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I'll tell you all, I was shocked. I was in rather a large group last night and someone came out with this at the other end of the table. But my ears pricked up. Everyone was talking at once too and I repeated all my questions several times before anyone answered, if in fact they were answering me. As everyone was still talking at the same time, I couldn't tell. You should know how it is at these things.   I don't think that there was any scaremongering there, as no one else seemed to be surprised. But I think my shock meant that another friend decided to mention the kids being able to claim from parents thing, another example of injustice and madness, in her opinion. I have to say that our various banks have in the past done very odd things with our accounts, transferred money and put them in accounts we hadn't opened without a by your leave from us. So that banks can and do very strange things isn't a surprise, that one could be practically fined for not sorting one's money out though, is. I am going to ask my bank manager about this when I see him next. And if anyone knows anything more, I would be quite interested. Not that I have any money, but I am a curious soul.

I read an article about french women's morphology and it said that french women were andro rather than gynae these days. Simply their waists are thickening and hips narrower and are more boy like than woman like. I'm definitely gynae. I was shocked years ago when my french neighbour, lost lots and lots of weight, she had next to no bottom at the end of the diet, just like a lot of the women in this area, their bottoms are sort of flat rather than gently rounded. I'm getting in deep water here as I don't know how to explain all this.

Glucosamine? Chondroitine? VitaminD? Have you tried rattling instead of being stiff.

Not everyone uses the CPAM, there are other caisse de maladies for workers, artisans etc. If you are going to be working, perhaps for yourself then don't assume that you have to go to the CPAM, you would need to ask at the Chambre d'Artisans/Metier/Commerce etc etc. Mr Disenfranchised? surely not. We don't lose some rights to vote if we leave the UK to live in France, we can vote in general elections for up to 15 years and we can vote in local and european elections in France.

£3000 was taken, as 3 million was mentioned. The lady in question had been meaning to buy her daughter a few things and then this amount 'went'.

What can I say Traci, what sort of an example is this to tell everyone, come to France and sap the french system.

Did you know that even when children  are major that they can take and do take their parents to court in France for a pension alimentaire and they get it. A friend of mine thinks that the world has gone mad.

Not on our old one, you couldn't it just has an ordinary top on it and no where to cook reheat properly. Some new ones are still like ours.

I haven't quite got to grips with what I have been told tonight, but the gist was that if you have too much money in certain types of accounts then if you don't shift the money to another account that is apt to deal with such a sum, then you can have your excess money taken from you, by the government?  And there are charges involved, hefty charges? Too many people talking whilst I was asking lots of questions and that is all I got really. So if any of you get letters telling you that x account has too much money in it and the bank proposes you making a transfer, maybe you should take this seriously and ask a few questions.    

[:D] How odd, didn't know this existed, I think that I would prefer a Happy Pie Day really.

I agree Georgina that anyone living somewhere with a person from that country should have a different perspective on life in that country to foreigners moving there. What always always gets me is how many questions are asked on here by people who have a french spouse and could just get their other half to ring, write or ask around when it pertains to very french things. To say I find it odd sometimes, is an understatement.

Tontine thresholds are quite low too.

Didn't you have your meter read when you sold and compare it to the previous reading. I know that if we have any leaks on our side of the meter then in theory they are down to us. We realised late one year that the joint on our side of the meter had gone and we had a leak and appealed and got an average bill based on the previous five years granted.

Cut, yes, my husband and youngest son do not like french trousers, they say that there is not enough room in the crotch. The last pair my husband bought that fit were an italian designer make, he didn't want the make but had a happy smile on his face when he put them on and found comfort instead of nipping. Bras, all my life I have had trouble getting them to fit. When I was small, only triumph would fit. Now I end up trying on lots over months and always buy those that fit. I even have a couple that don't in my wardrobe at the moment that I wear as I couldn't get any better. Clothes are a different thing for me altogether. Always a typical pear shape, I was always a size smaller on the top than the hips. I buy them when I find them that I like and that fit. Could be France, could be anywhere really. I always try them on. Germany I have found  has the most generous sizing. I went out the other day and I had on, a skirt from Holland, boots, bra and jumper from England, coat from Switzerland and handbag from Italy and knickers from France, not sure where the tights were from. My whole wardrobe is eclectic.

Unless I have misrememberd, then that 0,76 is working it's way down to 0,50 and not up. Also the reduction every year is very small and it takes years to get to the full no claims.  

You would need legal advice about this. If there are heritiers then I don't think that we can leave everything to someone/something else.  Also depending on the charity, then the receiver of this amount may well have 60% inheritance tax to pay on any sum given. So no 'advantages', in fact a charity not carefully chosen could end up with a lot less than one would hope to give them.

I feel the same Patf. But, in the eyes of the world that flag represents us and OK people in other countries who aren't happy with 'us' may burn it, but I would object to any foreigner in the UK burning it.  British citizens flag burning, I'm sure would have a very different agenda from foreigners doing it. Being a guest. Well I never intended staying here for ever so maybe that is why I feel like a guest in France. I see people who do immigrate to France and as was said about some italians in Oz, they actually have no intention of being part of where they live and you can call that immigration, but the locals have to tolerate these people no matter what you call them. I suppose that one is either a guest or one adopts(adapts) where one lives. And a guest can get stuck in and fit in, even if that guest isn't staying[:)]  

That is exactly what we were told too, us being french residents.

Not food is it, chevre chaud?

Top ups are complicated. I would personally recommend that people should take 200-300%, 300% being the best and get good dentist and optical cover. The more cover we take, the more it costs, it is a choice at the end of the day. I prefer the assurance that if we need medical stuff  we have less to pay out.

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I've used florette. It is OK and tastes like cream, so I've nothing against it. I am just used to what I use.

[quote user="Tresco"] Tony, they would have had to change the 1st Amendment. That's part of the Constitution, isn't it??? Don't get me wrong, it wouldn't surpise me if they had done it, it'd just reinforce the suspicion I have that I'm losing touch with certain significant things.[:$] [/quote]   Isn't google wonderful, I googled ' burping of the american flag' and got some strange results.  So I tried 'burning of the american flag' and found that there was something called the Flag Protection Act in the US from the late 1980's.

That is certainly a question that you will have to ask when you are shopping for top up as some do have waiting times and some don't.

That was a disappointment, I found in the supermarket fridge a bag of Creme Entier Epaisse by Elle et Vire, didn't say it was cream crue, but I had great hopes. All that lousy money for more creme fraiche. There was nothing else marked 'crue' either, I checked. .