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Read an interesting discussion on Quora on health care in the US. The opinion being if you don't work, you are not entitled to health care. Those that do work object to paying for those that don't. If you do get fixed, the hospitals will chase you for the money regardless. They don't like the european model, funded by (they say) us spending less on Defence as the US is protecting us (NATO). Some believe that the UK health service should take account of an individuals commitment to their own health before offering blanket cover. Something in the middle perhaps?

After the big storm, they put the electric cables underground in the village which has helped, but friends 3 miles away have been without for 2 days. Many micro cuts throughout the year - people don't trim the trees and they touch the lines. Wood, gas cooker, ups for the computer.

There seems to be a law in France for everything. The problem is no-one enforces them!

Two years ago our son moved into a brand new studio in a very nice part of Tolouse, parts of the buildings were under still under construction. One night in the under ground car park for the building a car caught fire and engulfed 6 others. He was woken by the police pounding on his and the other residents doors. No sprinklers and no central fire alarm. Estimated at the begining was 14 days to put right the damage! He moved out! Here in Nantes just before Christmas, 17 cars caught fire in an open car park next to a building.

It is only one letter different to the happy gatherings the French used to have in the 1700's when they used to burn other things!

"Faeacesbook page or Twatter account" Priceless!!

A friend in Devon had his parked car and three others taken out in his street by one of those women driving a 4x4. When he came out to see the carnage, the woman angrily confronted him with the phrase "don't start, you have no idea how difficult it is to drive one of these"!

AnOther wrote That would be EU approved castor oil of course, preferably administered as a suppository. In that case, to get round the regs, can I make it Castrol R -at least that smells nice ;)

All this talk of a "smooth exit" and the constipated state of these "experts" who are all full of it, makes me think a good dose of castor oil is the only way they will achieve said exit. The "it will be fine" attitude is one most people live their lives by, so we should not be surprised.

And I believe it is up the mayor of each town to decide if he wishes to implement the PaD scheme. Taken from their web site Comme sur toutes les routes de France, le code de la Route s’applique à Marsilly. Que se passe-t-il à partir du 1er novembre ? Dans la 1ère quinzaine de novembre la quasi-totalité des carrefours sur l’agglomération de la commune vont passer en régime de priorité à droite. But he has not changed it for ronds-points! So just because the system was not their last time you visited rural France, does not mean its not there now.

I have an ST 1300 Pan European. I bought my previous bike, Yam TDM 900 in the UK as I knew it was easy to register in France. We bought the Honda in France as I had read it is very hard to register a UK one in France. Suggest you join this group: http://www.bikersclubfrance.com/ You need a certain number of posts to get into the bike registration section, but if anyone can help, this lot will. I am registered on the site.

Well fingers crossed Direct Energy send us a second set. They have already rung us up in the new dwelling to see if we want to change to them, odd as we already are. The day the bulbs arrived, one of the main ones in the kitchen blew, so we have already used two up. 3000k rather than 2300k, quite a difference, feel like I am in an operating theatre.

All in line with inflation I see ;(

Christmas arrived early, got our 10 free LED bulbs delivered to the door today, no warning. 5x E14 and 5x E27. Now to see if they work :)

Is there a link between being a Remainer and the gates? Only in trying to shut it after the "horse" has bolted!!

No crepi so I cannot add anythiing to your theory. Used cork tiles stuck to the engine room bulkheads of our narrow boat to both insulate and reduce noise.

The flat we have just bought was built in the mid 80s. All the walls were covered in what I can best describe as carpet - presume to stop this very problem. A few years ago all the stuff was removed, except in a couple of corridors where the donkey brown stuff remains. Laminated PVC is much warmer and less noisy.

Chancer, thanks for the quick and encouraging reply. Do you have a favoured supplier, the stuff on Amazon comes from the UK at very favourable delivery prices. Having Googled the carpet question before I posted, it seems that it can be used under carpet given certain conditions. http://www.warmup.co.uk/blog/can-i-use-underfloor-heating-with-carpet/ is one site I have looked at. The living room echos a lot due to the concrete walls and currently tiled floor. Hoped carpeting it would attenuate the sound a bit. Don't fancy carrying rockwool backed plaster board up 5 flights of stairs (lift is too small). Three kitchen work surfaces and I thought my heart would burst!!

Any one fitted some? Thinking of doing it in our flats bathrooms, the electric mat type set in latex cement with the click PVC tiles above (OK according to the packet). Also fancy laying 20 square meters under a carpet in the living room rather than classic electric radiators. Not a cold building, solid concrete construction, not put the heating on yet!

Droole wiped up ;)

Don't think they know that Britain exists, they always say "oh you are english". We correct them and say he is English and she is Scottish - which always pleases them. We then tell them we are "British", to which they reply, "well thats the same thing. So we ask if the Corsicans are French, then it kicks off.... Did anyone else notice that no immigrants were rehoused in Corsica,

UNIVERSITÉ DU TEMPS LIBRE DU PAYS DE SAINT-MALO always like their title, BA rather than Bsc I suppose.

And we have people like Robert Rochefort looking after our interests in Europe :(

And that's why 25.5% of the population voted for him :)

Its the (apocryphal) Chinese curse come true "May you live in interesting times"