Lehaut
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Its just another way advertising executives have come up with you part you from your money. "Go on Holiday" has run its course, so they have to think of another way to entice you. This term also attempts to "guilt you out". You are failing yourself and your family if you are not making memories.
When our two boys were younger we took them all over in our camping car, sailing in our boat/dinghy/canoe etc. The youngest has no memories of these events at all. he only "knows" he did them as we have the photos!!
Do your own thing, don't be part of the herd, think for yourself
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If I may suggest another approach. Try finding the "microphone" on your keyboard. On my android phone keyboard it is above the comma. Press that when you are composing an email or SMS and speak slowly and clearly into the phone. The words will appear in the document. The same when using google search, tap the microphone on the right of the search bar and pose your question.
Mine voice input spells much better than my finger inputs!
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Looks PC on a PC - picture of France, not Australia
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Great, don't know what you have done, but well done anyway.
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Following my successful appearance as an extra in "The Origin of Evil (L'Origine du mal)" (funeral scene, suited gentleman left hand side of church) my second appearance as a moving extra is now available.
Mme Holmes TF1 Series 1 Episode 4. Garden party in London scene, fully visible. My agent is handling all new requests for interviews, autographs, new roles etc. 😁
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20 hours ago, menthe said:
we can, of course, no longer open new accounts.
For the same reason we keep our RBS account, though they will not let us open any savings accounts.
However, I have a Revolut sterling account which is paying me 4.07% interest daily on my "secret nest egg" I have only had this (not guaranteed) account for less than a year and am interested to see how the FISC treat it when we do our declaration.
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I wonder if the one on offer is the one on Amazon at €250?
I would go with the old adage about things being too good to be true. What do you want a mini PC for? At this stage of your life, if you have a real need for one, get a proper one which will perform better.
Or if its just for general surfing a Samsun tablet with an 11 inch screen (for example). Less likely to end up in landfill in the short term.
Just my two pennies worth. If you do go ahead, let us know, always happy to be proved wrong.
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I assume this thread relates to interest on UK bank accounts? We don't have any in the UK now, but several years ago we "forgot" to declare £345 interest sitting in a UK account in the name of my wife. She was controlled and had to pay the social charges on it! Always wondered afterwards if they are a diligent with the more affluent members of French society.
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Have been waiting 3 weeks for the weather and tides to be right for a circular bike ride over the bridge to the Island of Noirmoutier and then return over the submersible Passage du Gois. Yesterday it all came together. There were dozens of cars and hundreds of people out on the mud flats scratching away for the various shell fish that live in the (not too pleasant smelling) mud. Quite a risk to drive your car onto the mud and over the rocks that line to causeway for a handful of shellfish. What did surprise us where those who were just by the side of the road, cracking oysters off the rocks and sucking them down there and then, throwing way the shells and hacking off a few more. Not our thing at all, do other members enjoy this form of "wild food" harvesting?
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15 hours ago, ssomon said:
compensate those who are less careful
I think, however careful you think you are being, climate change will add an extra risk to all of us.
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A chap walking down the road in the UK sees a sign in a pet shop window "Talking Centipede for sale £100".
Greatly take by the idea he pops in and buys it, happily walking out with the purchase in a shoe box.
Getting home he puts the box on the table and thinks how he can show off his new purchase. After a few moments, he asks
"would you like to go to the pub for a drink"
Silence
More silence
Thinking now that he has been scammed, he demands once more in a stern tone
"do you want to go to the pub or what"
"Keep your hair on" comes the reply from the box "I heard you the first time, I am just putting my shoes on"
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Is there a similar love/hate for the Self Scan system? Our kids got us on to it at Leclerc. Scan as you put in basket, present at a special area, show scanner and loyalty card and either you just pay, (avoiding the pain of the self service checkout or the long queues at the normal checkout) or you do a rescan.
In the past 5 weeks we have been asked to empty our trolly once - given a TB for correctly scanning, paid and on our way.
The hand held borne also bleeps at you if there is a BOGOF type offer to make sure you do not miss it.
I have to hold it in my hand all the time to make sure I scan everything though and am under constant wife surveillance.
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The flooding that is rightly occupying peoples thoughts at the moment is probably only slightly behind the second effect - sorting out the insurance (if you have it).
On the French News we had heard the term "catastrophe naturelle" banded about as an aid for those suffering from the effects of "natural causes". I was under the misapprehension that, once the government categorised the incident as a "catastrophe naturelle" they, rather than the insurance companies stepped in.
If I understand the situation correctly, its actually all of us (with insurance) who pay into a fund which is used to fund pay-outs in these cases. Currently leveed at 12% on our house insurances, it will be going up to 20% next year.
You can argue over the "naturelle", but we will all pay the price one way or another.
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Yes, a weird picture to put up. Where the "clean" square is on the photo stood, until recently, a free, solar powered Bike Station where you could blow up your bike tyres. One of two in our local area that people (including us) used.
Now gone because person or persons unknown kept cutting off the adaptor that connected it to your tyre valve. The local SuperU up the road took away their car/motorbike pump too as the tubing was stolen on a regular basis.
Sad.
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I was under the (false) impression that these non conformists were isolated to the country where many other of similar (and worse) views reside.
However, it may be that they walk amongst us here in France. Hopefully their "case" does not go down well in the French courts.
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I think its just another way of making money for the Bank. Look at "Le virement instantané" . For quite sometime Revolut and BoursoBank (for example) have had these available for free (Revolut do country to country free). Its only recently that a change in European rules have forced banks to offer this service without the charges they were levying on clients. Some were charging up to 10€ for the service, whist others, at the same time, offered it free.
Its always about the money.
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The article does not recommend any particular breed. Shout out here for the Damascus Goat. Hopefully its mother loved it!
If all animals looked like this the west might go vegetarian and help solve some of ALBF's concerns.
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Over 8 months since he went missing, it would appear bones have been found quite near where he was last seen.
Wonder if they will ever find out what happened him?
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Did the return from our bike ride on Easter Sunday in the pouring rain, though no head wind. Felt quite good oddly enough to be out in the rain. Sun came out in the afternoon for a bit.
Strangely, my wife has several solar lights in the flower pots on the balcony. We have had quite a few sunny days, but they have not charged.
After the driving rain in the morning and then the sun, they were all on last night. Perhaps they to have heeded the wetness and changed over to rain charging!
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Sadly it does not mention the fact that goats cannot live on grass alone, they will need supplementary foods if you only have a grass field.
Joking apart, people need to be informed about the real life issues owning any animal. One often reads/hears people saying they did not know the rules regarding keeping animals in a domestic setting (cockerels in town garden and the effects it has on neighbours, rats etc). The cost/exercise dogs need (especially people who work/live in a tiny flat etc).
All the information is out there on the internet, there is no excuse for learning later on that your bird loving neighbour does not appreciate your cat coming into his garden to kill songbirds and c**p in his grass - the list goes on.
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Hurriedly took this photo during our morning walk through a busy part of Nantes this morning (was a popular area with drug dealers but they have cut away the shrubbery they hid in). Mother with her large family scurrying across the path to an adjacent field.
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Prime Video, Plex - Free Movies & TV, Sling TV - Live Sports, News, Shows + Freestream, The Roku Channel, DIRECTV, Philo, Fandango at Home or Apple TV on your Roku device. and Canal+ I believe
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16 hours ago, alittlebitfrench said:
like Portsmouth BTW…its a nice city.
I always put Portsmouth down as a place to avoid whilst serving in the RN. However our last two years in the UK were living in Southsea/Portsmouth. Our two boys were born in St Mary's hospital. I got to quite like the place which surprised me. In our "fantasy flat hunts" we sometimes look at Gunwharf Quay flats because of the view. (was HMS Vernon when I did my Diving Officer/Warfare training) The place I would really like is the old office of FOSM in HMS Dolphin, directly into the harbour entrance and its varied boating traffic Used to sit in the Admirals chair there and just watch the world go by.
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14203572/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Just finished watching a (imo) delightful series set in Bozouls in the south of France. Really enjoyed the interplay between the character and the switching between French and English. Some difficult scenes of the Algerian conflict, but relevant to the story.
Worth a try if you can get to see it.
Exchange rate for this year's tax return, svps
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I have the same potential question over my military pension, similarly taxed at source. I have the P60 too. Just to clarify, you declare the income before tax? As far as I know there is no method to declare in France how much tax you have paid in the UK.