Hereford
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Yes you can claim tax back. The box that applies is usually printed on your annual cheque emploi summary. If you log monthly amounts online you get the summary online otherwise they post it.I don't have our file to hand but will look it up later and post again.Edit: The amount goes in either box 7DBor 7DF on the blue form. You also fill in the name and address of the person/people you have paid. I can't remember the difference between the boxes but it is clear when you read the print next to the number which you use in your own situation.Hope this helps.Mrs H
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Went to the shop today and apparently there is a rolling "mise-a-jour" going on and channels will be lost until it is our turn to get the screen message for an automatic update, they thought it might be today (just checked and no message) otherwise next Thursday!However if we take the box into the shop today they will do a manual update for us - owner says it is difficult and we cannot do it ourselves.Bizarre,Thanks for thoughts.Mrs HEdit: Took box into shop this afternoon. The rolling update for our box is next Thursday so they have lent us one to use for a week. What an odd way to do updates, In the meantime we now have all the French channels but nothing else, so will watch any news we want in English on the laptop!
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Thanks for reply. Have to be the shop then! Very small village, no close neighbours and no satellite dishes that I can see (apart from on two "Brit" houses where they have Sky). Us oldies could no more check the dish than fly I am afraid, ours is on the chimney and needs roof ladders to get to.At least with your reply we know a bit more about it so very grateful.Mrs H
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We currently have a TNT box and a satellite dish so we get all basic French channels plus a lot of "foreign" channels free.Suddenly on Monday we lost TF1 and some but not all of the other basic French channels (we still get Arté for example). Our TNT card was renewed in February this year and we are up to date with mise-a-jour (no current message).When we try to watch TF1 (yes we know it is rubbish but you learn a lot of French from watching quizzes for example) we just get the "chaine en option" message. TNT website not helpful as suggests that this message likely to mean the channel is no longer on Astra - it is!Anyone else having this problem please? We have done a full "search" for channels but that just looks for the foreign ones.If need be we will go to shop tomorrow and ask but we thought we would ask here first as so many of you are knowledgeable about TV. We do not have any other TV - we don't want UK tv as such, we can watch BBC World news via TNT if we need English.ThanksMrs H
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I have been asked to design and print invitations (in English and French) for an early evening - say 6pm to 8pm - drinks and nibbles party to celebrate a 90th birthday.French invitations we have had and seen use the expression "vin d'honneur" but have all been for morning or early afternoon events. Would it be more correct on the French version of the invitations to say "aperitif" perhaps? Any advice welcome.Thanks in advanceMrs H.
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Plus you transfer the private pension to the main form 2042 - box to do this in is obvious.As an aside: be aware that if either of your parents needs to go to a Maison de Retraite later in life and they cannot pay the full fees then you will be required to submit a form regarding your income and may well have to contribute. We are in the process of doing the paperwork for this. Even "children" who are not in France will be asked to complete a form.Mrs H
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Water rat:Did you look on the Whirlpool website of the country it was bought in? Models seem to be different n every country! If so then I would contact Whirlpool via their site and ask. Our son has a similar sort of washing machine in Canada and it is wonderful, you start it and can just add clothes to the top as it heats up.To digress re computer and grandson - his Dad had to keep his face rigid and try to not to laugh as he knew he would have done the same at that age! Luckily Dad has lots of computers and parts about as he works for a software company. Says he should have taped down the switch. Child is destined to be an engineer - he likes to know how everything works. But a lesson learned even so.
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My daughter sent me the email below this morning: Sorry about spacing, can't see how to change it.. She works for an American owned company in Germany. We think this is a very good idea and will print off the sheet.
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"Yesterday we had a training, and at the beginning they always do a safety minute (very American!).
This time it was interesting, as we were told how - as cars are becoming
safer through design - the fire brigade often has difficulties getting
people out of a car when there has been an accident.
Hence the German ADAC has started a campaign, which is not law but
recommended, that cars should have a rescue sheet behind the sun visor on
the drivers side. These sheets include all information needed - airbags,
strengthened sections, petrol tank, gas tanks (very important if the car
uses gas - they don't want to hit that!), and all sort of other things.
In the information we were given, there are also car stickers, which then
tell the emergency services that such a sheet is in the car.
There is an English internet site about this.
http://www.rescuesheet.info/index.html
I have attached the rescue sheet for the Up! as PDF for you. I have found
no information on the ADAC site about the stickers, but will ring them
later and ask. "
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Mrs H.
PS: We love our (admittedly top of the range) Up! but have seen no others at all in the 6 months we have owned it. Any others out there?
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You should be able to get a manual online via the Whirlpool website. I agree with PZFP though! My grandson (aged 7 or so at the time) pushed the switch on the back of a computer that changed it to and fro between 110 and 220v. Smoke and a bang...
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Thanks Norman. Yes we are all sorted out with the "care" costs being paid. My mother has been in the MdeR since last October (father had two heart attacks in 2 weeks so that was the end of APA at home!) The APA was transferred smoothly to the MdeR - this is the bit that I assume is being charged back to the UK via her S1.We were told last year, when I requested a "simulation" of how MdeR costs would be met if and when we needed, that my father would have to pay in full for a while and then he could ask for aide sociale. That is what we are sorting at the moment. Amazingly (for France) the Social Worker who is our contact at the Department answers emails promptly and has been so helpful with what has been a stressful few months. Once we get this last bit organised we will feel in control again.I asked for help on this forum early last year over claiming APA and I sure it was you, Norman, with others, who gave me the confidence to sort it out.My French has improved enormously with running around the French system, but I don't recommend it as a way of learning.Thanks too to AZ for answering above.Mrs H
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Thanks Norman, you're a star. I am sure you are right having read your paragraph in French. It would certainly been expensive if they had tried to buy this insurance - my mother was 78 when they first lived in France, she is now almost 89 !!Any money contributed as "aide sociale" for board and lodging fees in a MdeR has to be repaid if any property or money is left when person (or husband/wife if later) so less of a drain on the state than it might be as people often/sometimes have a house to leave.What I don't know is whether the care costs of the Home - for which she has had money from the start - is chargeable to the UK like other health costs.Thanks againMrs H
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I have received a letter from our Department (section dealing with help for the aged). I am trying to organise some help with the Maison de Retraite fees for my mother. They have all the information asked for and we are close to an answer, in fact I have been told in an email how much he must pay.However I have today received a letter asking (among other things which I can answer easily) for:"Le montant d'une éventuelle assurance dépendance." Neither our dictionary, nor Larousse has "assurance dépendance" and I am not clear on exactly what it is!! She has no Life Assurance policies if that is what they mean, nor do they have insurance specifically to cover them in a MdeR (or indeed a Nursing Home in the UK). Anyone any ideas please?Many, many thanks,Mrs H(PS I have to say that we have had nothing but kindness and understanding from the staff at the Department Office. One is not able to "keep" as much money as in the UK, and one's children, wherever they are in the world, have to submit income details and may be asked to contribute but the full fees can be covered eventually which is rare in the UK unless in a very inexpensive Home. As an accountant I have been to many Homes in the UK and the one my mother is in here is half the cost and twice as good as most I have been to.)
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I use Firefox and have never had this problem - I thought it checked for all compatible add-ons??
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Reverting the the question of road sense, which must affect the overall insurance premiums, my daughter has just emailed me a photo of our grandson aged 10½ with his bike just setting off for school. He has a small trailer on the back as he takes a trombone to school several times a week (school orchestra). Where is he? In Germany where cycle paths are many and have traffic lights. The children have to pass a cycling proficiency test (done at school when aged 8 to 9) which is very formal and involves the police and only then are they allowed on cycle paths rather than the pavement. He will progress to a Vespa scooter when old enough.What a pity the UK, and France, cannot put the same effort in with cycle paths; good exercise for the children (my grandson does 8 to 10 km a day) and non-polluting.Mrs H
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We have Découverte and pay just 21 euros a month. We did not want the TV as we use TNT par satellite. We had sent back our Livebox sometime before when we still had a TV add-on which we did not use. We use a router that we bought (not expensive). In fact we have two routers - a wifi one in the house for a laptop and a non wifi one in the "office/sewing room" above the garage where our main computer is. The garage is well away from the house so we can't use just one router. So long as one of the routers is unplugged the other can be just plugged in and used. Hope that makes sense. Also a very good way to save paper as the printer is in the garage and we mostly use the laptop in the house! You do not need a Livebox just to use ADSL so ignore Orange if they say you do. We had no problem swapping to Découverte although the lady in the Orange shop was bemused that we would not want the TV. Once we explained that we did not use a Livebox so did not get TV anyway she changed it there and then in the shop. It is, as someone has said, able to be cancelled at any time. However it may be that be would have to wait to get it reconnected, so perhaps apply online a couple of weeks before returning to the house? Using your own router gets over the Livebox problem.Mrs H
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Our gas oven bought when house was just for holidays and it did not seem too bad then - though I have to say I found the fact that the bottle was inside the apparatus, as you describe, and therefore very near the oven more than a little scary. In a holiday home we did not really cook cakes, for example, so the temperature control was less vital. Once we moved over to live it was impossible!! The six weeks refers to a time when we lived here but will clearly depend on how much cooking is done.Sorry for diversion from original question.Mrs H
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If you use the normal small, or now available very small, bottles you just buy them at your local garage or supermarket. You don't get them "hooked up" as it were unless using the tall outside ones.Be aware that the gas seems to burn hotter than UK gas! We found too with a cheap French gas cooker that the oven, whilst having a temperature gauge, was either hot or hot and burned the bottom of everything we cooked. We also found that the most poplar size gas bottle only lasted about 6 weeks and was a pain to change (unless you have two and a switch to change over). For obvious reasons it always runs out when actually cooking.We have given up on gas and now have all electric.Mrs H
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For proof of life both we and my parents have just gone to our (different) Mairies and they have stamped the forms - no nonsense about passports or id as both are small villages where everybody is known!
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My son sent me the following in an email this morning (it gives the full text of original letter in English towards the end of the link):"I don't know if you saw this, but if not I think you'll enjoy reading this American CEO's opinion on the French work-ethic, as explained to someone who appears to be the minister for "Redressement productif" (I didn't know you could have a ministry just for that!):Ignore the terrible French translation and read the original English version below it. As he says, "how stupid do you think we are?"!"Mrs H
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In our local Credit Agricole there are no tellers (biggish town) so you cannot get cash with a cheque. If one does not have a card (with the limits!) then you ask a person standing behind a sort of high desk in the foyer and they give you a one time card to get cash from the machine. No idea what limits would be though as we do have a card.I think you may need to go into your local bank branches and see what goes on.
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I agree 100% with Idun, we bought from Carrefour and also use an extra fitted sheet (Ikea calico) under the normal (equally fitted) one. We once stayed in a gîte with a plastic mattress cover and it was horrible!Mrs H
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If the OH gets a French pension then I don't think he will get a UK S1 himself as France will be paying. Unless you move back to UK therefore France will want the Social charges on his money!!
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Well: had the first appointment today and I am impressed - don't know whether it will help but the attitude was everything I could have wished for. I had not realised that the session would be 45 minutes! A chat about the problem, twenty minutes of electrothérapie - I shall take a book to read next time. I can see why the Kinés treat more than one patient at a time. I was left alone for the twenty minutes (with two quick checks that I was OK) and I cannot see what else the person would have done during that time. Then a quick zap with a machine to help break up he calcification and 10 minutes on a simple piece of gym type equipment.I got the feeling that he thought I should have had this type of treatment years ago...I now have two appointments a week. The kiné said as I left "we have lots of work to do!". I spoke French, he spoke English so we both gained.Thanks again to allMrs H
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Assuming you have one: put the pod things in the dishwasher every week or so - works a treat. We had tried all the ways suggested above to no avail. Mrs H
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