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You have to renew every 10 years I think? HID had to do his recently

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Gins

The green paper bit has a long life -- but the photo ID card bit -- are only valid for 10 years

Some people who have not renewed and are residents drive with the green paper bits and there passports

Not sure how Guardia will view that


Loved that story Jonesey

Yes we are multinatonal thread on ere

Hi everyone

The green paper bit last until you are 70 and I think it is then renewed every 5 years. The Photo ID has to be renewed every 10 years but I think but not absolutely sure, cos I drive on a manx licence, if you past your test prior to the introduction of the photo ID then this is still valid. However, if any changes are made to the existing licence then a Photo ID licence is issued.

Hope Janey is doing some copying and pasting for her mum!


Where's LK and MC lately.......maybe they can't get a word in edgeways......hahaha


oops.


'course we're multinational on 'ere Renes.........Wigan, Sheffield, Wales, how much better can it get??

What about Essex?

I had to inform DVLA when I was diagnosed with MS so lots of restrictions like no driving transit vans.....yipee I never want to drive one anyway

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Jonesey

Love that too

Jax


What are you like living in Essex and DONT want to drive a white van ¿¿


Thought Essex was the home of the white van man

Ummm yeah HID was a white van man pain in the b*m having it parked outside

ja...x

This story is true...

Happened the other day to my son

Was cycling up to the school, to get the twins (age 6)had the boy (age 3)on the front of the bike with me, one copper drove the oppisite direction pointin an shouting, then another came from behind stopped us, an said take him off the bike, i said no, so he went to lift him off an realised he was strapped in on a proper seat, his face dropped, oh never seen a seat like that before says copper

l saw him next to the school when we got there, he hung his head and waved with embarrassment.
No apology though..!

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(Wont give the rest of what son said as its a little Rood....)

But the local cycle shop have done a roaring trade on the seats recently so I guess the cops will see many more of them now...

Proper seat ... plus helmet, of course?

I wish cops would do more of that sort of thing, myself. And I always think people who are stopped -- or investigated by social services, that sort of thing -- should really be glad somebody is trying to protect kids who need it! But yeah, a small apology might have been in order. ;)

Kids in cars not fastened in. I remember maybe 20 years ago being passed by a car on the highway, full of family ... with a pair of little girls who looked to be under 3, dressed up in white lace dresses ... standing on the front passenger seat leaning on the dashboard ... while a crucifix dangled above them from the rearview mirror.

A client of mine lost four children under 5 that were all unsecured in the back of a station wagon (estate thingy to you, before the days of minivans) when they were struck. She had her seatbelt on and got away with a broken pelvis. And she was pregnant again when I met her ...

So is anybody going to try my gluten-free pizza recipe? hahaha.

We don't eat it because it's gluten free. We eat it because I had a bag of cornmeal getting old (No.1 insists he doesn't like it) and I wanted to do something with it, so I found a recipe. And it's even easier than no-lard pie crust.

mix together
1 cup cornmeal
1 cup cold water
1 tsp salt
add to
1 cup boiling water
reduce heat and stir til thickened (think polenta)

Spread on a greased baking sheet -- I make two 10-inch rounds, more or less.
Top as you like -- I've been using a spicy chili.
Add grated cheese topping halfway through -- or for chili, top with sour cream when done.
Bake 30 minutes or so at 360 ors so, until the cornmeal crust is dry and a bit crispy on the edges.

It's actually quite yummy. I sometimes use storebought pizza crust, the Pillsbury kind in one of those exploding tubes, but wow, the sugar in that stuff, a bit nauseating.

Evening girls, it sounds daft but because I read this every night I think you know I'm here (in answer to Cyn earlier).

Fans - pleased you got a proper diagnosis, hope you get on OK with the antibiotics. Don't be concerned if your tum doesn't settle straight away - sometimes takes a little while to get things back in balance, but you'll be fine.

JC - kids without seatbelts, one of the things that really upsets me. That and people who have kids in buggies and dangle them over the pavement into the road.

I dont like these child seats on bikes, they were quite popular when I lived in a villiage mums or dads going to pick older kids up from school.

It was frightening watching them cycle down the road with the nutty mums in their chelsea tractors whizzing past

ja...x

Not sure about the pizza JC cant say I know what cornmeal is

Uh oh, another division by the common language? ;)

Cornmeal ... the gritty yellow stuff you make cornbread out of ... ?

Aha.

What is cornmeal called in Britain? http://www.ochef.com/1041.htm

Heh heh:

The British-American Cornmeal Conundrum

What is cornmeal known as in the UK and Ireland?

The British book we turn to first for help in minding the gap between your terms and our terms, Cooks' Ingredients, says what we call coarse cornmeal, you call polenta or maize meal. Finely ground cornmeal, it says, we just call cornmeal, but you call maize flour. (We actually often call finely ground cornmeal corn flour, but that creates confusion with your corn flour (see below).

Darina Allen, founder of the Balleymoe Cookery School in Ireland, refers to polenta flour or simply polenta as the name for coarse cornmeal. In this country, we know polenta almost exclusively as the finished dish and not as its main ingredient.

Alan Davidson, author (British) of The Oxford Companion to Food, just refers to cornmeal (although he does so only in the section on maize, not corn, which makes it hard for us over here to find).

So the choice is yours — cornmeal, maize meal, maize flour, polenta, or polenta flour. Our search on the Tesco supermarket Web site, however, turned up a response only to the term "cornmeal." It offers two versions — coarsely ground or finely ground — and although the search won't find it, the package also refers to the product as polenta.

Now, what you call cornflour, we call cornstarch, and it is something else again. Unlike cornmeal, which is milled from the whole kernel, cornstarch/corn flour is milled only from the endosperm (the outer part) of the kernel. It is used primarily as a thickening agent, and, in combination with wheat flour, in baking. It is used much more in baking on your side of the Atlantic than ours.

And finally, we hope you will notice that we did not use a bit of sarcasm (what we — perhaps mistakenly — call wit) in this answer, having recently been taken to task for the sarcasm apparently dripping all over our British-American flour primer (and which we finally had to modify, because we were apparently mean-spirited and not funny at all. Sigh).

Ahhh right I have heard of polenta, not that I have ever had it, that I know of.

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JC


what is polenta here then??


I've had polenta at various restaurants around town .......... as part of a main dish.


I've always assumed that it is Italian, while cornmeal is American




does that mean that high-class restaurants have been dunning us for years with polenta when it is actually cornmeal?




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That's what it says there -- to us here, polenta is the finished dish. I've helped an Italian neighbour make it over his outdoor fireplace -- that's what we were doing the night Diana died, actually. Just in case I ever have to answer one of those "where were you when" questions. ;)

I only recall having it as one of the layers in a dish that was a stack of rounds of eggplant / goat cheese / tomato / polenta, in a restaurant.

Basically, you make the cornmeal mush as described -- 1 cup, 1 cup, 1 cup -- and then you can bake it, fry it, etc.

The high-class restaurants might be giving you a slightly finer-ground cornmeal polenta than yer regular cornmeal mush. ;)

Right....It's friday we have all weekend to wind up Dally on her home page on fb.....or can I be bothered?

ja...x

This made me chuckle

It was a new one on me that people used to run away to Bethnal Green to get married lol

7th post down

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.page/board/chat/thread/1260625


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I am here but it was too complicated to follow all that stuff.I have been working on my tree on Ancestry.