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I think inclusive you will be ok as things are supposedly 65 % cheaper in turkey than UK
I googled .. to get perspective, a McDonalds meal there is about 20-15 liras . mid range restaurant 60-120 liras. apparently 434 lira a day is a good amount.
Sounds good, not anywhere near any McDonald’s or anything and I’ll be quite heavily pregnant so Money will be for arcades kids tatt that they want to buy and maybe a bag or 2 👀😂
 
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Random question since we haven’t been abroad since before covid! Going to Turkey for 7 days all inclusive on a resort me and my 2 kids Iv already bought floats and sun cream etc sooo my question is will 5000 lira be enough for a week? It’s about £260 roughly.. and then £100 for airport for there and back food or whatever (will be taking lots of food too incase if delays) money is super tight since the inflation and I’m also starting maternity a couple of weeks before we go..
If you're all inclusive, unless you are planning to leave the resort and go on trips etc, then it shouldn't cost you anything.
 
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Random question since we haven’t been abroad since before covid! Going to Turkey for 7 days all inclusive on a resort me and my 2 kids Iv already bought floats and sun cream etc sooo my question is will 5000 lira be enough for a week? It’s about £260 roughly.. and then £100 for airport for there and back food or whatever (will be taking lots of food too incase if delays) money is super tight since the inflation and I’m also starting maternity a couple of weeks before we go..
if I were you I would set aside a budget, kind of like as you have done, for airport transfer, spending money etc. But the positive of being all inclusive, is that everything is covered and you could go and no spend anything!
If you wanted to get a souvenir you could go to a bazaar and haggle the prices right down and in terms of airport food etc. I always take a packed lunch with me, there's no harm in doing that. A lot of people don't think of doing it and airports are always so expensive but I always do it and no one ever questions it.
Just save some to one side incase you want a drink, but they have water fountains you can fill bottles up with!
 
I've tried so many different ways to hold the yarn but there's only one way that works for me an it just makes my hand hurt but can't just give it up now, not that I really want to either
I crochet in winter months. I used to get like rope burn on my left pinky finger but it turns out i was getting my tension wrong. There are different ways to hold the hook and yarn. Last year I taught myself how to hold my yarn differently from a youtube video and it worked for me. I am on a Crochet group page thing on Facebook and quite often others say they are having RSI issues etc. I think we just have to try not to hold the yarn and hook too tight, and also take regular breaks.
 
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I crochet in winter months. I used to get like rope burn on my left pinky finger but it turns out i was getting my tension wrong. There are different ways to hold the hook and yarn. Last year I taught myself how to hold my yarn differently from a youtube video and it worked for me. I am on a Crochet group page thing on Facebook and quite often others say they are having RSI issues etc. I think we just have to try not to hold the yarn and hook too tight, and also take regular breaks.
Thanks, I'll try an see if I can not hold onto it all too tightly, am still finding tension hard to work with, people on YouTube make it all seem like nothing 😅
 
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I’m dyslexic and generally I cope quite well, however I’ve got to order some pretty expensive signs at work. I made a mistake in the mock ups which is fine but I am conscious that I need to get this right. Is it unprofessional to send them to my customer and say, please could you double check these as I’m dyslexic. I’m the only one in the office next week so I have no one to ask there.
 
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I’m dyslexic and generally I cope quite well, however I’ve got to order some pretty expensive signs at work. I made a mistake in the mock ups which is fine but I am conscious that I need to get this right. Is it unprofessional to send them to my customer and say, please could you double check these as I’m dyslexic. I’m the only one in the office next week so I have no one to ask there.
Am dyslexic as well, I'd be the same as you, does it need to be sent to the customer to check? Is there no family or friends that could help just the once if you are in alone
 
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Has anyone any advice for taking a child on holiday with a different surname to you? We go every year and it hasn’t been a problem I just get all our birth certificates out etc if they ask which they only have once but that’s usually when coming back form Spain this time we’re coming back from Turkey and Iv got in my head the uk border control will be stricter and maybe even the Turkey one will be too.. I mean it’s very obvious he’s British his pale white hair blue eyes (the total opposite of me) we go in 3 weeks and we have no contact with his dad and haven’t since he was born.. am I just over thinking it? Will 2 copies of birth certificates and notice of birth be enough proof?
 
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Has anyone any advice for taking a child on holiday with a different surname to you? We go every year and it hasn’t been a problem I just get all our birth certificates out etc if they ask which they only have once but that’s usually when coming back form Spain this time we’re coming back from Turkey and Iv got in my head the uk border control will be stricter and maybe even the Turkey one will be too.. I mean it’s very obvious he’s British his pale white hair blue eyes (the total opposite of me) we go in 3 weeks and we have no contact with his dad and haven’t since he was born.. am I just over thinking it? Will 2 copies of birth certificates and notice of birth be enough proof?
Just take birth certificates, my cousin has two kids with her surname an the 3rd with her exs surname, she's never had a problem before with taking the birth certificates, they might ask about it but shouldn't be a problem
 
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Anyone had a delivery using Evri before? If they miss you do they leave a card in your letter box?
Yes they do , if your tracking is coming up delivered they should have emailed you a pic of where they left it.
 
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@WilmaHun @monga

Thank you both! I have had a message from them now to say that they have a package at the depot after they failed to deliver it. I was 100% it was a scam but I’ve never had any dealings with Evri so I wanted to double check just in case someone had sent me a package that I didn’t know about (my mum has a habit of posting random things to me 😂)
 
@WilmaHun @monga

Thank you both! I have had a message from them now to say that they have a package at the depot after they failed to deliver it. I was 100% it was a scam but I’ve never had any dealings with Evri so I wanted to double check just in case someone had sent me a package that I didn’t know about (my mum has a habit of posting random things to me 😂)
I think Evri used to be Hermes. Probably trying to rebrand because their image is so tit 😂
 
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@WilmaHun @monga

Thank you both! I have had a message from them now to say that they have a package at the depot after they failed to deliver it. I was 100% it was a scam but I’ve never had any dealings with Evri so I wanted to double check just in case someone had sent me a package that I didn’t know about (my mum has a habit of posting random things to me 😂)
if it was a text like this, yeah it’s a scam. I keep getting loads of them
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Does anyone keep platy fish? An know the difference between males an females, online tells me males have a pointed anal fin an females have a fan shaped fin

I have 3 with a pointed fin an 1 with a fan fin, however it also says males are smaller than females an also are darker than them, an females are more rounded than males which are slim, so this doesn't makes sense to me because the 3 with the pointed are huge an light coloured an rounder compared to my small one with the fan that's dark in colour an also quite slim

So do I have 3 males an 1 female or 1 male an 3 females 😅

Obviously it would be best to know since it won't be good if it's 1 female with 3 males in the tank
 
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Would you guys encourage swimming lessons for an adult who never learnt how to swim?

It’s the waking up early (anything before 12am) my 19 year old sister has the biggest trouble with and the reason she doesn’t want to go. Don’t know if i should keep bugging her about sessions whilst she still has a break from uni or let it drop.

We just have the traditional fan tail goldfishes.

Never had babies so they must all be boys.
 
Would you guys encourage swimming lessons for an adult who never learnt how to swim?

It’s the waking up early (anything before 12am) my 19 year old sister has the biggest trouble with and the reason she doesn’t want to go. Don’t know if i should keep bugging her about sessions whilst she still has a break from uni or let it drop.

We just have the traditional fan tail goldfishes.

Never had babies so they must all be boys.
If she doesn't want to, leave her to it. It may be that she is embarrassed or scared and someone pushing you makes you less likely to go.
 
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If she doesn't want to, leave her to it. It may be that she is embarrassed or scared and someone pushing you makes you less likely to go.
Yeah I agree. Also think that things like exercising are quite hard if you want to do it and pretty much impossible to get motivated for if you don't have any internal drive to make a change, so someone pushing won't help. Gently mentioning it from time to time might help to plant a seed so that eventually she might decide herself she wants to do it
 
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if it was a text like this, yeah it’s a scam. I keep getting loads of them
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That is exactly what it looked like. Why do people do tit like this 🙄

Would you guys encourage swimming lessons for an adult who never learnt how to swim?

It’s the waking up early (anything before 12am) my 19 year old sister has the biggest trouble with and the reason she doesn’t want to go. Don’t know if i should keep bugging her about sessions whilst she still has a break from uni or let it drop.

We just have the traditional fan tail goldfishes.

Never had babies so they must all be boys.
I learned to swim to as an adult and it was the best thing I did. I always struggled as a kid. In hindsight I think I needed a bit more of a 1-1 and to be able to do it in my own time. Adult classes allowed me to go at my own pace.

If she doesn’t want to then you can’t really do anything but I did lessons at 7:30pm so there should be some in the evenings in your area and the classes I went to were very quiet. There was only 3 of us in the whole pool
 
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