Motorhead

Les is, as usual, quite correct. My bike trailer is only 500kg PTAC........OK!  

Yes you can. In Acrobat click on edit then on copy file to clipboard then paste into Babelfish, I know it's too long but it worked for me. If that doesn't work paste into a word cruncher prog and then divide it up into bite sized chunks. The change in legislation is coming about because of the new national number plates which will make the present geographic restriction unpoliceable. So the gouvernment are making out they are doing a deal by scrapping this but raising the qualifying age and imposing the CT. You can usually get a sympathetic tester for old cars. The local classic club will know them.

Bronco ceased production when they lost the BR contract. Think you can still get Izal. You can get premoistened bog paper in America. There was once an invention publicised in Viz magazine called the Clag-gone. This was rather like an upside down bicycle with a stiff brush instead of a rear tyre.

If you don't have one already buy in France, much more of a trailer culture here. If it's a plated one (BTW it's over 750kg gross weight for this) you can put your UK car reg number on it when towing with that car.

When I said a British kebab shop all I meant was one that did pizzas as well. This is something I've not noticed in France and there's nothing particularly Brittish about pizza anyway. Motorhead.........still on diet!

What happens if you don't know the current value of your UK property. Do the French send someone round to value it?

"Not sure I have ever heard capricorn "at work", termites can be detected though by sound munching away though your beams." Can be at least with a stethoscope "Susan H you are kidding yourself if you think your wood is too hard for infestation, they love hardwoods" Yes but only the outer sapwood "Surely the whole point of a treatment Dave is not just curative but also preventative, wood treatment with xylophene is just not for capricorne des maisons , it is for all insectes xylophages, like lyctus, anobium and hymenopteres (wood wasps) also champignons, no not mushrooms, fungus" None of these beasties can live below the 11/12% moisture barrier except for termites which is why they are so voracious and why you need a survey for them where it's warm enough for them to live that's why I said  that it is a very good rescource on non termitic wood boring insects. His biology is spot on.   "I am with you Ron. The liquid treatments do go deep into the wood without the need for extensive drilling - especially if the coats are correctly applied one after the other before each dries." Yes but the poster could hear them so they were not that deep "I simply cannot see how the bombs (which are basically just distributing a solid powder as I understand it) are supposed to penetrate deep into the wood. And if they do, how do you stop them penetrating deep into your storage cupboards and contaminating the tins and packets containing your food stuffs, your cutlery and china - in fact every surface that you will come into contact with when you return." Proper fumigation can get everywhere but when I said depopulate I really meant depopulate - everythinng out. I know I've fumigated grain stores and there you take out everything but the rats.

Am I to assume that the chamfering can't be done with a suitably bladed and angled circular saw.

Blimey! No wonder the guy only wants emails. And I've been to Samaye Ling and Findhorn.  

Theory of imminent thread deletion  now disproven. Ab I thought that you thought that my post on Joh's post was on your post so I went all defensive and then you must've unintentionally brought up an old biology v physics argument joke. Shame there's no symbol thingy for let's shake hands.

Maybe also a Pam Ayres book.

'77 Stag currently easy peasy check out www.ffve.org but the age limit goes up to 30 next year and a 5 yearly CT will be required but the movement restrictions will be scrapped. Classic clubs just about everywhere.

Will Thank's for the confirmation? That's exactly when I thought the continuing to use would kick in but the point is they don't clarify it in the leaflet. DVLA are paranoid about folk avoiding the duty by driving foreign reg'd vehicles and use their usual kidology scare tactics to cut it down the numbers. Nick That was Liz wot mentioned the signature. Les You are spot on. Nobody else want's to drive my old Lada so I go for the cheaper option. My sister hates driving and tries to get everyone to drive her about so she's got the dearer option.

May I make a suggestion for an out of hours eating, low capital, easy startup business that is usually run by immigrants ---- a kebaberie. A someone who could probably write "The Good Kebab Guide" I reckon it's a goer especially if you could combine the kebabs with pizzas which I have not yet noticed in France. Maybe you could have as a USP "British kebab shop --- pizzas as well" even though British kebab shop pizzas aren't all that good (they buy in the bases rather than make them fresh themselves) but this probably won't be known by the clientele. My favourite kebab shop is in my local town (not a reason I bought my house but one of those things that tell you've made the right decision) is open from 11 am to 1 am but is sometimes let own by the boulangerie on a Sunday, sells arabic deserts, salades, merguez and couscous as well and is very successful even though he sells no alcohol. It only has about 10 covers with none outside but does a lot of takeaways. Prices I can remember are: sandwich kebab à emporter avec frites 2.80 ( 2 merguez), sandwich kebab (often called a sandwich doner) à emporter 3.5O sans frites/4.OO avec and 6.50 for a an assiete kebab (sur place avec frites only). It is a hangout for the local Tunisians but also has a large French clientele. the French are mainly pensioners who have little money and come at lunchtime and students who have little money study late in in the library then hit the bar for a drink and philosophical discussion then realise they are hungry. The USP of the place are big portions, 4 euros is the starting for a kebab/frites à emporter in the town and all theirs are plus grande which go for up to 6.50 but remember it's a high markup low cost business so larger portions won't cost that much (as found out by McDonalds). Another clever marketing ploy they have is a takeaway window ( it's on the street that' the main bus terminus and people like to stand outside to see their buses coming in) The town has a population of 50,000 and five shops one of which has recently moved to larger, more central premises so I suppose 1:10,000 demographic is at least viable for a town centre location. There was another one but they kept normal resto hours and the kebabs were small and the chips were vile. I know of 3 such establishments that are French run. One goes around the local markets and faires and makes a USP of the kebabs being 70% turkey and 30% veal and it was very busy even though the chips were mediocre. Another is in an Arab estate in Grasse and was staffed mainly by arabs. The third and perhaps the most interesting is in Millau. Not at all studenty but it is quite a touristy town and to to get the non pensioner or student french French in it has to be in a tourist area in my experience. It is run by a French woman her Spanish mother only helped by their daughter/grandaughter in school holidays. The place is really poky, the cooking area is bigger than the covered eating area but she was constantly adding more outside tables for arriving punters, OK this is seasonal but I've seen awnings that can make outdoors indoors in Monaco and Chantilly. With an appreciation of the foregoing and ability to speak basic French, make a decent pizza base and some gastronomic kebab research in a variety of places. For someone who can work long hard hours I think it's a definite goer. Low startup costs, minimal cooking skills required (you don't even have to build up a doner skewer, most places buy them in) and France is less encumbered by food hygeine laws than Britain. But location is location is location. I think you'd have to get 4 out of 5 of the following: lots of students, lots of pensioners, lots of north africans/turks, touristy area (the longer the season the better, close to a transport hub and lots of Brits may help too. On these criteria I would first choose Nice then Paris. Lower cost options would be Grasse or CF Motorhead, on a diet and dreaming of kebabs.

OK I didn't get the physics joke as well as the OP's. Maybe it's because my research of this thread is leading me to the theory that Ab's life is in danger of becoming a joke. No more posts from me here due to theory of imminent thread deletion. BTW I'm formulating a theory that Ab has taken exception to a comment made to the OP by me. Has Ab read the whole of this thread or has he just got special troll opportunity finding software?

Something else that may be of interest. The DVLA literature states that "it is an offence for a British subject to continue to use a foreign registered vehicle on British roads" however, they don't actually say when the continuing kicks in. Sounds like the usual DVLA kidology to me.

There are bombs and there are bombs. For the ones that work it is highly sensible to depopulate the building for at least a month. Even after a few months there will still be some toxicity but I don't think it would be a problem unless you were very very thin. ps Dave, as usual, talks great sense. pps Dave, I've PM'd you.

"SORRY YOU DID NOT APPRECIATE THAT E=MC2" Good to see your jokes are improving BTW  you do not refer to research but to a theory which is an object of research but not part of it, however I may have 'got it but got it wrong'.   bouffy the forum slayer (not).  

"All OF THESE VEHICLES ARE VAT PAID" Nope their new ones aren't   "and are Registered in either Spain, France or UK. Only one of their cars is registered in France.       "Vehicles can be re-registered in any country of your choice." Yes but it doesn't say if registration costs are paid by buyer, there may even be a facilitating fee involved. This site is a paragon of termolgical ambiguity, which is generally for a reason.   "Is there import duty between countries in the European community? " I've heard so but that it depends on the vehilcle's age.

Susan is quite correct 90% of all people who get it done don't need it. This has been known to  biologists for years. However it's not talked about much because decreasing the market by 90% would make it unaffordable to many who do need it and would stop research to make the treatments safer (to humans). Safety is of most importance with fumigation being the most harmfull and the toxicity gets less with painted on non -water based treatments then injected and then painted on water soluble (and water- soluble can't be used for injection). Ill health through peticides gets more common the thinner people get as the toxins get stored in  fat, away from the nerves. Frass (the powder that they egest, it's not sawdust) is no evidence of a recent infection at all. Many other insects make their homes in old holes and push out the frass because they don't like it either and the insects that cause it don't push it all out (they're like moles in this case) This means  that the frass that's put out by harmless insect is actually more easily found because there's more of it. http://www.ask-jeff.co.uk/building-woodworm.htm  which is a very good rescource on non termitic wood boring insects. His biology is spot on.  

Don't you have to have it registered in your name at a foreign (not French) address for at least six months to avoid import duties (not to be confused with TVA) 0K there is a loophole to this but you need to get a car with at least 7 months remaining t&t and (if already resident in France) you'll also have to arrange temporary insurance cover or trailer or lorry it to the ferry company car park and you can't do it often or you'll be consdered a trader Dunno about the rates though, never had to find out, probably less than the price differential.  

Just a thought. do you you have sports injury insurance through your German club. 

Shame. Mind altering subsances would be a serious help in understanding and appreciating your humour, I thnk.

I'm getting into the habit of sticking my leg out whenever a car pulls over to let me pass.

All the more reason to get a bike. Anyway motards kill injure or damage far far less third parties