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    Quote Originally Posted by Shutree View Post
    ...extend the Non-B to match the contract and Work Permit date.
    For a one year contract and work permit that's how it should be, IMO. Perhaps Armstrong has a 2 year contract and a work permit for 2 years (but a visa for one year).

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    I won GBP25 on the old Premium Bonds this week and then - hold on to your hats - Air Asia refunded my credit card for the flight they cancelled on March 31st.
    I'm on a roll. Must buy a lottery ticket.

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    After 7 months of virtually no schooling my eldest took his mock exams and got 8s/ A* in Maths, English,Physics, Chemistry and Biology.

    Proud dad moment!

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    Fantastic ! Happy for you, dude.

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    After a few false starts and a government officer who was more obstructive than necessary I found an agent and revisited the office today with her. Smiles all round and a Yellow Book is now mine.

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    Yet more joy at Chateau Shutree. The new front gate arrived and I now have a perimeter which keeps my dogs in and every other dog, cow and vagrant out. My first sundowner on the porch without the neighbours' pestilential hounds in my face. Bliss.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shutree View Post
    After a few false starts and a government officer who was more obstructive than necessary I found an agent and revisited the office today with her. Smiles all round and a Yellow Book is now mine.

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    Yesterday I got mine and pink ID card. I didn't ask for the ID card maybe they go together?

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    Quote Originally Posted by VocalNeal View Post
    Yesterday I got mine and pink ID card. I didn't ask for the ID card maybe they go together?
    Yes, same for me, I didn't know about the pink ID card until they lined me up for a photo and I asked why.
    I already used the card at the post office when I was asked for my passport. I offered my passport and the pink ID card and she pushed the passport back to me. I'll be interested to find out where else it is preferred.

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    Tiz all the rage.


    Pink Thai ID required for the entry to the next TD piss up I reckon.


    We wouldn't want any wiff-waff showing up, eh.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edmond View Post
    Tiz all the rage.


    Pink Thai ID required for the entry to the next TD piss up I reckon.


    We wouldn't want any wiff-waff showing up, eh.
    Interesting idea. Will there be another TD pissup?
    What if fluke, chico, and yourdaddy are sitting at a table engaging in deep political discourse and AO unknowingly plonks himself down at that very same table.

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    I think that those denigrated, victimized, bullied and trolled online might in real life be a tad irritable at their oppressors...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Latindancer View Post
    I think that those denigrated, victimized, bullied and trolled online might in real life be a tad irritable at their oppressors...
    Worried there will be a line-up to take you up on your offers of fisticuffs?

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    I feel it is my duty to remind everyone that the Pink Thai ID card doesn't include the 30 baht Thai Healthcare Scheme. So I strongly advise all to have full health insurance to cover potential broken noses, necks, scratches, hair pulling injuries and any/all handbag wounds.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Latindancer View Post
    I think that those denigrated, victimized, bullied and trolled online might in real life be a tad irritable at their oppressors...
    You couldn't afford to shout a round let alone the airfare/hotel/food

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo View Post
    AO unknowingly plonks himself down at that very same table.
    Once he puts his RPK-16 on the table all will welcome him.

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    This is the highlight of my life right now


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    Excellent news and now if only they'd ban the super trawlers with their massive Bi-catches then perhaps we could start to see stocks begin to recover - the level of fishing is entirely unnecessary.

    Bottom Trawling Ban For Key UK Fish Sites

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    Mon, February 1, 2021, 7:09 PM

    Two of the UK’s most sensitive fishing sites are set to receive better protection.

    The Marine Management Organisation says it plans to safeguard fishing areas in Dogger Bank and South Dorset by completely banning bottom trawling.

    The sites are already designated as protected areas, but in reality they are not patrolled - and they’re both over-fished.

    Greenpeace recently dropped concrete blocks on to Dogger Bank.

    The intention was to deter bottom trawling. Another group, Blue Marine, took legal action to try to safeguard the sea bed.

    Bottom trawling is a destructive type of fishing which involves dragging weighted nets across the sea floor.

    The MMO is consulting on proposed by-laws prohibiting bottom-towed gear on the sites. The consultation runs to 28 March 2021.

    The Environment Secretary George Eustice said: “Now that we have left the Common Fisheries Policy, we are able to deliver on our commitment to achieve a healthy, thriving and sustainable marine environment.”

    The decision couldn’t have been made if the UK was still in the EU, and it was condemned by the National Federation of Fishermen's Organisations (NFFO).

    A spokesperson for the NFFO said: “The decision has been taken with zero discussion with those affected. There will be knock on environmental as well as social and economic impacts.”

    Dogger Bank is the largest sandbank in UK waters, and underpins the North Sea’s ecosystem.

    It provides a vital habitat for a wide range of species which live on and within the seabed, including flatfish, starfish, sandeels, crabs, clams, worms, scallops and more.

    'Vital' food source
    These species in turn provide a vital food source for predators such as porpoises, dolphins and seabirds.

    Bottom trawlers typically seek scallops, sandeels, sole, plaice, cod, and crab.

    The UK government has also proposed to partially stop bottom trawling at two other theoretically protected sites – one off the coast of Land’s End and the other off Lincolnshire.

    Charles Clover from Blue Marine said: “We applaud this first step towards protecting our offshore marine protected areas, starting with the Dogger Bank, a huge and ecologically important area which has been hammered by trawls and dredges for too long.

    “The government in England has conceded that damaging fishing has been going on illegally in protected areas.”

    Mr Clover believes today’s announcement sets a precedent for all the UK's 73 offshore Marine Protected Areas for the devolved administrations and for the EU, which have the same law.

    The NFFO described the proposals as having delivered “a sledgehammer to fishing”. It continued: “This punishing reversal comes on the back of the government’s failure to deliver on fishing in the Brexit negotiations, and damaging delays in the export of fish and shellfish.

    Mr Eustice said he wanted a "sustainable marine environment"
    But academics say fisheries have been taking too much. Prof Callum Roberts of Exeter University said: “What is left on the Dogger Bank today is a ghost of what was once there.

    “New protection could lead to the beginnings of a recovery of a megafauna that used to thrive on the bank in astonishing densities: halibut, flapper skate, blue skate, longnose skate, angel sharks, turbot, brill, wolffish, conger eels, cod.

    “Many of these species have declined so far that they are on the endangered species list. But, so far, marine conservation efforts in the UK have completely neglected doing anything to bring about their recovery.

    “In the 1830s, small sailing vessels con the Dogger could catch a tonne of halibut per day. Today, the entire fishing fleet catches less than two tonnes a year.”

    Chris Thorne, from Greenpeace UK, said: “All of our sensitive marine areas must be properly protected, not just four. Ministers have finally woken up to their responsibilities, yet there are still hundreds of other equally important marine areas still open to all forms of destructive industrial fishing.

    "Action in these four sites is only the tip of the iceberg in terms of the scale needed to solve the crisis facing our oceans.

    “This process shows that the government is prepared to use its new Brexit powers to properly protect our seas.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by strigils View Post
    “This process shows that the government is prepared to use its new Brexit powers to properly protect our seas.”
    Why don't you post your Brexit propaganda crap in the Brexit thread

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    This is cheer. After just at 6 months of breaking, hammering and building finally I can see a light at the end of the tunnel for our remodel. Kitchen is 95% done. Hopefully all done in two more weeks.

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    What a relief.

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    Quote Originally Posted by strigils View Post
    Excellent news
    Really brazen to as a multi nic bump your own thread. Unbelievable.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bsnub View Post
    Really brazen to as a multi nic bump your own thread. Unbelievable.
    With crap that shouldn't be here . . . he can keep his propaganda crap there.




    Quote Originally Posted by aging one View Post
    This is cheer. After just at 6 months of breaking, hammering and building finally I can see a light at the end of the tunnel for our remodel. Kitchen is 95% done. Hopefully all done in two more weeks.
    Now THAT belongs here . . .


    Well done, mate!!

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    TD is a site to cheer every day and a place we take for granted. I've been on too many sites that reek of censorship. I may not agree with some of the BMs here, but I support their right to speak their mind, even if I find it offensive. I believe in letting others decide what is to be believed and what is to be ignored. It's what democracy is about. Censorship, on the other hand, is anti-democratic, anti-intellectual, and anti-scholarly and used by those who are fearful of the ideas of others. It's a tool used by cowards and tyrants to silence others.

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    Good job AO.

    Are those 2 steps leading to the dining room?


    There's gonna be some sore toes, broken plates, spilled food and red faces during the break in period.

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    Quote Originally Posted by aging one View Post
    This is cheer. After just at 6 months of breaking, hammering and building finally I can see a light at the end of the tunnel for our remodel. Kitchen is 95% done. Hopefully all done in two more weeks.
    Nice one AO.

    Out of greens.

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    The stairs go up to a foyer or entrance area to the new guest room. Will post more photos as they finish more. Hopefully all done by the 9th.
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