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Is that evidence of having wood boring insects or of having had them? Ask yourself  is the wood damp enough to support the life of the blighters

The work must be both finished and paid for before any claim can be made.That's why they often leave a bit unfinished or fail to collect the last small bill. I expect this is to avoid future premium loadings or is there an NCB involved?

If the car was only bought a couple of months ago it will have a new V5c which has 3 tearoff slips at the back one for notification of export, the new keeper supplement and one for transfer to a motor trader who can be a scrappy or an insurance company in the case of a write off. Private, unlicensed individuals are no longer allowed to scrap and dismantle vehicles you have to go to a licenced scrappy now and you have to fill a box in on the tearoff with the scrappys details including VAT number and a French scrappy will only have a TVA number so best to have it as exported   

I never actually mentioned lice it was mites which are quite different beasties and your bird being on his own would rule out lice. It would also rule out  feather pecking as a bird can't do it to their own head. The bits sticking out must be pin feathers. These are the new feathers that come out after a moult and are encased in a membrane a bit like a rolled up umbrella with a sleeve over it. Ayway to make sure I consulted with a couple of very nice gurus on a parrot forum and they said: Yes it does sound like what she is describing as quill stubs are in fact the new pin feathers coming through. Pin feathers on the head of solitary birds tend to stay a little longer than those of birds with a companion as they cannot preen themselves there Agree with you, Stormbird, it seems to be a moult. My advice would be lots of warm showers to encourage the pin casings to break away   Dunno where you are in France but I'd think it would be abnormally early for moulting even in the far north. However being indoors all the time can mess up a bird's moulting cycle. Can you take him outside for a few (not too hot) hours a day? 

I never actually mentioned lice it was mites which are quite different beasties and your bird being on his own would rule out lice. It would also rule out  feather pecking as a bird can't do it to their own head. The bits sticking out must be pin feathers. These are the new feathers that come out after a moult and are encased in a membrane a bit like a rolled up umbrella with a sleeve over it. Ayway to make sure I consulted with a couple of very nice gurus on a parrot forum and they said: Yes it does sound like what she is describing as quill stubs are in fact the new pin feathers coming through. Pin feathers on the head of solitary birds tend to stay a little longer than those of birds with a companion as they cannot preen themselves there Agree with you, Stormbird, it seems to be a moult. My advice would be lots of warm showers to encourage the pin casings to break away   Dunno where you are in France but I'd think it would be abnormally early for moulting even in the far north. However being indoors all the time can mess up a bird's moulting cycle. Can you take him outside for a few (not too hot) hours a day? 

And the appropriate part of a V5c to fill in and send back is the export slip. Or, if the nuts are too tight go along to your local second hand tyre place and get the guy to loosen them with his impact wrench. I know the guy in Montluçon and he wouldn't charge more than 10 euros for freeing a couple of wheels. Might be a bit more in a higher rent area though.

I've already told you. I really think your sense of humour would go down a treat with the stoners there.

I'm all for this pioneering spirit stuff as long as it doesn't extend to killing off the natives.

It's too early for a normal moult although where I come from unseasonal moulting is known as French Moult. Anyway it's not that if shafts are still staying in. Can't see it being PBFD if only some of the birds in the shop have it (highly contagious virus) If it's mainly the flight feathers affected I'd look for feather mite. If it's mainly the body feathers odds on the bird is doing it itself. http://petcaretips.net/feather-picking.html is a very good piece on self mutilation and there's a not bad bit about feather mites on the same site too

Or you could rebuild the frame around the headstock from a French registered bike but I'd go for something more apropriate than a 250. You will have trouble finding insurance for a radically modified bike but, evidently, it is possible. Anyway there's far more dodgy things going on, try doing a search for carte grise on ebay.fr

Nope     but then I never insure my bikes for theft     but then none of my bikes are particulary nickable. In the UK Trixies aren't high on the shopping list of the type of folk steal bikes either but it could be different in France, after all they were designed for the French market in particular. I'd have thought it would be quite easy to fabricate a couple of carrying brackets to hold a large U lock onto a side trellis. I too found Yamaha to be uncharacteristically helpful for a Jap bike manufacturer. Perhaps it's because all their European operations (and they even have a factory in Spain) are coordinated centrally from Holland

It's the joke section of a real live illegal and even legal drugs forum. Go on, try it, you know you want to.

Try http://www.drugs-forum.com/forum/forum_topics.asp?FID=43

I heard FK got turned down for the higher purchase.

A very flawed concept in many ways Dick. Years ago there was a fad called fruitarianism in which the concept was to eat only the parts of the plant which were given up voluntarily for animal consumption. As far as I know this had died out but not before they seriously bent the rules to include things like nuts in the diet. I take it that vegans don't eat things like carrots then.

For my hamlet anyway FT has a copy of the plan cadastral annotated with all the owner's names whether they have a phone or not.

I agree with fluffy see my reply the exact same question under legal. They would have less than a 0.1% chance of getting a legal right to be there with close neighbours. If the worst comes to the worst there are ways to get the gendarmes interested if they are not already.

Buy some Levellers and NMA albums to get into the groove. Aquire a taste for cheap cider. Lead a skinny dog about on a string. If you're old enough say you were at Woodstock. Above all get ready to party coz these cats really know how to party.   This is actually quite serious. I'd tell the seller I was an old hippy myself and that I was looking forward to the place being livened up. Call his bluff. It all smells like a money extracting ploy to me. Real crustys, if they could buy land, would rather put tipis on it.

Sounds like a cue for Albert to drop in! So, in eager anticipation I'll ask Albert again the question he keeps avoiding. If Troll is a contraction of Trolsky, where does the extra l come from? I never saw the deleted sentences (can anyone pm me with the gist) Oanywey, A've seen ainough tae ken dobber Boab's a fake weedgie bam. Hincks 'e's gallus 'n'aw, aye richt. Boaby d'ya nae ken ra word fir 'e leid is Scots. Awa 'n' bile yir heid ya glaicit numpty.  

Dick's pal Sue sounds very interesting. I wonder if she realises that vegetables live and die too.

Have patience Krill, you'll need it!

Albert are you Fred?

Mr Troll you have stated previously that your name is a contraction of Trolsky . So where does the exrta l come from. I  do not regard you as an honest man Albert. If you were you would have ansewerd my previous questions. 

Britain and America: different place, same language. Britain and France: same place, different language. That's how I percieve most English folk to understand the situation. But really it's harder (immigration and all that) to be an American in France therefore the Americans in France are going to have to be of a higher calibre in order to survive here. To get back to the original subject. In my manifold discussions with DRIRE they constantly referred to my "carte grise anglaise". I  tried to tell them that there were only 2 addresses on the certificate, one was my former address in Scotland and the other was DVLA in Swansea, but to no avail even though there was nothing  English about it. I really think that nowadays most French see the non English parts of Britain as part of Greater England which is a total figment of the French centralized system. Britain has never been centralised to the extetent that France has. The origional French beat all parts of modern France through war, the same could not be said of Britain. The English conquered the Welsh, fair do's 20:1 The English conquered the Irish, briefly. The English could never conquer Scotland instead they bought the sh1thole off in total contravention of the Declaration of Arbroath No wonder I'm not proud But I could see the EU making  difference for the better some day    

P'raps we do. Can you give us the address of this forum. We might just be able to muster a troll baiting posse, we're good at that.