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I think I am right in saying that an association can only be run be a citizen of the EU, [If I am wrong I am sure someone will correct me.] With Brexit looming an association may not be a solution to the problem, assuming you are British.

Nomoss I am not sure anyone plans for a major breakdown, however such things do happen - and probably at the most inopportune moment. My last major breakdown was in Luxembourg en route to the Uk for a do where I was supplying a lot of the booze. Major cylinder head problems. ADAC supplied a hire car - with capacity for the "luggage" - for a 8 days. My costs ? 70ish Euros because their standard replacement car policy is 7 days. Decided the car was not worth repair given the high mileage and the cost of a complete engine replacement (recommended because of the high mileage and the possibility of subsequent problems.)

Another vote for ADAC. The price of membership gives Europe-wide breakdown cover. Just one proviso for all of the companies, if you break down on the peage sections of the motorway you have to accept their break down companies to get you off the motorway. I believe that ADAC will reimburse you, but I have not tried it. Other companies may not provide that cover.

Once picked, leave your tomatoes next to some ripe bananas ( no seriously not the wooly ones, the genuine bendy yellow ones). Bananas give off ethylene gas which ripens fruits - toms included. Commercial producers (some at least) use the gas supplied in cylinders EDIT: Also works on under ripe avacado

And therein lies one of many fallacies about the EU and its impacts. So why does Sweden not then revert to its old (supposedly better) standards, which as you rightly say is still within their right? Well I can only think of one reason. It would make their industries uneconomic against other EU states that subscribe to the EU standard but do not aim to improve upon it. So what to do? Leave the EU? Well good idea, set your own better standards (which you could have done anyway inside the EU) and lo and behold: You are still uneconomic against those other EU states. The one thing the EU has done is to at least set a minimum standard, before which states could have done what they wanted - and some did.

One change from 2016 is that last year it was the 100th anniversary of the Somme. This year it is Ypres 3rd battle (AKA Passchendaele). Has there been some diversion of visitors from France to Belgium perhaps? Might explain the tour guide's experience.

https://hasbro-new.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/33/~/how-do-i-remove-play-doh-from-carpet%2C-upholstery-or-fabric%3F As the manufacturers of this children's version of coloured snot, they should know.

Since you also asked the same question yesterday, I suggest you answer the question posed there. It will make giving a useful answer so much easier and so much more concise. I will repeat the question here. What nationality are you? It makes a very big difference to the answer.

I'm not planning on going anywhere either

Before anyone can answer this, we need to know what nationality you are. Different nationalities attract different rules.

Like Chancer I doubt that the details will be fed back and the feedback to the tax authorities will be along the lines of: We have received adequate replies from everyone except........ The excepts will then feature in the tax investigations. Not so sure about making a number up since many of these numbers now have check digits embedded that are used to make sure that the bored oik inputting the information to the "system" has not made a mistake. I have no idea whether the TIN has such check digits or whether the banks have access to the check digit decoding to see if a number is valid. Regarding extra taxes Aitch, the French have all the information they need already to apply any taxes, they don't need your UK TIN to close any tax impositions. Assuming your letter was similar to ours and they allow other numbers other than the TIN, you could supply your NI number instead. However since the UK uses TIN perhaps you do not have an option. Try as I might I could find no reference to a TIN on our tax documents here in France and so bombarded them with the host of other numbers that the French authorities so love.

We have recently had similar from a UK bank requesting a TIN (or equivalent tax identification number) proving that we are indeed declaring for tax in France (where we are full time resident). Tax disclosure between countries has begun to take hold to prevent people from hiding from the authorities and not paying their taxes. [ I know one person who does exactly that and by being mobile throughout the year hopes that he can avoid be classified as resident anywhere.] Banks are therefore being requested to prove to their local tax offices that clients with addresses in other countries are indeed resident there and paying tax there.

Ah, but will it be a proper reassessment or just a desktop exercise?

Paul contrary to what seems like logic, the bigger the dish, the more important it is that it is accurately aligned. It could well be that you are just a smidgen off the optimal and that by increasing the size of the dish you have effectively magnified the error from the optimum.

No it's Yorkshire Dales, which enjoys a similar situation of: them as cums off from t'city buys up t'village and then are just there for th'weekends. Edit: Google translate probably won't work, but I can do a translation if you need it.

and yet rural Wiltshire seems to have many more townie escapees than locals these days. The locals having been priced out of the housing market by the off-cumbands.

I don't have a cheap Supermarket locally, but still make a point of diverting to Lidl once every 3-4 weeks. If I were in the UK I would expect to prefer Aldi over Lidl, but here in France the preference is the reverse. I think I have explained before that Aldi is split into 2 companies and France is aligned to one and the UK to the other. In Germany we were in the area of the company that now has the UK under its wing and found it very good. On an occasional visit to the "other" one I was disappointed, as I am in France. Visiting infrequently my purchases are directed to items that I know and enjoy - so these include things like Lidl's 4 ply toilet paper (oh how important are the most "unimportant" things in life), their bacon pieces that can be sliced for a Sunday breakfast, Frickadelle, Parmesan cheese, German sausages and if the visit coincides, perhaps something from their WIGIG range - White Balsamic vinegar, mango chutney, occasionally tools (I have most of what I need now), sometimes clothing, Christmas decorations. Not everything they have suits me and we are into the arena of personal preferences. I find their washing detergent quite good, but their washing up liquid thin and rapidly consumed. And that I think sums up the use of cheap supermarkets. Some of the things they have will suit you, some won't. And your choices might be very different to mine. If you have the means most will want to augment their cheap supermarket purchases with those from more expensive outlets. And let's be clear, sometimes the cheap supermarket offering can be more expensive than the regular offering. We could spend our entire lives investigating, researching, testing and comparing and in the end...................... ................ I would rather relax a bit and accept that sometimes I could have bought a better product for 2c cheaper somewhere else.

I don't disagree Chancer (as an ex-climber going up is simple, arriving back down in one piece? Now that's the trick.), but the example of going up was easier to get the message across. It is easy to run up stairs on your toes unless you are at the @rse end of a double mattress. As for taking it down...........................

200mm tread width (8 inches in old money) sounds a very narrow step width. Going up your heel will not be on the tread at all * and you run a risk of falling. * Unless you are Chinese and have bound feet that fit into children's shoes.

.................and don't blame Amazon. Blame our inept governments who leave tax loopholes in their tax legislation several billion euros wide. The whole thing could be simply solved with a turnover tax.

Our usual friend advises on a bail rural https://www.service-public.fr/professionnels-entreprises/vosdroits/F31643

As Pat says this may be on the Acte de Vente or the compromise de vente. However, since this is your neighbour's land, it may be that it is mentioned on his documents but not necessarily on yours. As Pat says, "complicated".

But he might need TM's permission for his OH and kids to live there post Brexit, if the current UK proposal becomes UK law.

They are generally considered as biennials as you say but are in fact short lived perennials. There is no reason therefore why your pot plant should not flower again next year provided it is replanted in good conditions and is not hit by excessive frosts over the winter.

I have to disagree, it most certainly does have a purpose: viz. to fulfil the expressed wished of the people. No matter how flawed that will might be.