Ron Avery

Yes it was Ernie.  I sensed that the OP was thinking that there was perhaps an easy option of just "working" in a small craft type business without knowing that it is just not that easy or cheap.  Also its no good quoting the definitions of the DDA at the French, that is UK legislation based on an EU Directive which member states apply in the manner that they choose.

Can you deduct membership or donations to a UK political party from your French  income  so not pay any  tax in France?[blink]

[quote user="Star trecker"] sorry to confuse. It was your suggestion that I work innthe UK but live in france I think? If not please ignore that thread as I am so fed up with this I am really feeling upset by the lack of understanding people have for my problem and am sure you would not like to be in my position. We may decide to be self employed but at present cannot be sure of that and cannot therefore rely on that benefit. [/quote] Startreker that is the point I was trying to make,   The choices as they stand are you get health cover insurance after your E106 runs out or work, but it cannot be a token employment and setting up a small business is nothing at all like in the UK and it can be very expensive. I am sure that we all feel some sympathy for your situation my post was not at all intended to be brusque or both barrels, just telling you the way things are. You must face up to the fact things are not going to change in the short term or at all on healthcare in France despite what the "lawyer" might like to think.  France has far bigger fish to fry than worry about a handful of people who cannot move to France because they cannot get healthcare insurance.  What you need to do is face up to the "now" and see if there is any way you can spend time in France whilst retaining your residence in the UK up to a time when a combination of E106s and E121s gets you out of the health care trap.

I have a comment.  Your post are long, confusing and contradictory.   You say you are as fit as a fiddle apart from diabetes so how are you entitled to DLA?  You talk about retiring to France and then still working and then as artisans but have no skills with which to be artisans.  As opposed to the UK you cannot just call yourself a builder etc here you have to prove it!!.  You then talk about continung to work in your old jobs in France..........  Sorry but I'll tell you what many are thinking.  if you choose to move to France you do things the French way, like it or not, its their country not ours.  It matters not what you paid into  or are entitled to in the UK, its your choice to move out of the UK, nobody is forcing you.  There is no discrimination against you whatsoever, your situation is no different to any other non working immigrant who wants to live in France, so either accept it or rethink your move.

[quote user="Bugbear"]I can't help feeling that you're missing the point N, in that the vast majority of members on here are of UK origin. Simply leaving the UK and moving to France does not remove the interest in ones country of birth. There are many on here, myself include, who have strong emotions/feelings about the way the UK ........... [/quote] I think Norman is spot on.  Sometime back I posted and asked why certain people, feel the need to post a link to every article on the on line Mail/Telegraph etc that runs down the UK and/or its government, with never any links to anything in the slightest bit positive. Has it ever occurred to any of these so called patriots that those are interested in reading these UK papers already do so and the rest could not care a toss?  With some people and the regularity of the posts, you wonder what their motivation is, it certainly isn't anything to do with living in France. For those who detest the Fascist supporting Daily Mail and Express and its two faced whingeing readers,  sign up to Facebook and join the Anti Daily Mail coalition, 15,000 members and growing bigger daily, there is a "post of the day now" and guess where all the moans about "UK jobs for UK workers" are coming from.........  well close........SPAIN[:D]

[quote user="Russethouse"] How very odd, it is widely reported that CT was in conversation with Adrian Chiles and Jo Brand - [/quote] That is not disputed but there have been some who suggested that Chiles reported her to protect his job from CT, as if it was ever an issue!!  The conversation was overheard by the production team and therein lies the culprit, maybe he was black?  You may have also missed that CT would not have worked for the One Show any more anyway as her work for them was finished. The only hypocracy I have read is from Mail readers who think its OK for the daughter of their idol to use a racist comment but not for Jonothan Ross to basically tell the truth.  After all Russell Brand had shagged Sach's grandaughter[:)]!![:D]

Are you accusing Adrian Chiles of complaining to the BBC controller then RH?  As far as I know nobody else has?[8-)]   Adrian Chiles was talking to CT but AFAIK has not been accused of making a complaint and neither had Jo Brand.........  up to now[:-))]  

But but but as Ernie said you cannot and you did not change it in France. You can default it if you leave it unpowered for a long time but the default as far as I know is to London. If by west country TV you mean BBC SW and CI , this can be found on the EPG around 988 or so , so set that on your favourites.  ITV for the west country can be set up as an additional channel in the EPG "add channels" menu if you know its coding, but for the little regional stuff that ITV does its hardly worth it, all the other channels are not regional as far as I know.

Isn't there an issue of health care to sort out?  If the O/H has been living in France and in the CMU base for example he will not automatically get health cover in the UK again or be covered by an EHIC will he? I suspect Will knows the answer to this having been in a similar position, but isn't there a 6 month rule or does his employer have to sort that out and he apply for an E form for the one staying in France?

"Tomatoes shouldn't be grown in the same spot for more than three years at the most"...... Before I would have agreed with you about the rotation and maybe its important with some crops and in colder climates and if you use potted on  plants,.  My neighbour tells me that the plants that come from the ground year on year are more and more resistant to blight and disease.  Works for him and his brothers, so I'm giving it a go.  Only problem will be sorting out the cherries from the large ones for pricking out side shoots or not.

My farmer friend and  neighbour uses the same spot year after year and uses only those plants that come up in the plot  from discarded tomatoes from the previous year.  Not sure of the logic but his plants unlike mine have not suffered from blight or any rust and he has always had good crops, maybe its just like letting nature take it's cause.

[quote user="Cathy"] The great thing about leaving a French registered car in your garden is that there is no road tax, MOTs (CTs) are only every 2 years and people think that you are in residence. [/quote]  What would be even better would be to buy an articulated lorry and use that  Park that in your garden or better still across next door's garden, you could have  any foreign plates and nobody would care a hoot[6].

[quote user="Cathy"] [quote user="Ron Avery"]You are being daft.  Buzzards do not even bother cats as Splishsplash has already told you.[/quote] Ron.  Deb is new to this Forum.  Your post is intemperate and could have been written more politely.  Please don't drive new people away. [/quote] The OP said "............... on the birds in this area and tell me I'm being daft" She was and I told her!! What's wrong with that?  You bored again?

You are being daft.  Buzzards do not even bother cats as Splishsplash has already told you.

In short No.  What you need to do is get a rate of cover that suits you, if you have false teeth and glasses it might be better getting a higher ceiling of cover for those.  The % apply to the amount of the fees covered, some specialist charge 200% or more and so 100% cover would lead you to a bill for the rest.  Best to trawl round the Mutuellists and see what they are offering in terms of cover v cost , its not a decision others can really make for you without knowing what you need to cover.

Well yes apart frrom the fact that he was South African, so your original argumernt has no validity, why would the decisions in that match worry the French?  IMHO they had more cause for complaint with some of the inconsistent, obscure and harsh decisions given against them by the welsh ref.  Nothing to do with France being the biggest threat to the Welsh chances of the grand slam by any chance[Www]

Funny that as the ref was Welsh in the France V  Ireland match[8-)]

I'll second Groupama, quick and accurate payments, good level of cover against cost, clear and coincise statements and a local office in the event of queries.

Benjamin my friend, how would you know nobody on this thread has signed it?  As far as I know nobody you cite uses their real names (including you I believe [:P]  Totally off topic but I have a real concern that DLA may well be exportable but to pay for it, its quite possible IB will be stopped for those outside of the UK,  now its firmly linked to job seeking, but not receiving either I have no idea how that would impact on those who receive DLA.

[quote user="Quillan"] Mods Hat ON ..............Also Ron, I think you have made your feelings about GB quite clear. I am no great fan of the man myself and may make the odd comment but using the same phrase time after time is getting to be a bore. As an intelligent sort of chap I am sure you can get your point across without dropping down to junior school name calling. 'Q' Mod Hat OFF [/quote] I think you should explain that comment in my  italics Mr Q as I have no idea what you are talking about. Dod you mean him on the oil rig by any chance?????? 

Just to add to JR's post, what the UK got was translated edited highlights and then interpretation by the medias with 24 hours of programming to fill and headlines to write,  snow was getting a bit boring.  Sarkozy is under pressure as were the Germans to follow the UK and cut the rate of TVA in France, and to claim that it has not worked in the UK is a good way of refuting the idea.  The big retail chains certainly have not said that the cut in VAT has not helped with sales, but with massive discounting going on, who can really tell.

[quote user="ErnieY"]Well said John. So, what is Moron guilty of................ failing to keep his eye on the economy taking his eye off the ball blind to what was going on short sightedness [:D] [/quote] 2/10  for effort, 1/10 for originality,  10/10 for pathetic.

One thing continues to puzzles me with this "taxpayers" or OUR money thing that notably ITN news likes to trot out, like " the banks are being bailed out with OUR money".  When I paid income tax in the UK, I thought that the taxes I paid became the Government's money, to spend on whatever it liked, buying aircraft carriers, building hospitals, bailing out banks or giving aid to poor countries. If its OUR money, then by ITN's definition, cannot you just ask for it back if you don't like what its being used for?  If not then how can it be OUR (or taxpayers') money?

[quote user="ErnieY"]Morons eyesight: "  Perhaps the person who kicked him was clairvoyant [;-)] [/quote] The other day you told me that you don't get involved in the nonsense on the Forum yet you continue on calling the Prime Minister of the UK, stupid, insulting and infantile names.  Why is that?   You might not like his politics and think he robbed you of some of your pension although that is highly debatable, but there is no excuse for not using the given name of the Prime Minister of the UK.  I noticed that you have made no comment on the UK Government under Gordon Brown bailing out the people who chose badly when opting for Equitable Life and other schemes.   Bet those people don't call him childish names.[:@] 

[quote user="Weedon"] [quote user="Frederick"]Wooly ....you can buy your gollywog in Les Sables-D'Olonne.....there is a toy shop there that sells them ![/quote] That's fine provided it is displayed in a prominent position,  you can then simply point to it and in a very loud brit voice say, "I will have one of those."  But what if you have to ask for it by name?  [/quote]    perhaps "Golly gosh, can I buy that golly?[:D]