Anton Redman

Thanks for that AnOther suspect power problems go back to the joys on Enron. About 3 months after they went under I sent my then ex MD an Email with a calculation of how much they would have cost and how little we would have gained ifb we had signed up with them

Suspect similar details : http://www.bison-fute.equipement.gouv.fr/fr/IMG/pdf/_EN_Brochure_vehicules_lourds_2011_DEF_WEB_cle743294.pdf

he or he need a friend to say the have purchased a Sky + box and wish to subscribe in UK. The friend supplies box details. A card and direct debit mandate turn up and provided card is in machine viewing but not recording work fine.

I suspect Hotmail.Com has had either a Denial Of Service attack or has had much higher security in view of today's date / anniversary

No the French have not finally decided to take up cricket. Book before end September travel before end November - I think. € 42 return Calais Dover. Tried a Thursday afternoon outward and an early Sunday return 11 days later and it was € 42. Less than a week after I had booked with P & O but might be on use to somebody.

Unplug or switch off the disjointer count to 20 then plug in turn power back on and see what happens. Try a Sky remote or universal remote set up for your TV ?

Self annealling tape / auto vulcan.. worked for me http://www.mocap-france.com/ruban-autoamalgamant-xtrem.html

The Castorama LNB has a 6 degree split to deal with 13 and 19 degrees. You need a 9 degree split to cope with 19 and 28.5 degrees or 31 degreess for Fransta at 3 degrees West and 28.5 degrees East. http://www.satcure.co.uk/accs/page2.htm Solution is a pair of LNBs mounted on a bracket as shown in above catalogue or a pair or dishes. The Asta refered to in the Castorama page in not the satellite cluster which transmits Sky / English language TV

I would start with Google.fr http://www.google.fr/#hl=fr&cp=9&gs_id=y&xhr=t&q=parking+paris&pf=p&sclient=psy&source=hp&pbx=1&oq=parking+p&aq=0&aqi=g5&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=d72580fd0933a196&biw=1527&bih=749 and use Parking Paris Airport as a start. My feeling is that unless you are in France for nine or ten months a year then car hire islikely to be the cheaper option. Best of luck any way

Sorry forgot to mention almost no margin on the other side. Lean the boat then recalculate the wet area.

No motor what so ever - Start point as I recall drag in water is roughly proportional to the wet area of the hull. Most of the crew were young and very fit but not experienced sailors. We had just spent two weeks canoeing and caving in the Ardeche so were not afraid of much and would and could take orders. It began as a serious money bet when Richard said he could get one planing. I know what 5 knots feels like on a boat and we sure we doing much more, like three times that than that. Anybody who went on a PGL holiday in the early '70s could probably describe Richard

Yes as far as I am concerned. In a posting on air safety in another forum on France probably going up in a Cesna is probably enough.

http://www.pagesjaunes.fr/ Caise Autos

Odd days I still think I should have accepted the commission in the Legion but it was initially in the Pay Corps

Somewhere I have an 8 mm film of Richard Dickson riding a tricycle off the side of the sugar cube into the Ardeche. Other parts of the holiday included caving, press so tight I had to take my clothes off. Sailing a Drancombe lugger and getting it plaining. French corvette came over and asked over tannoy if we were in difficulties. Given it was the Med in March it semed a fair question

No probs - Email with French phone and UK address and will try and sort something out. Pick up from UK unlikely to be a problem as we can do it in advance but prefer close to Autoroute South for drop off as London Bordeaux in a day is a bit of a haul

Can you give an idea of cube space once the packaging is striped away ? Visiting UK with Jag X type so loads of space but of no big items 'cause we cannot get thenm inthrough the doors

I thought you could take it back for a prebooked MOT at a station close to the port of entry

3/4 of an hour from Calais only takes you a bit past Boulonge, St Omer or Dunkerque. If you try your budget in Selonger.com you may find studous in Bolougne. However you need to be aware that if you buy at a total cost of say € 60,000 through an immobelier and sell to somebody who sends the same amount of cash in five years time it will cost you about €20,000 in notares and immo's fees. I would rent a studio for a few months first, out of season holiday let, as if you are bored with weekends in London you will find a whole new level of boredom in a small French own on a wet Sunday in winter.

Jilly Cooper wrote a piece for the Motor Show issue of The Sunday Times Magazine called Carma Sutra. Sadly I could not find the entire text on line which included recommendations of the Fiat 500, with sunroof open to nostalgic ex members of the Tank Corps. http://www.thecafe.gg/Csociety/CSociety2a.asp http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=29590§ioncode=1

Peugeot versus Citroen now makes as much as Morris versus Austin in the 1960s. If I were resident in France and running a car on a budget I would buy one or the other.

Without a clue there are at least four St B in France. Department would help.

Have a look at 'Shelley Clamp' about half way down the page the google . Try Pro & Cie for something similar or have a look at Exhaust clamps ? http://www.satcure.co.uk/accs/page2a.htm#ubolts

I would have a read through Which, What Car, and a couple of French sites about car reliability. I preferred Peugeots but have worked on Citroens occasionally for most of the last 40 years. I think there are wiring and other reliabilty issues with both their current ranges.

Bit like a version of 'The Golden Shot' filmed in an asylum.