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    W.T.F.

    Who used to be a "lumberjack" but who has two leaky heart valves and is said to be not fit enough to have done it.
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    W.T.F.

    That is/was a large tree-you have to know what you are doing to fell that without it falling on the feller. What on earth is the motivation for doing that?
  3. "To provide continued access to our products and services, NatWest Group plc (“NWG”) continues to serve most of its European Economic Area-based customers from NatWest Markets N.V., another bank in NWG, which is headquartered in the Netherlands, with branches across Western Europe" https://www.natwest.com/business/support-centre/contact-us/western-europe-offices.html#office
  4. We don't have a problem as we have an admin address in the UK. Natwest don't seem to mind that we have many UK accounts with them, savings and current, but are resident in France; which they are well aware of, so why should Barclays see it as a problem? Wise now operate out of Belgium. https://wise.com/help/articles/2965898/how-does-brexit-affect-wise
  5. Why bother with an international bank account when you can have a Wise card? And as for Barclays, who tried hard to bankrupt a business that I was a partner in, during the nineties, to get hold of our houses which had been put up as security, I would sooner eat my own fingers than hand over any money to Barclays to look after.
  6. From the article you linked to:- "Any existing UK accounts and contracts that were established before Brexit should be allowed to continue provided there is no change in the contract" And as Barclays have had a branch in France since 1922 - https://www.cib.barclays/contact-us/fr.html there is no good reason for them to do this, apart from the fact that they cannot be bothered to service existing private accounts, seeing these as a cost rather than a profit centre.
  7. You forgot - Rishi Sunak has planned that the deadline for the prohibiting of the sale of petrol & diesel vehicles will be pushed forward to 2035 from 2030. Cue emergency delivery of smelling salts for Guardian readers........................😂
  8. Welcome back Noisette - good to hear your opinion again!
  9. Things that spring to mind are:- If no mains drainage avoid fosse systems that rely on electrical power to function - power cuts etc Avoid properties with a lot of trees, arborists are a lot harder to engage than a regular guy to keep the grass down and the garden tidy. Make sure whatever you buy has a good tight roof - old slates crack and leak, no tiled roofs north of the Loire! Most local gite owners will do keyholding and regular inspections for a modest charge. Etc Etc
  10. Pretty much true about that 56 is warmer than 22 - probably due to the high ground - the "Mur" = Wall that runs roughly east/west along the middle of the Brittany peninsula. Drought last year, no drought this year, although the prefecture is trying to talk up a drought as we have had 2-3 weeks without any significant rain.
  11. Brittany isn't necessarily wet and it can be hot here - it was very hot in July last year. This was the temperature outside our kitchen door on July 18th 2022 at about 5.30 pm. We are in postcode 56310. A good source of historical weather data for just about anywhere going back 14 years https://www.timeanddate.com/
  12. Errm - cough cough What Is GmbH? GmbH is an abbreviation of the German phrase “Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung,” which means “company with limited liability.” It’s a suffix used after a private limited company’s name in Germany (vs. AG, for aktiengesellschaft, which is used to indicate a public limited company).1 GmbH is the equivalent of LLC (limited liability company), used in the United States, or Ltd. (limited), used in the United Kingdom, and is the most common form of incorporation in Germany.
  13. We ran breadmaker(s) for about 4-5 years after coming to France and found that the paddles/stirrers and the shaft and seals that turns them wear out quite quickly at a rate of 2-3 loaves per 7 days. So it makes sense to buy a well known mainstream make where repair parts are readily available. We stopped making our own complet loaves because we could get a decent complet loaf from Aldi. Now they have changed their supplier so that their complet loaves are the same as Lidl which are not really complet. So we may go back to using a bread maker again if we can find a source of wholewheat flour.
  14. Looked up Arebos UK and they seem to do just one breadmaker. https://www.arebos.co.uk/en_gb/home-living/kitchen/bread-maker/bread-maker-1500g-white.html Replacement paddles for Arebos breadmaker - (model number unspecified as they probably only do one model) https://www.ebay.com/itm/166271475789
  15. Referring to this guide on importing/registration it appears that the period is 6 months not one month. https://www.french-property.com/guides/france/driving-in-france/vehicle-importation-registration
  16. I seriously doubt that any french car dealer would risk buying in or taking in part ex a UK registered RHD car unless they are insane. The possibilities of getting landed with a car that cannot be registered in France are endless depending on what the car is, condition and original source of the car. Importing is a minefield of paperwork, and import taxes have to be paid making it uneconomic to import RHD UK cars any more. There is an english owned garage near Lyon who seems to get involved with LHD and RHD part exchanging and they have some RHD vehicles for sale so presumably will take them in on part ex. If anybody can sort you out if it's possible they can. https://www.gary-automobiles.com/product-category/used-vehicle/ (Click on used vehicles) Apart from that,your best course of action is to advertise it for sale on as many brit expat forums as you can, many brits don't want LHD french cars, and hire a car in the interim between selling it and buying a french car. Some supermarket chains offer cars and vans for short and long term hire at better rates than the well known hire co's, SuperU and Intermarche spring to mind. https://www.ulocation.com/# https://location.intermarche.com/nos-vehicules/ Edit - There is an english owned garage near us in Brittany who also buys and sells cars LHD and RHD and his daughter does the french registration procedures. https://www.garage-torode.fr/
  17. "TV reports this year seems to be "sur le quivive" with regard to the pompiers and the forest fires" I've seen references to that phrase in books about the Royal Flying Corps in France in WW1 "on the qui vive for the Hun"
  18. But that isn't corruption Biden -style is it? Corruption is where somebody or country pays the president/vice president to obtain their influence or favour in some way, like the Biden crime family has been been receiving the payments for years on behalf of Joe Biden. Paying a call girl off is the entire opposite!
  19. But you didn't comment on the link to the Guardian story? A source of good balanced material? Since when?
  20. You can say what you like about Donald Trump, he is many things, wild, loud, unpredictable etc, but not corrupt or bent, you can be sure that the combined resources of the Democrats and the FBI would have uncovered any corruption by now. DT didn't even take his presidential salary - he donated it to various government departments. It is a matter of record that the Bidens are seriously bent and corrupt to tune of 20 to 30 million dollars from foreign governments, this is not Guardian gossip but proven by solid evidence of bank records and sworn testimony etc to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability of the US congress. https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Third-Bank-Records-Memorandum_Redacted.pdf You need to ask yourselves why the mainstream media has not reported on the fact that the President of the USA is taking bribes from foreign sources for influence! https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/4003066-americas-state-media-the-blackout-on-biden-corruption-is-truly-pulitzer-level-stuff/
  21. Corporate media enabled Biden family corruption by refusing to ask tough questions about Hunter. They should not regain Americans’ trust. "There is more evidence that the man leading our nation sold out his country to enrich his family than there ever was in the FBI’s Russian collusion witch hunt; the corrupt corporate media simply doesn’t care enough to hold the current president accountable" https://thefederalist.com/2023/06/24/the-corporate-media-cant-come-back-after-playing-a-key-role-in-covering-up-biden-family-corruption/
  22. What should concern you is not photoshopped images of the ex-president of the USA for the purpose of denigrating him and making him a figure of fun but irrefutable evidence that the current president is head of a crime family. https://nypost.com/2022/01/27/chinese-elite-have-paid-some-31m-to-hunter-and-the-bidens/
  23. No mention on this onion sub-forum of the Oignon de Roscoff? They are pink, sweet, crunchy, slightly peppery and tasty in salads or cooking. https://www.brittanytourism.com/offers/maison-des-johnnies-et-de-loignon-de-roscoff-roscoff-en-2015874/ The origin of the english stereotype of the frenchman, blue and white striped jersey, beret, with plaits of onions strung on his bike is Breton not really French.
  24. Calm down everybody, apparently that was a video taken 10 years ago of a fire involving gas cylinders. Why would anybody make up a story to cover it? I've no idea. https://www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/194240/tesla---do-ev
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