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Judith

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  1. I heard that quoted as the average on a news item .. got the prices now, more than I was paying for top cover, on th much lower package .. still deciding what to do!
  2. Not got the prices yes, but the ones Ihave looked at seem to have increased out of all propotion to the cover. With 2 ALD's now I begin towonder if I need to bother!!
  3. Judith

    cold showers

    I only worked that out as when OH puts on the log fire and gets it up to quite a temperature, it's usually been too hot for me, and when I go somewhere cooler I find my chest feels much better. Think about those who used to got to the sanatoriums in Switzerland etc, to help with consumption etc ..it's also to do with clearer air, but crsiper conditions seem to help too (but not too cold!).
  4. Menthe, one of my French friends has an Aygo, she's found it good and it can get quite nippy .. you could do worse ...
  5. Judith

    cold showers

    On this I am more with Lori, than Menthe .. I didn't used to mind the cold, now I do more ... doesn't help the joints .. though I do agree that lower temperatures do help breathing. I have a lukwarm shower rather than a hot one, .. but a cold one, or even a cold swim - - no way!
  6. Thanks Menthe, I havn't needed to use it for a while, so had not noticed this feature. Well worth knowing about especially for those medical professions which have long waiting lists!
  7. Thank you ABLF. Nor do I want to end up an old people's home in either country. That is, of course, given that I have the chance to grow old (or rather than I currently am). As Menthe would also concur ... a cancer diagnosis does make you think outside the box. Everyone has different needs and wishes at different times of their life .. be grateful that most of the time we have the chance to make the decision ourselves and that it not be made by others.
  8. Unusually, I am somewhat in agreement wiht ALBF. I don't regret moving to France when we retired, but between Brexit, Covid, getting older, missing the family more as they grow, and then a cancer diagnosis, I have become disenchanted, not with France as such, but because I realised that when cancer struck I did not feel French enough to wish to die in France. Many people I knew here have gone back to their various home countries: age, work, grandchildren arriving, death of partner, Brexit - so many reasons given, but these decisions are often because the life situation which brought you to France in the first place has changed, and when that happens your choices often become different from those that brought you to France. Whilst I will happily accept that my healthcare has been superb and could not be bettered, I also know of people in the UK with cancer who have also received sterling care. Do not believe all the stories you here ... it is not all broken. It's not that my French can't cope, I do pretty well for someone not as fluent as I would like to be, but that when I am back in the UK, I can follow all conversation, in the supermarket, or bus queue for example, and join in. I can't do that here in France, and I find I miss it more and more. Finally, if I do have to move, I want to do it before I become to old or too ill to be able to do it. Regrets - no, but I'm getting to the state when a further choice and decision might have to be made ..
  9. Me too, anything that says you have to do something with the whites of eggs after separating them I just ignore!!
  10. Got a new one for my birthday from hubby .. still to use it, needed different heads from the one (only one) it came with ..they arrived today .. and so I don't know what it cost ... but yes, they do seem extortionate now .. which I why I asked for one as a present .. I've also used a water jet for years .. it takes a bit of practice, but does make a difference I find. Don't find the portable ones work at all though - not string enough to make a difference, mine is a Braun.
  11. We know someone who keeps chickens, and yes, her eggs are always so fresh, they do cook completely differently from shop bought ones!
  12. Judith

    rice

    As far as I know, epautre is spelt in English too, and yes, it makes great bread which I think can be eaten by those who must be gluten free. I had not seen it in its' "rice" form, I must admit, only ever in flour.
  13. In all this mess, what a lovely story to read about - and such a clever idea .. leading them with food, as it were .. Brilliant! And Woolly and Loiseau .. do hope you are OK, but being together helps to keep one sane, for sure .... it must let up soon, surely?
  14. NormanH, that's is really so good, though I haven't read the original, your translation speaks so much to me. I have a lovely French friend here who writes beautiful poetry - her mastery of her language is superb. I might put a little on here when I next see some ...
  15. I get some medical reports on it, but usually no more quickly than I have been given at the time .. but it does at least put everything together, electroncially, so saves me making a scan of it myself. I think the last time I looked, even the GP's last prescription. I think, slowly, more medical specialists are using it, so in time it might become more useful, but it does not seem to be retrospective, or totally inclusive yet, so there are limits to it's usefulness, as often what has gone before impacts on what is happening now (at least it does in my case!).
  16. Spent the last few days driving down France from north to south and home .. not the nicest of weathers I've driven in, and today was particularly wet and horrendous. Happily I now know the last 200 km rather well ... which is just as well given how much spray there was hiding the view .. I felt the winds of Ciaran yesterday but happily passed them by quite quickly.
  17. Menthe, Thanks, I was thinking more of the actual fillings they do, which are certainly now almost all white and "fixed" by dry heat .. happy that you are happy with your crown, interesting pricing regime the French have!!
  18. Some roads have those two long lines to look at. I'm pleased to say I am now an even worse hanger- backer than a sit-on- your--tail driver, and have been since a contretemps with a white van man, who cut in the gap I'd left in queing traffic (but obviously not enough of one evidently) small though it was caused the car to be written off. 8 years old and in the wrong country, not worth it to the insurance to repair it! I never did drive close but that was enough to keep me even further back.
  19. Gardian, I am pleased that you found my advice helped, and I thank you for the compliment. I got the advice from one of old posters, whose name escapes me .. but he knew his stuff. I suspect that if you do send in a ne retrun they will be understanding, they much prefer people to correct their mistakes even if late, than penalise unless t hey have to do, and I think they do yunderstand that they thir forms are not always very easy to understand and fill out .. good luck, and hope it all works out for you.
  20. Gardian, Yes, it's not easy, and the impots don't always get to right either. ONe presumes that they all know about the double taxation treaty but it's quite possible that some do not. But the layout of the forms also seemed to have changed this year and I struggled more this year than usually to get it all into the correct spots. And I never did find the bit where you put UK bank interest - decided it was not so large as to make much of a difference and gave up with it. I will also confess that off the top of my head I had forgotten that everything first goes into 2047 (which you don't start with on the online system) and in the 2042 it's where you split it into its conponent parts. I can tell by the figures which is which as my CS pensions is peanuts, but gets split to get what we can form the impots. But it's how I knew which pt was which. Good luck anyhow.
  21. Just checking my return (we have civil service equivalent pensions too) (removed figures) Pensions, retraites, rentes, rentes viagères à titre onéreux Pensions ouvrant droit à crédit d'impôt égal à l'impôt français et pensions des non résidents - Déclarant 1 1 AL - civil service pension Pensions ouvrant droit à crédit d'impôt égal à l'impôt français et pensions des non résidents - Déclarant 2 1 BL - civil service pension ( I know it is that 'cos it is not big) Autres pensions de source étrangère - Déclarant 1 -1 AM - other pensions except civil service Autres pensions de source étrangère - Déclarant 2- 1 BM other pensions except civil service The full pensions (added together for each person) go into the red form 2047 in full - section 12, one total of all pensions for each person, and should then get carries across automatically. (so AL+AM. and BL+BM) I'm trying to remember if they changed something on the forms this year as I know I struggled more after completely reasonably easily in other years. Hope that helps. EDITed: yes civil serivce pensions also go in 8TK and the total appears on the form you get at the end ... and htis might also be transferred across, but can't remember either.
  22. Menthe, there are other products they use now, at least if they anything like up to date. It is set by heat, and I have had quite a few, it also matches teeth now too I believe now. I don't think many dentists would use mercury amalgam now unless cost is the major consideration which who knows, it might be, in France?? I'm pleased ot say that over the years anaesthetics have got more efficient too, and less long lasting with fewer side effects.
  23. Judith

    W.T.F.

    They did say that the trunk is still healthy and that it might just regrow .. but my mind boggles what makes peole do such insane things.
  24. 1,500 per person for clothes - EACH year????? What on earth do they do with them all .. yes, I buy good quality clothes, but keep them for a long time ... hubby rarely buys clothes and only when they wear out!!
  25. I was just told today what a charming accent I had and where did I come from (when I was at the hospital), which was a nice change. When she saw my address, she also asked did we suffer in the floods, and it took me a while to realise it was the ones in the east of the region she was talking about, but nice to have a conversation whilst checking in for a change. Menthe - long day today, but stitches finally gone - at last!
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