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  1. hi derf

     

    you can buy the closers almost anywhere nowadays...they are usually referred to as door buffers...check out screwfix website ....they refer to them as slow closers

    I am sure you are right, but I can't see them being as easy to fit as the Ikea ones, no need to even remove the drawers just open them and click the buffers on.

  2. EDIT: Do any of you know if you can add the 'smooth closing action' on

    drawers and cupboards to a range that doesn't have it?  I really like

    the Varde free-standing range but it doesn't have this and OH would

    like it... not the end of the world but just wondered if there was

    something you could buy and instal?

    The smooth closing action on

    the drawers is achieved by small shock absorbers clipped to the wall end of the drawer runners 1 pair per drawer, they don't come as standard they are an optional extra. I don't know if they will fit the range that you are interested in.

    You can also fit a similar shock absorber to the cupboard doors, again an optional extra but should fit any range of kitchen.

  3. [quote user="Puzzled"]

    I have just come back from sending my daughter's passport off for renewal. The postal order cost added an extra 5€ to the cost, why can't they just accept French cheques. [:@]

     I also completed the recommandée slip but the postal worker was adamant (in a nice way) that I should send a sae with it - just hope it doesn't come bouncing back!

    [/quote]

    If you added in the cost of the return postage to the passport fee then you will be fine. For some reason if you live in Luxenburg you can phone and pay with your credit card details.

  4. derf wrote: "You don't need your passport photo's counter signing

    for an adult passport renewal, only for children under 16."

    Tresco wrote:

    "I definitely had to have mine countersigned, just a few weeks ago.

    I think Cathy and others really need to plough through the forms for themselves, as what you say suggests the rules may have changed recently.

    BTW there was some conflicting advice given on one pile of bumf and another, about the photo requirements. I phoned the Embassy up and explained it but they didn't seem particularly interested. Something to do with the background colour, if I remember correctly"

    I also renewed my passport in November without having the photo countersigned, Here is an extract from the web site:

    "Please note that photos must be countersigned for children’s (under 16)

    passport applications and for first-time adult passport applications.

    Someone (including French nationals) of professional standing who is

    not a family member and who has known the applicant or parents of the

    applicant for at least two years can act as counter-signatory."
  5. You don't need your passport photo's counter signing for an adult passport renewal, only for children under 16.

    ErnieY

    The reason it cost €187 instead of €176 is because you have to pay the cost of the postal order and return postage

  6. [quote user="londoneye"]OK you have almost convinced me.   Managed to find some more recipes on-line which don't look quite so arduous, and require 3 hours of shopping to find ingredients!    However, suet .... can you get suet in France (still not sure what it is, but beginning to think I probably don't want to know anyway).    If so, what is  it called please ?[/quote]

    If you go to your butcher you can ask for some "Graisse de rognon" it's the fat from around the loins and especially the kidneys, mutton  or beef

  7. [quote user="ErnieY"]If there were an English translation of the C dl R then I would buy it but as far as I have been able to discover the best there is is from HERE or from WHSmith who I think are offering the same thing, but the price of €20 is a bit hard to swallow, especially as it's not a complete translation.[/quote]

    It is your responsibility as a car driver in France to know  the Code de la route, my advice would be to buy it and read it, with the help of a dictionary if necessary, it's not that difficult to understand, lots of pics for the Sun readers out there[6][:D]

  8. Here is another one to add to the collection, maybe we will find two the same one day[8-)]

    L’Assurance Maladie

    LOT-ET-GARONNE

    Date 13 novembre 2007

    WSecu: *************************

    Objet:

    Renouvellement de vos droits et

    la CMU (couverture maladie universelle)

    Madame, Monsieur,

    Vous avez déposez une demande de renouvellement de CMU

    le 10.09.2007

    Je vous informe qu'en raison de I'évolution du droit

    communautaire, les conditions d'accès a la protection sociale des

    ressortissants communautaires « inactifs » ont été modifies.

    En effet, en application de la directive communautaire

    2004/38 du 29 avril 2004, votre droit au séjour en France est soumis au respect

    de deux conditions:

    -être déjà bénéficiaire d'une assurance maladie,

    -et disposer de ressources suffisantes afin de ne pas

    devenir une charge déraisonnable pour les finances de l'Etat d'accueil.

    Cette directive vient d'être transposée en droit français

    par la loi sur I'immigration et I'intégration et par le décret n02007-371 du 21

    mars 2007.

    En conséquence, vos droits a la CMU ne peuvent être renouvelés.

    Toutefois, a titre dérogatoire, pour vous permettre de disposer du délai nécessaire

    a la recherche d'une autre assurance maladie, vos droits a la CMU sont

    prolonges jusqu'au 31 mars 2008.

    Pour bénéficier de cette prolongation, je vous invite a mettre a jour votre

    carte vitale dans une borne (CPAM, pharmacie, antenne, Hôpital, Mairie) dans

    les meilleurs délais afin que le service compétent procède a I'enregistrement

    des droits dans votre carte Vitale.

    Je

    vous prie d'agréer, Madame, Monsieur, I'expression de mes salutations distinguées.

  9. "But that is what you would say to a family member, friend or a child isn't it Clair?

    Surely you would not use

    the tutoyer to a stranger that you wanted to insult would you?  Or is

    this just a phrase that does not change?"

    I would think that the use of tutoyer to a stranger, is the biggest part of the insult and I believe it's widely used by angry car drivers in particular.[6]

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