a smidgeon up on the rates you quoted earlier, so hopefully moving in the right direction!

    i think I could have got slightly better than that even, but only if he'd wanted £650 or more. Which for a week, he didn't.

    And I'm sure he'll have a lovely time once he's escaped from me!
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  • droopsnout
    droopsnout Posts: 3,620 Forumite
    Savvy_Sue wrote: »
    And I'm sure he'll have a lovely time once he's escaped from me!
    LOL!!! He's a chip off the old block, eh???
    Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. - Thomas Sowell, "Is Reality Optional?", 1993
  • Francophile
    Francophile Posts: 765 Forumite
    droopsnout wrote: »
    No - but I'm not well known as an optimist, lol!!

    "Experts" I've heard interviewed seem to think that it may get back to 1,20€ or 1,30€ by June/July. But I bet they've barely more idea than the rest of us.

    Hope you and all the family are having a great New Year, francophile. Is DH out on his bike?
    He hasn't been out on the bike for a few weeks now as the roads are very mucky and he doesn't like to get it dirty!!! It takes too long to clean it afterwards and he likes to have it shining like a new pin (boys and their toys!!!).
    We had a lovely New Year thanks with friends round for dinner.
    Happy New Year to you and everyone else on this thread.
    Member #7 SKI-ers Club
    Norn Ireland Club Member 215
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