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BrowneIssue replied

13 May 2009, 11:23
Originally posted by Board Game Geek View Post

Hatton Garden is a good place to start, you can spend a good few hours there walking up one end and down the other, and ofc you can get customised rings if you wish.

I did that when I was pissed one afternoon about ten years ago.

I wasted £550 on a sovereign mounted in the most hideous mounting imaginable.

Her Ladyship was not impressed.

Mind you, she kept it.
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Churchill replied

13 May 2009, 09:28
Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post

What's more romantic for a lady though? eloping to Gretna Green or getting some nice jewelary ?

Originally posted by Pogle View Post

A kiss on the hand maybe quite continental - but DIAMONDS are a girls best friend

You lot having fun?
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Pogle replied

13 May 2009, 08:54
Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post

What's more romantic for a lady though? eloping to Gretna Green or getting some nice jewelary ?

A kiss on the hand maybe quite continental - but DIAMONDS are a girls best friend
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EternalOptimist replied

13 May 2009, 08:42
Originally posted by Pogle View Post

I/we have bought a lot of very nice jewelry from a lovely man in Turkey - he sends us a card every Christmas!
All of it has been valued over here and is usually valued at around 6 or 7 times the price paid for it.

What's more romantic for a lady though? eloping to Gretna Green or getting some nice jewelary ?
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Pogle replied

13 May 2009, 08:40
Originally posted by The Lone Gunman View Post

Combine that with a diamond shopping trip. USA rocks are cheaper than UK. For a different experience try Cochin in India. My small rock has been assessed in the UK at twice what I paid for it in Inja, but beware as there are as many cowboys as Indians there.

I/we have bought a lot of very nice jewelry from a lovely man in Turkey - he sends us a card every Christmas!
All of it has been valued over here and is usually valued at around 6 or 7 times the price paid for it.
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The Lone Gunman replied

13 May 2009, 08:25
Originally posted by Churchill View Post

I fancy a beach somewhere.

Combine that with a diamond shopping trip. USA rocks are cheaper than UK. For a different experience try Cochin in India. My small rock has been assessed in the UK at twice what I paid for it in Inja, but beware as there are as many cowboys as Indians there.
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EternalOptimist replied

13 May 2009, 08:13
Originally posted by Churchill View Post

I fancy a beach somewhere.

then, cable beach, broome WA.
Watch the sun go down behind the camel train

camels

Last edited by EternalOptimist; 13 May 2009, 08:16.
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Pondlife replied

13 May 2009, 08:09
Originally posted by Churchill View Post

I fancy a beach somewhere.

We did Sri Lanka with the Maldives a short(ish) hop away for HM.
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NotAllThere replied

13 May 2009, 08:06
Both about 5 secs to spot the pattern. The arithmetic I left as an exercise for people who can be arsed to use calculators. ( And once I'd spotted the second pattern, I recognized what it converged to immediately ).
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Churchill replied

13 May 2009, 08:00
Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post

I reckon you should run away together, make a moonlit dash for the border, shake off all pursuit and get married in Gretna Green

I fancy a beach somewhere.
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EternalOptimist replied

13 May 2009, 06:49
Originally posted by Churchill View Post

Yep, sorry my little hairy friend!

I reckon you should run away together, make a moonlit dash for the border, shake off all pursuit and get married in Gretna Green
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Board Game Geek replied

13 May 2009, 00:44
Hatton Garden is a good place to start, you can spend a good few hours there walking up one end and down the other, and ofc you can get customised rings if you wish.
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Churchill replied

12 May 2009, 21:15
Originally posted by BrowneIssue View Post

I can tell you where to start looking, if that would help save time?

(Would a hint be too unsubtle? )

Somehow I expected that from HAB...
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BrowneIssue replied

12 May 2009, 21:08
Originally posted by Churchill View Post

Need to drag her sister out for lunch and go ring hunting.

I can tell you where to start looking, if that would help save time?

(Would a hint be too unsubtle? )
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Churchill replied

12 May 2009, 19:48
Originally posted by Pogle View Post

Nothing to be sorry for - congratulations.
Hope you got her a decent ring

Nope, not yet. But soon. (Need to drag her sister out for lunch and go ring hunting. I'm under orders!)
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