Learn to crochet. Make lovely crochet fabric baskets. Use up fabric scraps and upcycle thrifted sheets and tablecloths. Make your own rag rope. It's all here!
I love making these fabric baskets – there's only one crochet stitch to learn and it's a great craft to pick up when you have a spare minute. Perfect for in front of the TV or in the car when you're waiting for the kids' sport to finish. The chunky fabric yarn also means the baskets are fast to make. If you haven't done any crochet before this is a good place to start and you get impressive and practical results!
I've made baskets using fabric yarn, rag rope that I've made and and rag rope that's available for purchase. The baskets in the photos below are made from rag rope that I purchased. Rag rope makes a thicker and chunkier basket, although both rag rope and fabric yarn baskets are really sturdy. If you don't have fabric to make your own rag rope – or you can't be bothered – the bought version is great. A spool of it will make a large basket measuring about 32 x 13 cm (12.5 x 5 inches) like the one below.
Firstly gather your supplies. You'll need a 12mm* crochet hook, scissors and cotton fabric. And something to wind the fabric yarn onto – I used a thick piece of dowel, but a piece of heavy cardboard would also be good.
*As far as I can see US size crochet hooks seem to jump between the equivalent of 12mm and 15mm with nothing in between. In US sizes I'd try a N/P – 15, and in the UK a 000.
The grey and blue basket – made from fabric yarn – measures 22 x 9 cm (8.5 x 3.5 inches) and I used a total of about 1.6 metres (62 inches) of quilting weight cotton fabric (x the full 42 inch width of the fabric). I used various sized pieces of different fabrics – whatever I had – to make up the 1.6 metres. For the blue and grey basket I made a deliberate choice with fabric placement, but for the others it was completely random.
To make both rag rope and fabric yarn you start in the same way.
Cut the selvedge edges off the fabric.
Now tear the fabric into one long strip. To do this, make a small cut on the edge of the fabric where the selvedge was. The cut should be about 4 cm (1.5 inches) in from the side and a couple of centimetres or an inch long. This is the fun bit: tear the fabric along the cut, stopping a couple of centimetres before you reach the end. Now make a cut in this end about 4 cm along from the previous cut – refer to the bottom left image below. Keep tearing the fabric end to end until you've done the whole piece – it will be like a big zig zag. Tear all your fabric pieces into strips in the same way.
Cut the fabric strips into a manageable size. I find four to five of the zig zag sections to be about right.
Tie one end to a door handle, and walk away holding the other end until the fabric strip is pulled out straight but not taught. You might need to do this in a hallway! Start twisting the fabric in one direction, and continue until the whole length of fabric is twisted. For fabric yarn it needs to be twisted enough to form a round shape, but not too tight – see the image below.
Starting with the end you're holding, wind the yarn onto the dowel. Untie the other end, then get started on the next piece.
If you can get someone to help you will be able to use a longer length of fabric which is great because the finished rage rope will be half the length of the fabric strip you start with.
Start by dampening the fabric strip. Don't thoroughly wet it or you'll be squeezing water all over the floor when you start twisting. Dampening the fabric before you start will help the rope stay solid when complete.
If you're doing this on your own follow the instructions for the fabric yarn, but continue to twist until the fabric is really tightly twisted. It should be so tight that if you give it a bit of slack it will start twisting back on itself. If you have someone to help you, both grab an end and start twisting in opposite directions until it's tightly twisted.
Now, fold the yarn in half. Sound tricky on your own? OK, hold the end of the yarn you've been twisting in your left hand and stretch that arm out to the side. Walk towards the center of the yarn keeping your left arm out and the yarn stretched. Grab the center point of the yarn in your right hand. Keeping the yarn stretched, walk towards the door handle and take hold of that end of the yarn with your left hand. I hope that makes sense?! Now allow the yarn to twist in on itself. And voila, rag rope! Wrap it onto the dowel, with the open end first so it doesn't unravel. Note, you'll need twice the amount of fabric to make a basket from rag rope, and it will be much chunkier than fabric yarn.
When I got half way through this tutorial I was kicking myself for not making a video tutorial… so many photos and instructions! If you get confused have a look online and I'm sure you can find some video instructions for basic crochet stitches.
The first thing to do is make a magic ring.
This is the trickiest part – once you get started crocheting in rounds you won't believe how easy it is. So stick with it!
Leaving a tail of about 20 cm (8 inches) below your hand, bring the yarn up and between your thumb and first finger and hold it there.
Wrap the yarn over the top of three fingers, then underneath, and back over the top, so it forms an X on the top of your fingers (photo 1). Hold the yarn with your little finger.
Pass the crochet hook under the first part of the X and over the second part (photo 2).
With the hook facing down hook the yarn and pull it through (photo 3).
Bring the hook out and twist it so the hook part is now facing up (photo 4).
Slide the ring off your fingers (photo 5).
Pick up the ring in your left hand, holding the knot between your thumb and second finger, and the yarn over your first finger. Hold the crochet hook in your right hand like a pencil. Wrap the yarn over the hook (photo 6) and bring it though the loop. That's a single chain stitch.
Now, this stitch is the only one you have to learn… Pass the hook through the center of the ring (photo 7) and under the yarn.
Bring the hook over the yarn and twist it so the hook is facing down (photo 7).
Hook the yarn and pull it through the center of the ring. You'll now have two loops on the hook (photo 9).
Wrap the yarn around the hook (photo 10) and pull it though both loops. You'll now have one loop on the hook and that completes the first stitch.
In US terminology that's a single crochet – in the UK it's called a double crochet. Just to confuse you! I'll call it a single crochet in this tutorial.
Now we just repeat the single crochet stitch until we have eight of them on the magic ring.
Make sure your stitches aren't too tight – see in the photos how the yarn isn't tight around my hook? If the hook is too hard to pull through it means that you are pulling the yarn too tight around it. Make your stitches looser and it will make life much easier.
Remember… (starting from photo 7) Hook through the center of the ring. Yarn over. Pull through. Now there are two loops on the hook. Yarn over the hook and pull though both loops.
When you have eight stitches on the loop pull the tail to close the loop. In photo 12 the tail is on the left and the working yarn is on the right.
Starting with a magic ring is a bit tricky, but it's the best way to make sure you don't have a big hole in the middle of your basket. You can see the closed hole in photo 13.
Insert the hook into the first stitch and do a single crochet stitch. In photo 14 you can see where to insert the hook. If you look at the side of the magic ring you'll see a chain pattern. The hook passes in the space underneath (photo 14). The space will be quite obvious.
Wrap the yarn around the hook and draw the hook back through the stitch (photo 15). Now you'll have two loops on the hook. Yarn around again and through both loops.
So it's the same single crochet stitch as before, but now you are going through the stitches below instead of the magic ring.
Hook through. Yarn over. Pull through. Yarn over. Pull though both loops.
Now repeat into the same space/stitch. The first round will have two single crochet stitches into each stitch of the previous round, so the number of stitches will double to 16.
In the second round crochet one single crochet stitch into the first stitch of the previous round, then two stitches into the second one. Repeat this alternating pattern for the rest of the round.
On the third round do one single crochet stitch into each of the first two stitches of the previous round, then two into the third stitch. Repeat for the rest of the round. That completes the base.
To keep track of where each round starts take a look at the back of the base and you'll see the tail of yarn from the magic ring. The position of the tail indicates the start of the round.
I have amended the tutorial slightly since first publishing it. I like my baskets to be very dense so I add a lot of stitches in each round. But following feedback from a lovely reader who is just learning I have changed the pattern slightly to make it more manageable. Please email me if you need help!
To join new yarn in a fabric basket you can just tie a double know if you wish. The knot will be mostly hidden in the texture of the basket.
Or, I prefer to do it this way: open up the end of the yarn and place the new yarn on top, overlapping them by about 8 cm (3 inches). Then roll the open end around it.
When you've finished the base all you have to do is continue on but with just one single crochet stitch instead of two in each stitch. As soon as you start doing this you'll notice the side starting to curve up. Crochet 5 rounds or until you like the proportions of your basket.
Cut the yarn so you have a length of about 20 cm (8 inches) left. Wrap the yarn around the hook and pull it all the way through the loop. Pull the stitch so it's firm (photo below left), then weave the end of the yarn into a few stitches to secure it and cut the tail off (photo top right).
Turn the basket upside down (photo bottom left) and pull the tail in case the hole has opened up. Weave the end into the bottom of the basket and cut the remaining tail off.
I think that might be the longest tutorial I've ever done! I hope you find it useful and the instructions are clear. The fabric yarn baskets are really solid and sturdy and fun to make. Let me know what you think. Enjoy!
I bought my rag rope from Gypsy River but unfortunately they no longer stock it, and I'm yet to find a new source. Please leave a comment if you know where to find some.


text:
"Could you hold us up if I would drag us down?
Resurrect emotions from our past
N' if they had a king for fools would you wear the crown?
Build us up again and make us last
Cos what I feel is the only truth for me
And I get by on this naiveté of youth"
Poets of the Fall – "King of Fools"
He probably should be feeling guilty, but Damon found himself feeling more resigned than anything else.
Fine, he admitted – he was feeling the need to gloat some, too.
Isabella was fast asleep beside him, her makeup slightly smudged from their night out and his nightshirt riding high on her thighs. Unthinkingly, his fingers trailed over the exposed skin, enjoying the soft silk found there almost as much as he delighted in her subconscious sigh as she moved further against him, draping her leg around his and giving him easier access.
But what happened next was his favorite part.
"Damon," she breathed in her sleep, her head nuzzling his chest as she took a deep, relaxing breath.
There was no stopping the cocky smirk even as he returned the favor, burrowing his face in her hair and breathing in deeply her scent – a subtle floral mixed with berries. The part of him that was more than man purred in satisfaction as he detected his scent there as well. It was a possessive reaction, but Damon took great pleasure in knowing that his scent could be found on just about every inch of her, marking her as his to any supernatural beings they may stumble across.
And they would find them, or rather, they would find Isabella. Girl was an absolute magnet for the dangerous type. Still, he looked forward to defending his claim on her – the challenge of a fight and the thrill of victory. Because he would win, he knew. Not only was he naturally a great fighter – the best, if he said so himself – but this would also be the first time he had something to fight for.
Which is why he couldn't bring himself to feel guilty, not when his plan made sure that she was his in the end. She would be angry when she found out, rightfully so, but Damon was a selfish creature, and as much as he had started to put Isabella first, he knew that her insecurities would get in his way, not to mention that they'd also be in the way of her own happiness.
So he decided to take matters into his own hands to speed things up. The necklace was the first step. He'd made some calls while Isabella had been asleep the night after he'd killed the fucking stupid mugger and cashed a few favors in to get the necklace as soon as he possible. It still needed it's witchy voodoo, but the piece itself was telling of his intentions should they run across any vampires. It was a sign of protection and intent.
Isabella took it in stride. As confused and bewildered as he'd been at her reaction after he'd killed that fucking prick in front of her, she'd never once seemed to be confounded by Damon or his actions. A part of him resented her for that. For decades he'd nearly prided himself on his unpredictable actions. No one saw him coming and no one knew what he'd do when he got there. Hell, sometimes Damon himself didn't even know.
But not Isabella Swan. His little kitten saw right through him and as irritating as it was, it was also a relief. His walls may never come down in front of others, maybe not even her, but she'd found the chinks in his armor without even trying. Whereas most would exploit what Damon would term his weakness, Isabella simply accepted it in a casually dismissive way.
A small part of him still resented her, however, and the memories and feelings she provoked owing to the recent events in her life that unerringly echoed his own past. She was like the poison and the cure wrapped up into one attractive little package that he was dying to sink his teeth into.
When he'd made the snap decision to kidnap her and tote her away from that dreary little town she was clearly suffocating in, he never thought she'd be anything more than an amusement. He wouldn't have treated her like a pet because he refused to be like Katherine, but he'd been planning on using her drama to bring some entertainment into his life. There was nothing like a pissed of Cold One looking for revenge, and Damon was already relishing the fight that was to come from that one. The fight he would win.
It'd been just over a week since he'd stumbled across Isabella Swan in that deadened meadow. Then, she'd been nothing more than a wounded bird, scared and alone while on the verge of giving up. Now that he'd set her wing, she was starting to take flight. Laughing more, having fun – getting into trouble. She was like a phoenix struggling to rise from the ashes of her old self and it was glorious to watch.
Damon himself had been nothing more than a wounded tiger when he'd found her. Where she gave into sorrow, he'd lost himself in anger, lashing out at anything and everything around him, drowning himself in alcohol to dull the ache. Then his little bird offered to take the thorn from his paw and even though he still sometimes playfully swatted at her, he instinctively knew he could never hurt her. He, too, had changed because of their meeting.
The anger and hostility were still there within him. The thirst for revenge against Katherine – stupid bitch – would never dissipate. One day she'd get hers, he'd make sure of that. But the useless rage he'd been drowning in, the frustration of having no one to take his anger out on, had eased. He'd found a comfort he never knew existed when he found Isabella.
For the first time in about a century and a half, he'd found his version of peace. Everything he'd done to be ready to go inside that tomb would still serve him, only difference was that it was now in aid of a different woman. The hopelessness of his life had faded. He'd found a purpose again.
His plan was set. Wheels were in motion and a foreign eagerness settled in him. Yes, he probably should feel guilty for not being one hundred percent truthful with Isabella, but nothing would ever make him regret doing what he felt was necessary to secure his future. Bella's future. Their future together.
She had the necklace. He'd tasted her lust for him and she'd not run from his for her like a skittish kitten she sometimes still was. In her drunken haze, she'd not even baited an eye as he'd successfully completed step three in his plan; it'd been a last-minute addition, but Damon was an impulsive sort. Still, when the idea had occurred to him during her game of twenty questions of vampire history, he'd given in to his instinct and plied her with the necessary amount of alcohol to make it happen.
Now, he'd try to take advantage of her hangover in the morning. The next step was an integral part of his plan, but also something he would insist upon for her protection and for his own peace of mind. A failsafe for his little danger magnet.
This time, Damon was playing it smart and would leave nothing up to chance.
I'm fine, he realized. Why wouldn't I be? I spent the last one hundred and forty-five years with one goal, to get inside that tomb. I succeeded. Granted Katherine wasn't in there to be rescued but why dwell? I've found something better instead.
It was far too early and Bella's head was pounding from a wicked hangover – she absolutely could not have heard Damon right.
"You should drink some of my blood."
That's what she thought he'd said the first time, but there's no way he'd just spout that off the instant she woke up, especially not after a night that was nothing more than a drunken blur she hardly remembered. She recalled kissing Damon and him telling her about his type of vampire – he turns into a crow, she mentally snorted – and then there had been drinks and dancing – more kissing? Something about a golden room with a chandelier… or was that just a dream?
Feeling more hungover than she'd ever been, Bella peeled her face off her pillow and managed to wiggle herself around in Damon's arms until she faced him. He looked immaculately put together – sexy as ever even with his untamed hair and bare chest that she wanted to use as her pillow.
Bella buried her head back into the bed self-consciously, tempted to just go back to sleep and ignore him altogether. His perfect face smiling down at her was enough to make her a touch shy of furious. How dare he look so good after the night they'd had? At least some bags under his eyes… but no, the stupid vampire had to be gorgeous next to her sloppy, hungover self.
Usually, she could wait out Damon's scheming and mind games, he always had some sort of hidden agenda. But, she just wasn't having it that morning. It was far too early and her head hurt far too much to indulge his insanity now.
"Mina," his fingers danced up her leg and lightly scraped her thigh.
She kicked him in reflex, her annoyance ramping up a notch. "Shuddup, Damon. It's too early for your shenanigans."
"Shenanigans?" he drew out.
She grunted. "I'm tired and my head hurts… just lie there and look pretty while I go back to bed."
"Oh cupcake," he practically purred. "I believe I'm starting to rub off on you…" He emphasized the statement with a small, teasing thrust of his hips against her and as she blushed she could hear his answering smirk as he continued, "Your snark is showing."
"Go. To. Sleep. Damon."
"Not until you agree with me."
She groaned into her pillow, sadly not the one she'd been picturing before. "About what?"
He scoffed. "Don't play coy, mina, you know what I'm talking about. I want you to drink some of my blood."
Bella contemplated making a break for the bathroom where she was pretty sure she could find some Tylenol, or at the very least the peace of a hot shower. But no, she decided. Damon was obviously determined and she'd have to deal with him and his crazy notion before she could find solace in over the counter pain medication and sleep.
"Shouldn't that be something I say to you? I mean, of the two of us, you're the one with the predilection for blood drinking."
He hummed deeply and he was pressed so close to her that she could feel the sound rumbling in his chest, almost like a purr of a giant jungle cat. "Do you want me to drink your blood, sweetness? Do you want to feel my lips against your throat? My teeth against your skin? I bet you'd taste wonderful on my tongue."
His lips caressed her neck with each silken word leaving little footprints of fire that shot through her body and obliterated any thought in her head. His sinful words had the desired effect, and all Bella could think about was Damon pushing her into a wall, or rolling on top of her in bed, his head settling in the curve of her neck as his hands held her to him in a quiet strength. She would cradled him to her in a symbolic gesture of absolute trust and submission.
Suddenly, his lips were no longer just teasing her. Damon rained tiny, open mouth kisses down her neck, his tongue sweeping out to taste her skin. A jolt of pleasure had her arching into him when his teeth joined the party, nipping at her collarbone. She shivered against him as his low, almost panting breaths tickled across her flesh in between kisses.
"Damon," she moaned lowly, her hands finding his shoulders, gripping tightly, unsure if she should push him away or pull him closer.
Closer, a tiny voice in her head whispered. He's never close enough.
Damon moved lower, his tongue tracing the valley between her breasts. "Il mio dolce, Isabella innocente. Tu sei mia e non hai nemmeno lo sai. La mina sempre." His voice was a husky growl and though Bella had no clue what he was saying, she felt the need to beg him for more.
As easy as it would have been for him to move the loose material of her nightshirt aside and to pay the same attention to her nipples, Damon seemed to know she wasn't ready for that and kept his focus on her chest, only light grazing the edges of her breasts. His kisses started moving north again and he paused briefly above her heart to leave a lingering open-mouthed kiss there that caused her heart to race like a hummingbird's wings.
Her body was leaden with desire and when his face met the curve where her neck and shoulder met, she felt his mouth open as he sucked and licked for what seemed like forever.
"Damon," she gasped, pleasure jolting down her spine. Her hands, which had been gripping his shoulders uncertain of what to do, suddenly had a mind of their own. One slipped down his shoulder blades and pulled him to her, the other snaked up the back of his neck, her fingers slipping through his feather soft hair.
He didn't stop what he was doing – thank god – but Bella felt the vibration of his own groan against the base of her throat as he continued to suck the one spot almost to the point of pain. She may be inexperienced, but she knew that he would leave a mark there, a hickey, for all the world to see.
Instead of making her embarrassed, the idea gave her a secret thrill.
What's happening to me, she couldn't help but faintly wonder.
Finally satisfied with his work, Damon pulled back and seemed to study the mark. "La mia. Tu sei la mia ora. La mia, mina," he murmured.
Her mouth fell open, to say what – she wasn't sure, but Damon took it as an invitation. His lips crashed against hers, his tongue sweeping into her mouth. She moaned again and his hands tightened on her in response.
This was only the second time they'd kissed, but Bella already recognized that Damon had a way of kissing her as if it'd be the last time he'd ever be able to. There was no hesitation, no doubt in his actions. He kissed her like she was the only woman in the world, as if he'd never get enough.
It made her feel beautiful, powerful even. It gave her a foreign confidence even in the face of his obvious experience and her lack thereof. She'd never done anything like this before, but instead of that fact making her insecure or unworthy, Bella felt exhilarated as Damon brought her to the edge of self-discovery. As uncertain as she was, she knew Damon would take care of her as he had been doing since he dragged her to his Camaro and announced he was kidnapping her.
The best thing to have ever happened to me, she realized. And on so many levels.
They kissed for what seemed like hours, alternating between fierce, possessive kisses and softer, gentle kisses that held a promise of more. Her jaw ached slightly, but even that was a pleasurable nuisance. An echo of their passion.
Suddenly, Bella tasted something other than Damon's natural, faintly bourbon tang. There was a new taste to him, a salty, dark flavor that appeared as his tongue delved into her mouth. It tasted like dark chocolate wrapped almonds – smooth with a hint of salt.
Frowning slightly at the change, Bella went to pull away, but Damon followed her, keeping his lips sealed against hers as his embrace turned into pinning her insistently to the bed. There was a new desperation to his kiss, a persistence that had nothing to do with desire.
But still, Bella couldn't bring herself to pull away from him. There was a niggling concern that lingered and dulled her enthusiasm, but Bella trusted Damon and even with the added mystery of his sudden urgency, she didn't want him to stop. She didn't want the way she was feeling to stop.
Slowly, Damon eased up. His random air of desperation eased and his kisses turned long and leisurely with almost a hint of relief. Knowing she was missing something and starting to feel light-headed from their never-ending kiss, Bella was equal parts content and disappointed when Damon pulled back. He pecked her tingling lips once, twice, and then a third time before pulling up and looking down at her with hooded, dark eyes.
She studied him a long moment, noting the subtle veins that had darkened around his eyes, his vampire visage peeking through. It surprised even herself that she wasn't scared about that. It didn't make her nervous that he'd clearly been on the brink of losing control. As she'd said to him before, she trusted him, accepted him for who he was, man and vampire wrapped in one.
Using the tips of her fingers, Bella gently traced the lines around his eyes, her lips curving softly when he moved further into her touch. He studied her just as intently as she was him, and when his gaze flicked back down to her lips, Bella couldn't help but mirror the action.
But the contented haze she'd found herself in evaporated when she saw the bloodstains smeared across his lower lip. Frowning, Bella's hand moved from his cheek to hover over his lips, but she hesitated there, almost afraid to acknowledge it was there.
Realization hit her then, not like being struck by lightning, but like a cold cup of water spilling over her, drowning her in a mix of disbelief. Her hovering hand moved away from his lips, and trembling, touched her own. She was not entirely surprised when she felt a wetness there and when she pulled them away, the tips of her fingers were stained blood-red.
"Damon?" she asked in a shaky voice.
Her blissful glow pulled away like a warm comforter being pulled back from her. Now she felt cold, hollow. Her forgotten headache started hammering at her temples again.
"I won't apologize," he whispered lowly, and despite his words, Bella still knew him well enough that his words were as good an apology to him.
"Your blood?" she asked darkly.
His eyes pierced her, but he didn't lie, didn't make any excuses. "Yes," he simply said.
White hot rage spiked. "You tricked me. You tricked me into drinking your blood when you knew I was going to say no."
"You used me. Used my emotions against me." Despite her resolve not to, tears pricked at her eyes.
"No," he said fiercely, sounding almost angry that she'd even suggest such a thing.
"You did," she persisted. She tried shoving him off her, but he grabbed her wrists and held firm, refusing to budge. "You didn't even want to kiss me – you just wanted me to drink your blood. Why, Damon? Why would you do this to me?"
I trusted you, she wanted to cry out. She wanted to hurl accusations like little daggers aimed to pierce and wound him – to make him hurt as he'd hurt her.
But as easy as it would've been to give in to this familiar pain of betrayal – as easy as it would be to lose herself in the catatonic pain that slowly rippled from the old, nearly faded wound in her chest, something held her back.
Damon doesn't do anything he doesn't want to, a tiny voice pointed out. Damon is impulsive, but always takes care of you.
"I had to, mina," he said softly.
"Why?" she asked. "Tell me why, Damon."
"Because mina, I told you I would protect you and if by some miracle a Cold One, a werewolf, or whatever demon your danger magnet self attracts makes it passed me, then at least you'll live to transition."
Horror mixed with fascination. "You want me to be a vampire? Your kind of vampire?"
His shrug was deceptively nonchalant. "Why not? I mean, who wouldn't want to be a vampire? It's cool not growing old – I like being the eternal stud."
"What about what I want, Damon? Doesn't that matter? You've no right to take away my choices."
Of all the possible reactions, she hardly expected him to roll his eyes at her. "You'll still have a choice, mina. Stop being a drama queen. Just having the transition hit doesn't mean you'll instantly be a vampire. You'll still have to feed first. This gives you the choice. I just bought you more time to make it."
"But I don't want to be a vampire, Damon," she insisted, slightly mollified by his snarky, half-assed explanation.
He looked at her like she was crazy. "Did you not hear anything I said last night or just now?"
"Damon," she said, exasperated. "I have no desire to be fast, strong, or to turn into a crow or toucan or whatever… what good is eternity if you have to face it alone?"
That was the one thing she'd never gotten Edward to understand. He'd been so set against her change, always coming back to her soul and damnation. He was so convinced of his own monstrosity that he could never hear what she'd been telling him. She suspected that a part of him thought she only wanted the benefits that came after the change, but Bella had never wanted super strength or vampiric beauty. She'd only ever wanted to be on equal footing with her partner… only wanted to spend several lifetimes with him because how could one ever be enough?
She was thankful now that he had not changed her. Thankful that he had left her to live only one, human lifetime to live alone. Even now that she'd slowly been moving on with Damon's help, she was still thankful to have her humanity, that she didn't have to face a vast eternity with no one at her side.
Damon had been startling quiet after her outburst and even though she was still slightly peeved at him, she was concerned that he hadn't already retorted with some snappy remark. Looking back up at him, she saw his eyes were shuttered carefully, but not enough to hide the anger and accusation housed there.
Oh lord, she groaned to herself. How could she have been so insensitive? They'd never outright spoken about it, but she knew Damon's past mirrored hers to an extent. He'd been hurt too, abandoned like yesterday's news.
And here she was lamenting about spending an eternity alone when that was exactly what Damon was facing. His actions made so much more sense now. She should've known better than to assume and jump to conclusions, at least with Damon. He would never come out a say what he wanted, but she should've known what his actions meant, selfish though they were.
"Damon," she said softly, letting go of her anger to caress the side of his face comfortingly.
"Don't," he said in a clipped, terse tone.
He pulled away from her, leaving the bed. If she'd felt cold and bereft before, it was nothing to how she felt now.
Stalking to the minibar, Damon poured several tiny bottles of whiskey into a glass and took a generous gulp. She wanted to go to him, but knew if she pushed him now he'd lash out at her, and she didn't know if she'd be able to take it. So she stayed in the bed, lonely and regretful, but still frustrated at his actions.
"No one ever said you'd have to be alone, mina," he said. "Think about that before you make any decisions."
Shooting back the last of his drink, Damon slammed his glass down and made a quick exit into the bathroom, leaving Bella alone to her confusing, but almost hopeful, thoughts.
Translations – according to google, at least:
Il mio dolce, Isabella innocente. Tu sei mia e non hai nemmeno lo sai. La mina sempre.
My sweet, innocent Isabella. You are mine and you don't even know it. Mine always.
La mia. Tu sei la mia ora. La mia, mina.
Mine. You are mine now, mine.
22 thoughts on "Chapter 10: Best Laid Plans"
Poor Damon. He is hurting, but what did he expect. He didn't tell her, and while she is getting good at reading him, she is still hurt, and dares not think that someone else will want her for eternity. She thought he was being selfish, and only later thinks of what else.
And poor Bella. They are so perfect for each other, but he needs to be patient.
This is so perfect. Thanks so much. I love it!! I was grinning like a loon as I read this! You can have a Pumpkin Cupcake. Enjoy!
I could not have said it any better,Kittyinaz.
meganba1989 says:
Poor Damon, thought he was doing what was best but went at it the wrong way. A great chapter!! can't wait for more!
Tracey Buie says:
Damon needs to learn to actually talk to Bella or at least realize how insecure she is. That was kind of a sad chapter,honestly. But really awesome! 🙂
fordmustanggt1969 says:
Hi, new to your fics
But i thought i would read what you have on this one before reviewing.
I like it, and i than you very much for sharing it with us. I look forward to the next chapter.
Thank you very much! It is awesome! They'll learn to understand each other soon,won't they?
I'm addicted enough to retread the whole sordid tale over every new update and must say I love how imperfectly perfect and realistic ( in the flawed we make mistakes and have issues way ) these two are! Looking forward to what's next!
Poor Damon, he had good intentions just went about it the wrong way. I don't think he has a right to be angry when he tricked Bella. I hope they work things out.
rainn74 says:
Love it! Love it! Love it!
So…Damon tricked her then got mad at her for getting mad at him and lashing out for tricking her… Real mature, Damon…
Can't wait to see how she gets back at him for all that. (And whether or not he cares enough to admit it, he DID use her emotions against her!) Also…he *is* trying to take away her choices even if, in the meantime, he's giving her other ones – choices HE chooses for her – instead. HE MAKES MY HEAD HURT!!
I really don't see how Bella could TRULY trust him any more now, not really. He goofed up pretty badly…
Can't wait for more!!
|| Damon || Loki || (@IanSmoldeyStan) says:
Damon reaction in this story is spot on. He's selfish. He takes what we want. He likes being in control. & Bella is just the opposite. I hope Bella wasnt mad at him too much because as much as Bella is insecure about herself, Damon is insecure too. He loved one woman all his life only to know that woman doesnt even care for him. They both are broken. & they both can fix each other. This story is really good. I love it so much.!
Those two really need to learn to communicate better.
Silverring says:
Wow love it please hurry up write the next ch
kbhotz says:
I found you through a link on kittyinaz' site and am really enjoying your story! Their trust/betrayal issues and their flaws make them seem more real and human…or formerly human 😉 I look forward to seeing where you take them, relationship and road trip. Vegas is done, where to next? Thanks for writing and sharing!
Very intense chapter. First, we have some crazy, sexy hot moments between these two. Bella is right, Damon does was Damon wants. Sadly, if intentions are good, but his approach, not so much. He also needed to consider her insecurities, not just his own. Which, btw, you conveyed beautifully.
Thank you! Next button!
stupid damon, not thinking things through again. if he had just given he a reason to take his blood she most likely would have without all the fuss. didn't he learn anything about Edward not giving her a choice?
WhiteOphelia Efp says:
I'm a new reader and I just want to tell you that I truly love this story.
I like the depth of the characters' personalities – they're just I have always imagined them to be – and I appreciate, above all, the great psychological insight in every chapter.
This is a very good job.
Just a thing – if I can.
Being italian, I couldn't help but find some mistakes in your translation – I guess you used google translate, right? That "tool" always messes with my language
I hope I don't offend you by writing here the right translation.
La mia dolce, innocente Isabella. Tu sei mia ora e nemmeno lo sai.
Mia per sempre
Mia. Tu sei mia, ora. Mia.
Mina, in italian, means mine as the explosive device – or the graphite you find in pencils.
Hope I didn't make too many mistakes with your language 😉
Keep writing, you're very talented.
Thanks so much for the translations! Unfortunately Google translate is the most ready tool for most writers but I really appreciate your insight to the language and will switch them out… Thanks so much for reading and so glad you enjoy the story 🙂
You're very welcome, dear 🙂
Google translate is not so bad with germanic languages – if you can skip the mistakes with tenses – but it's terrible for latin ones – never use it to translate in french or spanish, it's a nightmare lol
Thank you for writing! It's so difficult to find good fan fictions nowadays that finding yours was a true blessing.
So he got upset because she got upset. He is doing things to secure their future but she's clueless to it. He wants her trust he shouldn't have pulled that.
geezerwench says:
So where is she getting this she needs a person to be with her? Can't she be Bella herself? Not half of a pair, but a whole person herself?
I do understand though. I'm glad I don't have to be old alone.
Kind of foot-in-mouth there, Bella.
I don't know who I feel the saddest for….Bella for being so insecure about herself and her past pain or Damon for expecting Bella to read his mind. 😦 I hope Damon calms down soon and really talks to her and remembers that Bella still needs reassurance.

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Six questions to Nikol Pashinyan left without answers
The escalation in Nagorno-Karabakh started on September 27 raises a lot of questions to Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. Yesterday, journalist and TV presenter Roman Babayan and RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan asked some of them in the Svoya Pravda program on NTV
Solovyov and Kedmi: "Ilham Aliyev is the national hero of Azerbaijan"
Azerbaijan and President Ilham Aliyev became the absolute winners in the Karabakh war having completed almost all tasks set, an Israeli military analyst, former head of the Israeli Nativ liaison organization Yakov Kedmi said in Solovyov.LIVE program on YouTube
Turkey: UN statement on mercenaries in Karabakh conflict 'damages body's credibility'
The United Nations Human Rights Council's "baseless claims" on the use of Syrian fighters in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia are completely disconnected from reality and damage the …
Occupied Karabakh turned by Armenia into fake antiques factory
Archaeological, ethnographic, epigraphic, paleogeographic, paleontological and paleoanthropological scientific research carried out by scientists on the territory of Karabakh proved that the ancestors of the Azerbaijani people lived on these lands starting from the Guruchay culture period and created a rich legacy and spiritual culture. However, for 30 years, factories and workshops for the production of fake Armenian antiquity operated in all the occupied territories of Karabakh
Iran Welcomes Russian-Backed Armenia-Azerbaijan Ceasefire
The Iranian foreign ministry has expressed its support for a Russian-brokered agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan to end a 44-day fighting in the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. As Caspian News …
International community welcomes Karabakh cease-fire deal
The international community welcomed a deal recently signed between Azerbaijan and Armenia to end the ongoing conflict over the Armenian-occupied Nagorno-Karabakh region, Daily Sabah writes in the article International community welcomes Karabakh cease-fire deal
Moscow and Ankara to create Monitoring Center in Nagorno-Karabakh
Today, the Russian delegation will visit Turkey to discuss the establishment of a Joint Monitoring Center in Nagorno-Karabakh. After the visit of the Russian delegation, Turkey will hold talks with Azerbaijan
Unlike Armenia, Azerbaijan accepted Israel's help
After a month and a half of fierce fighting over Karabakh and surrounding Armenian-occupied districts, Azerbaijan and Armenia agreed to a final ceasefire on November 10
Japanese ceramics at Museum of Oriental Art
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Internally displaced Azerbaijanis hope to return to Karabakh
Yesterday, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan signed a joint statement on the complete cessation of hostilities in Karabakh. Now those who lost their homeland in the course of the Karabakh conflict hope to return
Shusha, the liberated symbol of Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan has liberated key town in Karabakh after 28 years of Armenian occupation
Turkish Red Crescent tends wounds from Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Azerbaijani civilians have faced constant Armenian attacks for over a month now
Turkey won't join EU in next 30 years - Austrian FM
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'Mediation of Turkey, Russia best option on U.Karabakh'
7 Nov 2020 in 9:00
The mediation of Turkey and Russia is the best option to stop the Armenia-Azerbaijan Upper Karabakh conflict, and launch negotiations again, according to an Azerbaijani diplomat. "I think that mediation of Turkey and Russia is the best …
Locals in Azerbaijan's Ganja refuse to leave houses damaged by Armenian attacks
Locals in Azerbaijan's Ganja, where the subsequent Armenian attacks had killed 26 civilians last month, refuse to leave their properties, calling on the international community to pay attention to their suffering, Daily Sabah writes in the article We will not leave our homes, Ganja locals hit by Armenia attacks say
500 000 Azerbaijanis may return to liberated lands of Karabakh
Recapture of four Armenian-held districts will allow mass return of ethnically-cleansed Azeris, top Azerbaijani official tells Telegraph. Hikmet Hajiyev, the chief foreign policy aide to Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliev, told the Daily Telegraph that Azeri forces had now retaken four key territories during the five-week long war.
Common misfortune united Greece and Turkey
Rescue teams in the Turkish port city of Izmir are continuing to search for survivors of Friday's powerful earthquake, as officials say the death toll has increased to at least 64
Pashinyan is ready to sacrifice Armenia for himself
The next round of military escalation in Nagorno-Karabakh has been going on for over a month. Yerevan refuses to negotiate with Baku mediated by Russia. War to the last soldier - under this slogan, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan …
Karabakh's exiled yearn for return
Gassan Akhmedov has one last wish - to return to the land of his birth, a land he says has been occupied for more than 25 years. That dream came a step closer, the 80-year-old resident of Baku says, when Azeri troops captured the region of Jabrayil as part of their southern march on the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, Reuters writes in the article Homesick and bellicose, Karabakh's exiled Azeris yearn for return
Jews pray for peace in Nagorno-Karabakh
"On October 18th, I found myself in Azerbaijan's Ganja, a day after the fourth missile attack had struck civilian targets in the city. I witnessed the tragic scenes of destruction and death in a residential district, meeting Jewish families and hearing their accounts first-hand," Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Azerbaijan Shneor Segal writes in the article Daring to hope in Nagorno-Karabakh for Jewish News


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משה פריד was 15 years old when The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers across the USA. The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. With members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they became widely regarded as the foremost and most influential music band in history. Rooted in skiffle, beat and 1950s rock and roll, the Beatles later experimented with several musical styles, ranging from pop ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock, often incorporating classical elements and unconventional recording techniques in innovative ways. In 1963, their enormous popularity first emerged as "Beatlemania"; as the group's music grew in sophistication, led by primary songwriters Lennon and McCartney, the band were integral to pop music's evolution into an art form and to the development of the counterculture of the 1960s.
משה פריד was 29 years old when Star Wars is released in theaters. Star Wars is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas. It is the first film in the original Star Wars trilogy and the beginning of the Star Wars franchise. Starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness, David Prowse, James Earl Jones, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, and Peter Mayhew, the film focuses on the Rebel Alliance, led by Princess Leia (Fisher), and its attempt to destroy the Galactic Empire's space station, the Death Star.
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Traveling should always be about new experience and this doesn't necessarily mean that you have to draw a considerable line across the world map! Quezon City borders Manila and can be easily reached by public transportation systems that include jeepneys, buses, metro rail and of course, the tricycle you rented. This is a perfect place if you have been dying to experience some splurge or restaurant hopping. You will never seem to run out of options.
Not far from the capital of the Philippines again, Tagaytay is a go-to destination if you have been dying to escape the hustle and traffic of Manila. It's a place where you expose yourself to interesting outdoor opportunities including horseback riding, picnic, sightseeing or just hanging out with your best buddies. Just 2 hours from Manila, this is also a preferred location to book your stay for the Philippines. Now, where to go in Tagaytay? The options include Picnic Grove, Sky Ranch, the seminary houses / churches, and Taal Volcano.
Laguna is a place engulfed in history, fun and nature. Situated near to Calabarzon, Luzon, it is a destination that promises plenty, whether you are a tourist to the Philippines or a resident of Manila. Top thing to do in Laguna include a visit to the Enchanted Kingdom, strolling by the Lake Pandin, visiting the Pagsanjan Falls, Fun Farming at Santa Elena, a trek to the Mount Banahaw Mount Makiling, the University of the Philippines Los Banos, checking out the Pagsanjan Falls and the Paete Wood Carvings.
Batangas is famous among travelers as a top beach and diving destination. If you have been feeling claustrophobic in Manila, just take a couple of hours ride to the Batangas where you are completely in the lap of nature. This is the place where you can try out your first rock climbing, soak under a waterfall, or go tubing. The province offers several mountain and associated adventure to thrill seekers and it literally the escapade for a 'natural high'. Try out Mount Batulao, Mount Maculot and Mount Talamitam. At the end of your adventures, you will be coming back a new person altogether!
Discovering the true essence of Manila requires a lot of research since most of the unique richness isn't popularly talked about. You certainly don't want to miss out on the best!
nice overview! There also nice places in the North around Subic!
Really nice and so colorful look beautiful.


In the first part of this article I introduced the 3 pillars of object oriented programming. I covered the Encapsulation, next big topic is Inheritance (this will be covered in 2 articles).
Extend functionality – there are some cases when the source code of the used classes cannot be changed (others are using it or it's not public or simply it's not allowed); in that case extending the functionality of a class can be done by applying inheritance.
Python supports single and multiple inheritance. There are major differences how to implement inheritance and how does it work in Python 2.x and 3.x. All the examples which I'll give are for Python 3.x.
In Python inheritance can be done via the class MySubClass(MyBaseClass) syntax. Basically after the new class name in parenthesis I specify the superclass name.
I'll stick with the traditional example of Animal being the base (or so called super) class and the different species of animals, called the subclasses.
In the Animal class I defined 4 private members (__name, __age, __is_hungry,__nr_of_legs). For all 4 members I created properties, using the decorator @property creation presented in the first part of the OOP in Python article. I created a constructor with 4 parameters (not counting the self parameter) which uses the properties to set the values for the private members. Besides the 4 properties I created a method, called eat(self, food), which prints out X is eating Y, where X is the name of the animal and Y is the food passed in as parameter. The Animal class serves as base class for the Snake class.
As in other programming languages I can override methods in Python too. I've overwritten the eat method and I added extra logic. In case the food which is given to the snake is not meat, then I'm raising a ValueError, otherwise I'm invoking the eat method which is defined in the base class (Animal).
Python gives us the possibility to derive from multiple base classes, this is called multiple inheritance. This can be useful if there are classes with different functionality, but these functionalities can be combined and used together.
In Python the syntax for inheriting from multiple classes is very easy, all it needs to be done is to enumerate the base classes within parenthesis after the new class' name, for example: class MySubClass(MyBaseClass1, MyBaseClass2, MyBaseClass3).
I defined 3 classes (Phone, Computer, SmartPhone), 2 are base classes (Phone and Computer) and one derived class SmartPhone. Logically this seams to be correct, a smartphone can make calls and can install software, so the SmartPhone class can call_number(inherited from Phone class) and can install_software (inherited from the Computer class).
If I look at the constructor if the SmartPhone class, its pretty simple, it invokes the base class's constructor. That's correct, it invokes a constructor, the question is from which base class? As it can be seen on the code it invokes only the constructor of the Phone class. The question is why? The response will come in the next part!
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Others using FieldGenius (/external data collectors) that have troubling connecting to RS+ after firmware update to 2.17.3 (in my case from 2.17.0) where it worked?
Still having issues with this.
Looking a bit more into it, it seems the connection is unstable.
When I try to connect from Fieldgenius, it consistently fails. However seconds after it fails, ReachView indicates that is now connection, though it is then disconnected 4-6 seconds following this.
When connecting to Reach from the handheld device, an outgoing COM port need to be defined per device.
In Fieldgenius you then to connect to that COM-port, not to the bluetooth device!
And then it consistently works!
I found the same problem, but I changed the software completely and opted for Nuwa APP under android.
I'll have to check out this Nuwa app that seems to be becoming popular!
MicroSurvey (FieldGenius) and Carlson Survey REALLY need to get on the ball and get an APP version of their great software going here! They are after all some of the best when it comes to 3rd party survey software next to Trimble's, Leica etc.
EMLID could really learn a lot from these and develop their own app based on all the necessary features that we need.
I think everything is a problem of time and money.


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Italy's international residents often find themselves needing to retake their driving tests due to the country's rules on foreign permits. Here's a look at how the rules apply depending on where you (and your licence) come from.
Published: 19 October 2022 14:53 CEST
Some foreign nationals have to retake their driving test in Italy on becoming residents. Photo by MARCO BERTORELLO / AFP)
Many of The Local's readers from the US, Canada, and elsewhere have written in recently to check what the rules are on driving in Italy on a licence issued in their countries.
The issue of foreigners in Italy having to obtain an Italian driving licence has been in the news lately as the British government continues negotiations over whether UK nationals living in Italy can keep their pre-Brexit rights to drive on Italian roads with a British driving licence or not.
READ ALSO: Driving licences: Are the UK and Italy any closer to reaching an agreement?
This loss of rights has come as an unwelcome surprise to many British nationals in Italy, whether or not they may have voted for it. But these rules have long been in place for people moving to Italy from many other countries.
Who needs to get an Italian driving licence?
Simply put, the majority of people moving to Italy for the longer term from outside the EU are probably going to need to swap their licences.
If you're a resident in Italy and want to drive on the nation's roads, it's mandatory to have an EU or Italian licence.
Note that this only applies to residents. Visitors do not face this requirement.
The Italian rules state that holders of a driving licence from most non-EU countries can drive in Italy for a maximum of one year from acquiring residence in Italy. After that, they'll need to exchange it for an Italian licence or, if that's not possible, retake their driving test in order to get their Italian licence.
READ ALSO: Do you have to take Italy's driving test in Italian?
Like the UK, the US, Canada, Australia and South Africa do not have reciprocal agreements in place with Italy allowing licences issued in those countries to be swapped for an Italian one in most cases.
If your licence was issued by another EU member state, you can continue to use it in Italy and there's no legal requirement to exchange it for an Italian one, though it is recommended that you do so. The exchange will not involve retaking a test and will be a more straightforward swap.
There are also some countries outside of the EU which have a reciprocal agreement with Italy, meaning driving licences from these countries can be exchanged for an Italian one:
Here are the countries which currently have reciprocal agreements in place according to Italy's Ministry of Transport:
Albania (new agreement valid until 12 July 2026)
Brazil (until 13 January 2023)
Republic of San Marino
Switzerland (until 12 June 2026)
Ukraine (until January 24, 2027)
The following countries allow exchange in certain cases:
Canada (diplomatic and consular staff)
Chile (diplomatic staff and their families)
United States (diplomatic personnel and their families)
Zambia (citizens on governmental missions and their families)
READ ALSO: Explained: How to pay Italian traffic fines from abroad
The ministry states that conversion without retaking your test is only possible if
The foreign driving license was obtained before acquiring residence in Italy
The license holder has been resident in Italy for less than four years at the time of submitting the application (those who have been residing for more than four years will have to take the exam).
It's unclear why certain countries have these agreements with Italy and others don't, and what the criteria are.
Drivers with licences that may not be exchanged need to take a full Italian theory and practical driving exam to obtain an Italian licence.
Besides the considerable cost and time commitment of taking a test in Italy – not to mention the fact that the exam must be completed in Italian, requiring a very strong grasp of the language – those who do manage to pass the test face the additional hurdle of being considered a 'new driver' (neopatentato/a) in Italy.
Drivers in Italy are considered neopatentati for three years after passing the exam and face tighter restrictions in that time, as well as higher insurance costs.
Please note The Local is unable to advise on individual cases. To find out more about how Italy's rules on driving licences apply to you, check with the relevant Embassy or Consulate or the Ministry of Transport uffici della motorizzazione civile.
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Rupert - 19 October 2022 at 17:31 CEST
The article states that an EU licence can readily be converted to an Italian one. This is not necessarily true. If the test was taken in the WU, then no problem. But if you present an EU licence converted from a licence not on the list of non-EU countries that convert in Italy, you will be refused.
For example, Cyprus converts NZ licences, but Italy does not. A person with a NZ licence can convert to a Cyprus licence, and hold an EU licence, but cannot convert this EU licence to an Italian one.
Crazy rules – but beware.
paul rivabella. - 19 October 2022 at 20:35 CEST
What a shambles this is, if your Italian and come to live in the UK you can change your Italian licence for a UK one, crazy.
Brexit Brits in EU feel European and don't want to return home, survey reveals
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The majority of Britons who live in the EU, Norway, Iceland or Switzerland and are protected under the Brexit agreement feel European and intend to remain in Europe permanently, but many have concerns about travel problems, a new survey reveals.
Published: 21 January 2023 14:05 CET
The research also shows that problems exist and "travel is where most issues relating to the new status currently occur". For instance, border officials are still stamping passports of UK citizens with residence rights under the EU UK withdrawal agreement, even though they shouldn't.
"There is constant confusion around passport stamping. I was 'stamped in' to France on a short trip… but could not find anyway to be 'stamped out' again. I think I can only spend 90 days in other EU countries, but have no idea how anyone can check or enforce that – until someone decides to try. It's a mess," was one of the answers left in an open question.
"Every time I go through a Schengen border control, I need to provide both my passport and Aufenthaltstitel card [resident permit in Germany] and watch to check that they don't stamp my passport. As I am currently travelling a lot that's been 20-odd times this year…" another respondent said.
The survey was carried out by Professor Tanja Bueltmann, historian of migration and diaspora at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, between October and November 2022. About 1,139 UK citizens replied.
Of these, 80 per cent found acquiring their new status easy or very easy, 60.7 per cent feel their rights are secure, while 39.3 per cent have concerns about their status going forward.
Staying permanently
More than three quarters (76.6 per cent) of respondents said they plan to live permanently in the EU or the other countries of the European Economic Area and Switzerland. In fact, 65.7 per cent said that Brexit has increased the likelihood of this choice.
For some, the decision is linked to the difficulty to bring non-British family members to the UK under new, stricter immigration rules.
"My German wife and I decided we no longer wanted to live in UK post Brexit referendum. In particular, we were affected by the impact of immigration law […] We cannot now return to UK on retirement as I cannot sponsor her on my pension. We knew it was a one-way journey. Fortunately, I could revive an application for German citizenship," was a testimony.
"My husband is a US citizen and getting him a visa for the UK was near impossible due to my low income as a freelance journalist. We realized under EU law, moving to an EU country was easier. We settled on Austria as we had both lived there before… we could speak some German, and we like the mountains," said another respondent.
Professor Bueltmann noted that the loss of free movement rights in the EU could be a factor too in the decision of many to stay where they are.
Citizenship and representation
Among those who decided to stay, 38.2 per cent are either applying or planning to apply for a citizenship and 28.6 per cent are thinking about it.
A key finding of the research, Bueltmann said, is that the vast majority of British citizens do not feel politically represented. Some 60 per cent of respondents said they feel unrepresented and another 30 per cent not well represented.
Another issue is that less than half (47.5 per cent) trust the government of their country of residence, while a larger proportion (62 per cent) trust the European Union. Almost all (95.6 per cent) said they do not trust the UK government.
Feeling European
The survey highlights the Brexit impacts on people's identity too. 82.6 per cent of respondents said they see themselves as European, a higher proportion than those identifying as British (68.9 per cent).
"Brexit has really left me unsure of what my identity is. I don't feel British, and I certainly don't identify with the mindset of a lot of British people who live there. Yet, I am not Danish either. So, I don't really know anymore!" said one of the participants in the survey.
Professor Bueltmann said the survey "demonstrates that Brexit impacts continue to evolve: this didn't just stop because the transition period was over or a deadline for an application had been reached. Consequently, Brexit continues to shape the lives and experiences of British citizens in the EU/EEA and Switzerland in substantial, sometimes life-altering, ways."
Considering the results of the study, Professor Bueltmann recommends policy makers in the EU and the UK to address the issue of lack of representation, for instance creating a joint UK-EU citizens' stakeholder forum.
The report also recommends the UK government to rebuild trust with British citizens in the EU introducing voting rights for life and changing immigration rules to allow British-European families to return more easily.
This article was prepared in cooperation with Europe Street News.
Claudia Delpero, Europe Street [email protected] @EuropeStreet
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Lainey Lipson (YouTuber) was born on the 25th of January, 1997. She was born in 1990s, in Millennials Generation. Her birth sign is Aquarius and her life path number is 7. Lainey's birth flower is Carnation and birthstone is Garnet. What does this all mean? Let's find out!
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NAME: Lainey Lipson
REAL NAME: Laine Lipson
NICKNAME: Lainey, Boxxy, LaineyBoxxy
PROFESSION: YouTuber
BIRTHPLACE: San Diego, California, USA
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1. Bio
Lainey Lipson, best known for being a YouTuber, was born in San Diego, California, USA on Saturday, January 25, 1997. Actress most well known for appearing in the mockumentary series MyMusic by the Fine Brothers and for her regular appearances on AwesomenessTV. She also runs her own LaineyLips YouTube channel.
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2. Lainey Lipson's zodiac sign is Aquarius
Lainey Lipson zodiac sign is a Aquarius. Dates of Aquarius are January 20 - February 18. Aquarius often comes off as an oddball - they have quirky personalities and quietly go about accomplishing their goals in quiet, and unorthodox ways. Many of them are also easy going and their peculiarity alongside their curious nature make them fast friendships. They are intelligent, inventive, humanistic, friendly, altruistic and reformative. Although, they can be emotionally detached, scatterbrained, irresponsible, impersonal
BORN IN THE YEAR OF THE: Ox
RULING PLANET: Uranus
3. She is currently 23 years old
The American youtuber has been alive for 8,760 days or 210,241 hours. There were precisely 297 full moons after her birth to this day.
BORN ON: Saturday
GENERATION: Millennials Generation
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7. Lainey Lipson's life path number is 7
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La Breznik debuttò in campo internazionale in occasione dei Mondiali juniores di Lake Placid 1994 ed esordì in Coppa Europa il 5 gennaio 1995 a Tignes in discesa libera (64ª). Nel 1996 ai Mondiali juniores di Hoch-Ybrig vinse tre medaglie, l'argento nel supergigante e il bronzo nello slalom gigante e nella combinata; in seguito, il 21 novembre, esordì in Coppa del Mondo, a Park City in slalom gigante senza completare la prova.

Il 25 gennaio 1997 ottenne il miglior piazzamento in Coppa del Mondo, a Cortina d'Ampezzo in supergigante (36ª), e il 25 gennaio 1998 conquistò l'unico podio in Coppa Europa, a Rogla in slalom gigante (2ª). Prese per l'ultima volta il via in Coppa del Mondo il 31 ottobre 1999 a Tignes in slalom gigante, senza completare la prova, e si ritirò al termine di quella stessa stagione 1999-2000; la sua ultima gara fu lo slalom speciale dei Campionati sloveni 2000, disputato l'11 aprile a Krvavec e chiuso dalla Breznik al 15º posto. Non prese parte a rassegne olimpiche o iridate.

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 2 bronzi (slalom gigante, combinata a Hoch-Ybrig 1996)

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 5 medaglie:
 2 ori (combinata nel 1998; combinata nel 2000)
 3 bronzi (discesa libera, slalom speciale nel 1998; slalom gigante nel 2000)

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By Andrew Giambrone Jun 11, 2019, 12:34pm EDT
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Tech giant Amazon says it will donate $3 million to the Arlington Community Foundation, a philanthropic organization committed to improving the quality of life in the county, to help boost access to affordable housing and social services for Arlington's low-income residents. The Seattle-based company's announcement comes as development plans for its Northern Virginia headquarters take shape and list prices for homes near the headquarters site spike.
It also comes as residents and experts worry about an "Amazon effect" on the cost of living in the area, which has continued to balloon as the region's population has swelled absent a commensurate rise in the supply of housing. Signs of such an effect—or at least of property speculation based on Amazon's imminent move to "National Landing"—have already begun to be seen. Recent real estate reports have found that Arlington home prices have gone up by double-digit percentages and that the number of Arlington homes for sale has significantly dropped since Amazon revealed in November 2018 that it would move to Northern Virginia.
In a statement, Jennifer Owens, the president of the Arlington Community Foundation, said Amazon's donation "comes at a critical time" for the county. "Over the last decade, housing prices in our region have steadily increased leading to fewer housing options for all income levels and placing a disproportionate burden on our community's lowest income residents," she said. More than 9,000 Arlington households make $35,000 a year or less, according to the foundation, and the county has lost most of its naturally affordable housing since 2000.
Amazon additionally announced Tuesday that, through September, it will match up to $5 million in its employees' charitable givings to 20 nonprofits working on housing issues in the D.C. and Seattle regions. Those nonprofits include AHC Inc., the Arlington Partnership for Affordable Housing, A-SPAN, Friendship Place, Mary's Place, and Doorways. The company previously donated $1 million to Friendship Place, based in D.C., through a giving match. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has also pledged $2 billion to homelessness and education causes.
The company and its development partner in Northern Virginia, JBG Smith, are currently awaiting Arlington approvals for their development plans for the would-be headquarters, dubbed "HQ2." As part of a state incentives package for HQ2, Virginia Tech said Monday that it would build a new, $1 billion "Innovation Campus" in Arlington-adjacent Alexandria.
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Prekop kralja Abdulaha je največji sistem namakalnih kanalov v Jordaniji in poteka vzporedno z vzhodnim bregom reke Jordan. Pred tem je bil znan kot glavni kanal Vzhodni Ghor, preimenovan pa je bil leta 1987 po jordanskem kralju Abdulahu I. .

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Glavni vodni vir za prekop kralja Abdulaha (PAC) sta reka Jarmuk in vodnjaki Al-Mukhaibeh v dolini Jarmuk: dlje proti jugu dodatna voda priteka iz Wadi el-Araba in iz reke Zarka ter njen zbiralnik za jezom kralja Talala. Kot rezultat mirovne pogodbe med Izraelom in Jordanijo iz leta 1994 se nekaj vode reke Jarmuk sezonsko hrani tudi v Galilejskem jezeru in se prenaša skozi cev. Projektna zmogljivost prekopa je 20 m³ / sekundo na severnem vhodu in 2,3 m³ / sekundo na njenem južnem koncu. Voda teče gravitacijsko na dolžini 110 km in sega v višino od približno 230 metrov pod morsko gladino do skoraj -400 metrov. Kanal dobavlja vodo za namakanje in 90 milijonov kubičnih metrov / leto pitne vode za Veliki Aman preko kanala Deir Allah-Amman, ki je bil zgrajen v dveh fazah sredi 1980-ih let in v začetku 2000-ih. Reka Zarka vsebuje mešanico prečiščene odpadne vode in naravnega pretoka vode, ki vpliva na kakovost vode nizvodno od dotoka reke Zarka v PAC.

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Prekop je bil zasnovan leta 1957 in je bil zgrajen v fazah. Gradnja se je začela leta 1959, prvi odsek pa je bil dokončan leta 1961. Do leta 1966 je bil dokončan predvodni del do Wadi Zarka. Prekop je bil dolg 70 km, nato pa je bil med leti 1969 in 1987 trikrat podaljšan. ZDA so prek Agencije Združenih držav za mednarodni razvoj (USAID) financirale začetno fazo projekta, potem ko so izrecno zagotovila jordanska vlada, da Jordanija ne bo odvzela več vode iz Jarmuka, kot ji je bila dodeljena v skladu s Planom Johnston (Jordan Valley Unified Water Plan) . Vključen je bil tudi v kasnejše faze.

Prvotni prekop je bil del večjega projekta - projekta Veliki Jarmuk, ki je predvideval dva rezervoarja za jezom na Jarmuku in bodoči prekop West Ghor na Zahodnem bregu Jordana. Ta drugi kanal ni bil nikoli zgrajen, ker je Izrael med šestdnevno vojno leta 1967 zasedel Zahodni breg in ga vzel Jordaniji. Po šestdnevni vojni je Palestinska osvobodilna organizacija (PLO) delovala iz oporišč znotraj Jordanije in izvedla več napadov na izraelska naselja v dolini Jordana, vključno z napadi na vodne objekte. Izrael se je odzval z racijami v Jordaniji, da bi poskusil kralja Huseina prisiliti v PLO. Prekop je bil tarča vsaj štirih teh napadov in je bil praktično izključen iz delovanja. Združene države so posegle v reševanje konflikta. Prekop je bil popravljen, potem ko se je Hussein zavezal ustaviti PLO dejavnosti na tem območju.

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