Boiling a frog

Go to another insurance coy. We insured our cars with a letter from our UK insurers saying we had maximum no claims bonus.

[quote user="Iceni"]   Most of us have to buy food in the country in which we live. John  [/quote]   You are quite correct but some lucky people have houses in more than one country so buy food in the country they happen to be in at that point in time. So making a comparison is relevant to them . Unless we now have self appointed  relevance police who decide what is relevant

You can buy single tyres try http://www.123pneus.fr/ The rules in France are that the tyres on the same axle must be exactly the same make model etc.

Having painted and repainted using French paint for the past 8 years I spotted someones recommendation for Bricodepot Renaulac emulsion and decided to give it a try. Deep joy, it does what ir says on the tin , cost 23€ environ for 4 litre tin and you pick your colour from a huge range. http://www.bricodepot.fr/node/3239 PEINTURE ACRYLIQUE MATE RENAULAC is what you are looking for NOT PEINTURE GLYCÉRO MATE RENAULAC

What you need is a TV buy in France or the UK makes little difference unless you suddenly develop an overpowering desire to watch French TV in which case better buying one in France Buy a Sky plus box from Ebay or the like. Change your LNB on your sattelite dish for a 2 or 4 exit LNB (this with your Sky plus box will allow you to watch one programme while recording another. http://www.radioandtelly.co.uk/satellite.html Gives an explanation. Any DVD player connected properly will allow you to watch a DVD while recording a TV programme.

Instead of going thro your list of question . In simple terms If you wish to watch UK television in France none of the items mentioned in your orginal post are suitable for the purpose.  

[quote user="Will"] I didn't get one either, but it's so long since I posted at that other forum (if that's the one you mean) that I am probably automatically banned. I did, a little while ago though, make sure my details there were still current just in case anybody wanted to get in touch. However, I went there and found a copy of the message that they say is being sent out. I found it so over-long, pompous and junior-schoolmasterish that even if I did use that forum I would give up forthwith. Surely everbody using a forum like that is an adult and does not need to be told, in such a manner, how to behave. It makes the code of conduct etc here (which I consider to be a bit over-stringent) look positively liberal. It was too long to want to read in any detail, but I didn't see any Daily Mail references [:)]   [/quote] I have to agree .I have not posted on that forum for some time ever since Admin spoke down to me as if I was a naughty child and refused to accept that they were even in the slightest bit  wrong.

The new owner goes to the post office, armed with the vehicle reg document which you have given to them, MOT certificate, insurance certificate and money

A certain other forum seems ,once again, to be running into difficulty. The pink fluffy people who frequent  that forum are actually rather nasty bullies and an E mail has been sent to everyone on that forum warning them about their conduct.

I still do not see your point. A man raped a woman and during the trial he absconded but in his absence was sentenced to 8 years As you were allegedly on the jury please inform us of the relivance of  this to illegal immigrants Are you suggesting that he raped the person because he was an illegal immigrant or that he absconded because he was an illegal immigrant or Something else    

It is not very Rosy in France either in fact I would suggest that  free care for the elderly in France does not exist and any aid that is given has to be repaid. http://www.lesmaisonsderetraite.fr/maisons-de-retraite/les-aides.htm

All the answers on the Age concern website http://www.ageconcern.org.uk/AgeConcern/how_we_help.asp   Basically the house will be part of the means testing  and altho cannot be forced to sell will be forced to repay on death of owner.  

[quote user="Chris"] Don't get me wrong - I don't disagree that there has been widespread abuse of IB over the years - it's just that the vulnerable seem to be the ones who often get targeted and bullied when they want to cut down on Social Security spending. The concept of the new system makes sense, it's just the incidental effect that says that even if a person is admitted by the DWP as clearly too ill to work, they still can't go abroad and take their health cover with them. [/quote]   The concept is sensible ,if you are able to work then you should seek work and not live ,expect or rely on benefit. No healthy person can move abroad and take their health cover with them (except those pensioners entitled to an E121 and for a limited time those entitled to an E106)so why should a person who has been assessed as being capable of  some form of work think that they should be entited to free health care. I have to pay over 2000€ per year for my health cover in France but you expect me to be sympathetic towards you, who could be perfectly capable of some form of work but who is demanding an E121 so they can get free health care in France. Sorry but any sympathy just went out the window with your last sentence

And it is irrelevant to the original question which was about buying a right hand drive car in the UK and taking it to France, not buying a left hand drive car in Europe and bringing it to the UK

[quote user="giantpanda"]Hi! Here France is not the question. Such things are not a balance sheet. You can post those separately. Yours, giantpanda [/quote] Please explain your comment in understandable english [8-)]

I wish that people who are trying to be smart or provocative would at least post current  articles This article was published in August 2003

[quote user="Babbles"]Babbles is a she , and she didn't really think she could ! no one really has that much confidence in the rise of the £[:D][/quote]   Difficult to tell with the gold fish bowl covering the face[:)]

[quote user="Bugsy"] The runway at Poitiers is covered in snow (difficult to believe given that it fell four days ago) Gary . [/quote]   Our road is still covered in snow as well.[:)]

In reality the people you need to speak to are CPAM and your assurance coy. It can take upwards of a month to obtain the refund from your assurers and from CPAM  

Since yesterday we are continually losing the sat signal for BBC ITV Channel 4 and 5 . Sky news is ok signal not being lost. Is it a satellite problem ? 

[quote user="Tony F Dordogne"] [quote user="Benjamin"][quote user="giantpanda"] One of the possible openings which is being considered ( not necessarily in 2009 ) would be to make part of the ALD ( Affection de Longue durée ) coverage ( so called 100%) means tested, because the spending represent 67% of Health Insurance costs, for something like 15% of the total patients. Yours, giantpanda [/quote] Just re-read your final paragraph. Surely that's exactly how insurance is supposed to work? Nobody gets back exactly what they put in. Some times you win but mostly you lose.  [:D] [/quote] This was one of the proposals floated by the French Government last year but very quickly withdrawn (within a week) when the level of opposition to such a move started to form. Think this was a step too far and was only ever floated for discussion I seem to recall. [/quote] I think what GP means is that the spending on ALD is 67% of the health budget(not health insurance)  but only concerns 15% of the population. So the Govt were going to try and have the ALD 100% reembursement means tested so that the better off would have to pay( presumably thro their top up assurance) and so the cost of mutuels would rise for every one.

[quote user="knee gel"]Hi boiling frog, the second form is: 'Remboursement Pour Un Beneficiaire Sans Protection Social Personnelle' which I'm guessing covers us whilst we are in/out of the system. I reach pensionable age before my wife - can't think why I would be benefiting from her 106. Nigs[/quote]   What it is saying is that your wife will have no cover in her own right but will be a beneficiary on your cover

I am confused (but then again that is easily done) What second form are you talking about, I can see no reference to a second form in your post. Is the form that you received from CPAM the same as the form  that you downloaded from internet ie application for CMU B If so you complete one of the application forms and send it in you do not have any cover until you do and until you are accepted Have not a clue why your wife has the additional bit on the letter unless you were benifiting from her E106 or she will reach pensionable age before you

Just ask EDF to install an electronic reader outside on the wall. Costs in the region of 100€ .

Going back to the original question. I agree with poolguy with a few additional extras The work must be secondary to their main work ie they carry out the majority of their work in their own country and the work in France is occasional They are not allowed to have an office or business premises in France. They are not allowed to employ a French resident person. If these Spanish builders fulfill these conditions they can quite legitimately work for the OP.   As for the horror story about happenings at 3M's This is an urban myth There was a fight between two british people working on the black Several others joined in to try and separate them The gendarmes arrived  and shut the main gate as by this time the fight had spilled out into the car park The two culprits were arrested End of story. As for the person from Ruffec being deported I have the Charente Libre (local press for Ruffec) delivered every day for the past 6 years and cannot recall any story about anyone British being deported