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  2. French appreciation of Irish cuisine/products. https://odelices.ouest-france.fr/actualites/12-anecdotes-cuisine-irlandaise-41533/
  3. The previous story on TF1 was of a couple, the husband bought the tickets to surprise his wife and used just his name. The controllers made him buy another ticket for his wife, in her proper name, on the train. No refund was mentioned in that case!
  4. We listen to BBC radio off the internet, either cast to a Chromecast (audio) connected to some powered speakers or, if we are away, an Amazon fire stick connected to a TV (often you can turn the picture off and listen to the sound). Might be a cheaper/interim measure till the satellite is fixed.
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  6. Congrats on your new apartment. Wishing you lots of happiness in your new home 🙂 Thanks a mill for the info and template on the offer - that's all brilliant information and really helpful. Thanks so much
  7. Well we're going through a period of solar flares which will interfere with satellite reception but only for short periods. Could the dish have been knocked slightly out of alignment by last weeks storm? How old is your LNB? Perhaps it might be worth getting it replaced. You have, I assume checked all your connections.
  8. No, generally just two of them. R4 in the early morning for the Today programme and Mrs G usually switches to R2 for the rest of the day until there’s some TV that she might want. So DL, that presumably means that there’s no solution to the problem? It’s strange though, because it almost never works now first thing, but after a while it’ll be OK. As you say, today seems like a ‘good day’ for some reason - R2 was accessible from mid morning. Thanks very much anyway.
  9. Gardian, do you really listen to all those stations?
  10. Then I suspect it's because they've closed the SD radio channels and you ( like me ) live on the edge of the footprint. FWIW I've just done a check & I'm currently not receiving BBC 6 Music, Radio 4 extra, & BBC World Service. Radio 2 is pretty glitchy as well. Today is a good day as I've got a signal on BBC news.
  11. A bit of a strange one this. We get our TV and radio access via roof-mounted dish and SKY digibox. Just over the last week or so we’ve been having problems getting BBC radio 1, 2, 3 & 4. All other radio channels are unaffected, as is the tv. It tells us that it’s not getting a satellite signal, yet you can get (for example) Classic FM. This might continue for the whole day, or without having done anything, you can suddenly get what you’re after. I’ve tried ‘re-booting’ the digibox and that sometimes works and sometimes it doesn’t. There’s no logic to this. Any clues anybody?
  12. We informed the agent during our first visit to the property as to how we intended to fund the purchase. Cash, with no requirement for our present home to be sold or the necessity to acquire loans. Maybe I'm missing something here. The email contact with the agent was Une Offre d'Achat. The offer was accepted with this reply: The Names and Addresses of the 3 sellers. It was an Inheritance Ci-après "le Vendeur", Déclare accepter sans réserve, purement et simplement, l'offre d'achat qui m'a été transmise par l'Agence FT Department and City location pour les biens situés Address of property to be purchased au prix de €in text and figures. Le montant des honoraires à la charge du VENDEUR est de €in text and figures. Je reconnais que cette offre, comme son acceptation, ont été négociées par l'Agence, exploitée par la société Foncia Transaction France , titulaire d'un mandat de négociation No mention of funding was included in either correspondence. Any Clause Suspensive we wanted to be included would then be accepted or rejected by the sellers. If they are accepted, (we didn't request any)they would have been included within the Compromis de Vente along with a clause setting out the funding of the purchase etc, etc and signed. Within the Acte de Vente the following clause was included ORIGINE DES FONDS L’ACQUEREUR déclare avoir effectué le paiement du prix et des frais au moyen de ses fonds personnels.
  13. Officaldom gone mad. It's as I suspected, the loss of commonsense is spreading....BEWARE!
  14. Enlarging the story in the Midi Libre report - Fine of 270 euros etc "He ultimately won't have to pay. The SNCF decided on Wednesday to cancel the fine of 270 euros imposed on a passenger of the Paris-Lyon TGV who had exchanged his second class seat with another first class traveler, reports BFMTV . Hugues, a young passenger(in second class seat) had indeed agreed to exchange places to allow a father (in first class seat) to be next to his son (in second class seat). But that was without counting on the controllers. The conductor strictly applied SNCF rules and sanctioned the young man for not having a first class ticket. And this despite the intervention of the father of the family. A “rare” situation Offended by the lack of understanding of the railway company agents , Hugues decided to share his misadventure on social networks . “No one has been wronged in the story, all the seats have been paid for, but because of two cowboys who think they are in the wild west, the SNCF is being hated even more,” he lamented on X ( formerly Twitter). https://www.20minutes.fr/societe/4080173-20240307-passager-verbalise-avoir-echange-place-sncf-excuse-annule-amende-270-euros
  15. If you mean correcting the spelling I'll be happy to if Lehaut wants.
  16. I notice that you made no reference to how you would finance the deal. If it is dependant on the sale of your current home, there would need to be a clause suspensive, which some sellers would be adverse to.
  17. Last Wednesday we signed an Acte de Vente for an appartment we intend to downsize too in the next couple of years. We originally made a verbal offer to the agent which was rejected and the sellers propsed a higher offer price which we rejected. The following day the agent accepted our original offer on behalf of the sellers and requested the offer to be made in writing. We declined the request to use the sellers notaire. This is an edited copy of the offer we made via email. Objet: offre d’achat au prix concernant un bien immobilier situé à Résidence.... Full address. Madame, Monsieur, Nous souhaitons faire une offre d'achat pour Résidence ....Full address Les acquéreurs: Monsieur Full name, résidant à Full address, né Date andPlace of birth. Madame Full name, résidant à Full address, née Date and Place of birth. s’engagent à acheter le bien immobilier dont les caractéristiques sont les suivantes : Appartement (avec terrace,garage et cellier) Full address xxx m², type x Notre offre d’achat s’élève au prix de €xxxxxxx, offre text euros . Conformément à l’article 1583 du Code civil, le vendeur et l’acheteur sont réciproquement engagés lorsqu’il y a un accord entre les deux parties sur la chose et le prix. Le prix mentionné dans cette offre vous sera versé lors de la signature, chez le notaire, de l’acte authentique de vente. Dans l’attente d’une réponse positive de votre part, nous vous prions, Madame, Monsieur, d’agréer l’expression de nos sentiments distingués. Monsieur Full name et Madame Full name. The reason we included the terrace as a separate, independent plot was because the original purchasers/owners at the construction stage purchased the two top floor plots but only had an apartment constructed on one plot and the 2nd plot was constructed as a terrace but still retains its individual plot number. Do your research and your homework. Good Luck.
  18. Good show, Edel! And don't worry about the bureaucracy too much. It's one of those things, if you say France people think bureacracy! In fact, it's no worse and often even better than in the UK. I say this rather sourly because I have been dealing with UK bureacracy for months now;
  19. I read that the system is 99.6% effective, so yes it will be good to have the proof just in case!
  20. You will be issued with a new certificate of insurance, it's called le Mémo Véhicule Assuré. Which you must carry to show to plod should they ask to see it.
  21. Thanks a million everyone for your info and advice. It really helps in how to proceed. Fingers crossed things will go well and hopefully looking forward to a new abode in France (and in anticipation of all the bureaucracy but c'est la vie :)). Many thanks
  22. Thanks Ablf - that's good to know. We'll go in a good bit below - fingers crossed. Thanks for that 🙂
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