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Last minute panic - sorry...Must return to UK tomorrow for urgent family reasons. Will mean leaving pool unattended for 1 week - and high temps forecast for weekend onwards.Pool is 12ft x 24ft x 5ft....has the fantastic Zeolite; pH is balanced, chlorine is 'ideal' according to tester at 3.4 Br and 1.5 Cl. Anyway the red is the right shade, and the yellow is the right shade using the simple 'drop' tester !Pool was only filled 10 days ago so water's fresh. Has bubble cover on top, and has been used in the past week.Is it OK to leave bubble cover on surface - and NOT put winter cover on ?Do I need to 'top up' the chlorine level bearing in mind Meteo are predicting return to hot temps (Dept 47) start of next week - or should I be able to get away with leaving pool as is for one week, with no pump/filter running ?Sorry - I'm just a bit 'bovvered' about lots of things - and this is the last item on my list !!Any help much appreciated - thanks - (and ASAP - would be even better !!!)Chessie
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Thanks for all replies.Still feel 'in the dark'. Fees seem to vary; some can visit doctor - wish that was an option for us but one we weren't offered ! - can we suggest that ?Moonraker - the link you gave - l-idel.fr - does not work. But you refer to 'Prices for each act and kms to get to the patient' - which would seem to imply that there are going to be additional charges because of the greater distance this nurse has to travel, rather than nurse from our local town.So maybe there is additional costs incurred- 'travelling expenses, wear and tear on car, cost of petrol/diesel'.And Norman - how can I 'assume that all this is paid for' - this is France, and the French Health Service, and I don't think anything at all is paid for - until we've paid Euros up front, and then claim.So there are going to be costs; I just wanted guidance as to a rough average cost per visit - which seems to vary. and whether there could be extra costs for the distance travelled. And Moonraker's comment DOES seem to imply that there might be.I'm not really any further forward.Thank you all for taking the time to help - but OH is very worried about incurring unnecessary additional costs over and above everything we now have on our plate.Thanks - Chessie
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We're now in this situation of home visits by a nurse. We've had first visit - not been asked for carte vitale - should we have been ? This is part of follow-up after hospital discharge.Can anyone be kind enough to confirm that the cost of the visit, the injection and blood-tests - are at a 'tariff/reasonable' rate - and do NOT depend on the distance the nurse has to travel ? Just curious as this nurse doesn't live within what I would call a fairly local driving distance - but a nurse living closer wasn't available when needed.OH is panicking now - worried about being charged 'taxi' rate for distance driven to make the home visit !! As if OH hasn't got enough to worry about !!!!Sigh .....guidance - words of wisdom - much appreciated.Chessie
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Not joining the argument - but Yesterday went to chemist to buy cleansing/wetting solution for contact lenses. Price out here - 15.95 Euros. In UK - identical item, identical size - £5. 25 - thats a HUGE difference.So that's yet another item family in UK will be posting out to me - it still works out cheaper !!!France IS horribly expensive for most things - and the quality of most items - food or electrical or furniture - isn't as good as in the UK. I'm seriously thinking of putting in a big 'shipping' order for 2 or 3 times a year. Chessie
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There is another option...Have you thought of putting a full-sized tumbler drier on TOP of your washing machine ? It does work very well, and there's also a shelf-type gadget which sits between the two. This is placed on top of the washing machine, the tumble drier is then located on top of the 'shelf' - which is the same size as the washing machine, and seems to hold everything together nice and stable.Works in our utility room and has freed up space for a second upright freezer.You might also find that buying a normal full-sized tumble drier is cheaper in the UK, than buying a smaller version in France and having it shipped to UK - and you'd have the warranty as well !!Chessie
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How much better things are in the UK !! - or maybe just slight signs of some common sense.Was watching a BBC news report yesterday lunch-time; reporters interviewing some of the new MPs on their 'first day' in Westminster.Two new MPs interviewed - one male, white, young (wet behind the ears but never mind); second person interviewed - and introduced as - a MUSLIM woman MP - and she was NOT WEARING A HEADSCARF OR A BURKA - Nothing on her head.So where's all this 'part of their religion' nonsense I wonder. Here's a good example of a young Muslim woman becoming a part of our British democracy - and dressed exactly like every other normal British woman; in fact I think her skirt was knee-length, not even long.If this Muslim woman can do this - why the b----y hell can't all the others - and stop expecting everyone to make 'allowances' for something that is no more than a medieval outfit, suitable only for wearing in the sands of the desert - for which it was designed - and not the paved streets of any Western Christian modern country.And as any sociologist/psychologist/behaviouralist will explain - there is something very off putting in trying to make normal conversation, and read facial expressions - when the person you are inter-acting with has their face covered, and you are unable to 'pick up' the normal subliminal facial movements. It IS a means of cutting oneself off from normal human inter-action - and says a great deal about the attitude of the people who choose to dress like this.As I've pointed out above - if a new UK Member of Parliament - a Muslim Woman - does not feel the need for a headscarf or a burka - then we should take the line that it is unsuitable for a modern country with a modern outlook which respects the rights of women...and where the Burka is an offensive reminder of the subjugation of women and the medieval attitudes of the men who wish to enforce the Burka.Make it clear that wearing of this medieval form of clothing is not acceptable in a modern 21st century culture; and if they wish to practice their medieval way of life then perhaps they should return to the land of their ancestors. Chessie
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Oh JimmyMac - come on....You certainly WILL care if there's no agreement tonight; the markets are ready to go into melt-down and the ££ is going to fall off a cliff. Still don't care ?? The 'hated, corrupt, evil money men and market makers' (!!) - hate uncertainty; they would be very unhappy with a Lab/Uncle Tom Cobley Scottish/Welsh anyone but the English coalition....because they don't believe any such coalition would take the necessary and needed drastic financial steps that lie ahead.On top of which it looks as though poor, bankrupt UK is going to have to 'donate' even more of our money to the EU version of the IMF; on top of the money we're already going to 'donate' to the IMF as well !!!So if it's just your money you're concerned about - you really should be worried if this Trial Run Heath Robinson version of Proportional Representation doesn't work....best of luck.Chessie
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Don't know where to 'post' this - apologies if it's wrong but couldn't decide....I'm sure someone has asked about getting a credit rating - when you don't have one or - especially - when you come back/return to the UK from being abroad.Radio 4 - Saturday - Money Box at 12 noon (UK time) will be covering this subject.For those who may have to return to UK/or those whose long-term plan was always to return 'home' this might be of interest!Mods - if this is 'wrong' top section then I'll leave the 'move' to your better judgement !!Chessie
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That's total total b----y rubbish.There are NOT as many people 'leaving the UK' as entering it. There is a smaller number that leave; those that do leave the UK tend to be sef-sufficient, or have their UK pensions state and/or private as well as hard-earned savings.Those who ENTER the UK bring with them demands on our NHS, our schools, our hospitals, our transport services, our local councils - the whole lot - to which they HAVE NOT CONTRIBUTED.And on top of which it is not JUST the 'initial' numbers' - it those that are 'in the chain' - the wife, husband, children, step-children, aunts, uncles, mothers, fathers, grand-fathers, grand-mothers, the whole d---n sheebang lot of them.The ONLY reason that Immigration is now being 'discussed' (and I use that word with tongue in cheek because it really is NOT being discussed properly) - is simply because the black/brown second generation immigrant families are themselves being adversely affected by the sheer numbers of immigrants.It is only the Blacks/Browns who are NOT racists (according the loopy left-wing Gaurdian social worker lot); the racists are ONLY the non-blacks/browns. But the minute the blacks/browns start talking about the adverse effects of large numbers of immigrants (and it doesn't matter WHO they are, WHERE they are from, or the COLOUR or their skin - its the sheer b---y NUMBERS, NUMBERS, NUMBERS - that is what the non-blacks have been complaining about).But it is OK for the blacks/browns/any colour to complain about the number of immigrants - and suddenly the issue is considered as no longer 'beyond the pale'.But if any NON-BLACK mentioned it - whoooeeee - 'racists, xenophobics, little englander' - ALL the sort of terms that cannot be applied to the non-Whites.THAT is the only reason it is now possible to talk about immigration numbers. The un-whites are saying, now, what the whites have been saying for the last 10 years - and suddenly it is acceptable.Reverse, hypocritical discrimination in this somewhere isn't there ?Roll on Winston Churchill, and all the other patriotic British Bulldogs...Chessie
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Stop it children - right now....this has gone far enough.If you wish to take 'swipes' at one another go and do it 'off board' - in the meantime what might have been an interesting thread has become high-jacked.As to personal name calling - people in politics or the public eye all seem to have nicknames - whether derogatory or amusing - goes with the territory and I would have thought is perfectly alright to be used on this board.But it's not quite so acceptable when it comes to being personally rude to one another on this board. Be rude about someone's comments - but NOT personal abuse about the posters themselves. It's extremely irritating to see threads descend into this stupid 'nah nah de nah nah' that we get from 3 year old silly children.Grow up please. You've spoilt what might have been a entertaining exchange of views.Chessie
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OK Dog - if you read about Blair and Brown and the Masons in the Independent - let's have a link please.After all - you could have imagined this. For anyone to be believed on this site and to be credible - you MUST provide links....at least that's what I've been told !!! So - link please - otherwise we won't believe you (although I could definitely believe Gluey's theory that they are evil alien life forms).Chessie
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Stop it please Quillan - we've had these stupid comments about UKIP before now....and they are still stupid comments.Farrage and his UKIP team are indeed taking all the expenses on offer from the EU. They are then drawing attention to - and also gaining publicity for their party - the extremely generous non-receipted expenses they can claim for.But then they go on to use the money from the EU to fund their own party.Why not ask the Lord and Lady Kinnock or the Lord Mandelslime about their EU expenses ? So yes the UKIP claims the expenses - and then tells the UK tax-payer about it. Rather honest and open of them I'd have thought !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Chessie
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I've just finished watching the third - and last - episode of this series.Anyone else see these? I missed the first one unfortunately, just hope it's a series the BBC will repeat.Looking at those remarkable and lovely steam engines, listening to the sounds of them, watching all the people, the wildlife and the stunning scenery - I Want To Ride on those Little Steam Engines !!Anyone else feel the same after watching the programmes ?This is what TV is all about; lovely documentaries about people and places of interest. Forget the X-Factor, the soaps, the celebrities doing 'whatever' - on or off the ice....But oh - I'd love to visit India, have a trip into the hills and ride those steam railways.....sigh......Chessie
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Panda - those were NOT my words. They were a definite quote from the Great She-Godess Poly Toynbee. If it is that phrase which you regard as racist - well then I'm sorry - but I have to tell you that they were from the mouth - and pen - of the Great She-Godess herself !! Not Me - not guilty...so that makes PT a racist then ?Chessie
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Panda - be careful - your comment is too personal - you are making assumptions and you are totally wrong.You know NOTHING about me, my age, my origins, my religion or anything else.I am not 'filled with venom' or 'racist' as you describe.I have friends, and grew up with - people of different nationalities.What I am furious about is the huge numbers of immigrants who HAVE upset the balances and plans of local authorities, housing associations, hospitals, education, transport - the whole system of the UK is taking a terrible strain because of the NUMBERS involved. NUMBERS Panda - not Race.There is a huge problem with the welfare system in the UK - and it definitely needs sorting to get the feckless idle white working class council living thickos out of their beds (or their girl-friends beds), off their backsides and they should be given jobs in the community which would require the useless lumps of lard to get up, get to work and have a set daily discipline,.And an end to the 'single mothers' career choices - that's a disastrous situation for young girls, and young children, and needs drastic change.There - that's me talking about the white, working class thickos....I doubt whether you'd say that was racist would you.You may not spend much time in the UK - but there are definitely 'scoungers' who HAVE come the UK for the easier life-style, and work on the black. And who are criminals in their own country - and continue their criminal way of life in the UK.As for some of the comments about being 'immigrants in France' - yes, I accept that point. BUT - I'm not here taking from the French working people; I'm paying my way, and taxes, here.As for the NHS - let's not forget that those of us who have contributed over the years in the UK, that once we 'join' the French system - are subsidised by the UK's International Health Service to the sum of £4000 per person per year. Can you confirm that for all the immigrants who come to the UK and use our International Health Service that all the immigrants' countries are paying similar yearly payments to our UK Government every year ? In which case would someone please tell me how much the French Government reimburses the UK Government for every French person living and working in the UK and who is on a GPs list, and receives medical/hospital treatment in the UK ?And WHY should the UK become 'multi-cultural' and 'celebrate diversity' and welcome Globalisation. The Greens don't like 'globalisation' - and they're in favour of all the lovely ecologically sound things like wind-farms aren't they ? So if the Greenies don't like 'globalisation' then maybe it is not such a good idea after all ? What's so marvellous about 'multi-cultural' and 'diversity'....but if it is good then maybe the sneerers on this Forum who mock the English papers, the English shops, the English people - should learn to celebrate the 'multi-cultural' and 'diversity' that we English/British/UKers bring to France !!! Or is that asking for too much tolerance towards your fellow countryman ?I'm off for a walk in the sunshine....Chessie
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Framboise - sorry about your friend's nieces - but let's not get bogged down by 'personal' experiences.After all I doubt whether your friend's nieces threw away their passports and couldn't speak English !!This situation of immigrants coming to the UK for a better life - yeah - great if they were contributing. But to think you can steal and kill swans, take over someone's home, set up and live in shacks in a public park - what sort of people do that ? Only those who have turned up to take what they can from the UK - without contributing. And do not assume that these immigrants have your standards of culture, intelligence, sense of fair-play and tolerance and understanding. They are out for what they can get; they have no intention of respecting our ways of life, history, tradition or culture. They want what they can get...Contrast that with the situation of Jill Taylor - see www.thefrenchpaper.com of March 2010 - where a UK woman living in France is now in the situation of having no income and faces having her children taken from her.If she were in the UK just how much money would be thrown at her ?She's in France - there's nothing much coming her way from France.Bearing in mind how far the immigrants in the UK have travelled I wonder why they don't stop in Italy, Germany, France or Holland. It is always the poor old Brits at the end of the line. We set up a decent welfare system for our own people - which is now being totally abused by immigrant scoungers; and our ways of life are changing because of the sheer numbers of immigrants who are coming in.Phil Woolas, the Immigration Idiot, has admitted that even the education of his children has been affected by the sudden large influx of non-english speaking children to their schools.Even Polly Toynbee, the Great She Goddess of the Loopy Loony Lefty brigade has admitted that the overwhelming numbers of immigrants (and here she's only talking about the 'known' and 'official' numbers - NOT those who've slipped under the wire) - the Great She-Goddess has admitted that the massive sudden increase in numbers has worked to the disadvantage of the ordinary white working class workers for jobs, housing, education and health care.The Great She-Goddess has spoken - bow down and worship - would you like to disagree with the words of your Goddess ?You all make the mistake of thinking these Roma Gypsies, and others, are as good natured, tolerant, generous, understanding, and full of human kindness as yourselves; that they wish to contribute and enrich our 'diverse and multi-cultural' society. They DONT - they are after what they can beg, borrow or steal.Grow up; stop defending the load of CND commie supporting MPs in Government, who deliberately set on the route to 'change' the UK - it WAS a deliberate plan. No group of innocents or incompetents could have down the damage that this lot have done. And if anyone should be carried away by the men in white coats it isn't me - I'm just one of many who is standing up and saying that the way the ordinary white working person has been treated is wrong. Why do you wish to see your home country destroyed, and its way of life altered ? You all shout 'bravo' when the French wine growers protest; when the French farmers burnt - alive - sheep and lambs being imported from the UK; you think it's wonderful when the French get up off their back-sides and protest against anything they don't like. Marvellous, great - they're defending their country and tradition and way of life. And yet when the Brits even just start talking about their legitimate and reasonable concerns - then it's a case of 'Oh dear little englander again' - condescending, hypocrital and peculiar outlook isn't it ?Chessie
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Gluestick's comments were a pretty accurate summary of what's happening in the UK.The comments about 'renters' ceasing to pay rent and not being evicted for a time here in France has absolutely NOTHING to do with what happened to the man who left his own home to go to work, and returned home to find people had moved in !!This is not even squatters moving into a property that had been left empty for some time - it was only hours.Would you feel quite so blase about this if you went out to collect your bread or to visit the market and when you returned home found some strangers making themselves at home in your property. Don't think so somehow. The smugness on this board from time to time is just unbelievable.And the 'closed minds' and the refusal to accept the destruction of the UK is just so sad, so blinkered.There ARE illegal immigrants and migrant workers in the UK who are killing the swans; they are also living in shacks; they HAVE caught and killed the fish stocks.WHY are there some people who absolutely REFUSE to believe what is under their noses; refuse to belive that we have a bunch of Commie Traitors in charge who have deliberately set out to destroy the UK, the social cohesion, the history, traditions and culture of our country.The white indigenous population of the UK is in the same situation as the Native Americans, the Aborigines, the Blacks in South Africa. I am sure that all your sympathies would be with the indigenous populations of those country - after all Apartheid was so terrible wasn't it.And yet you find it impossible to say a good word about the indigenous Brits; there is a real stink of hypocrisy in some people's attitude.Chessie
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How DARE you say I have 'bought into the propoganda'.Dog - I really find your comments offensive; if you want to talk about the rights and wrongs of war, of young men in battle, of the history of the French in Haiti and South America, the Spanish Conquest of South America, the Germans and WW1 or WW2, the Japanese, the Turkish Empire, the Genocide of the Armenians, the invasion of Cyrprus, France's colonial imperial past in Africa or any other war-mongering then I would be happy to deabte with you. And make my feelings plain.But I find your assumption that you know my feelings about the present conflict to be beyond the pale - and extremely patronising - you don't have a clue what my views are. How b----y arrogant of you.This is a post about motor-bikes - and a parade in support of the people of Wotton Bassett.I don't think this thread should be hi-jacked so someone can start promoting their own - distorted - views on war or the present conflict or their feelings about war.You want to do that - start a separate thread.Chessie
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Dog - that's enough - please.You might not 'see the reason'....but the people of Wotton Bassett, the families of the military and nyone who has a member of their family serving in the Armed Forces b----y well do appreciate it.Please keep your comments to yourself - it's an extremely sensitive subject for some of us.You might not approve of this 'war'; I don't want to go into the rights and wrongs or anything about this - but we are talking about people and peoples families. All these bikers - and others - are doing is showing their support for the FAMILIES concerned - it is NOT a political protest - it is for the FAMILIES - and if you don't get it - then please don't be so scornful of support that is being shown by ordinary people for families in time of deep mourning and distress.You should be ashamed of yourself.Chessie
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Don't worry - the programme was a repeat - saw this quite some time ago.What struck me, though, was the way the man kept making references to the value of a property after work had been carried out. Mentioned several times, with several properties.I think what he was planning to do was to buy a property that had 'potential' !!!!! - and then redo - or a bit of a makeover - and then 'make a profit'.I wasn't too impressed with this couple; I had the feeling they weren't really serious, they also had oodles and oodles of money - and he seemed to be looking at properties with a view to somehow 'making money' from it.So no - it wasn't the most realistic of programmes - but then I never take these type of programmes seriously. I just enjoy looking around people's houses, seeing different parts of Europe - and making a bet on the famous phrase 'made an offer which wasn't accepted' !!!!I always regard these couples as just having a 'freebie' week's holiday somewhere; and the programme makers are nothing more than glorified estate agents.Don't take seriously - just enjoy watching some of the different attitudes to house-buying - and smile, smile, smile - we're not stupid enough to be taken in by it - and to be honest I don't think most people who are serious about leaving the UK would be taken in by such a superficial programme anyway. It's just a bit of fun - and a freebie holiday for the house-hunters and the presenters !!!!!!!!!!!!!Chessie
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Oh for heavens sake Norman - yes we've commiserated about Haiti and Chile - what more do you want us to do or say ? We've sympathised with those on this forum who have direct connection with Haiti or Chile but as it is very unlikely any of us have family, friends or property over there it's a bit difficult to say very much more than what has already been said.Or do you want a detailed list of how much - financially - I've donated to the various Aid and Emergency Charities involved in both places ?Do you want everyone on this Forum to start listing all their financial help to the Emergency Funds ?Get over it Chum; people on this Forum will have helped financially - but will NOT be patting themselves on the back - or expecting others to think how wonderful they are - by announcing how much financial donation they have made.France is where a lot of us on this Forum live; France is where our relatives in the UK have someone living; France is where our friends in the UK have someone living.....those of us who live in France have friends who live in other Departments in France.Yes of course what we experienced is put into the shade by Haiti and Chile ; but you are implying that we shouldn't even talk about our little 'windy' adventure and should be going round weeping, wailing and gnashing our teeth over something that has happened thousands of miles away. What constructive help would that be ?What we are doing here Norman - is being FRIENDLY, HELPFUL, SUPPORTIVE AND NEIGHBOURLY.If you want to know how much I've donated to the Aid Appeals for Haiti and Chile - then you can PM ME !!!!!!!!!!!!!Chessie
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This report was mentioned in the Indepndent, the Guardian, the Daily Mail (whoopeee) - and Financial Times, the Times, and the Telegraph.The report received different levels of coverage - blink and you'd miss it in one case.But the report was out there - in ALL the papers.So being dismissive as 'it's the Telegraph/Mail' - so I won't read, or it's so biased it's not true - is not very clever - and is just the attitude the politicians have counted on over the years.I was scorned as being 'racist' when I discussed the numbers of immigrants and the problems that were being caused.It took Gordon Brown 5 years to agree with me that 'talking about immigration numbers is NOT racist'....So it really doesn't matter whether you won't believe the report because it's mentioned in the Telegraph/Times/Mail -or you would believe the Report if it's mentioned in the Indy or the Gridiron....The Report is true; the facts are true; the UK was deliberately 'opened up' to a massive influx of immigrants - on an unprecedented scale - and it was admitted that it was a deliberate attempt to change the character and culture of our society. We also have several large councils today reporting that the massive and sudden increase in numbers has caused huge stress and strains on schools, housing, and hospitals......So burying your head in the sand and saying that you don't believe the Report simply because you don't like the papers which are reporting is - is just really rather childish - you can't continue to stick your head in the sand and pretend the problems do not exist. And the problems were caused deliberately and with evil intent. No government out of sheer stupidity could have done the damage and destruction caused by this load of Commie Traitors.I don't want to start arguments - but just dismissing a Report simply because of the newspapers in which the Report has appeared does not seem to be very open-minded.....Chessie
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Judith - you are right.I've checked my driving licence - the paper version that comes with the plastic card - and there is no mention on the paper licence - or on the plastic card - of the need to wear glasses when driving.Bearing in mind that eyesight changes over the years, that when the licence was first issued maybe no glasses were worn, and - mainly - the only times a licence would need changing would be on marriage (change of name), endorsements, or change of address, it is quite likely most of us have not needed to have changed/replaced/amended our licences for 25 years !!!So in 25 years things change - now glasses are needed - but there is NO reference on UK licence, NOR is there a section indicated on UK licence about wearing glasses.What happens, therefore, when you want to change your UK licence to a French one; there is no mention on the UK licence about needing glasses - and yet the French licence refers to wearing glasses ?What's the answer all you lovely knowledgeable bods on here - do we put a 'cross' in the box indicated - even though there is no mention of glasses on UK licence ? Or do we just 'ignore' !!!!!!!!!Chessie
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Framboise - that's lovely....I've been hoping that we'd have lots more dramatic/snowy/wintry photos in the last month or so - and there haven't been many.So well done you - and for being clever in working out 'how to do' !!!
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