HoneySuckleDreams

it's odd isn't it. IKEA in Belgium...just over the border from here in Luxembourg do oblong, IKEA France do square Tell you what... have a look at the IKEA catalogue, tell me what you want and I will post it onwards.

I agree with others...check the TCS button hasn't been selected. But, also check that the fuse hasn't blown (start cheap and work up). If it's not the switch...fuse...it could be a wheel sensor (next cheapest). Our ABS light came on (citroen xantia), and numerous expensive garage visits failed to find the problem, so we disconnected it and drove it for 4 years before the clutch died.

This is an honest question.... I'm wondering which part of the government come knocking on your door asking how much money you have and if you have a right to live in France? No one asked us any questions when we pitched up, neither of us worked and had 3 small kids in tow  

Interesting. I have a pay-as-you-go O2 sim. With that I get 100 free texts a month, which I never use as i'm in the UK. Will this ruling mean I get them free in France as well?

[quote user="Pierre ZFP"] Amazing thunderstorms all last night.  Right overhead with simutaneous flash and bang.  Now, at 10:00 in the morning, it's so dark that the streetlights have come on! Still, longest day tomorrow [Www] [/quote] Longest day of the year and another downpour...it's 8:30 and all the street lights have come on again A big knock on effect to all this rain is that a lot of the farmers back home (dept 65) produce Maize for the Spanish market...bio fuel, cooking oil etc. A lot of our neighbours have yet to get onto the land to plant. There is going to be either no harvest or a very late one this year. Not only that, the government will bail out those who would otherwise go under. Where is the money going to come from?  

I have a Canadian neighbour, I think he has been here 10years. If you want I can forward you his email?

[quote user="Pierre ZFP"] We've had 3 glorious days of hot sun and now we are due for thunderstorms.  The air is so heavy you could cut it with a knife [:-))] [/quote] finally raining...huzzah It says something when the buses have more air-conditioning than my office I'm torn really, the wife and kids are having to cope with the melt water from the Pyrenees and the Gave de Pau doing it's worst, and i'm melting in northern Europe. I blame Thatcher

The cable had been almost sheared through. My flat mate must have got a bit clipper happy when trimming the hedge. A shame I didn't find it before, as it would have been really cheap to just buy a connector. I don't seem to be able to copy/paste photos on here anymore?

oh yes...the Trophy room. Some of the 192 baiters are brilliant. I had one of the scammers on the go for a couple of weeks. I got an (hacked email account) email from a good friend who was on a trip to Wales and had had all her money/phone/passport stuff stolen. Apparently she needed 2000$ (via Western Union...if that isn't a give away anyway) to pay for her hotel and buy a new passport so she could get home. As she lives in York I had a little bit of a niggling doubt that the email was not all it was meant to be. I had some fun asking them for pictures of Swansea ( where she was supposed to be ). It was quite funny really as I asked for some pictures of Wales, and they sent me pics of Whales... the Nigerian boys really need to pick their game up a bit.

But she wrote to me personally! Me...little me on me ownsome What if she really is an undergraduate medical student from Ghana? It could be very plausible that her parents were killed and that her cousins are plotting to murder her. She needs help...and 5 and half million US $...that's not be sniffed at is it? I will ask her for a photo. If she's pretty then I will send "Jennifer" my bank details and I can spend the rest of my days in a drunken haze sipping daiquiris by the pool with dusky Ghanian maidens serving my every whim  

My Dearest, How are you today? I know this mail must come to you in a surprise but I have no choice than to write to you. I just read your profile and find it facilitating that you’re someone I can trust with all my heart. I am writing to you with tears and sorrows in my heart. I am deeply crying out to you for a help that has to do with my life and future. I am Jennifer Kwasi, 22 years old girl from Ghana, West Africa. I am a Medical student undergraduate from university of Ghana Accra. I am the only surviving child of late Mr. & Mrs. Frank Kwasi. My father was a part-time politician and also successful cocoa merchant based in Accra, the economic capital of Ghana before he was murdered alongside with my mother and my only brother by rebels last year. Since then I have been with my uncles but they have made things to be more difficult for me because of their eyes on my late father's properties. I overheard them planning to kill me; I then have to run away from the house to an orphanage rescue home for my life where I am presently. Before the death of my father, he has $5.5 million United States Dollars in a Fixed Deposit Domiciliary Account with a Bank here in Accra, Ghana. He used me as the inheritor of the money. I cannot withdraw the money because he signed an Agreement Letter with the Bank. That i cannot get the money under the age of 25 years unless i provide a guardian who will help me achieve my education and also invest the money wisely. Presently, my life is meaningless without completing my education. Please I need your assistance in this various ways 1. To be my Guardian 2. To provide a bank account where the money will be transferred. 3. To make arrangement for me to come over to your country and continue with my studies in a good school. 4. To look for a good venture where this money will be invested. I will provide all the necessary documents on your acceptance to assist me for the transfer of the money to you.  I will be very glad to compensate you handsomely if you give me back my life and future. Yours sincerely Jennifer Kwasi

and j-j-j-j-j-jiggling it around a bit

an update on the update... Thanks for all the advice. I bought some more coax today and jerry-rigged dish-to-box to check, and everything is working fine. In fact, with a slight adjustment on the skew I've now got 70% strength 90% quality...best ever. I've still got to redo the cabling properly but it's a working system at last. Cheers

It will be business as usual over the summer There will be discussions which eventually will come to nought after most of the country go on strike in early September. (what is the point of the teachers striking until school starts? ). Nothing will change

The cable im my flat mates set up had already been made up and the coax was a lot thicker. The box stayed up and stable for 15 minutes so it looked like everything was OK. The coax in my room is a lot thinner and doesn't seem as flexible. I made up both ends again as Quillan suggested and I'm wondering if I'm doing it wrong for this type of coax. I've done this lots of times over the years with different systems so I don't think it's me ... but I don't know now. At least coax is relatively cheap and I can replace it myself. There is still time before the Ashes start so I'm still hopful.

[quote user="Théière"]€21 a tonne from the sablier[/quote] but what's it called?  

an update... I moved everything into my colocatrice's room and plugged into her system [:)] We jiggled things around a bit for a while. The box works fine. Moving back into my room there is no juice at the end of my cable [:(] ... it must be tired and worn out....        

sable jeune   ?  (02 grade). I've seen bags sold at various places, Point P etc. but it's expensive  

[quote user="Gardian"] These people just don't realise that they're cutting their own throats.  [/quote] Unfortunately that isn't the case. People will always have a need to travel, and "we" just have to put up with it. I only make it back to the family at weekends and I've had to cancel some weekends at a moments notice because of strikes, or bite the bullet and spend two days on a train allez-retour. It won't stop me from travelling but it makes me more sensitive to the political atmosphere and I watch the blogs/news feeds for any sniff of action when I want to go home so I don't end up out of pocket. As for being sympathetic to their cause? Who are they damaging? it's not as though these businesses are totally privately owned is it? Life is moving on and it will do so irrespective of the syndicates pushing the government around. I would like to think that France moves forward but it's not going to be in my lifetime.  

simon and wendy, I pm'd you

this is getting more weird I tried the short cable out the back and the tongue tingle test. Worked a treat, lots of volts. So I plugged the main cable back in with a view to try the LNB end again, but the box started searching for channels and BBC1 popped up....briefly. I checked the signal and it was S 50% Q 40% ish... picture went blocky and it went back to getting the message that it wasn't getting a signal. So I think it is leaning more towards a dish realignment. Or else it's dodgy electronics in the box where it gets warm, tunes in and drops out.    

will do... ...tongue test is normally OK...it's when you waggle it enough to touch a molar...that opens your eyes a tad! If it's broken I will probably Fleabay it as it's a +HD it's got two virgin disks inside that someone might want. Plus, I can get myself a Humax

Who watches the watchmen ?

did the tongue test last night (that tookme back to being a kid and those 9v batteries!)...not a tingle...but as I don't have a voltmeter I can't absolutely prove it isn't getting power...or my tongue has been completely pickled over the years and it's mostly dead as well  

[quote user="Martin963"]Are both signal strength and signal quality at zero? I take it you've unplugged for five minutes from the mains (you probably did that anyway as a precaution when you changed the LNB?) [/quote] Yes, both 0. I've done a full reset. I've also checked that single input is on.  re-checked the connections...twice. Had a look along the cable length...and there doesn't seem to be much wrong with it. The dish itself seems to be pointing in the right place. I can't physically move it by hand so I don't think it's slipped itself. I'm wondering if the dish was so marginally aligned that I was lucky to get  a signal, and now the satellites/transponders have been shuffled around a bit that it was enough to lose the signal all together. We did have a thunder storm just before the ING marathon started, but it was still working OK after that. I don't have a subscription but it was happily letting me have all the free stuff up to Saturday night. I've posted on the works intranet here to try and find an ex-pat who might be able to help me out with a working setup. I'm not due to go home for another couple of weeks so I won't be able to test it any other way for a while. It's not so much the TV (although spring watch is always fun)...it'sTMS and the looming Ashes that I will miss