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  1. For my wife and I it is 'only' +12%, but for our son (37, same mutuelle) it is +15.75%.
  2. Our 'big city' (Rodez) is 25-30km away but there my fvourite butcher matures their côte de boeuf for 60 days. Not cheap(!!) but magnificent.
  3. No. Occasionally, when I was doing a lot of work around the world, I did have some regrets about our choice of location (airport serving basically only Orly, making it quite difficult to catch the best flights from CDG). Advancing age has eliminated any desire for long distance travel, so I have greatly reduced all my professional activities and restricted them to working from home. The one and only drawback now is that travel to see our grandson in Wales is problematic. However, would we go back to the UK? No way.
  4. Kolbe charging down Ramos (preventing the transformation) seems to have been clearly illegal and may well have changed the outcome of the match.
  5. 😞 I think she may have been a moderator when I first joined (2006). RIP
  6. " As for Liz Truss, quite obviously you don't like her and revert to insults as the default. As far as I'm aware and I stand to be corrected, she didn't call France a 'foe' at all. " [Ken] "Friend or foe?" - "The jury's out". So what do you think that meant other than an appeal to gammon FPTP to Leader/PM?
  7. Camden Lock was already cool in the mid 80s! We (with young son) used to go (from Hampstead) there quite often at weekends - there were a couple of good restaurants and the puppet theatre was superb.
  8. "I would prefer a more lively discussion on any number of subjects"[Ken] OK, so why not start one or two?
  9. We had 5 stère of wood (ca. 3000 kg) delivered into our courtyard Saturday, so of course we have had rain since and lots more expected over the next 3 days. We have a lot of plastic sheets to keep it more-or-less covered until it is shifted into our wood store; last time it took us about a month for 4 stère.
  10. During the Senate enquiry it was established (I think it was the guy from the FFF, but don't recall excatly) that Real Madrid received 6.000 paper tickets. The number of paper tickets for Liverpool was not stated. Apparently, it is normal for the clubs to receive paper tickets for internal distribution.
  11. Yes, figuring out an edf bill requires a minimum of BAC+8 (speciality in maths/statistics might help) as well as substantial knowledge of "la divination".
  12. Having 3 nationalities, 3 passports, a family that has, over the past 3 centuries, established branches in Canada, USA, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, England, France, Spain, South Africa, Mauritius, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand (at least half of them still flourishing) I can't help feeling that this thread is, if occasionally entertaining, strangely parochial and that for a country in which all/most of us do not live.
  13. The history of the origins of fish and chips is fascinating. Earlier generations of 'boat people' immigrants brought first fried fish (by sephardic Jews from Spain via Portugal) and then fried potato (Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe) to London. The two supposedly being first combined by Joseph Malin in the East End of London in mid 19th Century. There are also links back to 6th Century Persia and thence perhaps to Russia, raising the fascinating question of whether before or after 882 when Prince Oleg of Novgorod seized Kiev. What's that about history rhyming? https://foodicles.com/fish-and-chips-history/
  14. " Rural areas (where most Brits live LOL) voted MLP." (ALBF) Take a careful look at the map below. A huge rural swathe from the West to the SW and across to the E (mostly as rural as you can get) voted Macron. https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2022/04/25/resultats-de-la-presidentielle-visualisez-les-votes-ville-par-ville-sur-notre-carte-interactive_6123495_4355771.html
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