Aardvark
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Post by Aardvark on Sept 2, 2022 10:53:48 GMT 1
Wrong. My pension goes into my UK building society account and I don't suffer the exchange rate until I transfer it to my French bank. Timing of the exchange is therefore in my hands. That's interesting. I thought all building societies had to rid themselves of "foreign" investors. Both of mine closed my term deposits and that was that. Do you have an english address with yours? Which society ?
My Nationwide account address is my home here in France. XX years ago I opened the Nationwide account because they offered the lowest charges for using their card for cash withdrawals abroad. Hopefully I won't have to lose the account in the future. There are no other options that don't require a huge amount of input each month or a minimum balance. |
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Post by houpla on Sept 2, 2022 11:37:43 GMT 1
Too late! pcpa's international wheeling and dealing is bound to attract their attention  There you go, pcpa....https://www.xe.com/fr/currencyconverter/convert/?Amount=1&From=GBP&To=EUR |
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Post by curtis on Sept 2, 2022 11:41:26 GMT 1
That's interesting. I thought all building societies had to rid themselves of "foreign" investors. Both of mine closed my term deposits and that was that. Do you have an english address with yours? Which society ?
My Nationwide account address is my home here in France. XX years ago I opened the Nationwide account because they offered the lowest charges for using their card for cash withdrawals abroad. Hopefully I won't have to lose the account in the future. There are no other options that don't require a huge amount of input each month or a minimum balance. Just thinking. Nationwide is a bank isn't it? The ones that threw me out were just building societies. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2022 11:54:52 GMT 1
Nationwide is the UK's biggest building society.
22€ down on last month on a partial UK state pension. I'd guess that's about 35€ on a full pension.
That was today.
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Post by Nifty on Sept 2, 2022 12:34:05 GMT 1
Too late! pcpa's international wheeling and dealing is bound to attract their attention There you go, pcpa ....https://www.xe.com/fr/currencyconverter/convert/?Amount=1&From=GBP&To=EUR Obviously he has taken a leaf out of Michael Hesseltine’s portfolio. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Heseltine#Business_careerHeseltine described the 2016 Brexit referendum result to leave the European Union as "the greatest constitutional crisis of modern times" and condemned Leave campaigner Boris Johnson as a coward for pulling out of the Conservative leadership election after winning the referendum, likening him to "a general who has led his troops to the sound of guns, and, at first sight of battle, has left the field." |
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Post by houpla on Sept 2, 2022 13:02:53 GMT 1
Nationwide is the UK's biggest building society. 22€ down on last month on a partial UK state pension. I'd guess that's about 35€ on a full pension. That was today. Or to put it another way, nearly 10 boxes of cat-food  How to explain to them that they're going to have to up the ante on the mice? |
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Post by Nifty on Sept 2, 2022 13:46:32 GMT 1
OrTwo or three pints. Depending on where one drinks.
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Post by Aardvark on Sept 2, 2022 17:35:34 GMT 1
Nationwide is the UK's biggest building society. 22€ down on last month on a partial UK state pension. I'd guess that's about 35€ on a full pension. That was today. Grim. And today mrs. A announces she wants to go food shopping next week. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2022 18:48:21 GMT 1
OrTwo or three pints. Depending on where one drinks. Dublin, London or Paris? 4 or 5 pints in my haunts. 37 or 38 if you're willing to debase yourself and drink in Wotherspoons. |
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Post by Nifty on Sept 2, 2022 20:23:19 GMT 1
@ hvm I was an estimate.
Based on what I had seen in the press.
I have not done any serious drinking for decades.
The last time I drank Guinness in Ireland it was abt £2 per pint.
The only time that I drank in Paris it was whatever I could blag.
London lies at the periphery of a black hole and just beyond range of my memory.
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Post by glazedallover on Sept 2, 2022 20:24:45 GMT 1
Nothing wrong with debasing yourself once in a while.....
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Post by Nifty on Sept 2, 2022 20:34:07 GMT 1
I must be blind. I can’t see anything wrong with Witherspoons.
my first flagon of cider was 2/6d.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2022 22:09:03 GMT 1
@ hvm I was an estimate. Based on what I had seen in the press. I have not done any serious drinking for decades. The last time I drank Guinness in Ireland it was abt £2 per pint. The only time that I drank in Paris it was whatever I could blag. London lies at the periphery of a black hole and just beyond range of my memory. The last time I drank in a bar in Paris, outside of a station or airport, I did in fact have a pint of Guinness. Just pre-covid. It cost 11€. Any time I went to Dublin, after my budget first trip there, I pushed the boat out on hotels, meals, taxis, etc, so the extra cost on top of 16-20 pints on a weekend, which only amounted to the price of a decent night out at home, was quite insignificant in the overall budget. Love Guinness. More than my wife, as much as my children but not as much as cheese or smoked salmon. |
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Post by pcpa on Sept 2, 2022 23:05:16 GMT 1
I met an old friend in a pub last week, I can't recall the last time I stepped in one, it can only have been a few times in a decade.
3 bottles (probably 33cl) of alcohol free lager at £3 per bottle was possibly more than I spent on a boozy night back in the day, the place was empty, it used to be a thriving pub and had not gone downhill, we were the only people in one bar and I could hear very few voices from the other side, with all the rising costs it will soon be yet another village pub converted into a house or flats.
16-20 pints over a week-end sounds shocking to me now but was probably quite normal in a previous life.
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Post by glazedallover on Sept 2, 2022 23:11:35 GMT 1
16-20 pints a day was far from unusual back in my 'yoof' . Happy days.
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How to explain to them that they're going to have to up the ante on the mice?