Now that we are proud owners of lovely British Passports we truly have itchy feet.

We book to go away to France for about 10 days in August. Staying in a Gite.

While we are there we are going into Paris for a day. Mainly to visit the Louvre. It high on my list of things I've always wanted to do. Many years ago we took mom in law to Paris but never managed to get to Louvre this time round we are going. The tickets are now booked and paid for so there is no way out.

:cheer:

:am: This morning I read something that made me think of this story.....

A lady was very upset with a Pastor. He didn't really do anything to her, but she just didn't like him. She happily went around town and gossiped about him - spreading all kinds of untrue stories.

One good day she came to her senses, felt very bad and repented. She went to the Pastor and apologized. He accepted it, but asked her to take a feather pillow, walk around the block and at each corner empty a forth of the feathers and then to come back to him.

She did just that and returned to him. He then asked her to go back and pick up all the feathers. She looked at him with big eyes and said that it was totally impossible! He then asked: "Why?" She replied: "Because the wind would have blown it everywhere and I would not be able to get it back!".

I guess that is what gossip do.... the wind blows our stories everywhere! A good lesson to learn for all of us! :babyroll:

:am:

It is a cooler today! Have a great day everyone!! :yes:

:jive:

There are two Mexicans who have been lost in the desert
for weeks and
they're at death's door.
As they stumble on, hoping for salvation in the form of an
oasis or
something similar, they suddenly spy, through the heat haze,
a tree off in
the distance.
As they get closer they can see that the tree is draped
with rasher upon
rasher of bacon. There's smoked bacon, crispy bacon, life
giving juicy
nearly- raw bacon, all sorts.
"Hey, Pepe" says the first bloke "Ees a bacon tree!!!
We're saved!!!"
"You're right, amigo!" says Pepe. So Pepe goes on ahead
and runs up to the
tree salivating at the prospect of food.
But as he gets to within five feet of the tree, there's
the sound of
machine gun fire, and he is shot down in a hail of bullets.
His friend quickly drops down on the sand and calls across
to the dying
Pepe.
"Pepe!! Pepe!! Que pasa hombre?"
With his dying breath Pepe calls out... "Ugh, run, amigo,
run!!
Ees not a Bacon Tree!"














"Ees"










"Ees"









"Ees... a.... Ham bush"

This was attached to an email I just received.....

Look here

Methinks this should be copied to the Health forum too :thumbs:

Interesting they make no mention of the Catering industry or Doctors - both of whom have the highest rate of insurance grade :wall:

It mentions Campbell :mmm: something intriguing about that name...

:am:

Yippeeee it is Friday! I am going to do the minimum. It was a busy time with my friend visiting. Although she went out a lot, the times she was in was a busy one. She is leaving for SA tomorrow.

Have a wonderful weekend eveyone!

:jive:

UNITED WE STAND BUT DISUNITED WE FALL!
SUPPORT THE 4/5 YEAR CAMPAIGN AND HELP US TO HELP YOU!

The present government has shown contempt towards our community and threatens our livelihoods by pushing through a number of immigration law changes that, if implemented fully, will profoundly affect the future of not only the Chinese community, but every ethnic community in the United Kingdom.

One of the rule changes, increasing the qualifying settlement period from 4 to 5 years, affects an estimated 400,000 work permit holders, highly skilled migrants, and their families who are ALREADY in the UK.

We are not protesting against the government's right to change the law. We are protesting against the way they have introduced these changes. They have not consulted the Chinese community nor have they given adequate notice for people to alter their future plans.

Our Objectives

We are not fighting the government, we are simply asking them to listen to us and we are offering to work with them so we can get a measure of fairness for those people who have been affected by this change. We are working for the good of you, your friends and family, the Chinese community and for the good of Britain.

We have worked with the government before as a result of campaigning for our community. In November last year, every migrant on limited leave was faced with the prospect of having their appeal rights taken away. This would have been catastrophic to the normal operations of our businesses and the education of our young. This is why we campaigned to keep appeal rights in the new Immigration and Asylum Act.

Our Campaign

Campaigning works! In helping lend their voices to the campaign, the Chinese community rose up, spoke with one voice and the government listened. As a result, Appeal rights are preserved and the government are consulting with the Chinese community with regards to the new tiered system of entry into the UK.

Campaigning can work again! We are doing nothing more than exercising our legitimate democratic rights to voice our concerns against the government's change of rules and the way in which they have done it. These change to the rules were imposed by the government and can be withdrawn by the government with equal ease. We are not asking for the rules to be changed back but to get justice for those people who are unfairly and unreasonably affected.

The consequences of doing nothing

If we allow the government to make changes without proper consultation or notice, then the government will simply continue to make changes on this basis. We will be allowing the government to do whatever they want to us and when we finally do say something, the government will simply point back to all the times we haven't objected and say that they have done it this way before and no one has complained.

The next time the government make a change, it could be you who is affected. Would you be content with being part of a silent minority then?

We have an opportunity now to make our collective voices heard and when we do, the government will listen. We have a chance to participate in the political process and raise our concerns at measures that affect our community, our friends and family, and our businesses.

How do we help ourselves?

The answer is simple. We are looking to gather 10,000 petitions to present to Tony Blair at 10 Downing Street. We want to raise the government's awareness of our community and our concerns at how the government is passing laws with no notice and no consultation with the people and communities involved.

All we need therefore is your signature on the petition showing your concern at the way the government has acted. The more signatures we gather, the louder our voice will be and the government will have to listen again. Your signature and support, showing that the Chinese community can unite and speak together, is worth more to us than any amount of money.

Please sign our petition and get as many people to sign it and help us to help you, to help all of us and to help the government see the error of their ways.

What are we doing about it? –

Petition Signing in Chinatown London on Sunday 16 July 2006 and Sunday 23 July 2006

Volunteers from the NLCA and other interest groups will be in Chinatown on Sunday 16 July 2006 and Sunday 23 July 2006 to gather signatures for the petition to Downing Street.

On both days, volunteers will be on the streets from 1pm – 4pm.

We will also be extremely interested to gather cases of hardship suffered by people and we will have volunteers who will be happy to take down details on the day.

By taking down hardship cases, we will be able to compile a dossier on the effects of the government's change of the rules to demonstrate to them that there are people who are suffering as a result of these unjust and unreasonable changes.

Venue: London Chinatown, near the Chinese Pagoda
Dates: 16 and 23 July 2006
Time: Afternoon (Between 1pm and 4pm)

Our volunteers will be delighted to see you on the day. Thank you for your support.

After these two events, representatives from the Chinese, Bangladeshi and other ethnic communities and highly skilled migrants will be presenting the petitions that we have collected over the months to Downing St on Monday 24th July.

ANYONE with IMMIGRATION CONCERN CAN ALSO SEEK FREE ADVISE FROM THE VOLUNTEER SOLICITORS ON THE DAY

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I just love the amazing capability South Africans have to laugh at themselves. A Muslim guy asked a fellow Muslim after he dissapeared for a while if he went out to bomb something! An Indian girl "tuned" another Indian girl in pink sweater and a bright green trouser why she is dressed like a charrah!

I get bothered all the time because I can talk dirty to my husband in Afrikaans and nobody can understand it. And the poor Afrikaans white man is asked the whole time why he still have a job!!! He just say well I know people who know people!!

I went to a Muslim wedding and a Hindu wedding in one month and at each wedding I was teased without fail about my boring little black dress while all the other girls looked like peacocks in their lovely brightly coloured sari's. But in the end we all sat at the tables, digged in with our hands and just enjoyed the company and the great curry!

And the examples go on and on and on!

Gives me a warm glow around the heart and the heartfelt wish that all people can be this tolerant and accepting of each other and the differences between each other.

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