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  • droopsnout
    droopsnout Posts: 3,620 Forumite
    Hyacinth Bucket?
    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
  • seven-day-weekend
    seven-day-weekend Posts: 36,755 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Or should that be Boo-kay?
    (AKA HRH_MUngo)
    Member #10 of £2 savers club
    Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology: Terry Eagleton
  • gfplux
    gfplux Posts: 4,985 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Hung up my suit!
    Edinvester- Thanks for the KPMG link. I tried it with France and Luxembourg and they both worked. You can never have enough information or opinions about Tax.
    There will be no Brexit dividend for Britain.
  • gfplux
    gfplux Posts: 4,985 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Hung up my suit!
    I have been away for a few days and such a lot has happened on this board. I sometimes come back to this board after a few days and find hardly any new posts and then on other occasions, like this time, lots of activity. It is obviously about topics and how interested people are in them.
    Obviously where people have chosen to live and whether it suites them after a time is close to people hearts as well as Languages.
    I chose to live in Luxembourg because it was an affair of the heart but it is a place that has the best (for me and my wife) of both worlds.
    A calm, clean, quiet, relatively safe country but very cosmopolitan with so many nationality's living side by side. Within a stones throw of our house there are Spanish, French, Bosnian, Italian, Luxembourgers, English, Belgium, Pakistani, Iranian, American and Germans living.
    There will be no Brexit dividend for Britain.
  • gfplux
    gfplux Posts: 4,985 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Hung up my suit!
    Well would you believe it not one posting for 5 days.
    There will be no Brexit dividend for Britain.
  • donny-gal
    donny-gal Posts: 4,661 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Hi

    Most probably as I am restricted with internet use until the end of the month when I return to the UK, but I am reading, and Droopsnout is being worrying about other matters or cutting his wood to stock up for next winter. Carrotts you have gone quiet too, was it the shock of seeing Mr & Mrs Droosnout?

    Watchout for the first week of April I will probably drive you mad!:rolleyes: :rotfl:

    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
    Oh, I'm here! Nothing much to report, really. Yes, I've been working on the woodpile.

    Have stopped worrying. Have decided that they'll just have to come and put me in prison.

    No, not really. We are still pondering over our options - better done after the initial panic wears off.
    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
  • seven-day-weekend
    seven-day-weekend Posts: 36,755 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    We have had our son and his girlfriend out for a week and they hogged our internet connection so that's why I've not been on so much, apart from having nothing to report.
    (AKA HRH_MUngo)
    Member #10 of £2 savers club
    Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology: Terry Eagleton
  • droopsnout
    droopsnout Posts: 3,620 Forumite
    Sorry, chums ...

    1 GBP = 1.06179 EUR
    1 EUR = 0.941809 GBP

    My pension this month (11 March) was the lowest ever ...
    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
  • droopsnout
    droopsnout Posts: 3,620 Forumite
    And it's gone down another half eurocent:

    1 GBP = 1.05692 EUR
    1 EUR = 0.946146 GBP
    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
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