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by Tim_MaA_MidB
Fri Sep 08, 2006 6:38 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: "Famous" People With Whom You've Worked
Replies: 20
Views: 5763

I worked with Geoff Capes for a while. He was wearing his budgie breeding hat at the time!
by Tim_MaA_MidB
Fri Sep 08, 2006 6:33 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Mallett's Mallet
Replies: 32963
Views: 3874850

Dallas
by Tim_MaA_MidB
Fri Sep 08, 2006 6:28 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Avatars Why Have You Got What You've Got?
Replies: 95
Views: 18014

This is not me...
by Tim_MaA_MidB
Fri Sep 08, 2006 6:22 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Real but amusing names
Replies: 26
Views: 6615

One of my ex-British friends here in Manaus is called Wayne Wright.

Is that funny or just sad?
by Tim_MaA_MidB
Tue Jul 04, 2006 9:01 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Last minute shopping....
Replies: 19
Views: 6403

Everyday chocolate tends to suffer from the heat and tastes stale (usually). Not a wide selection either.
by Tim_MaA_MidB
Tue Jul 04, 2006 4:11 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Last minute shopping....
Replies: 19
Views: 6403

Maybe I'll open a shop called "Gringoes".
by Tim_MaA_MidB
Tue Jul 04, 2006 4:08 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Spiders - anyone seen these before?
Replies: 22
Views: 6276

Maybe this should go into a food post....

http://today.reuters.co.uk/tv/videoChan ... c79067f3cd
by Tim_MaA_MidB
Tue Jul 04, 2006 11:34 am
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Has Richard Ruck's name gone green.....
Replies: 110
Views: 20563

Temperature control on buses and the tube is pathetic for this day and age.

I was on a local bus yesterday and the heating was stuck on. In the winter the heating doesn't work, so they fix it in time for the summer and then it breaks down again by the time winter comes.
by Tim_MaA_MidB
Tue Jul 04, 2006 11:27 am
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Last minute shopping....
Replies: 19
Views: 6403

I don't like sending anything through Brazilian postal service.
by Tim_MaA_MidB
Tue Jul 04, 2006 7:56 am
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Last minute shopping....
Replies: 19
Views: 6403

Last minute shopping....

Well, today I am going to buy a few consumables for friends in Brazil that are hard or impossible to buy there.

Winegums and Marmite are 2 such items.

Anyone do anything similar when they go visiting abroad?
by Tim_MaA_MidB
Tue Jul 04, 2006 7:46 am
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Help required - bed and board + pocket money
Replies: 14
Views: 3717

What a fabulous idea Jude. I love this kind of barter economy arrangement and would have offered but I am a bit busy at the moment.
by Tim_MaA_MidB
Tue Jul 04, 2006 7:41 am
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Isn't there a football competition starting?
Replies: 65
Views: 17030

My nephews have a lucky draw ticket for France, so I guess I will support them.
by Tim_MaA_MidB
Tue Jul 04, 2006 7:36 am
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Mallett's Mallet
Replies: 32963
Views: 3874850

Katharine wrote:Goat (as in Oxfam Unwrapped advertising)
Don't understand...

But
Billy
by Tim_MaA_MidB
Sun Jul 02, 2006 11:41 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Water conservation....an idea which holds water?
Replies: 149
Views: 35480

Weds 5th.

But I can still get online when I'm there so I will doubtless bore you all to death with Brazilian tales :)
by Tim_MaA_MidB
Sun Jul 02, 2006 11:22 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Word of the month...
Replies: 8
Views: 2200

Caipirinha 8 limes, cut in 8 wedges each and halved 1 cup sugar 1 bottle cachaca (sugarcane brandy) Ice cubes Place the lime wedges and sugar in the bottom of a pitcher. Using a muddler or the handle of a wooden spoon, crush and mash the limes to release the oils and juice from the rind. When you ha...

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