Keni
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Surely the crux of the matter (love that phrase) is that UK pensioners in whatever country have mostly already paid their dues through their working lives. They should not be penalised simply because they wanted to live out the rest of their lives somewhere other than the UK?I understand that the heating benefit is regard as 'an extra', but if they get away with that, then everthing is up for grabs!
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I agree - however now what worries me for my friend is that having to come back to the Uk she will have to start to fight for her benefits all over again surely, as she was resident in France for a couple of years. So she will lose the Child Benefit in France - which took 18 months to get and the housing benefit, which she has just got. We are supporting her though as much as we can and hope the Uk benefits lot look to her situation kindly!
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Hi all, I must admit, we use both - Calais to Abbeville, Rouen. Then down to Dreux, Evreux and Chartres, then Orleans and Limoges. This is around 20e's in peage, the last bit from Vierzon to Limoges is no charge and the bit from Rouen to Orlean is no peage. Takes a while, but is a good run.
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It's a pity I did not know about this group before now - a friend of ours was deserted after she and her children followed the husband to France to 'live his dream'. There was a fire and they lost everything, the day after the fire she and the children were left behind with nothing as he went back to England to his girlfriend! After several years of struggling- she has now a bit of financial help but is leaving France as she can no longer cope.She could really have had that help through having to struggle and make sure the children were safe and settled.
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Pachapapa - what sort of cost are these al-ko's?
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There is 'Blue Sky' from Edf - seems cheap
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So, does this go the other way - I have a few francs from the 80's and I think a few from the war period (grandfather) is there a bank of france who would swap?
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Krusty - this just got me laughing - thank you for putting a smile into all this stupidity...
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Remember who Nick Clegg is married to - hence the remark one feels....
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Just dipping in here - good luck Wicce for the future.Mentioned earlier, the problems about pensioners/older people moving and being rural abound here in the UK.I am amazed at the big companies building retirement complexes in villages around this are that have absolutely nothing. So you are 70, buy a place in a lovely rural village, then discover you can no longer drive. There is no bus service and you can end up stuck in four walls going nowhere. Seen it with mother.In the villages we have visited in France, there are 80/90 year olds still hanging on in the village, gardening, growing veg, getting daily meals on wheels and keeping up with the neighbours. The difference is the UK do no longer provide day care - as in the form of somewhere to go -whereas the French get on with talking to and helping each other! That's what I think the retirees from UK like about France.
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Hi from me as well = all I really know about Northamptonshire is the old shoe manufacturing industry and that great film - Kinky Boots! A reall smiler :)
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We have friends in and around that area - they pointed out a certain family who lives in Augignac - well known in London and those environs, parents to a well known lady and known in the area for having had a police raid already in the past few years.......
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what's it about Frenchie - nothing showing.
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Not bad - 23!
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Hi, we know that route well and yep, it is a quarry - they are doing a load of road rehashing in the area as well, but the conveyor belt is travelling the stone down to the crushing plant from the quarrying, so we understand.
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Thank you DerekJ - it took me 3 hours to get it tp preview stage, don't get me started as to why it won't upload. xxYou can see the depth - that is the south of France overnight!!
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Can you see the pic - I can only get it to show by linking, how do I upload to show - the information does not seem to want to show the pic.
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Sorry but uploading the photo is doing my head in - it looks great in preview but won't come out in the message all I am getting is the 'hmtl' or whatever address - as you see it is minus the end img - but honestly it is there, so I will keep trying.....
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Thought you might like to see the photo my brother sent to me of the snow this week at Perpignan, the table cleared in the foreground shows the depth of the snow that fell overnight.[IMG]http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/qq82/keni1954/DSC01000-1.jpg[/IMG]
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Here in Evesham I am convinced the abbey was built around this type of experience. The lad Eoves had a vision of the Virgin Mary, so said - me I've always put it down to the ergotism, but that thought could get me lynched in this town!
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Brilliant - the looks of hate! Made me smile
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Pre lego I had Betta builda - but I never forgave my mum for giving away my zoo with all enclosures, farm and Britains Petite garden including greenhouse, lawns, vegetables and flowers. As I went to boarding school, I would come home and find we might have moved so I might have lost new toys/games. I still though have my teddy (I'm nearly 56) that my dad bought me aged 4 - he died when I was 6! It came back and forward to school with me, so never got lost.
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Looks like it beats a Rampant R*b*i*
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What is Le Bon Coin - a new or secondhand shop? In what area is it/are they? Looks interesting
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