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SA are better than people give them credit for, I have to say that. I hope we do well, the super 12 final was almost NZ vs Aus. I'm surprised they're not playing better together, but I've missed quite a bit being over here so I'm not really up to date, nzoom has been good at keeping me informed though. Really can't wait to get home. It's nice having a lady that's interested in the rugby, I'm sure you'll agree, a lot of my friends at home have wives/girlfriends that just don't want to know, they get a hard time. My wife knows more about it than I do.
[ This Message was edited by: Fingers on 2002-07-03 22:01 ]
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Posted: 2002-07-03 22:51:00
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Oh yeah, and don't eat the beef while you're here, don't know if you know but any body that's lived in the UK for longer than six months is not allowed to give blood in NZ. Fair enough I guess, it usually takes a while before the public are told whenever there's been another incedent of BSE.
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Posted: 2002-07-03 23:19:00
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Goodness, is it that bad. I had heard about the blood donor issue here. Guess they are being really carefull. Oh and remember to clean your boots before you get back here. Agriculture are still really sensitive to UK visitors and if your boots are dirty they get really curious.
Cheers Mike
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Posted: 2002-07-04 06:12:00
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There hasn't been one for a while but the problem is that they don't tell the public until a little has slipped through. I like the fact that NZ is so strict with anything coming in to the country, when we came back for our Christmas holiday a couple of years ago they x-rayed ALL our bags on the way in, saw my wifes passport and asked if we had any biltong too, we didn't bit of a shame I love it. Clean and green, the way I like it.
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Posted: 2002-07-04 09:02:00
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Hi Fingers, just out of curiosity - what is Biltong?
Mike
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Posted: 2002-07-08 00:33:00
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Dried meat, usually rubbed with herbs and spices, usually beef, ostrich, or some kind of buck, similar to beef jerky but not as processed, it's great. When you've been on pretty much a red meat free diet it hits the spot. Makes you thirsty as f**K though
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OK well that sounds ahh OK. I was going to ask your advise on Pay As You Go. Know anything about that? We will be in the UK for nearly a month and figured that PAYG would be much better for keeping in touch with the "boss" whilst we are there. Otherwise we have to call each other through NZ and that is a real pain, plus the quality is not too good. Any recomendations as to PAYG providers - Orange, T-Mobile, BTCellnet? We will be in London and north of Manchester (i.e. Rochdale). Any help of advise would be appreciated.
Mike
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Posted: 2002-07-08 11:50:00
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I think it's an aquired taste. I'm on Vodafone and coverage is pretty good, personally I wouldn't go with anybody other than Voda or O2 (BT Cellnet) as they have the best coverage, you could have a look at all their websites for rates, I've got no idea, there's also Virgin mobile, but they use the T-mobile network so have the same kind of coverage. See how you go.
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Posted: 2002-07-08 12:35:00
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OK Thanks, its much more difficult in the UK. Here its dead easy, there is only one actual provider for GSM so the question of who has the best coverage does not arise. I have started doing some research on rates but the main issue was coverage.
Cheers Mike
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Posted: 2002-07-08 21:29:00
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Certainly, glad to help, I've never had any trouble with the Vodafone coverage and I've had to go all over the UK for work, but a friend of mine on T-Mobile can't even get a signal in his living room. I'm not basing my information on just that though, I've read it in many of the Mobile magazines over here and know of other people who have used T-Mobile and Virgin that have had no end of trouble. I don't know much about Orange, they're good but not up to the same coverage as Vodafone yet.
[ This Message was edited by: Fingers on 2002-07-09 08:06 ]
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Posted: 2002-07-09 08:51:00
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