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Any help will be gratefully received.  These CTs come round so quickly.  It doesn't seem two years since I did the last CT.  Anyway, I need a contre-visite, so I have 2 months to correct some things. Can someone explain the following terms: PNEUMATIQUE - Usure importante et/ou difference importante d'usure sur l'essieu. ARG. FREIN DE SERVICE - Desequilibre. AR.    (I've just had new brake pads so would this be because of that?) FEU DE CROISEMENT - Reglage trop bas. D. With thanks

[quote user="santenay"] from a very helpful guy (French) named Andre at Heathrow LHD Centre near Heathrow. [/quote] Thanks for the recommendation.  My daughters need a small LHD car and they are SOOO expensive here in France.

[quote user="just john "][quote user="Cathy"]  and it doesn't matter if there are too many chocolate cakes [:D]. This is getting exciting.  I don't mind arriving early to help set things up.[/quote] Well how would you like to accept an appointment as the Official Plate and Chocolate Cake Co-ordinator?[I]  [/quote] Accepted with alacrity.  But it needs to have capital letters because it is, to paraphrase Winnie, a Very Important Position.

I really like the idea of a bring and share picnic, even if it is raining.  I have an easy-to-erect canopy that is fun to shelter under.  Also, with a picnic, you don't need to know exact numbers. Whenever I have organised shared picnics or suppers, I have always let people bring whatever they want - it is fun to see what turns up and it doesn't matter if there are too many chocolate cakes [:D]. This is getting exciting.  I don't mind arriving early to help set things up.

A picnic or a restaurant - either would be lovely.  It's the people that I am coming to see not the grub ... If it's a picnic, I could bring a trestle table so that we could bring and share.

Thank you both.  I'm off to pharmacy to ask about a podalogue.  I shall ask around as well.

My 11 year old son has major tendon problems - his bones are growing faster than his muscles.  He is having physiotherapy (kine) several times per week. We saw a surgeon yesterday and he has given us a prescription for: Faire semelles orthopediques avec talcuette? viscoelastiques? (tendiopathie? Achille) - handwritten and therefore difficult to read Where do I go to get these made?  What are they exactly (I know that they are soles)? Also has anyone any experience of Achilles tendon problems?

These two are so sweet.  I hope someone comes to their rescue soon.

You are a STAR, Valerie.   I used your site for setting up as an autoentrepreneur and have visited it from time to time.  It is SOOOO useful.  I appreciate your efforts so much - keep up the good work.

[quote user="Weedon"]You will have to do a few extra bounces with your football the day before then![/quote] [:D]  [:D]  [:D]

That was really good.  Very clever.

I have put Sunday 10th July in my diary.  If I can, I shall be there.  Yee haa....

[quote user="Renaud"]Where is Maigret when you need him ... [/quote] ... smoking a pipe, sipping a Pastis, dallying very briefly with Madame Maigret, solving a case from his favourite bar while sporting his heavy overcoat (even in hot weather) ... 

[quote user="just john "]if you got behind the sofa for Dr Who [/quote] How did you know?

I have been chatting to the gardener at our local Mairie about this only last month.  Her displays of petunias and geraniums are always better than mine, even though she has hundreds to look after.  Yet I have always deadheaded and watered and tended them. She says that you do need to deadhead dead blooms.  However, the secret, she says, is to water only on every third day.  Starve them a little of water and they will bloom more.  So this is what I have followed and, so far, my displays have been wonderful.

[quote user="Cat"]Don't give last night's plot away though, please... I've recorded it and not watched it yet.[/quote] Last night?  In JJ's link, it says that it is on Wednesdays?

I didn't know about this detective series on BBC4.  I like a good mystery.  [Www]  Is is recommended?  Whereabouts is it set in France?

[quote user="just john "] real beauty is on the inside anyway, give me the real thing, warts and all [/quote] Applies to blokes as well.  Even those with beards... [Www]  [:-))]

I've voted by post.  In the small print, it stated that the pre-paid postage only related to posting within the UK.  So I had to buy a stamp for the envelope, which looks as if it didn't need one.  I wonder if anyone else noticed?

Dispense with the duvet and just have a cotton sheet?

Look in the Recycle Bin.

Take a look at some done by a friend of mine: http://www.magdalendrummond.co.uk/trompeloeil.html

[quote user="just john "]Wrights Coal Tar in the Utility[/quote] Swarfega surely, JJ. I used to be an Imperial Leather girl myself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy8upzrXzMU

[quote user="cooperlola"] I  ...  have never worked out why the liquids are so popular when they're so expensive (and I hate the mess they make - I'd far rather just pop the soap dish in the dishwasher from time to time.)[/quote] Coops - I changed to liquid soap because of the scum circles that bars of soap make on wash hand basins.  With liquid soap, the basins just wipe clean really easily.  Aldi's liquid soap is cheaper than other makes.  Top secret (shhh, don't tell the OH or the children): I add water to the liquid soap so that it lasts double the time. I seem to dimly remember that Howard Hughes would wash the soap before using it?  An urban myth, maybe? And, right now, I'm humming the Fairy Liquid slogan: "when hand that wash dishes are as soft as your face, it's mild green Fairy Liquid".  Anyone else humming it?

Most people find that working for English speaking clients is not enough to earn a living because your market is limited.  If you can speak French, you will have a better chance of earning enough.