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Are you basing your swipe at Macron on the Daily Telegraph’s headline on May 30th? If so I suggest that you go beyond the big print and read the detail, you will see that he has always had a very full timetable for the day but he, like the other VIPs, sometimes have to make decisions and cannot be in two different places at the same time. In his case he is following the precedent set by other French leaders and today’s decisions by the majority of the other world leaders. I suggest you have fallen into the DT’s trap.

[quote user=" YCCMB"]Naturally, I'm unable to tell you if the content is blocked in France, as I'm not there, but it seems to be available on YouTube if you really want to watch. At least one episode of this current batch is: https://youtu.be/X5zDW48vnJM Looks like previous episodes in the strand are there too. Knock yourselves out.[/quote] Thanks.

The content is fascinating for many people not just those involved in education and child development. It is, of course, particularly relevant to those in the same age range. The first two or three series were part of my own education and I’ve watched several of the subsequent series as well. With no access to UK TV I will, unfortunately, miss this one. Some of the subjects were pretty feisty in their youth.

[quote user="NickP"]Macron isn't going, What a kick in the teeth to all the allied families who lost friends and relatives on the beaches.[/quote] His lookalike stand in seemed to do a great job this morning.

Surely you follow the instructions on the facture that they have sent you. It will list a number of payment options including online.

[quote user="mint"]Of course, gabions are not suitable for all soil types; for example, no good for sand or clay. Here, where I live, they are excellent as the soil is mostly calcaire.[/quote] Poor you. Where I live the underlying rock is calcareous but the soil itself is not. In fact it’s much, much finer than sand.

At what level did you check? In my experience there was a €10,000 difference between the value given to my car and the cost of an equivalent LHD replacement. These figures did not come from the insurance company itself but from the independent insurance expert who deals with all insurance companies. I have since been in contact with a lot of people who have had the same experience. My car is getting on a bit, has been owned from new and came to France with me. I would never buy a RHD car and import it into France for many reasons but the insurance valuation is now near the top of that list.

I was with MMA, the tractor was insured by Mutielle de Poitiers.

[quote user="Pfeffel"]More detailed info is needed, both about the accident and the insurance cover. I suspect that you have not got the full story. Comprehensive Insurance will pay out for own damage regardless of fault. Third party insurance will not pay for own damage at all. The amount of damages paid can be reduced due to contributory negligence, ie the accident was partly the fault of the claimant. This could have happened if your friend was third party only (and her own insurer would not therefor be involved ) and the payment was made by the other side. In which case she would have received lots of correspondence regarding their proposals and decisions.[/quote] During an insurance claim for an accident last July where the accident was considered to be 100% the fault of the other driver, another tractor, my insurance company insisted that it was them not the other driver’s insurance company who would be picking up the bill. I was told this by my local agent and, in writing, by someone much farther up the tree. It was particularly confusing because as a direct result of the claim I moved two other vehicles to a different insurer and they were surprised about the outcome of the claim. To put the incident into numbers, my car was insured fully comprehensively, the other driver was considered to be 100% at fault yet I ended up paying several thousand euros towards the repairs.

[quote user="suein56"]Blodwyn wrote : I was wondering what to do with my battered old RHD car if I decide to get a LHD one here. I don't think a garage would want it in part-exchange. If you are prepared to undercut the high French second-hand car prices then advertise it privately. Young people/students and the like are often keen to nab a bargain .. that's if it's a good runner and not an expensive car to insure.[/quote] Undercutting LHD prices shouldn’t be a problem. French insurance companies value RHD French registered cars at 50% of the equivalent LHD car, that can be quite a difference in your 12 month old Mercedes, so somewhere under half the price of the local second hand cars would be a good starting point.

We’ve got a lot of bluebells growing wild hereabouts. I’d guess the flowers that look like bluebells are in fact bluebells. https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the-meaning-of/french-word-jacinthe_des_bois.html

You mark the box that generates the form 3916 at the beginning of the online process. You later select how many forms you need.

He was saying, don't judge the book by the cover. Nothing to do with the cost of anything.

During the John Bercow fuss he was questioned by the press on the way to work and his clothing was as casual as casual could be. Einstein summed it up well for me, 'If most of us are ashamed by of shabby clothing and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.' Albert Einstein

If you are a French resident and taxpayer you do not have ISAs you have investments upon which tax is paid.

Why is David talking about David as though he is a different person who is agreeing with his mis-interpretation of the law?

Why mention Brexit then? Why also the red herrings about five years of private insurance cover, you need three months stable residence to join PUMA.

Rather than look at a web page and suggest what might happen after Brexit why not look at the pages that explain exactly what will be required. https://mobile.interieur.gouv.fr/Actualites/Le-ministere-de-l-Interieur-se-prepare-au-Brexit/Sejour

They don’t take 8% of your savings but they work out a theoretical income from the capital. If that’s considered to be sufficient they will charge you 8% of that sum above @ €9600. Have you considered letting the U.K. property to generate an income?

Talk to your insurance agent, it really shouldn’t be a problem especially if they know that you were a regular long time driver of the cars insured by them

In France you declare your worldwide income whether it is taxed in France or not.

I’ve recently done that to several sections of my garden wall. I was amazed how easy it turned out to be. I just removed all the rubble from the hole and built it up carefully one row at a time, as the others have said with the stones leaning back a bit. After each layer I filled the gaps between the stones I’d laid with small stones and earth. Not a drop of chaux in sight. If I could do photos I’d post a before and after photo. I’d been putting off doing it for years.

One problem I have is that when I enter my U.K. bank interest on the 2047 (online) and report it it overwrites the sum automatically entered in 2TR for interest from a French account that also goes there. The first year this happened I couldn’t edit the cell on the 2042 so I wrote a note explaining that 2TR should be the two sums added together. Last year I called in at the tax office and discovered that the cell that still couldn’t be edited on my iPad could be edited on their PC. This year the cell could be edited on my iPad.

It very much depends on what you want the labour for as well as the idea of a Jack of all trades doesn’t exist in France whatever you might have seen on UK TV programmes. If it’s renovation you could employ a maître d’ouvre to organise the workmen but you’re not going to find one person who will fix the leaking roof, cut the grass, fix an oil leak on the car and do a bit of shopping.

The Jersey connection might be the problem when it comes to translations.