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I wouldn't go to your lengths to make actual sausages but I dismantle German sousages sometimes to make sausage rolls, mixing up the meat with breadcrumbs and a random onion/spice/herb mixture rolled up in flaky pastry. They get wolfed down. I do similar, adding some finely chopped dried apricots w...

snowingagain wrote: ↑Sun Apr 13, 2025 3:52 pm Perhaps try and regard is as an important immune boost for your later years....

I'd got through the Winter without any ills - we'd both been vaccinated against the "Flu".

We had the grandchildren staying with us last week until Friday and as a parting "gift" passed their colds onto me so I'm out of action for several days...

yesterday wrote: ↑Fri Apr 04, 2025 9:50 am As long as you do not sell, you have lost nothing with this correction, as it will come back in time, just wait it out,

You just have to live long enough to see the recovery. 4 years is a long time when you are over 70.

I did that prior to my retirement in 2018 & it was the best financial move I ever made,

If you are going to sell the house don't put ANY money into it - you will never get that out again.

If the search goes as far as Pinneberg we can recommend Drs. Schiebler & Schablowsky https://zahnarzt-schiebler.de/ I found the elder Schiebler to be rather arogant but I quickly moved to his colleague Dr. Schablowsky. Not so long ago the elder Schiebler handed the practice over to his son &...

I have good experience with "blue attenuator" (Ger: blaudämpfer) sunglasses.

They filter out part of the blue light - thats what scatters most from water molecules in the atmosphere.
They are brown in colour. I find them to be great when driving or flying...

Tomorrow I fly to Ljubljana via Zörich to attend the 2-day plenary meeting of the International Gliding Commission IGC. The IGC is to gliding as the FIFA is to football. Last year we were in Toulouse where the French fed us famously. I fear the Slovenians are planning to drink us under the table alr...

The letters (one to me & one to my wife) arrived today from our town in Southern Schleswig-Holstein.

Previous rate: 482,48 Eur (annually)

New rate: 480,11 Eur (annually)


Why they didn't just send one notice the "Herr & Frau HEM"...

One wonders if these people really believe what they spout:

https://tenney.house.gov/media/press-re ... al-holiday

Kerfuffle wrote: ↑Sun Feb 16, 2025 8:56 am ... and hopefully less bureaucracy.

Forget that - at least in Germany. Bureaucracy is far too embedded in their DNA here.

Someone has been getting ideas ...

The option to make voluntary contributions to the UK system is incredibly generous, especially if you can pay at the "give-away" Class 2 rate. The UK state pension is based on qualifying National Insurance years and at Class 2 a year currently costs £179.40 to add £328.64 per year to your...