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What does a Scotsman wear beneath his kilt?
If you are an expat, you will possibly recognise that much of our lives tend to focus around the airport. Collecting friends and family from the airport is always a great delight, although returning them is often a very different matter.
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Lots of Love or Laugh Out Loud?
Forget learning Portuguese, Spanish or French! It is Textonyms or Textese, also known as SMS language, chatspeak, texting language or txt talk, that we should really be learning as the new language in our newly adopted country.
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The week the planes stopped flying
The day has been silent. We live quite close to the airport and are used to seeing the many flights arriving each day with their cargos of white, pallid passengers, released from the tight grip of a Northern European winter, looking forward to the comforting warmth of the Canarian sun.
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A bit of a wrench
As regular readers of my ‘Twitters’ will by now realise, airports do give me problems. Whether it is excess luggage or simply that the wretched security alarms will just not stop bleeping when I enter their territory; it is always an annoying and often embarrassing experience. My recent visit to the UK was a case in point.
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Airport Security
One of the many additional hassles of returning to the UK, even for a fleeting visit, are the security checks.
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Not exactly cool!
Who remembers the Reliant Robin? If you are of a certain age, you will remember the Reliant three-wheeler - the much loved (and tolerated), ageing, battered transport of Del Boy and Rodney of TV’s Only Fools and Horses fame.
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A recession busting breakfast
In our village, we are blessed with three small grocery stores. They are not very large and it can be a bit of a squash if there are more than a handful of customers in the shop at a time.
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