What are you all up to
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It's not just that she can't swim, it's just not my wife's style to be lying next to a pool. She likes to keep herself busy doing things. I find it hard to get her to sit down at all!
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My posts simply express what I am doing. They are certainly NOT offensive and not intended to be offensive. It may be different from what others are doing and may give my reasons for it but it is ridiculous to suggest that that is in anyway offensive!
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Thought I would catch up with everyone's news, hard work this morning
I have both our sons visiting this weekend , so I'am a Happy Bunny
Hope all those on holiday are enjoying themselves, Tammygirl if I could get other half abroad I would also be enjoying some warm sunshine.
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Perhaps your OH thinks like me, H&T. If so, I'm glad to see that! There's nothing wrong in a UK holiday in the caravan. It is a way of life that people here have embraced for over 100 years, if you look back into the growth of tourism and the part caravanning has played in it.
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Yes and every place that I stay in is for a maximum of 21 consecutive days when staying on club sites, so temporary stays with a choice of destinations everytime I move. That's hardly the same as what you call living in one place, is it?
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Like I said, delivering pizzas is just a few hours out, a few evenings a week, which gets me a bit of extra money on top of my pension. In the meantime, my wife can have a more homely life because of no longer having to go to work. It is what she wants and prefers and so we are happily pursuing our lives in that way. She doesn't want to go to Tenerife or Lanzarote or lie by a swimming pool, she is happy here. So what's wrong with that?
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Not sure I see that a seasonal which you have to vacate every 21 days, is really a different concept from someone in a house, who uses their van for multiple weekends away, as we did before we retired. You are basically living in one place and having short trips away.
It is rather academic in any event, as long as you enjoy what you do. Just don't try and convert everyone else.
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So true Malcolm, caravan living has been the way of life for Romany's and Irish tinkers for centuaries, and councils have been providing sites for them to live in, they have no need to keep packing up every 21 days.
With regards to flying, I hope your wife's visa is granted otherwise it could become a problem for you.
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Drying up continues apace!
The heaters and dehumidifier are working flat out and the carpets at least seem salvageable. The main problem is still that the water has to be turned off until the guy can get here, hopefully tomorrow, to do the repairs. At least the site laundry is open so we can top up 5 litre water bottles to fill the cistern so the loo is usable. We were talking to one of the local dog walkers who we meet every day on the Dunes who lives just up the road from the park and she has very kindly said we can go round to use her shower. One thing this has brought home to us is just how devastating the floods suffered by folk in Cumbria and Somerset in recent years must have been. At least for us this is just a holiday base - have to keep looking at the positives.
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That's somewhat different from people who stay on club sites, cariadon!
My wife rang the visa solicitor a couple of days ago and was told that she may have to wait up to six months for a result. Nearly four months have passed since her application was submitted on 17th November 2017.
Yes I agree that if the visa is refused, it would be a very big problem for me. I don't have a valid Chinese visa and even if I applied, unfortunately, the Chinese authorities are not happy for me, as a British Citizen, to stay in China for any longer than six months.
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That's day 1 taken care of then, what about the other 20
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I think it all depends what you want from this forum, David. Do you want someone to say that they are jetting off somewhere and someone else to say, how nice and nothing else. If so, the conversation would go dead because there would be nothing else left to say, would there? Unless there's a proper discussion, there's no reason for anyone to continue to post on here and many posters have left for that reason.
If my posts have helped stimulate a discussion and encouraged others to respond in a way that is creating a lively and stimulating discussion, amongst everyone, instead of the forum going dead, with no-one posting for long periods of time, that can't be a bad thing, can it?
In the old forum, it used to be said that I was star chasing. Now that I can no longer be accused of that because they did away with stars, you're calling it trolling or excessive posting!
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As Metheven pointed out, Malc, your normal style of posting is inoffensive (although it may be many other things). However, this post is offensive as it suggests only you have a life worth living and others should get a life and are wrong to spend their money in the way they choose.
You're crossing the line and would do well to heed the advice of DK re trolling.
I've backed you many a time when others have criticised you but now you’re doing what they do!
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Tinwheeler, If people post things on here, others are going to read their posts and express a point of view that may agree or disagree with what they have expressed otherwise there would be no discussion and the forum would die out because there would be nothing to say!
By posting on here, people are inviting others to respond to what they have said and I see nothing wrong with that. If they didn't want a response, they wouldn't post on here in the first place.
There's nothing unfriendly in responding to what someone else has said. Tammygirl posted about jetting off into the sun and I responded to that by suggesting a different way of holidaying! I don't think she took offence to that at all!
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I think, Tinwheeler, people are going to choose what they want to do regardless of what anyone on here says. However, it helps to liven up a discussion to express alternative lifestyles on here. Who knows, someone might just like to think about it, even if they don't go ahead and make the necessary changes!
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Hi everyone,
We do ask that posts on the forum are friendly and constructive, even if you have a difference of opinion so please everyone always keep conversations friendly at all times and don't post anything that might upset others.
We do also ask people to not dominate a discussion as this can put others off from contributing so please keep posts relevant to the OP and don't dominate a discussion.
It's really important that everyone abides by our guidelines as we want Club together to be a friendly place for people to enjoy, We do have guidelines and processes in place which we ask everyone to abide by.
Many thanks for your understanding.
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That’s good news, Husky, and I can thoroughly recommend retirement. Go for it if you can. 👍🏻
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What I said wasn't a personal attack against Tammygirls choice of holiday but simply a suggestion that she could have an equally if not more enjoyable holiday here on the south coast of UK!
She likes cycling. Well there are plenty of cycle tracks here in Brighton with a more temperate climate that could be better suited to such an active sport!
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Yes TW but like he says, he has not decided yet. He has expressed the concern of needs versus income but wants to keep his house as well. Difficult decisions!
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Malcolm, you can try to stir up an argument with me as much as you like but I ain't biting. Bye.
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What a change in the weather this week compared to last.
Spring work is starting to gather pace - including mole catching.
Today we've been doing what it shows in the first photo and tonight we are going to what it shows in the second one. Though my sausage rolls (contribution to the food) don't look quite how I wanted. They taste OK, but have a "rustic" look.
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Yes, I have read it, brue!
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