cooperlola
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Sorry Pickles you are, of course, right. However, I thought the discussion was - again - about the driving of a French registered vehichle by a UK resident in the UK which, as I think we all conclude, you cannot do except for work/business related purposes. I clearly misread Honest John because as I read it that was what he was talking about too.
"You have asked whether a vehicle belonging to a UK keeper, who has a French holiday home (temporary residence) may register the vehicle in France, and use the vehicle to return to the UK for occasional short visits."
Apologies.[:$]
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[quote user="ericd"]....non.......je suis (en train de travailler) SUR mon ordinateur !!! [:)][/quote]What's the verdict for the TV thing, Eric?
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I find this explains these little problems really well. Invaluable, imho.
And Bill Bryson's take on a similar theme but in English.
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Nobody had ordinateurs when I learnt French but I do remember being told off when I said I'd watched something or other "sur la tele" and was told that that meant that it was physically on top of it.
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Honest John is good at this kind of thing and cites the relevant statutes which are - as has been pointed out on this forum in the past - regularly flouted. Fine until you're caught.
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[quote user="5-element"]It all depends of course, on how good your antivirus is.[/quote]Gosh, I bet the Trojans wish they'd had AVG.
I lay the blame for my embrassing post tally firmly at the door of threads like these, and, of course - by implication - you too, BaF!
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[quote user="sweet 17"]When I spent one summer teaching English to Italian teenagers, we had a game called Preposition Bingo, where they had slips of papers with different prepositions (for, from, to, between, etc etc). The game went on much like Bingo in that I'd read out a sentence (with a missing preposition) and they had to find the right preposition and put it on their Bingo cards.[/quote]A little different from (than/to[:@][:@]) the way in which I was taught, Sweets.[:)]
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[quote user="NormanH"]Yes BaF deserves it after all the stick I have given him [:P]
[/quote]Flogging a dead horse? Sorry.[:$] -
[:)] Back on the racecourse again, I see, Norman!
I'm sticking to plan A: Apply and see what happens. They can only turn us down. Whatever the outcome, thanks BaF for drawing this to my attention. Nothing ventured....
What odds do you think Ladbrokes are offering?
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[quote user="Benjamin"]Also in't it probably the case that those unable to afford top up cover will be under the threshold for paying tax?
[/quote]Well, no that is my point. There appears (and as I say, I may have this wrong as it's not exactly something I've - happily - ever needed to look into) to be a kind of cut-off point where you begin to pay tax and all the other means-tested benefits disappear. It seems to me that it's in this income band that there are still a lot of problems. But as I say, I don't exactly know the full details of their finances. -
[quote user="idun"]
Do you know I never ever knew of a plasterer in France, or anyone who used one.
[/quote]Recently I was having my kitchen done up by a French company. I had some tatty old crepi on the walls which they "flattened out" (I bet there is a technical term but I don't know what it is) for me with plaster - their idea not mine and they were hired and paid for by an insurance company. At the time, another artisan builder - British this time but French registered - was also about doing the upstairs for me. He said to me several times that he could hardly restrain himself from stopping the French chap in his tracks and teaching him to plaster properly! It was indeed quite painful to watch and took forever - not at all the way I've seen it done in the UK and very lugubrious. It seems that they just prefer to put up placo and have done with it over here.[:)]
Sorry to interupt Dennis. If you were up here I could certainly help with your problem though as I know a couple of decent plumbers.
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I don't know, Idun, is the truth. I don't like to pry into the financial affairs of others. "We can't afford top-up" is as far as it's got and none of my business why, really so I haven't looked into it much as it wouldn't affect us anyway. I bet Norman knows.
EDIT : Ooo, er, post number twelve thousand. I really must get a life.[:$]
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[quote user="Boiling a frog"][quote user="John Brown"]I think we have flogged this one to death now.
One last thing, I hope,
If you have applied before and been knocked back because of the ordinarily resident issue your claim will not be reopened and you need to reapply. Thats from a very nice lady on the UK Pensions Helpline.
[/quote] I take it you found the correct stable and spoke to the correct horse this time?[/quote]Had to be this one, I reckon. -
All sound pretty sensible to me.
However, like Idun, I'm not sure about how making insurance more expensive helps anybody - the punter pays regardless. I know of at least one couple who earn just too much to qualify for CMU-C who just cannot afford top-up and who thus often just let "minor" ailments go untreated rather than visit the doc' and pay the difference themselves for drugs and treatment. One day this will lead to them ignoring something and ending up very ill indeed. It's always seemed to me that those in this income "gap" (too rich for state help, too poor to help themselves) are the ones who suffer. I'd like to see a sliding scale of help for them and tax relief on the mutuelle payments would be a good way to do this, imho.
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If I were agnostic then I guess I wouldn't know whether to be offended or not, BaF.[:)]
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Fwiw, Bookings.com pops up in many languages when you do a search so I don't get the impression it's country-specific. To sum up, I've this year - a pretty average one for me - booked on line three days in the Vendee (Maisons de Charmes - very helpful French language site ); plus a week in Spa; 5 days in Shropshire and 2 in the Forest of Bowland via Bookings so it's certainly not a matter of the odd day or two for me.
The little hotel in our village is often full but he admits that it's mostly workers since there is so much going on in the Sarthe (new extension to the tramway for example) that lots of incomers are here during the week doing the stuff there aren't enough locals for! On the other hand, gite owners have struggled - well, the couple I know anyway - and I guess if the weather goes on like this they will continue to do so.
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I must admit that I've just filled in the old form and will send it off. If it's wrong then hopefully they'll put us right. It's worth the cost of a stamp. If it doesn't produce the right effect we'll try again when the new form comes out.
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Of course it's a publicity stunt but I wish I'd thought of it.
Me too, Chancer, clearly I should keep up with the news far more than I do. Apparently somebody as bored as I am by the sight of a load of blokes b*ggering about on bikes decided to liven the thing up by scattering tin tacks on the road. Full marks for effort but they might have picked a less dangerous and life-threatening method of doing it.
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Indeed, Babbles, it seems that you need to go into a shop to begin with, sorry. Afterwards, however, you can do everything on line.
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Good point, Norman. Just in case it's not in the thread already then this appears to tell you all you need to know, including a link to the form to claim missed payments if you live abroad:
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Pensionsandretirementplanning/Benefits/BenefitsInRetirement/DG_198331
Ok, there are lot of mays and mights in there but at least it tells you where to start.
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Madonna is somebody who doesn't usually feature on my radar but goodness, she's brave! I wonder what will come of this.
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[quote user="Pickles"]We have used booking.com to make hotel bookings. However, my understanding is that they take 15% - which to me is a heck of a lot for what they do.
[/quote]Well, it seems a lot but, afaik, you only pay when there's a booking. Adverts/listings in publications you pay for regardless of the return in terms of business. The punter only sees what they pay - they could care less (most of the time at any rate) where the money actually ends up! I also feel better protected with their cancelation policies. When I got cancer last year I just cancelled my Belgian holiday on line with no comeback or extra costs involved. Very neat. I did rebook this year to compensate though! -
Try Leclerc. (I seem to be forever promoting them but they are very flexible.) I use them for my Android.
Passé composé question yet again!
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Yes, Christine, that is far more akin to what I thought was correct (but I'm often wrong and as I said, computers were pretty rare when I learn French and I still struggle with the related language in both French and English!)
Here's another one for you. Do you look something up a or sur l'Internet?