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21st June 2012, 03:36 PM
#11
Originally Posted by
Tony Wilding
, exchange rate for the Euro is good now, in your favour, over 120 to the pound, best wishes, Tony.
Eh Tony if I send you a couple of hundred quid can you get me some Euros please!
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21st June 2012, 03:49 PM
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21st June 2012, 07:57 PM
#13
Glad that all you plans etc have worked out (Tony W )
Hi Tony W
Glad that all you plans etc have worked out too mate!
Its sommetimes very daunting making decisions in life,but has to be done at times!
Gees i wish that exchange rate was real haha! I would be going much futher and faster too LOL!
Yes i am excited about seeing my Sister in SA ,and then also my Daughter in Birmingham!
As said there is a big change in SA,i was there in 1998 and then it was so different!
Done a lot more since then too according to news i get from my Sister!
But then parts of Cape Town are still the same, not many i know!
Be an eye opener for me ! haha!
Hope that you enjoy everything you have managed to accumalate,sounds nice the new Home etc! Now is this just s Holiday place! You not moving there are you?
Anyway whatever you do enjoy and most of all BE HAPPY!!
All the best
Cheers
Awe! you just shot me down in flames! Exchange rates not what they should be LOL!
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21st June 2012, 08:09 PM
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Frenchmen !! 4 John A
Hello John A
Will definately be a buzz seeing the Sister again after 10 Years mate!
Pity i am only on the Ginger Beers haha!
Also so looking forward to seeing the Daughter in Birmingham again too ,its been 9 Years
I will not worry about looking out for Frenchmen bearing gifts John,all i will look out for is French Woman bearing more than just Gifts LOL!
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21st June 2012, 08:40 PM
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well almost there
hi Vernon, when i go, thats it mate, not coming back, no more cold weather for me, council tax or massive heating bills,, tv licences, YUK, am poor here, a wealthy man there, anyway she wont let me come back, need somone to look after me now, fed up being alone, 2 years i have known her on sunday, during parade.jpg
Tony Wilding
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21st June 2012, 08:46 PM
#16
Very nice Tony,
Has she got a Sister?? Anne pack your bags I am off too.
Cheers
Brian
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21st June 2012, 10:27 PM
#17
Good on ya Tony
Good on ya Tony
Have a lovely life mate,be good to your LADY,and she will return it for sure!
Can i take a detour there ,mabe i can find another one too haha! Opps! Better not let her indoors see this! LOL!
All the very best for your futures!
Cheers
Thats both you and me Capt haha!
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21st June 2012, 11:55 PM
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well almost there
Thanks Vernon, you would never believe the poverty and conditions she was living in when i first knew her, shared a room with her sister and 3 children, slept on the floor, but allways so smart and clean, first time she slept in a proper bed was 2 months ago when i got furniture for our house, she painted every room, never does anything without asking me if its ok, has kept receipts for everthing she has bought with the pesos i send her, never had a fridge, was 34 when i met her and never owned a watch, or anything else,so sad, never had a cell phone, 6 year olds have them here, have seen her on skype almost every day for 2 years, got her a tv last week, fridge arrives next week, to me its just an ordinary small house, but she is so proud of it, cleans it every day, says she still cant believe she lives there, if you question why she has not got something, the answer is allways, no choice cant afford, just resigned to there fate, so kind and allways so polite, she is a country girl, parents have a small farm, she is not streetwise like some there, so its my pleasure to spoil her, she was working 60 hours a week in a hospital for less than £25 a week, made me so angry, best wishes, Tony W.
Tony Wilding
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22nd June 2012, 12:05 AM
#19
Hi Vernon
I don't have to tell you to enjoy your vacation as with an itinerary like yours I am sure you will. Pity you are not taking in Bonnie Scotland and in particular Loch Lomond as I have said before you are more than welcome at my humble abode. Enjoy my friend.
Regards,
John
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22nd June 2012, 12:52 AM
#20
Well almost there
What can i say but say good on you i hope that both you and your wife will have most enjoyable holiday .Some one said watch the French women its not that you have to its the traffic they enjoy scaring people also if you have time in London go to Tower Hill and see the MN memorail BON Voyage
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