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CV5480

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Follower of non-league football, especially Emley AFC and rugby league, especially Melbourne Storm. Enjoys photography, local history, books and all the good things in life!

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CV5480 @cv5480.bsky.social · 2h

My original comment, about how pre-brexit, the French border controls were sometimes empty, and how you could drive slowly past, holding up your passports, if there was anyone there, referred to Eurotunnel. I can't speak for Dover (I don't like ferries!)

CV5480 @cv5480.bsky.social · 3h

Did the BBC also point out that Boris Johnson promised the folk of this country that there would be absolutely no restrictions on entering or staying the EU following Brexit?

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CV5480 @cv5480.bsky.social · 7h

I also quite like his profession, as listed, "Mysteriarch"

CV5480 @cv5480.bsky.social · 7h

Can only go on what my experience was.

Maybe we had honest looking faces? 😘

Whatever was the case then, the new experience, foisted on us by the Tories, will come as a shock to folk.

And then there is the visa to come, next year.

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CV5480 @cv5480.bsky.social · 8h

At Eurotunnel, around 7-8am, this was often the case prior to Brexit.

And even if there was someone in the booth, we drove past, slowly, simply holding up our passports as we went by.

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CV5480 @cv5480.bsky.social · 8h

Every so often a census paper throws up an interesting entry.

Harry Houdini and his wife noted in the 1911 census staying in Huddersfield.

#ancestry
#census
#houdini
#musichall

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CV5480 @cv5480.bsky.social · 8h

Prior to Brexit, there were times when the French Border post was completely empty with no-one checking passports.

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CV5480 @cv5480.bsky.social · 10h

And the queues/delays whenever I travelled through Eurotunnel were always much worse coming into the UK compared to heading for France.

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CV5480 @cv5480.bsky.social · 6d

Autumn morning by the canal.

Mix of sun and impending rain.

#canal
#Yorkshire
#panophotos
#landscape

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CV5480 @cv5480.bsky.social · 8d

Just about covers everything?

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CV5480 @cv5480.bsky.social · 9d

As a Brit, I have to ask:

where in your bikini or budgie smugglers would you place the gun if allowed to carry it on the beach?

CV5480 @cv5480.bsky.social · 9d

How will they even know which accounts are used by US citizens?

They do realise that other folk around the world use social media and the same ones as US citizens, don't they?

CV5480 @cv5480.bsky.social · 9d

As a Brit, purely out of interest, how will they recognise and survey only the social media of US citizens?

And if they want to read about the new football grounds that I visit, good luck to them.

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CV5480 @cv5480.bsky.social · 13d

And while she is saying this, UK travellers to the EU are making sure that they don't have one centilitre of booze over their imposed restrictions when entering the UK (unlike before Brexit when there were no restrictions on imports).

CV5480 @cv5480.bsky.social · 13d

And while she is saying this, the biometric machines to take fingerprints and facial scans are waiting to be unveiled in order to ensure UK citizens comply with the rules imposed by Brexit, at Eurotunnel, (and, presumably, at other border points).

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CV5480 @cv5480.bsky.social · 13d

Jardine Dumain, Lucon

Perfect autumn morning

#panophoto
#garden
#landscape
#Vendee
#France

CV5480 @cv5480.bsky.social · 14d

New ground 331.

Last match of holiday.

Coupe de France 4me tour

Pays Chantonnay v U S Laval

Fairly basic but part of a large sports complex.

#football
#Vendee
#France
#coupedefrance

CV5480 @cv5480.bsky.social · 15d

Just checked and it appears there were two confirmed and another possible instance of a cricketer actually throwing a ball over the viaduct (after checking the train timetables!)

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