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Not totally relevant, but read something about retiring Brits getting German health insurance via UK S1 being ineligible for much of the screening stuff. That is, just a very basic, pretty shit cover from TK, or whoever. Anyone know more about this?

I used to take my expired UK one with me when travelling on my NZ one (and crumpled copy of my bc) which did the trick.

I think if you overlook renewing your UK passport and are abroad but need to travel urgently there is a way of a getting an emergency one (at extra cost) which has limited validity.

Alone today on Shrove Tuesday. UK style pancakes (though I love them) too much of a faff. So planning a (horribly named) Dutch Baby. Which is just a German style oven pancake. A savoury one using a simple bbc recipe. Ham, cheese egg. And a salad. And sod it, I admit I am gaga. Forgotten again again ...

Last time I was delayed enough for a refund, it arrived without me having to apply (obviously I have account with them). Cool.

Fraufruit wrote: ↑Wed Feb 04, 2026 2:03 pm If there was no weapon, one must wonder why the witnesses didn't intervene if they were able-bodied. What a pity.

Especially his acquaintances/friends. These things can happen really fast, before you even get to realise and think about what to do.

Bild says witnesses say it was unrestrained punching to the guy's head.

https://www.bild.de/regional/saarland/s ... 2281394c91

In the USA about 39 000 guys rock up at ER with weird objects up their arses. The joke in the UK among doctors was "How on earth did he swallow that". What is peculiar is why do they not buy cheap safe sex toys (not an expert here, I find them a total turn off, but (butt?) each to their ow...

I have ended up with the equivalent of wallpaper paste using waxy potatoes for mash by mistake.

It is a one-off handwritten diary, with lots of postcards, flyers, photos and details of where she went, whom she met and whatnot. I guess it ended up being picked up by a dealer for a few quid. Nice idea though!

Not exactly on topic possibly mightily surprised, rather than flumoxxed. Perhaps I am flumoxxed about what to do. But a weird result of a google search for books translated from German to English by a woman I knew all my life turned up something unexpected. A diary she had written in the 1930s on a ...

We watched Armstrong doing the first steps in 1969 at primary school in London. I mean, it was a huge thing. But watching the Challenger burn, how awful for kids.

Well, take your expired passport with you, perhaps birth certificate. And of course claim you missed/missunderstood the dual citizen question, etc. Good luck. One thing I wonder about, what if you are an automatic British citizen (born to a British mother, but in France) but have never actually acqu...

Thanks so much Franky! ARTE have other good English stuff. Wolf Hall! Amazing. I recntly ballsed up all my dodgy UK connections when VPN failed. But have something to watch that will keep me occupied until I figure out how to hoodwink them all again.

https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/series/

I binged watch an entire series on Apple the other night. Not really something I would do. But a) it involved a 7 day free trial (instantly cancelled) but also b) not sure I would be able to work out how to get it back on. The fxxking menus on tvs are not that easy for me to navigate.. It was quit f...

In case you have any (slightly off topic) Bratherring.

My major concern is that that conventional dryers will be banned soon, but the heat pump replacements are crap. So want to buy one for occasional use. I use small garden in summer with line. And the room in Dach is really good. Just want to buy a conventional one while still available. But a good on...

Irish would be great. Still not found my grandfather's birth record... think it is a lost cause. Perhaps I could go over and trawl round all the remaining COI parishes that have not given their baptism records over... though I doubt there are many left. It would have been quicker to move there when ...

How can they possibly know? And why? If you are travelling on German, and have an ETA?