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Anton Redman

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  1. Which make and model of receiver have you ? Have you checked the dish and LNB are not snow covered ? What signal strengh and quality have you ?
  2. My test route is St Martin de Laye (33910) to Tremolat(24510) . Michelin takes marginally under 2 hours and starts by taking you though two sets of traffic lights. I have yet to find mapping software that takes you North of the Autoroute at junction 13 before turning right prior to Mussidan and going through Issac and Pont St Mamet.  That route takes just under 1 and a half hours and is both shorter and quicker.
  3. It can be done by post or in person. I am pretty sure you have to be in the right Department. Second link is a more expensive way of doing it by post. http://vosdroits.service-public.fr/F1050.xhtml http://www.cartegrisenationale.fr/?gclid=CNnEmcjX-bQCFcbLtAodt2oA2g I also did not think the cars was meant to leave France till it had been reregistered
  4. Try posting in the ‘Do Me a Favour’ sections of a couple of the other forums/fora about France with date and time of travel. See if anybody can give you a lift. Airport bus to Bordeaux, train to Libourne and check bus to La Roche Chailais ? Make sign with ‘Help lift to St Aulaye’ and walk round with it round your neck in Airport queues ?
  5. Point P used to stock beads for use as agregate in concrete mixes. I bought a sack to try out, only one they ever sold. Balls went every where.
  6. Possibly too far South to consider but Via Michelin have probably not updated for Bordeaux Lyon being open http://automobile.challenges.fr/actu-auto/20130118.LQA4011/a89-bordeaux-est-a-5-h-15-de-route-de-lyon.html  
  7. C&A main problem with the UK was that shop rents were too high and that Marks & Spencer had the market position they held in Holland & Germany. Impossible to check on their  profitbility as from memory in those days they were a Dutch unlimited partnership which did not file published accounts. Irroncally last time I was in their Bordeaux store the walls had repro posters from the UK on them.
  8. UK debit cards which were also cheque guarantee cards are almost essential as many retailers no longer accept cheques full stop.
  9. Only real mini's as opposed to FWD BMWs
  10. If you have fallen out of love with the place and know what you would do with the money cut and run. In five years time for instance French property market might be better but the £ might be up to € 1.50. I know renovation is more expensive than build but £ 30,000 is a lot of money. Part those items till you are retired and fiish slowly with your own labour if you still like the place.
  11. No local ideas - suspect it something I would add to the long list of buy in the Uk items. Any idea of comparative costs France and UK ? and volune you would need ? Web search of say Zyke or other pool suppliers might turn it up at a resonable price.
  12. Suggest you look up anti freeze poisining - I would not use car of central heating ant freeze in a system where a leak could contaminate drinking or cooking water. For a central heating only system with a one way valve possibly.
  13. There was no decent management of British Leyland. Anybody who had not had 90% of there brain amputated would have worked out that for instance launching the Triumph Stag with a new V8 when the Buick V8 that Rover had sourced was available did not make anysense. Ditto the Maxi / Allegro 1500 / 1750 engine which was designed as 1000 cc with a stretch to 1300 cc. BL was controlled by Stokes who had made Leylands money bribing people in Africa to buy their buses
  14. As above Ikea have to guess their exchange rates for the next 15 months when the catalogue goes to print. I have known prices to be up to 70% dearer in both France or Uk depending on which items. 25 % difference very often. Paint UK, tiles can be worth the trip to Spain.
  15. Seems good value to me but the last water pump I changed was on my Midas = glass fibre mini or 1300 under 35 minutes in the road.
  16. I do not inderstand why you need to change the water pump as well. On a Mk1 Lotus Cortina if the belt drive is too tight you wreck the pump otherwise the pump is good for 200 k
  17. Dave is the odd one out available on UKTNT/freeview but not freesat. Bundled with any Sky package.
  18. [quote user="idun"]Hey, I'm from well north of Watford and it can be very nice thankyou. Want proof Wooly, next time you are in welsh Wales, head west and have a visit. [/quote] Sense of humour bypass ? I was born in Preston and on a good day can even be persuaded that Yorkshire if great. However MU fans should be confined to the media friendly ghettos of Islington. About the only thing the Gallaghers agree on is support for MC
  19. Well if you are daft enough to go North of Watford.
  20. I do not think I have read anything with either her attitude to life or France for a very long time. She always said she would stop posting when she returned to the UK and I have no reason to believe she did nit do exactly that.
  21. North East of Manchester - South of Oldham
  22. I was averaging about 60,000 miles for front tyres and 80,000 for rears on the 306HDI. Jaguar is on original rears at 45,000. Fronts changed at 40,000. Tyres have improved a lot in the last 40 years. Good article as below : http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/products/total_tyre_guide_2007/213189/tyre_testing.html
  23. I thought the French would have a better command of their own language. 7 years on I remain amazed that I can pass an evening communicating in French with educated French people. Only to discover that the morning after that my lingustic skills have sublimated like spring snow on black tarmac. I can dredge the word novation out of the long dark teatime of my soul and drag a notaire over to convince my dentist that it is also a French word. However the day after I cannot convince my dentist that router bit and strawberry are the same word. I remain shocked that there seems to be no middle brow French culture.
  24. French concensus seems to be within a week to two weeks. http://fr.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070814134547AAY4P5K I can remember 90 and 70 as limits on the Rocade but not 80 best of luck anyway.
  25. First stage check that your roof structure is strong eniough for tiles rather than slate. Slate weighs a lot less per square metre than tiles. Are you sure your roof slope is OK for tiles in you location. What type of tiles are you using ? Unless you are using modern interlocking tiles then there is bound to be some maintenance to do in the forceable future. How you support depends what kind of tiles, in particular do they have location lugs. Overlap also depends on local conditions but is at least 1/3 of a tile.
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