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  1. The teeth were less than a month old. All is well anyway thanks. Mrs H
  2. Thank you very much - seems like we can park for a week for a not too bad fee. Much the same as at the airport, and the train is a lot cheaper than a flight! H.
  3. Hello We are thinking of taking the TGV from Rennes direct to CDG for a flight to Germany. Flights to Paris from Rennes are a silly price!  Has anyone done this or parked long term at Rennes station for any other reason please? We once collected a visitor from Rennes station and think there was an underground car park which looked pretty secure.  If you have done it was it very expensive please? many thanks H.
  4. We discovered in Germany once that you cannot use a Credit Agricole debit card to withdraw money more than once a week if outside France. Check with bank!  It mattered not to us as we had a UK card too but could have been embarrassing.
  5. It was always the wife who claimed once she was 60 - just that the figure was based on husbands contributions if she had none of her own - or very few. It was worked so that the minimum paid was the 58.50 or whatever. Mrs H
  6. Jo: Thanks for information. Certainly a pity but seems it was last government that did that not current one.  We try to keep up to date but feel increasingly out of it! Mrs H.
  7. Is there no "dependent wife" pension  any more?  By which I mean a pension paid to a non-working married woman UNDER pension age whose husband gets his OAP.  I certainly got this for the five years between OH getting his OAP and me getting mine at aged 60. This is 5 years ago now.   I think one had to claim it, i.e. not paid automatically. Once I was 60 the pension was paid to me in  my own right - in fact only pennies more as I had been self employed for most of my working life and "opted out" as married women could back in the 70's. Obviously the changing dates of being able to get a pension are very arbitrary. Makes planning very difficult. Mrs H
  8. Yes she is fine thank you !  We did take advice in the pharmacy and were told that Chlorhexedrine was right (in fact the bottle had two different chemicals in it). If, God forbid, she does it again we will suggest they are taken to her dentist but he is 30 km away. Fosse needed to be emptied anyway. Final checking that pipe from house was clear - it wasn't.. So man shot water from hose up towards the house and teeth floated out. No-one more surprised than the fosse man !! All is well that ends well. H.
  9. Even if not in France have we not heard on this forum that one can send a registered letter via the La Poste website. They print it and send it so it would arrive the next day.  No idea about an attachment though... Mrs H
  10. Thank you Clair - will look at the official site as that may change things! H.
  11. Just had a look at the "jechange" website -for us it hardly seems worth the effort to change.  Our very high usage shows very little savings and we feel could present a lot of hassle!  Impossible to see from individual company websites whether they accept monthly payments or not - they want to telephone one to discuss, whereas we would rather be able to find info on their websites. A useful website however that we have bookmarked. Thanks for input. H.
  12. Thanks CM - will look at website - might even manage to work out who telephoned us! We use a lot of electricity - all electric house - so would be good to save a bit. You say you can enter readings on website so do not get estimated bills - we have been paying monthly over the whole year. We wonder if that is possible and how transfer of what we have paid this year could be done. Could get messy.
  13. Has anyone switched electricity suppliers here in France yet?  We were (cold)  telephoned by a chap yesterday but said we wanted to see something in writing about it - not just a telephone call !  He gave us a website address but we have clearly written it down wrong - we had thought we might have missed the last bit.  It sounded like www.eva ????.fr Any thoughts, or advice if you have changed. In the UK it is common but it seems to be new here. Many thanks - chap will phone again after the week-end so need info... H.
  14. Thanks for various replies.  We know why we thought  the interval did not change:  we sold our UK registered car when we arrived in France although it was under the age that needed a CT but we had one for the sale. It technically "failed" as there was no carte grise so no sticker was given.   Once French registered it just had to have the CT at the normal intervals i.e. actual age and the "failed" one was ignored. We know this because the buyer was a friend not a stranger. Glad to have correct info anyway and we accept that we misunderstood the rules. Thanks as always.
  15. Hi Can anyone confirm please that even if a CT was done just before selling a car it does not alter the date of the next regular CT - i.e. you could need a CT say six months after buying a car even though a new CT was supplied when you bought. We are sure this is so but a friend disagrees! Thanks a lot.
  16. For information if needed by anyone in the future: spoke to pharmacie and they supplied some "mousse" stuff containing chlorhexedrine.  Thanks for comments!  All sorted.
  17. Hello Problem: old lady with dementia puts denture in toilet bowl and flushes (don't ask..). Teeth rescued from fosse septique (a miracle) Question:  Is "steradent" type product enough to thoroughly clean before she puts them back in !!   Or should they go to her dentist to sterilise. Thanks
  18. Hereford

    UK Tax

    Sorry Gluestick - you are right I did not respond further.  Did not really want an argument, especially with a fellow professional.  Loopholes have always been plugged later when used for tax avoidance but that does not mean it wasn't legal when used before the plugging.  Also Tax Inspectors, as we used to call them (!), have always picked up tips so this is not something new. Mrs H.
  19. Hereford

    UK Tax

    Absolutely right Will.    I could not be bothered to take this up with Gluestick - who I don;t think is talking to me because of my answer on another thread re Avoidance versus Evasion. I should add that I have been a member of the ICAEW for over 40 years and OH over 50 years and although now retired we have not quite lost our marbles yet. Mrs H
  20. 900 million pounds to train 200 people  !!  No way. On last paragraph one should note that "avoidance" is legal, "evasion" is not. Mrs H
  21. Hereford

    UK Tax

    You will get a tax code if you have UK pensions.  Probably a bit early yet - they do not normally go out until the spring - assuming you mean a code for 2011/12.  Try and get HMRC to issue an NT code then no tax is deducted (not applicable if the pension is a government one). Mrs H
  22. It went very well indeed!  As I said earlier this is a village of around 200 people - the deceased was born here in 1949 and was still living in the area.  More than 300 people attended the funeral, the little church was packed - we arrived 15 minutes early and had to sit on a bench brought in to seat the overflow.  The local MP was there. Only problem was that the church was freezing - the little wall mounted heaters were no help at all. We did find it odd that in the churchyard (the church is in the middle of this) a lorry with a mini-digger was waiting to fill in the grave.  Not as "gentle" as a couple of men with shovels. Thanks again for help Mrs H
  23. Thanks a lot for replies - this is a village of just over 200 so we will be noticed - that is why we wanted to get it right. With it being the son of our previous Maire there are sure to be a lot of people. Mrs h
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