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A ittle bit of local knowledge for you suein56:- As you are in South Morbihan, if you go to Intermarche Hyper in Pontivy - Rue de Cities Unities, in their car park near the fuel station is a small garage/service station. They sell and fit tyres/batteries/exhausts etc and do basic servicing. They seem very popular and I've heard that somebody there speaks a bit of english. The best tyre place in Morbihan is Piete tyres:- http://www.piete-pneus.fr/ M Piete speaks english. Don't go to Vulco - rude and unhelpful. Best of luck

I can't say that I regard the armed inebriated morons who seek to liquidate all living creatures wherever they go as "French Culture". Do you?

If it's a Corsa D it's the fuse box on the front left hand side of the engine compartment and it's fuse no 29 which is 20 amp.

"why don't they go after those that can afford these super yachts that cost millions and millions" Possibly because the billionaire superyacht owners also own banks?

Strangely enough I notice you are in the same area as us - I wonder if it is the same vet? At either Baud or Guemene sur Scorff?

I got seriously bitten by one of our female cats at the vet while the vet was removing an adhesive dressing from an operation wound. She is a dear old gentle liittle soul (the cat) and has never offered any aggression to us-it's just that the vet was hurting her and she bit me on my bare forearm and wouldn't let go until the vet prised her jaws off my arm. She just bit the nearest thing to her - my arm - I soaked the wound in povidone iodine with a dressing for three days and it healed clean with no problems - maybe your immume system was a bit depressed at the time?

That reported 65 average mpg for a Prius is exceptional. The actual reported by owners mpg for Prius's are:- 2003 -2009 = 54.1 avg 2009-2016 = 58.7 avg http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/realmpg/toyota/prius-2003 How do you explain your unusually economical consumption?

I kind of remember thinking at the time that I heard it on the wireless that if it's an EU summit, and the UK, although an EU member, was either not invited or willfully excluded, that any decisions that were made at that summit are by definition null and void. I am surprised that no other country raised that as point of order.

They can be a problem on the beach too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ5fQilO6HA

Not much else to do really except you could stick a bottle of decent injector cleaner in the 1/4 full fuel tank - something like Wynn's, and give it a good ragging just before the test. This will possibly give the injector nozzles a bit of a clean and improve the spray pattern - finer spray - better combustion-less smoke- etc. If you are driving it like miss daisy it's just not burning off the residues on a daily basis so it accumulates and causes the deposits in your turbocharger that causes the vanes to stick - which is cheaper? Fuel or a turbo stripdown? Drive it like you stole it once every week!

I have seen recently a full-on 1960's American dragstrip Ford Coupe hotrod - very authentic, dull green body paint, open bonnet sides, 350 chevy carb motor with blocked off drag strip open headers, steel wheels. big tyres on the back, skinny ones up front. filling up at our local Intermarche. How do they get that through a CT?

Sorry to disappoint you but the plant is a native of europe and asia-north america has nothing to do with it.

So if you have your roof re-slated it now has to be insulated on top of the slates? How?

If it's any help there are other instances of the problem happening to the Kia Rio 1.1 diesel, here's one report. "23-10-2015: Report of engine of 18,500 mile 3-year old Rio 1.1 diesel over-revving on its own accord. Dealer is replacing turbo, intercooler and injectors, so the fault was probably with the turbo bearing oil seals, allowing the engine to siphon oil from the sump via the turbo and run on it uncontrollably." http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/carbycar/kia/rio-2011/?section=good Another example here:- http://worldnews24.space/2016/07/01/honest-johns-motoring-agony-column-5-12-2015/ If it's still under warranty the dealer should sort it out at no cost to you if it's been Kia dealer serviced.

We have a patch of pine woodland here in france and have had unexplained tree deaths for a few years. Unless you have a scientific investigation carried out on the tree to find out the problem it's safe to assume that it one of the many diseases listed here:- http://www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/infd-9c9hhr We lost a lovely 60 foot Cedar to some sort of disease this year, in a matter of a couple of months, suspected to be this nematode worm infection:- http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pwnematode

Idun posted- "It was done under the current voting system, and legally and above board" Oh, please - don't try to legitimise the total farce that was the leave campaign. It was a barrage of lies and promises that could not be kept, promulgated with the sole purpose of garnering leave votes. And now the UK and us are stuck with the shabby result.

You need to start a part exchange scheme. You part with your room bookings in exchange for their bank/credit card numbers. No show ? -No problem. An example from a biker's motel i used to stop at in Flanders. Cancellation fees. 1 week or longer before arrival : € 10,00 pp/pn till 1 day before arrival : € 25,00 pp/pn on day of arrival : € 40,00 pp/pn no show : € 50,00 pp/pn On a room rate of €80 pp/pn

I does pay to shop around - and I have found that some prices in France are extremely advantageous for large items as compared to Treasure Island (UK). A log splitter I bought from the french branch of a german company (DEMA) was just over £400 including 3 day delivery, for an item weighing over 100 kg - a comparable english machine is around £700 and then they won't deliver to France.

Two giants live in Britain's land, John Doe and Richard Roe, Who always travel hand in hand, John Doe and Richard Roe. Their fee-faw-fum's an ancient plan To smell the purse of an Englishman, And, 'ecod, they'll suck it all they can, John Doe and Richard Roe ...

Hmm - you know what the saying is "never say never" and remember that the popular opinion was that the UK would "never" leave the EU.

"It is your assertion that somehow all their friends and family are equally guilty that I find immoral" Jihadis are living within muslim communities - to encourage those communities to turn against these terrorists and give them up to the security forces, guilt by association leading to deportation is the only way. Murder of innocent people is the height of immorality - these violent psychopaths are living and walking the streets next to you and me - get rid of them out of the country is the solution, if friends and associates are caught up in it - tough, the end justifies the means.

[quote user="PaulT"]Anyone got copies of the newspapers from the Middle and Near East from the 11th to 15th centuries? Just interested in what they say about Christians invading their countries and being 'unpleasant' to those who would not take up the Christian faith. Their turn now.[/quote] It would also be interesting to read Spanish newspapers of the period about the Moorish invasion of the Iberian peninsula and the subsequent expulsion of the Moors.

[quote user="lindal1000"]But you still haven't addressed how you would identify people who are threats to national security in a reliable way. It has nothing to do with moral courage. There is nothing moral about victimising families and friends of people that one imagines to be terrorists. But then you knew that anyway..isn't this just what the terrorists themselves do?[/quote] "There is nothing moral about victimising families and friends of people that one imagines to be terrorists" There is no "imagine" about it. Did the poor priest "imagine" that he was going to be executed that morning? Did the happy revellers in the Bataclan "imagine" that they were going to be blown up and killed that day? My advice to you is to stop making excuses for the actual behaviour of these psychotic lunatics and start getting your mind right. When you abandon your socialist mind-set and get your mind right you will see that what I have written is the only solution.

Like I said-moral courage-the ECHR would be told to mind it's own business in the interests of national security. But first of all the politicians have to get their minds right. If they don't - it will never happen.

Anybody who is a sympathiser, active or not, with the terrorist tendency must be deported, to their country of ethnicity, their citizenship removed so that they cannot return, along with all their family, relatives, friends, and known associates. No appeals, or lawyers allowed - martial law. Word will soon get around that promoting, assisting or ignoring terrorism is not an option if you want to stay in your adopted country. All that is needed is a government with the necessary moral courage to carry this out as an example for the rest of europe to follow.