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JohnM

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  1. I'm only a holiday home chap but in my chosen area the people are great. I try to speak French and they try to help me, so we get on just fine.
  2. Ah, I should have looked here before I posted in the Regional Threads. I've duplicated. It's not the first time there have been major rock falls there.
  3. This spot is notorious, it only seems a couple of years ago that the road was closed for months while they put in protection... but it doesn't appear to have been enough! https://www.thelocal.fr/20230828/huge-alpine-rockslide-halts-train-services-between-france-and-italy
  4. Oh, don't worry, I'm pretty sure I know both what you said and the message that you were trying to convey.
  5. Please re read all your comments and consider whether they could easily be interpreted in a way that you perhaps didn't intend.
  6. But you did ask "What's wrong with normal?". I'm just pointing out that as nobody is normal, then not being normal is actually ..... normal.
  7. I agree. It's was far safer when an accidental shove of script (or elbow) would close a fader instead of opening it!
  8. Yes, that works for me as well. I tend to use the "usual" definition because I have worked in Radio Stations and the equipment was "normalised" to how it was normally needed. But there was always a patch bay where things could be over plugged for when we needed it to be different (not bad... just different).
  9. I suspect that there is something about you that is not the usual, typical or the expected state or condition, so there is something about you that is not normal. That does not make you bad or wrong. Surely we need to stop thinking that "not normal" is bad. Surely it depends on what the straight person is going to say (or has said in the past) to determine whether a demonstration is justified? Personally, I think we all need to remember that one person exercising their "rights" (to free speech) may adversly affect another persons rights. I would like us all to think more about other people and try to make this world as nice a place to live as is possible. Sometimes all we have to do is put our brains in gear before we open our mouths..... I guess many folk will think I am woke because of that.... but it is a badge that I wear proudly.
  10. Appartently noboby is normal in every aspect of themselves. As normal only means "the usual, typical, or expected state or condition" (it doesn't mean wrong or bad) then surely there is absolutely nothing wrong with being normal and absolutely nothing wrong with not being normal.
  11. [quote user="idun"]I believe it was opas (wife) who said that her husband had been arrested in the UK driving a french lorry......... something along those lines. I cannot remember what happened subsequently, if in fact we were told. JohnM any news on the Turin freight line. I have spoken to friends and they seem to know nothing at all, when in fact I reckon that the line will be very very close one particular friend's son's home. [/quote] Hi Idun, yes I had a search yesterday evening and found her name which rang a bell, but I couldn't find the thread. I seem to recall that a night or 2 in the cells were included in the story. There is a lot of access tunnel work going on at St Martin de la Porte (near St Michel de Maurienne) and they are certainly doing major earth works at St Jean de Maurienne where the tunnel goes under (I think they had to realign the motorway slightly to give access to the bit of mountain they want to go into) and extra sidings are going in in La Chambre (presumably because some of the sidings in St Jean will be lost).
  12. Somewhere (in the archives) of the forum is a thread featuring a member who fell fowl of the "British person,French car, used in UK" is situation. If I remember correctly, they got stroppy with the police which didn't help their situation. (I think that they got stroppy with the mods as well and were banned from posting.... but don't take my thinks as gospel, it was about 10 years ago)
  13. I spent a few days last week looking for my Habitation invoice, I couldn't remember receiving it, but being so near to 15th I assumed that it must be somewhere in the house(UK). I was beginning to panic as I didn't want to be fined for late payment and wondered if there was some method of finding out how much through the impots web site. It arrived on Friday with payment due today....
  14. [quote user="idun"]https://www.google.com/maps/place/Actua+GT+Driving/@45.6927206,5.065061,14z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x9f091b2b8e1b7140?hl=fr That little map shows both. I have just looked at the adjacent road at street view and there doesn't seem to be anything there. Maybe plans to build something and didn't? We have two roads in this region that I pass regularly that don't go any where. In fact I remember my drive to Geneva Airport pre full motor way days and they didn't go anywhere and have a feeling that they still don't. [/quote] Sorry, your post came up after I had posted my last one (I didn't refresh the screen when I got in). These things happen. There used to be a bridge to nowhere in Glasgow and on the M4 near Bristol there are slip roads.... but no junction.
  15. Oooo good find, thank you, but no unfortunately, the track is the wrong shape. I have found reference to an exhibition centre that claims access to a test track so I wonder if that is it. The one that has caught my eye is this shape.... https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Lyon-Saint+Exup%C3%A9ry+Airport/@45.7030826,5.0738636,998m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x47f4c92b009f84cd:0x86dc510cc9b255f0?hl=en
  16. I've just been perusing Lyon Airport on Google's satellite view and, just to the south of the terminal buildings and to the west of the runway, there is a (private) road layout that is very neatly laid out, large oval with a circle at one end, symmetrical crossing roads, symmetrical access roads from buildings.... it could almost be a race track, but somehow, not quite. Is it anything interesting / important / amusing? (I can't see what the signs at the entrance say due to streetview blurring them).
  17. So are you trying to tell us that you didn't think you could Depond on M et Mme Depond???????
  18. I bet I know who the one person Idun knows of is :-). I don't post as often as I used to for a number of reasons, 1 I no longer working in a boring office where numerous quick looks at the forum helped the day along. 2 For some reason the software kept forgetting my login details and for a while I just couldn't post or be bothered with finding out which email I had used all those years ago. 3 Many of the things I wanted to know about had been covered. 4.... some of the fun seemed to go out of it. I like looking occasionally and ever more occasionally I will post (even when I get scathing replies because I didn't think a bit of background info was particularly important :-) ).
  19. Thanks for that. Very informative and useful. Double glazing would certainly help and, again, it is on teh cards now I have money to spend (I had been hoping that the builders of a new LGV - Lyon Turin, might have felt duty bound to pay for it because of noise, but that project is well behind schedule - when I bought it was due to be opening now, it is now due in 2025 ish)
  20. I agree the local regie does provide a green energy and that is probably the best way to go, (although there is part of me that likes the idea of self sufficiency). As it happens there is a water course at the back of the house which used to power a waterwheel for the forge next door and, I'd love to harness that water.... the only trouble is, it is not a natural waterway, it was built for the water wheel. It leaves the main stream about 2km up the hill. The council kept it going while it was also needed as a sewer, but for about 10 years we have been on mains, so they may stop maintaining the "stream".
  21. Sadly I don't have enough outdoor space for a pool or underground water tank.
  22. Thanks for all the input. Last nights spread sheet needs to come out again.... radiator system may reappear.... (I'm guessing that more vegetable oil oil will be grown as time goes on?) Before Christmas I had it quite clearly mapped out..... For info.... I don't read the daily mail..... I used to buy it, mainly for the crossword but some 15 to 20 years ago I actually wrote to the editor to tell him that I didn't like the cheque book journalism they were employing - he did reply trying to justify it but I haven't bought it since. I initially heard the reports about Gas on Radio 4, but when trying to explain why I was concerned, I did a quick google to find a source that I could quote and the Daily Mail was the first one to come up. However..... The Beano.... now that I would like to read.
  23. [quote user="Théière"]Someone who can't make a decision in 15 years unlikely to be able to make one based on what some people on a forum say no matter how well intentioned so I see little point in going on about anything as I am not retired and don't have the time to waste. idun: Tulikivi UK Ltd. +44 1285 650633 14 Elliott Road Love Lane Industrial Estate GL7 1YS Cirencester United Kingdom [email protected] www.tulikivi.co.uk [/quote] I did miss out something, which, if I had included it, might have influenced your style of reply. Lack of money caused the delay. End of mortgage has created the opportunity. But Climate Change talks last December have confused the issue for me.
  24. Thanks for all the input. My comments about Gas came from stories like this http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3358616/Climate-deal-signals-end-gas-cookers-ll-phased-meet-new-targets-experts-claim.html There is mains gas in my road and when the pipe was put in a arranged to have a yellow conduit put up the drive.... but money ran out so I didn't continue. I don't have very much garden (have about 100 meters of drive that I never use.... but it goes up to another house and they do use it, so perhaps not... :-) ) Winter sun does provide a lot of infra red light so pipes on the roof might be an option but then the heat has to be stored until the evening when it is needed. I would love the wood pellets but I am not sure how well that works if the place in empty for a few weeks. If the pellets are not bone dry does it cause problems. I had wondered if photo voltaic would be an option because (currently) it would be almost entirely "feed in" for 45 weeks of the year. Confusing myself even more :-)
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