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By Merekat (Mon Jul 21, 2008 at 09:58:02 AM EST) (all tags)
That is what life does.


Preliminary forms signed for the solicitor to act on our behalf for the house sale.

Meeting held with a bank about investing both the spare cash we have now and proceedings from the house sale. It obviously says something in their corporate manual about making a personal connection with the customer as he told us all about his hobbies and ambitions etc. Also, he looked about 14 and his suit was two sizes too big for him. So now we have one large fund and two smaller satellite funds for a tolerable risk level (I never looked at the predicted gain columns, only predicted loss).

Made tasty fake chilli. By which I mean, no beans, made from a mix of already minced beef and pork, onions, passata, a little stock and leffe brun, and seasoned with cayenne, fresh and dried chillis, garlic, oregano and cumin. Leftovers for today. I might bulk it out into a soup with more stock and throw some rice in it to cook for the ultimate in single-pot-washup laziness.

Work is mostly prep-stuff atm. Lots of interesting yet dense documents to read. So dense that I can only get through 2 or 3 of them per day although they are in english.

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oregano by sasquatchan (2.00 / 0) #1 Mon Jul 21, 2008 at 10:35:47 AM EST
real mexican oregano or the fake (eye-talian/greek/Mediterranean) stuff ?

And what'd the broker take as his cut from the cash you invested with him ?



Being in yerp by Merekat (2.00 / 0) #2 Mon Jul 21, 2008 at 10:37:27 AM EST
I presume it was local.
And you think I'm going to give details?

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what, afraid we'll rip you off by sasquatchan (2.00 / 0) #3 Mon Jul 21, 2008 at 11:29:00 AM EST
next recipe fun challenge ? ;)

(Mexican oregano is, IMO, very different in taste, but takes a bit longer simmering to work into the full dish).

Unless you meant about the house, and I don't care about the pounds, just curious. Most 'how to invest advice' says find a fixed fee investment/adviser place that doesn't sell its own funds to you. All the others rip you off, with hidden commissions and kickbacks the agent gets for steering you into certain funds, plus the percentage they take off the top (and sometimes yearly) etc etc.

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Mexican oregano by Merekat (2.00 / 0) #4 Mon Jul 21, 2008 at 11:35:28 AM EST
I was unaware there was a difference.

There is an issuing fee, no redemption fee and a very low percentage annual fee. The alternatives were largely similar. Pretty much everyone here is selling you funds run by the major Swiss banks anyway from what I could tell.

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The difference by notafurry (2.00 / 0) #5 Mon Jul 21, 2008 at 02:07:22 PM EST
Wikipedia has a simple writeup, looks like, but the short version is, Mexican Oregano isn't oregano. It's not even a subspecies; different plant entirely. Flavor is similar, though as he said stronger, but it doesn't look the same; I've grown both, and it's kind of amazing that they taste the same. Leaves, flowers, stems - all different.

Though apparently, according to Wikipedia, there are several different types of Mexican Oregano that are themselves different species and plants, and a "Cuban Oregano" I've never heard of.

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