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Latest post on 19 January 2013 - 13:36
Thursday Night Thread
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Latest post on 19 January 2013 - 10:08
Me too SM :D
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Latest post on 19 January 2013 - 09:43
The big Deira market with the fish/meat/fruit & veg and date market has its own big car park. You'll have no trouble parking there. It's just about on the right hand entrance to the Creek if you look on Google Earth, not in the depths of Deira itself :)
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Latest post on 18 January 2013 - 17:39
You may well be right, AA, sadly enough. By the way, this accident happened at a U-turn. I don't think other vehicles were involved as such, but from the skidmarks it looks (to me) like she swerved to avoid a vehicle that had shot out of the U-turn right in front of her. I'm extra vigilant approaching them now. Unfortunately RAK still has a huge amount of U-turns. They have improved the main road into RAK from Emirates Road and got rid of all but one U-turn but those that remain elsewhere, especially on 100kph roads, are still deadly.
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Latest post on 18 January 2013 - 09:18
DD's friend died along with her mother who was driving, and a family friend in the back (one of three sisters; the other two survived, and I hope are on the road to recovery). Her poor brother has lost his mother and his sister. It's so sad that this kind of story isn't so unusual here.
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Latest post on 18 January 2013 - 08:18
Oh my! [url=http://www.blueislandsdiving.com'>[img'>http://serve.mysmiley.net/sad/sad0047.gif[/img'>[/url'>
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Latest post on 18 January 2013 - 08:16
Mine's still not allowed to wander alone, it's always had to be with someone else.
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Latest post on 18 January 2013 - 08:14
This was backed up by DD's 14 year old friend dying in the front passenger seat last week :( The only survivors were in the back seat) How terrible. How are the kids taking it? OK now, but the weekend and the first few days at school were very hard. It happened right outside where we live and there are still personal belongings at the site so it's a tough reminder.
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Latest post on 17 January 2013 - 21:21
I take back what I said about adults being safer in the back. However RoSPA states that children are safer in the back [url=http://www.rospa.com/faqs/detail.aspx?faq=348'>rospa[/url'>
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Latest post on 17 January 2013 - 18:55
Yesterday, I thought.
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Latest post on 17 January 2013 - 18:38
We're burning cut-up pallets but yes, they burn wood. ETA quite a few places sell little bundles of logs that do just fine. <em>edited by Sanddy_Dogg on 17/01/2013</em>
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Latest post on 17 January 2013 - 18:36
I'm sure it'll appear on YouTube very soon.
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Latest post on 17 January 2013 - 18:35
This is one, TB [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chimenea-20080706.jpg'>chim-chiminee-chim-chiminee[/url'>
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Latest post on 17 January 2013 - 18:31
It's dangerous for an adult to sit in the front seat? Actually, yes. The safest place to sit is in the back seat (driver excepted of course). This was backed up by DD's 14 year old friend dying in the front passenger seat last week :( The only survivors were in the back seat)
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Latest post on 17 January 2013 - 18:25
Same as little crocodile (we did).
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Latest post on 17 January 2013 - 18:23
We got ours from the Dubai Garden Centre a year ago. We love it!
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Latest post on 17 January 2013 - 18:11
DS and I are toasting marshmallows in it :D
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Latest post on 17 January 2013 - 17:42
I'm sitting outside in front of a roaring chiminea :)
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Latest post on 16 January 2013 - 21:01
I'm hoping when I wake up in the morning its back to how it was. Me too. My tired eyes really are finding it too straining so I shall just pop in and out.
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Latest post on 16 January 2013 - 20:42
You're right, I didn't. I will next time (although my Spinneys didn't have it before Christmas). Oh well, we were still way under our baggage allowance.
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Latest post on 16 January 2013 - 20:15
Not when I was looking, it damned well wasn't!!
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Latest post on 16 January 2013 - 19:59
After carrying 3 boxes back from Canada I was *delighted* to find it in Spinneys.
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Latest post on 16 January 2013 - 18:35
I don't know why, but it just seems so much harder on the eyes to read. I'm not complaining about the font size, for me that's fine. Maybe it's just too much white. Dunno. It does mean I won't be able to spend as long mooching through the posts. Much to DH's delight.
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Latest post on 16 January 2013 - 15:25
It seems the death toll is 'relatively' low. I truly hope it stays that way, and that those injured make a full recovery.
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Latest post on 16 January 2013 - 15:15
Would he even have been up there if it was foggy?
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Latest post on 16 January 2013 - 08:43
Is that a Dove natural beauty thing?
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Latest post on 16 January 2013 - 08:13
Now I see 'em. Better. Not as good as it was, but better. Can't wait to see the finished product [url=http://www.blueislandsdiving.com'>[img'>http://serve.mysmiley.net/happy/happy0030.gif[/img'>[/url'>
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Latest post on 16 January 2013 - 08:05
IT goes against nature! It is automatic to go to the top right to add a post NOT the left !!!!! Quote doesn't work. ? It doesn't distinguish what was quoted and what was written. Your message which I quoted all looks like it was written by me. OMG! Can you imagine what a mess this will be when the multi-quoters get going? [url=http://www.footballerpictures.co.uk'>[img'>http://serve.mysmiley.net/scared/scared0011.gif[/img'>[/url'> edited by Sanddy_Dogg on 16/01/2013 There are light grey lines!! Where? I do not have these light grey lines you speak of.
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Latest post on 16 January 2013 - 07:39
IT goes against nature! It is automatic to go to the top right to add a post NOT the left !!!!! Quote doesn't work. ? It doesn't distinguish what was quoted and what was written. Your message which I quoted all looks like it was written by me. OMG! Can you imagine what a mess this will be when the multi-quoters get going? [url=http://www.footballerpictures.co.uk'>[img'>http://serve.mysmiley.net/scared/scared0011.gif[/img'>[/url'> <em>edited by Sanddy_Dogg on 16/01/2013</em>
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Latest post on 16 January 2013 - 07:24
IT goes against nature! It is automatic to go to the top right to add a post NOT the left !!!!! Quote doesn't work.
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Latest post on 16 January 2013 - 06:49
This is obviously a temporary thing and it will be back to normal soon. No-one would change a forum to something that was so incredibly difficult to fudge your way through, or even read. Would they?
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Latest post on 15 January 2013 - 07:55
http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/courts/hashish-may-have-dropped-in-car-by-accident-uae-lawyer-claims how 53kgs of hash drops into your car by accident.. LOL no! The 53kg was in an apartment. The one in the car was a small block.
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Latest post on 14 January 2013 - 19:35
It [i'>can[/i'> be done here, in a few places (and not backstreet holes either). Otherwise a day trip to Marie Stopes in your summer UK holiday might be an option :)
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Latest post on 13 January 2013 - 22:00
Houston has rain that's what google says :) Oh, it has rain :D
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Latest post on 13 January 2013 - 21:59
Assuming she's officially employed as a maid and not a nanny, has she worked for you for at least a year?
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Latest post on 13 January 2013 - 17:05
I don't think she posts on here any more (she's alive and well though :D )
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Latest post on 13 January 2013 - 15:55
GC posted at 3.04pm
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Latest post on 13 January 2013 - 15:38
http://www.sears.ca/ You can order specific items or a Gift Card.
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Latest post on 13 January 2013 - 13:09
A friend has posted that nothing's moving on E311 from Mirdif (heading towards the Ranches), emergency vehicles in attendance.
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Latest post on 12 January 2013 - 16:39
Yes you can, DH does it regularly and has never had an issue. Same in Canada and Australia.
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Latest post on 12 January 2013 - 15:17
I hadn't thought of that. I hope that's the case DCB.
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Latest post on 12 January 2013 - 13:56
LOL! You would have thought so, wouldn't you!
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Latest post on 12 January 2013 - 13:32
More info here (confirming what has already been said): [url=https://www.gov.uk/change-address-driving-licence'>link[/url'>
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Latest post on 12 January 2013 - 13:26
My understanding is that this would be illegal. I believe only UK residents are entitled to a UK driving licence. It was said on here that we are actually supposed to swap our UK licences for a UAE one, just that the UAE don't bother to collect them.
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Latest post on 11 January 2013 - 22:08
Awful. Absolutely awful. It looks [i'>like[/i'> her, but isn't her.
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Latest post on 11 January 2013 - 20:07
Glad to hear it, Ayzzy, but that was a 'private' event. You were enforcing it, not the law-makers or enforcers. Same as out in public, those that are supposed to enforce, seemingly, are not.
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Latest post on 11 January 2013 - 13:34
Skoki, that's beside the point. As Lolacat said, there was a ruling passed several years ago about banned breeds, and those that must be muzzled in public. I've never heard of it being enforced though.
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Latest post on 11 January 2013 - 13:19
Same in RAK. Was raining when I got up.
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Latest post on 11 January 2013 - 10:26
I got mine from ELC. It was a couple of years ago though.
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Latest post on 11 January 2013 - 08:45
We've got rain :D
 
 
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