Tony_S

She was probably responsible for boosting his early career by performing some of his songs.

The Google ads (not on RMweb) I am receiving at the moment have a lot of funeral arrangement content, especially budget cremations. All I did was use Google to compare the lump excised from my back with Google images. I removed the dressing this morning (as instructed) and it looks like a tattoo of a butterfly, Aditi photographed it for me. . There was a circle drawn round the mole with a skin pen. The stitches have pulled the circle into a butterfly wing shape. The stitches look like a butterfly body. The stitches should come out in about 10 days. Hopefully the skin marker will fade, not really bothered though. Tony

Aditi liked her Fiesta but I don’t know if it was true for all versions but the petrol tank wasn’t very large. Her journey took her up to Stratford in East London.The good thing was she usually filled up about 8 or 9 pm at a BP garage and all the M&S food was significantly reduced. I joked with people that we lived on food from a garage.

Is that the vehicle you drive to Poland in?

Little end, but that may be due to the rather minimalist stainless steel egg cups we normally use. I think these questions are safe to answer here, but having seen your posts elsewhere perhaps ‘hit it with a Hillman Imp” is the correct answer. Some eggs we had recently required a bit more effort. We had blue eggs with very yellow yolks substituted for our usual sort recently. They were smaller and had slightly rough shells, that were very tough. I wondered if while they were free ranging they had been eating Kevlar or,similar.

I don’t know why but after a lifetime of tapping the egg and removing the cracked shell, I have become a person who hits it with the knife edge attempting a clean cut to remove the top.

Probably.

I used to get Harrogate and Huddersfield confused. Aditi clearly explained which was which when we visited Yorkshire recently.

I would quite happily go and eat in the cafeteria on formal nights but Aditi has had very few occasions to wear a posh frock so it wouldn’t have been very nice to deny her the opportunity to dine with me (she said she wouldn’t go on her own!) so I oblige and dress formally,

I now have clothing suitable for those temperatures but I hope it won’t be needed for Iceland in summer. Rainwear and sensible boots apparently.

Will management insist on you wearing medals. I noticed medals with DJ when we crossed the Atlantic on QM2 but not on our last Med cruise on the same ship. On the first cruise we went in there was a senior police officer in dress uniform on a formal evening. We were in a lift with him when a group of people from Liverpool got in and asked him which fire brigade he worked for. When they got out, he uttered words to his wife telling her that was why he didn’t want to wear such a thing on holiday and wasn’t going to again.

We are not going on our cruise until July but I am hoping I have taken care of my shopping needs now, certainly for the clothes I will need on shore visits in Iceland. The cruise line has relaxed the dress code for “formal nights” somewhat and removed the “jacket required” for other evenings, but it seemed much the same as usual looking at other diners. Some people look so elegant, I look like a dishevelled penguin.

The odd looking mole on my back I had removed today fortunately didn’t need a plough. Though the local anaesthetic did mean I was unaware of the tool used and couldn’t see as I had to be on my front. The nurse said to hold the pillow edges and grip the pillow. I did so and it went “pop” like a balloon. Fortunately only the disposable cover.

If you haven’t bought a car recently paying for them is different now. No cash, no bankers draft. Bank transfer or debit card. After a credit card deposit.

That is how affluent is pronounced in Solihull.

Perhaps. it went via Nouvion…

That is what I meant but should have added pot. Aditi has an AVC “pot” too in addition to the normal Teachers Pension. She hasn’t touched that yet but could take 25% of that tax free too. She has a few years still to decide what to do with it.

Aditi’s Mum had a similar situation in India. She had a small current account there, and a secure box where she kept some documents. On her last visit to India she thought it likely she wouldn’t return so decided to close the account after emptying the box. It got really complicated as they said she needed her son’s (joint account holder) signature to close the account. Until that happened they would charge her rent for the box and deduct the fee from the account. She pointed out that the account held nothing. Aditi’s brother sent a letter saying it was ok to close the account but the Delhi bank said it needed to be witnessed by a Magistrate. Aditi’s brother in Kettering said that wasn’t going to happen. The bank kept writing to Aditi’s Mum in Enfield insisting on the fee being paid. Eventually they wrote and said as the fee hadn’t been paid they would cut the lock off the box and sell the contents to cover the fee and close the account. Which is what she had asked for a year before.

Aditi’s income comes from the state pension and her Teachers Pension. She had such a difficult time last last year answering all kinds of intrusive questions from a high street bank to prove she wasn’t money laundering. She has been a British citizen for over 50 years and has only ever been resident for tax here.

Here I am sure it is 25% of the pension amount can be taken tax free. Is it all tax free in the IoM?

My mother managed to set a few things on fire that she had forgotten she had placed on top of the eye level grill. Damp towels or cloths usually. Most impressive was the portable TV radio that my brother had given her. I wasn’t there but it was apparently quite spectacular.

They were very much “a thing” he we were buying our first oven. However Aditi chose something with the grill in a small oven between the hob and main oven.For her use an eye level grill would have needed a step stool.

I have returned from a minor medical procedure. Had to go overseas for it. Done less than 2 weeks after initial appointment. Not really overseas though, just done at an outpatients clinic on Canvey Island. This was very convenient as Aditi could drop me and then go to the M&S food store at the other end of the island to collect some online shopping. She arrived back just as I was let out. We then went to the doctor’s surgery to make an appointment for my stitches to be removed in 14 days. All very efficient. I should hear in 4 to 6 weeks about what the 8mm diameter skin sample turns out to be. I don’t get anxious about test results, I do get a bit anxious about being late or not finding parking, neither of which were problems today. Tony

Each graffito is carefully examined to make sure it complies with Swiss standards…

Matthew’s grade C GCSE English (equiv grade to old JMB O level 6 (lowest “pass” grade for o level) wasn’t acceptable as proof of English ability for Stockholm university entrance. .By then he had a degree from Leicester, and a MSc from the LSE.. That GCSE English was taken before he was allowed to use a keyboard for exams. Due to dyspraxia, he couldn’t hold a pen and think at the same time. Fortunately he could type quite quickly, and after GCSE his grades reflected his ability. Tony