anotherbanana
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Nice one, Norman. Thank Bobo those days are gone.
If it is still around try to watch Le Champ Dolent which, though fiction covers the history of one family throughout this period. I showed it to some elderly French retired farmers in the Vendée who said that they recognised the lives and culture in it as theirs.
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EU only when it suits some!
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Given that the frontier between the North and South has always been as porous as a sieve this should have a significant result!
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Just a thought: The pig’s a*se with a wig claims he is still the legitimate President of the US. This means he is effectively running for a third term which is illegal. Surely he must admit he lost if he is to run again?
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And now the fishermen are trying their luck. What are they wingeing about?
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It is the quiet season for farmers and they are bored so they kick off.
Guardian, the French have always paid lip service to the free market; if they are exporting into it then they will defend it aggressively and be the first to the European courts to defend their rights but if anyone should export to France particularly food then the moan goes up, ‘unfair competition’, ‘hidden subsidies’, ‘unfair regulation makes French products expensive’ blah, blah.
There are too many small farms producing food no one wants at uncompetitive prices. Just look at Brittany pork.
Round here it is sugar beet. And potatoes. Bobo knows what they do with the stuff.
Somehow the French farmer has to understand that the State and EU do not owe them a living and that the sentimental, one family band of farming is long over.
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Yes, Gardian, well noted; but with a place like Calais there are usually any number of road accesses, off motorway, so folks get the old maps out.
By the way, what exactly are they demonstrating about?
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Were I an American I would get abroad double quick.😡
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Had France played cricket it would be a happier nation!😜
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Agreed, Norman, but at least you did not have to wait one year plus for your treatment/ operation or were not written off as ‘having had a good innings’ and no treated any longer.
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Another difference I have noted between here and there; we were in Wimbledon a while ago and there seemed to be quite a number of private hospitals or medical facilities ( not old folk’s homes). I suppose that the massive NHS waiting lists have caused the private sector to flourish. Well, it is one way to get medical treatment.
I dont see many such facilities in France; round here there are a couple but clearly integrated into the State sector.
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Colissimo delivery window was between 10:30 and 14:30 hrs. Time of delivery 14:29 hrs. Well done.
The postie who is new started to apologise for a late delivery but when I showed her the time her face lit up. Life’s little pleasures.-
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Are you dissatisfied with my service, Norman?
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The other one is having a few days off!
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Nor have I, Lori, nor have I.
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The fresh meat sold in some French supermarkets is very low quality, particularly the beef and lamb whereas in, say Sainsbury’s and MnS it is excellent, well hung and prepared. And, more and more one knows where it has come from and is not just say unhung old cow fresh from the abbatoir.
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In case some of you don’t know, Eli Sheridan is part of the Living France team and used to be our liaison with ‘upstairs’.
By the way, I dont know if you were unable to connect to the Forum on Sunday, but I suspect it was a shut down for servicing, electronic grease nipples and the like!
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Plenty on sale here with huge queues for good stuff at the fish counters. Herring season is short but always a sell out, for example.
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Fortunately France is big enough to hide plenty of Brits without their being too visible. I never seem to see any who reside here and avoid those in the wine ( whine) aisle of thesupermarket.
To be serious, good food either side of the Channel but M and S, Sainsbury’s, Cook are light years better than anything in France. Except for fish which is truly excellent in this neck of the woods.
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Typical stupid unresearched Guardian reporting.
Mistakes happen unfortunately; one must not assume that the Home Office has any process of thought beyond the next bonus, WFH and the next lesson in how to address people as Mr. Mrs Ms etc Initiative and productivity are dirty words.
However, let us not imagine the Brits are the only ones doing this, the EU is just as bad and it is vindictive. For example, my daughter, a UK and Belgian passport holder was almost refused entry when returning home to Belgium after a UK holiday because she was travelling on her British passport and had neither her Belgian papers nor passport with her. She was only able to get in because her son had his carte d’identité with him.
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Well, perhaps, betise they really wanna be a queen.
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A question to those of you who are in the process of registering to vote; why? Given that most folk on this forum seem committed to living out their lives in France and beyond a few family members have few links with the UK, why do you want to vote in UK? Can you honestly say that you are in touch or that it matters to you?
For at least one member of the forum, disclosing his French address might remind the UK authorities of the outstanding warrants and s/he is far too old to do bird!🤪
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Now this is a weather warning; La Réunion now!
I agree with Mysty and the farmers
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