Daily or weekly cheer

I had a sudden thought today and checked my second passport.

Happy days, since Brexit you only get 10 years from date of issue on a UK passport, you no longer get the months carried over from your previously passport expiry.

This has brought my next passport renewal trip forward by 9 months and I'll have to do one before the end of the year!

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This is the only tangible benefit or Brexit that I have so far come across... unless anyone else has any?

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Originally Posted by Mendip

This is the only tangible benefit or Brexit that I have so far come across..

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Christmas in Cockatoo?:)

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Originally Posted by Mendip

This has brought my next passport renewal trip forward by 9 months

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Is it only nine months? My understanding is that your passport is good for UK and Thailand into 2026, but not for the EU.

Others will be better informed than I on EU rules. Wot I think:

The EU has 2 rules, one is ten-year validity on the passport and the other six months remaining valiidity. So if you want to go to Germany in November this year, your passport will still be valid and you'll still have more than six months validity, but does it matter to the EU that you'd be past ten years on that passport?

Maybe you should renew before mid-June, just to be sure. :)

^ I'll be working in Schengen so it will need doing before the end of the year, and also what about transit through EU? This is the passport I use for the endless stamps I now collect for each work trip, thanks to... Brexit.

I won't be renewing in June but I'll certainly be doing a recce mission in the next couple of weeks now that my foot is getting better, just to be on the safe side.

^^ I'm starting to grow weary of these endless 'Cockatoo' references, to be honest. Is it even open at Christmas?

^ Bogon Tip #864

Passport Place has now moved from Trendy to a new location on Rama 9. There is not much action going on there with the beer, brekkie, and birds, but they do have some interesting stones in the carpark if you want to bring your little hammer.:)

Here you go - Google Maps

^ There's nothing little about it, mate. But thanks for the tip.

I think it will be prudent to still stay in Sukhumvit but just allow an extra day or so for all the travel.

Oh, and 'stones' are things that kids throw through windows. Rocks are what geologists look at.

https://i.imgur.com/nTHQNDq.jpeg

^ Can I just mention that my daughter just saw this picture and said that a dog would have been more appropriate than a cat, for me.

It's amazing that, at the tender age of 13, she's more mature than some of the posters on this forum.

How is that more mature? :D

^ Yeah, good point.

I wish she wouldn't look over my shoulder while I'm cooking.

One day, in the not too distant future, she'll 'click' and realise what a bunch of depraved individuals inhabit Teakdoor.

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Originally Posted by Mendip

what a bunch of depraved individuals inhabit Teakdoor.

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Speak for yourself there buddy. :)

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To be fair, knowing the denizens of lower sukhumwit where you get your ‘passports checked’ a dog probably is more appropriate then a pussy cat.

Just got the best news today, cancer free. It's been seven months of tests and appointments. I had a thickened endometrium, and had to do a biopsy before Christmas. I went to get the results today. No cancer, but I do have a large fibroid/polyp that needs to be removed. The likelihood the polyp is cancerous is pretty low, but they won't know until it is removed which I have to go in for a day surgery in June to get it removed. It is about 3-5% chance it is cancerous, so I'm not worried. I was more worried that my thickened endometrium was cancerous which it is not.

I am in a good mood now. All the tests I had to do, from the PAP, to waiting to be referred to a gynecologist, to doing a S.I.S and then a biopsy it has been a long run.

A happy healthy new year MM!

Great news.

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Originally Posted by Joe 90

A happy healthy new year MM!

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Same from me and thanks for Rideau skating pix

Thank you, david44 and Joe! <3

Congrats MM.




And Happy Birthday Davis Knowlton.

Are you still in contact with him, AO?

Congrats MM, that’s great news.

I know the feeling of waiting for such results and to get good news.

Did they inflate you?

Good news, MM.

Wishing you and your endometrium a healthy, happy New Year, MM !:)

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Did they inflate you?

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Yeah, fun times. I'm sick of having cold, long, instruments stuck up there for picture sake. lol.

So, I have to be put under general anaesthesia and they will dilate me down there and somehow remove the polp. They aren't sure if it is a polyp or a fibroid, but since it is considered large, 1.5 cm's, they want to remove it as it may cause bleeding as I am in the midst of going through menopause. Probably tmi, sorry. Really fun being a woman.

Thank you guys for the well wishes.

Good news that nothing's cancerous
Always a worrying time waiting for results..here in Oz when you reach a certain age you get a bowel cancer screening test kit in the mail. Just take a wee poo poo in the jar and send it of. Mine came back as having fecal occult blood in the stool so a colonoscopy was ordered. By coincidence I had a throat problem that required a gastroscopy so i was able to get them both done at the same time. Before they knocked me out though I told em to do the gastroscopy first if using the same camera. Turns out no cancer but there was a polyp they snipped off while there. Good news but lost my ass cherry

^^^... :smileylaughing:. Ya crack me up BLD.

You should have posted that in the Dinner thread..

Glad both you and MM are clear.

English style. Must be delicious.

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I tried Ayam once as no other for sale that day, like bullets in a poor sauce, I'm sure served in cheapo backpackers.

Take my advice avoid at any price, 1 stang is too high I wouldna feed teh dog such crap,

I find Branston while not quite as good as Heinze or my preferred Cros and Blackwell readily found online Shopee and Lazada from 60-100 per can depending on vendor, a case a year does me.

For keen farters or big families thay do a catering can of Heinz about 2+liters for unde r10 bucks but wont fit my frige easily and I consume about a tablespoon a week Sunday Ulster Fry after our "workout" as I age I enjoy both equally tho all the exercise offset by beans fried eggs and rasher man that I am

Baked Beans ราคาถูก ซื้อออนไลน์ที่ - ม.ค. 2025 | Lazada.co.th

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Good news that nothing's cancerous
Always a worrying time waiting for results.

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Thanks BLD and ^Stumpy. Glad you are okay too, BLD. I also had an endoscopy and colonoscopy done at the same time. They found a few polyps, but removed non cancerous.

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Originally Posted by armstrong

English style. Must be delicious.

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Made in England. We have beans same same here, but not made in England.

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I found some lost pictures today on my canon DSLR that I had hidden in my closet since China. I charged it up last night and saw that on my SD card I had a thousand pics, mostly of when I was in China. I am missing the cable to get them to my computer, but soon enough I want to get some up. Some from my trip during Chinese New year to Tianjin, China.

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Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe

I am missing the cable

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Either pray to St Anthony Looper method

Mine vacuum
OI couldn't find my wife's clitoris one drunken night, next day hoovered behind the sofa cushions, there it was!

Once your wired in we can start Peking

Flight down to Tirana end June.

Fly back from Montenegro end July.

Plenty time in Kosovo and North Macedonia inbetween.

Gonna be a good summer.

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There’s an excellent steak shop in prizen, I can recommend.

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Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe

Made in England.

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Nope.

'English recipe' does not mean 'Made in England'.

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Originally Posted by hallelujah

Flight down to Tirana end June.

Fly back from Montenegro end July.

Plenty time in Kosovo and North Macedonia inbetween.

Gonna be a good summer.

:bananaman:

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have you been laid off?

I prefer to call it between jobs

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Originally Posted by malmomike77

have you been laid off?

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:)

Still captaining the good ship TEFL but got a fair bit of time off in the summer to indulge my wanderlust.

Not quite the kind of time you TROPHY AVOIDERS go without worrying an engraver, but it's a fair chunk.

Now sing along with hal:

"YOU COULDN'T BEAT 10 MEN, YOU COULDN'T BEAT 10 MEN..."

:)

There were two previous occasions over the years that were battling it out for top spot, but I do believe that this morning and afternoon has taken top spot for best tryst ever.

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Originally Posted by DrWilly

There’s an excellent steak shop in prizen, I can recommend.

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Prizren is on my list.

Might stay a while in an airbnb so I could well be in touch about that steak shop!

Can't decide whether to go to Pristina though.

You been?

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Originally Posted by hallelujah

Can't decide whether to go to Pristina though.

You been?

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Yes, I wouldnt bother. Nothing there.

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Originally Posted by hallelujah

Might stay a while in an airbnb so I could well be in touch about that steak shop!

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It's on the river, near the stone bridge underneath the old fort.

Pashtriku (I think it's this one)

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Originally Posted by hallelujah

:)

Still captaining the good ship TEFL but got a fair bit of time off in the summer to indulge my wanderlust.

Not quite the kind of time you TROPHY AVOIDERS go without worrying an engraver, but it's a fair chunk.

Now sing along with hal:

"YOU COULDN'T BEAT 10 MEN, YOU COULDN'T BEAT 10 MEN..."

:)

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And I would walk 500 miles just to drink with hal the tefler. Just to fall doon at the teakdoor. Sing along armo or anyone not busy marking homework:)

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Originally Posted by BLD

And I would walk 500 miles just to drink with hal the tefler. Just to fall doon at the teakdoor. Sing along armo or anyone not busy marking homework:)

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Good stuff, BLD.

My rates are reasonably cheap and I could definitely get you up to intermediate level - and have a proper session on the ale too!

:)

Just been to the offie for some wobbly pops, so I'm signing off and heading to youtube for the afternoon.

Laters.

:)