S.C. The long lunch? do you mean siesta? No i do not have that. if you take two hours off for siesta, it means you have then got to work till 7 or 8 oclock at night to make your hours up. Not many do that now, except the shops in the canarian towns away from the resorts. I work 8am till 4.30 pm with only half an hour break

   You get me wrong S.C. What i said did not mean you or any other ex pats who dont have family in Macc. We are all interested still in places we once lived in.Just talking about me thats all.

   Long lunch eh Mogan. An ex-pat just means you dont live in the country anymore, doesnt mean you have to abandon all interest in the place. Nor does still having family in the country exclude me from being an ex-pat. I dont think, unless you can explain what my status really is MG?

   S.C. you never know. some people choose names as to where they live near.Slinkywizard might be near the Wizard restaurant on the Edge.Living in that caravan site down bradford Lane. How lovely! had one there myself once.You do slink down those lanes. Its very quiet there nobody sees you coming and going.They might even be into magic tricks and so on, hence the name , (I can hear the chuckle now off slinkywizard) Me i really am (Mogan) Girl everybody knows me here due to the nature of what i do and who my partner is. We are a small place, with only one way in thro the mountains. A real white knuckle ride, You hear people saying (Never Again).They can always come by ferry though ha ha ha. we will have a motorway soon 6 tunnels it will take thro the mountains. But that is when i will be off to real secret Gran canaria, where very rarely any tourist goes or knows of.Very Cheap as well properties there. or to rent.

You are not really an ex pat when you still have family living in Macclesfield and are still interested in there welfare there. Trouble with macc like the rest of england. The weather there is detrimental to peoples health, particularly arthritis suffers. People dont always leave England because they dont like there some have no choice to or suffer ill health. The Norweigen government Pay for Norweigens to come and live where i do for three months of the year. Imagine that your goverment paying you to go away on 3 months holiday every year. Come on we were not all born in places where its good for your health, and sometimes you have to (look after yourself that) way and ship out.

   Apology accepted (even if it was shouted)

Dont read too much into names MG, do you really think Slinkywizard is a wizard? I get abuse for my name all the time yet a man claiming to be a Wizard gets off scott free! So unfair!

   The satisfied customer. What can i say? first SORRY! to the lowly serf!!But you shouldnt call yourself that.Why? well i had a job cleaning rich peoples houses once. I needed the money on top of doing night work somewhere else. I answered the phone once and this prince charles voice, Gave me a telling off, For answering his question with, Nobody is in "Im only the cleaner". He said Cleaners are valuable people dont ever put yourself down talking about yourself like that. ("im only the cleaner) And i did even bring my son up to have respect for persons doing any job in life, dustbinmen etc.He said say in future "im the cleaner". Not Im only, as though you are nothing. He was quite right as well.Some only pick fruit for a living where i live. But they are decent honest poeple and some are very intelligent musicians as well.And probably if they lived in a different country they would not be fruit pickers. That is all there is here, in certain areas of the island for work, but they are happy and contented with that, and would never join the rat race with all its stress and problems and most are homeowners as well here. I just wondered how you could be a satisfied customer. (all the time) I hope you are. As for you being satisfied

   Mogan there is an occasional commentator on here called "A Lowly Serf". Boss Hogg didnt think he'd get caught out as that is the arrogance of the man and many MP's.

Why do you think i am Satisfied? What gives you that idea? - I may well be but i dont see how you can reach that conclusion.

   The satisfied customer. i wouldnt call Big Hogg Or his Big Sow. Lowly serfs. no! no way!. Just no bigger than me or anybody else thats all. (But they think they are) ripping the ratepayers off, where do they get the hard faced nerve from? id call (that insanity) for thinking they would not get found out. As ive said in my previous posts. sometimes you have to wake people up.Somebody has to shout at them. That is the problem with britain today, some 84 year old lady gets banged up in prison for making her stand refusing to pay the hike on the rates. And nobody else starts shouting with her,or banging a drum for her. she is on her own. Why are you so satisfied have you accepted your lot in life??or is it because like me you got out of britain. I might have got out myself but i still have family there, So i still put my pennysworth in. And Big Hogg and Big Sow hope you are taking note if you can bring yourself down enough to be reading all this.

   satisfied customer. mango, bananas, and sometimes strawberries thats all.

   Earth to Mogangirl! Why do you love shouting so much?! You'll send a Lowly Serf, Boss Hogg and Big Vic B deaf with all this noise!

   Mogangirl, what else do you put in them mango juices you make?

   Becoming a councillor or MP or getting a job in your local town hall is like (you went to london and got a job there without the expense of relocating) And didnt you do well rising to the top like that? Only thing is you are robbing your neighbours and your own family and friends ,THE RATEPAYERS. but what do you care? YOU MADE IT BIG STYLE. Now for the big detached house, the latest car,and the second home abroad. FANTASTIC!! And all on the ratepayers, your family friends neighbours and so on. OK If that is the way you want to go in life.Along with getting your wife the latest MRS CAMERON BAG AT 775 pounds a time, (bit cheaper than the last one she came out with at 995 pounds last year) But HEY! times are hard now, so the price has come down this year. What a bargain! BUT remember the bigger you are the harder you fall.

   As long as they bring the bungling Bill North up to scratch it will be money well spent.