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  1. dave21478

    Darty

    I take pleasure in slowly spelling out the most grossly offensive word or phrase I can think of then add "@hotmail.com" at the end of it, when asked for my email by shops.
  2. There seems to be some confusion on the terms here. A tondeuse debroussailleuse is a heavy duty machine for dealing with very long grass, brambles, thick undergrowth etc. While they are great at clearing this sort of growth, they are no real use for just regular mowing of a lawn. A tondeuse is a regular mower that needs to be pushed as the....uh....person....above linked to. Fine on the flat but can be a chore up hills, despite what certain people may infer. A tondeuse tractee is a mower that can propel itself while you walk behind it and guide its direction. This is likely the best solution as almost no effort is required. A tracteur tondeuse is a ride-on mower, which you dont think will cope. Not having seen your garden, I cant say, but they can do faily steep slopes if taken straight up and down. Buying brand new a tondeuse debroussailleuse is likely to be about 1000 euros for something that isnt cheap chinese dogsh1t. A regular mower with petrol engine starts from a couple of hundred and goes up from there depending on power etc. a collection box for the clippings will usually be included with all but the smallest. A self propelled mower is not much dearer. I bought a MTB branded one from Mr Bricolage for 400 euros...kawasaki engine and large collection box for the clippings. It is excelent and easily breezes up even very steep slopes. A ride on tractor is likely 1000+ for a very basic one. Buy something with a known brand engine...Briggs and Stratton being the most common, then stuff like Honda, Kawasaki etc. As a rule, the japs make very good small engines that require minimal servicing. Brand-X stuff may be cheaper but they are usually chinese made copies of older models and while they work well from new, they generally dont last well and spares can be hard to find. If old age and physical weakness is starting to become a factor, look for a mower with an electric starter rather than the pull-cord. (demarrage electrique) This adds to the price but is very easy to use.
  3. crikey. There is no fine for getting the paperwork wrong. It will simply be rejected by the prefecture. If you have paid 300 or so, then you must have the carte gris in your name? Note that it is not issued on the spot any more, it will be sent by recorded delivery to your house. This really isnt clear from your posts whether you have managed to register it or not. The money is the registration costs - good luck recouping that from the previous owner. If you have paid this, then the job is likely done, so I dont see why you would need another certificate de cession.
  4. Ok, got it working after a little fiddling. First time I tried I just got the logo at the top and after a large gap, a big button for each French channel, but none worked. I had to disable my adblock program, which obviously shows the adverts, and this allowed the menu icon on the top left to work....Three horizontal bars. Clicking that brings up a menu and "watch tv now" brings up the country list.
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  6. Dry your eyes, man. You are the most smugly patronising person on this board. All brits are..... All expats..... Only idiots would..... I have been here for twenty years and I say..... The sh1te you come out with is a throwback to this forums 'good' old days of "I am more integrated than you are" willy waving.
  7. Whenever I get a "holiday", its nearly always back to Scotland staying with relatives and invariably I end up changing clutches, re-tiling bathrooms, repairing plumbing etc etc and I really, really cant be bothered with that anymore, so next holiday is going to be somewhere where the beers are cold, the girls are hot and both are cheap. I might not come back.
  8. Sorry to bump an old thread. Anyway, I still see these convoys reasonably often on the same stretch of road. Last time, a line of 4 Audis went past me very fast so close together....well, they werent quite touching but you would think twice before trying to park a Mini in a gap that small.... Anyway, I caught up with them later, stopped in a layby. They were swapping drivers and all smiles and joking between themselves. They were all Bravo Two Zero types with cammoflage trousers and the like, with a couple of guys giving orders. Video cameras and some other electronic gizmos were stuck to each windscreen on the passenger sides with suction cups. I asked one of them what the deal was.....Turns out there is a private personal protection....ie bodyguard.....training facility in Beziers and they use this loop of road for their driving skills stuff.....convoy work, client protection, evade and escape drills....All very Jason Bourne. Mystery solved.
  9. There isnt a problem. However apparently decades ago the forum experts father somehow built one that had problems or didnt work, so obviously only an idiot would own a house with one.
  10. You arent the only one Patf - the guy couldnt be any more obvious if he tried.
  11. Norman is right - only one member of staff needs to hold the hygene qualification, and its a joke anyway. Daily logs of freezer and fridge temperatures, logs of production dates and labels on batches of ingredients etc etc....its just a metric sh1t ton of paperwork that nobody will ever look at. The rest was basic common sense, dont put your tongue in the meat slicer (no matter how pretty she might be!), raw/cooked meats, wash hands blah blah blah. It doesnt cover actually useful stuff like the kitchen standards for coloured chopping boards and knives or anything like that..... Basically its exactly what you would expct a French course to be like. If the employer has not told you that you will need to go on the course, dont worry about it.
  12. Be more subtle with your bullsh1t trolling if you want people to bite. You cant just lump brexit, refugees and the housing market into the first post.
  13. SHOCK NEWS JUST IN - Telecoms company luring people with big headline offers but when you read the small print its actually a bit sh1t..... From the Free website terms and conditions.... "Jusqu’à 50 Go en 4G valable sur réseau et avec mobile 4G (dans la limite de 20 Go en 3G avec mobile 4G). Avec mobile non compatible 4G, jusqu’à 3 Go en 3G." Once decoded, that sentence seems to mean that if you dont get a 4G signal -which I dont- then you only get 20gb of data with a new phone or if you have an old phone, only 3gb. Quite how the ever-loving fck they justify that, I dont know. So - whats the next best deal?
  14. Aye, I have seen that. I dont get 4G reception, but it should still run 3G, i assume? 50gb per month for 19.99, which is the best I have seen so far. Given that I would be cancelling the existing landline/livebox deal, I could go two contracts from free giving a total of 100gb per month (would have to swap SIM over after the first 50 is used) for 40 euros per month, which is less than my current subscription.
  15. Yo gang, does anyone know what the best deal is these days for mobile data? My current contract with soch includes 5gig per month. I would like that up to a minimum of 20, but the higher the better. I dont give a rats chuff about voice calls or sms or anything like that. Why? Well, my "broadband" connection at home is pathetic. I get download speeds of 0.6mb at best and often a lot slower. "Thats the way it is" is the official verdict from my ISP. No faults found, apparently. I could take photos of several telecoms junction boxes at the roadside within a few miles that are burst open and their wiring open to the elements, but apparently there are "no faults" ....Whatever. So, I plan to sack off the landline altogether and use a mifi dongle with the sim card in it. I have been tethering my mobile to the laptop today and its giving download speeds of 2.5mb or so on a 3G signal. 3G is patchy inside, but it works if I have the phone on the right spot on my desk. Ideally I would have a dongle with an external aerial that I could extend and put it up on the roof, but want to look into the data deals available first to see if this is viable or not.
  16. Albi has always been a weird place for shopping. Ten minutes walking in the centre will turn up half a dozen shops where you could spend over a hundred euros on a pair of lacy underpants or three hundred on a handbag with somebody elses name printed on it, but nowhere to buy something to eat or anything useful. Now, those same stupid boutiques are still there....the inevitable two dollybird sales assistants fiddling with their telephones in the empty shop and there is still nowhere to get something to eat and good luck finding a restaurant for lunch outside of tourist season. The article is hardly groundbreaking though is it? retail parks take business from town centres....That applies to pretty much everywhere in the western world.
  17. There is no harm in trying it from Rosyth for your next trip. You need to phone the freight depot there to get sailing times and prices, but they cant (or couldnt when I did it) book via phone, it had to be done by email. Arrived at the terminal on time...all the old passenger side is closed so I wandered into the big shed where artics were passing through and they told me to just wait outside till they finished loading and I would go on last. They missed the scheduled sailing time by a couple of hours, which is apparently normal - without the public to please, they sail when they are ready, not when the timetable says. I had a 4x4 pickup truck and was the only vehicle that wasnt an artic trailer. Most dont even have lorry cabs, just the trailers are loaded by tugs and unloaded at the other end and picked up by local trucks. On board It was the Mary Celeste. I was the only passenger and I never saw any of the crew the night we sailed. There was one cabin from about 10 that had a bed made up so I slept there. Basic but clean and comfortable enough. Single bed, toilet/shower and a TV. The only other thing to do was the "drivers lounge" which had a pile of dusty old board games, a big screen tv and a few couches. Around lunch time a Polish guy in officers uniform appeared in the lounge and gave me a plate of stew and mashed potatos with two cans of coke. When I was finished he took away the plate and came back with an opened box of wee Mr Kipling cakes and said I could choose two of them! This was exactly repeated at dinner time. Arriving in Zeebrugge late in the evening, they let me off the car deck and I drove around the unlit freight yards for ages trying to find a way out....its all completely unsigned, dark and no barriers o stop you driving off the edge of a pier! Eventually I found a security booth with barriers across the road but it was empty. Nobody around anywhere, I thought "screw it" and forced the barrier up high enough to drive under and off I went. On the plus side, it wasnt outrageously priced, saved an entire day driving from Aberdeen to Dover, fuel costs, hotel, meals etc....so probably worked out about evens financially, maybe slightly dearer, but saved a lot of fatigue and missed all the stress of driving through lower England.
  18. If you have a commercial vehicle....van, 4x4 pickup etc....you can get on the freight sailing from Rosyth to Zeebrugge. Booking is not easy, takes patience and perseverence, and the ferry is very, very basic compared to a passenger ferry but you save a lot of driving in UK. Its still a fair trek from Edinburgh to Hull.
  19. I will save you the bother and state that I think the people in my village are mostly [censored] and it takes a very strong effort to prevent myself from grabbing a hammer out the garage and slaughtering everone I can find, but thats more to do with my rather unpleasant mood of late. Yes, I am very miserable. Its my trademark.
  20. Thats your problem right there albf. And yes, I am going to be rude about it. You know FCK ALL about the subjects you spout endlessly about on here. You are the Expert On All Things according to yourself but you repeatedly, constantly show your real lack of knowledge with every other post you make. Not just on this thread, but CONSTANTLY, on pretty much every topic you join or start. Look above for the most recent example. You apparently know about electrics....so you claim....yet you didnt know that having a washing machine on a non-dedicated socket is not a problem. Thats really, REALLY basic stuff. You wouldnt stay in a gite with DIY installation? do you ask that at the time of booking? But then you have done your own electrics in previous renovations....I suppose you are just better than everyone else, is that it? seriously, man - stop and re-read what you write....its only a few steps up from mindless babbling. And yet again you manage to devolve the topic into another "all brits.....blah blah blah fcking blah, they are all arrogant, I know best, everyone else is dumb" type of pi5h. Most other forums I use have a "block this user" feature in the control panel, where I can add a name to the list and the software hides all that persons posts. As far as I can see, this forum doesnt have that feature, which is a shame as you would certainly be on my blocked user list. You are exactly the kind of tedious know it all bore that I avoid in real life and I would love to be able to avoid your nonsense on here too.
  21. You are speaking pi55 as usual albf. Who gives a damn what else is plugged in with the guys washing machine? If the total load draws too much power it will trip the breaker or blow the fuse, not detonate the whole house. Cable across the worktop is lazy, but not an electrical safety problem. So you would sue someone for their work if there was a problem and no guarantee? yeah...good luck with that. You strike me as the type of person who thinks sales of part-worn tyres should be banned, but will happily buy, hire or borrow a car fitted with four already used tyres on it. Think before you post. Or stop trolling...whichever. Either way, a little silence wouldnt go amiss.
  22. I would trust wiring done by someone on their own house with a little research and care over anything done by professionals any day of the week. The home owner wants to get it right, the pro just wants it finished so he can pi55 off for lunch or to the next job site. What next ALBF? no diy plumbing? no DIY car repairs? No DIY pool maintenance? Try thinking things through before spewing your drivel over the forum.
  23. Check everything Chancer suggests and also check if there is a pressure regulator on the incoming pipe and if it is partly clogged. A surpresseur could help, assuming everything else is fine, but they are limited by the size of their tank and having a long shower upstairs would likely leave it flagging. With a similar problem to remedy on a three storey house at the end of the supply line from the village source so pressure and flow were not great, I fitted a 2000 litre tank that is kept filled by a float valve. A surpesseur pump fed from the tank and a bladder pressure vessel were fitted in a parrallel loop to the normal mains supplying the house. Running the odd tap here or there or flushing a bog all is normal from the mains, but when demand is high....upstairs shower and the washing machine on etc....pressure drops low enough to kick on the pump and boost flow and pressure. Since the pump is fed from the 2000 litre reserve, there is no danger of it running out in normal use. (in hindsight, 1000 litres or even 500 would have been plenty, but the big tank was available cheap). It took careful fiddling of switch on and cut off pressures to get it to run reliably without cycling on and off causing surging, but it works really, really well and pressure and flow rates at the top of the house are fantastic.
  24. It will absolutely be possible, but you will need to find the right combination of hoops to jump through. Unfortunately its a typical case where two people working at the same job will give you two wildly varying answers to your question and of course neither of them could possibly be wrong.
  25. Also, there could be any number of unregistered owners between person A and B - you have no way of knowing that. The last legit CdC filled out by A might have been to sell it to someone else entirely.
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