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Yes Margie we do Skype. Not the same though on your anniversary. We had our honeymoon in the south of France and returned the next year. She looked so beautiful on Cannes beach. Supermodel gorgeous. Yes she is that pretty.
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Got another setback for Marina. Lockdown in Russia is continuing and we wont be able to process her passport. Its our wedding anniversary in a few days and I wont be able to hold her hand or see a pretty face.
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I will be scratching at the door of one of my locals (A spoons) because my main local is undergoing refurbishment. I will be like a wet dog trying to get back inside.
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From my healthcare background I can tell you that this virus is far more dangerous than the flu virus. About 10 times more deadly. It really is nasty.
My step son is currently on a flight to Moscow and then to St Petersburg, I have asked him to be careful.
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Still here, and oddly enough I will be in Nottingham tomorrow. Pity I cannot meet any of you in a pub
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2 hours ago, MargieH said:
Remembering my dad today - although I wasn't even a twinkle in his eye when this photo was taken!
What an astoundingly ugly aircraft
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Thanks, when the Mrs gets here that is exactly her kind of place
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radfordred, I dont know where that is - its lovely. Give me a clue!
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I got married on Friday 13!
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Brenda
I hope everything goes well.
God help her recover
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Its a lot more complicated than that. She has to pass language tests which are horrifically expensive and hard to find plus the documents of marriage are all in Russian. So they need to be translated. (Just as an aside, you cannot apply for spouse permanent residency unless you can prove marriage or relationship for two years. We have been married for two years now. Known each other for 12 years) Basically our marriage was delayed due to the passing away of both my parents, me getting redundant and her mother becoming ill and passing away. £2500 budget for the spouse visa. And will take months.
Quick way, get a simple tourist visa and get her here in 5 weeks. (£95!) The main condition of a tourist visa is that she returns to Russia. She can stay for some months until I can sort everything else out. The Covid problem has complicated everything hugely.
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Bit of good news from Russia. International flights permitted from early July. She still needs a visa but the quickest is an automated visitor visa system that could be done online ( You have no idea how difficult it was to get visas for her some years ago) so the turnaround time for the visa is about 6 weeks. Should get her over here for late August. Considering that I last saw her on 2 March, that is a long time.
I'll get her back.
Flights still remain very cheap - £55 from Moscow standard class with airmiles.
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Back on topic, Worksop nick did have a black maria, although it was painted white with a candy stripe down it. A transit van which worked when it wanted to. It stunk of cigarettes and bags of stale chips. I drove it a few times and threw in the drunks on a Saturday, but to my recollection it was not that many at all.
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Originally from Hyson Green but lived in Selston
I often heard serry as a term of affection and respect.
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Another place I unfailingly visit when I am in Nottingham is the Bombay Sweet Centre on Radford Road. All the veggie stuff is amazing. The namak paray is worth going to the shop just for that alone. The aloo gobi is the finest I have tasted. Pakoras of course, which I eat almost as soon as I get out of the shop. Oddly enough the only thing they dont do that well is naan bread. Curry king just a little further up the road do it well, but get a bit arsy if you just want to buy naans without a curry dish. I usually buy 4 or 5 naans and freeze them from there. They sometimes do an elephant ear naan which is huge!
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5 hours ago, Beekay said:
Thank you for that insight MD., much appreciated. I have attended the service at the Menin gate. We once went to Ypres for Christmas and stayed in the Novotel just down the road from there. Went on three consecutive nights.
I usually stay at Talbot House.
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4 hours ago, letsavagoo said:
Mercury Dancer.
Do you have knowledge of the Bullecourt area at all. If so I wonder if we might chat by pm. My Grandfather was killed there in March 1918 and I intend to visit.
Yes, I do, I know the Somme well, especially around Baupame which is not that far away. Mostly about 1 July 1916, but Bullecourt is not that far away. Let me know via PM and I will give you more information if you want to visit.
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13 hours ago, mary1947 said:
I too have been to Tyne Cott, Ypres and stood at the Menin Gate, while listning to the Last Post. It's a queer feeling as you get goose bumps.
Beekay have you ever been to Champagne forest/woods we were going though Ardenn and just saw a sign post, did not realise where we were going, then out into the open and there was a very large white dove wings open it looked like it was going to swoop down. It was beautifull. We then followed the path into the woods, and there was history, a railway carrige where "Hitler" had signed the surrender papers, the actual railway carrige had been set on fire. If you have not been over there and not seen it Well it is well worth a visit.
it is the most amazing feeling.
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On 6/3/2020 at 1:25 PM, Beekay said:
MD., when you say you ' do tours', do you mean you run them or attend organised tours? Also, is it home or abroad?.
I run them. Sometimes very personalised, if someone has a relative who had died I will try and find the grave and locate it and if they wish, I will take them specifically to that grave, or direct them to it, and find out how they died. I have done that a few times. it brings comfort and some kind of unity.
I'm a member of the Institute of Battlefield Guides.
Most often, its ex-military who go on tours. Sometimes it s a minibus of people from the pub! My speciality is Ypres and Passchendaele in Belgium and if they are fit enough I will walk them from Menin gate to Passchendaele along the road the soldiers walked so many years ago. I have many photos of the roads and places then and now, so I stop at certain points and ask them to look at a photo in a pack I have prepared, The response is astounding. Just to see in the exact place they are standing what it was like in the war is amazing. its a fair hike, but deeply interesting. Other special places are Gingers bar and Talbot House, in Poperinghe but not that far away. The ultimate is the Last Post at the Menin Gate. I know you have been and know how astounding it is.
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As a hobby I do battlefield tours, so graveyards are of great interest to me. I find it important to see what the soldier looked like, where he came from, what he did. If I can, I will laminate a photo of the person and leave it at their grave.
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Jill, Yes Miss Stockhill certainly taught in the infants.
I do recall the teacher with the bad skin, and it is not the one I am talking about who spoke Russian, who was a very young teacher and very pretty. Dont recall a Mrs Platt at all.
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That is her, Miss Massey, she spoke fluent Russian.
Steve has a sister Sharon, and we are still close. I am still close to Steve and Christine, his wife for that matter.
I recall Miss Stockhill with affection, she was the teacher on my first day there.
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Yes Jill, Sidney was his brother and lived in Bobbers Mill Road a little further up towards the church. We were friends. I particularly remember his father, a rather taciturn man, who, on occasion would give me and Sid a bowl of Caribbean style ricenpeas (correct spelling) with hot sauce, (encona!) which I adore to this day. Me and Sid adored cricket, and I can remember my dad taking us to Trent Bridge for a West Indies V England match. My dad was an umpire for cricket, and mainly got us in for free.
Possibly Gaye would be on that photo but I cannot recognise her.
The teacher could possibly have been Mr King.
Do you recall a teacher, a very pretty woman with long dark hair who spoke Russian fluently?
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I am not in those photos, but there are some faces I possibly recognise. Sid Carruthers for one. The other one is the Indian girl in the middle row. I cannot recall her name but possibly Ameria. I remember her because she made chappatis at one class where we did basic cookery. I recall the first taste of a chappati. I adored it then and I adore it now. I think her family had something to do with a shop on Radford Road.
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Marisha got her visa. She is coming home