Valleyboy
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Some time ago (I believe it was on this forum) somebody posted instructions for making a disc of Windows XP. I've looked back and used the search facility, but can't find them. Can anybody help, please?
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Thanks, Clair (or should I say Merci Beaucoup!).
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A French friend of my wife's wishes to visit the UK with her next year. Am I right in saying that she (the friend) will need a French passport, as the UK did not sign up to the Schengen agreement, or can she travel on her French Carte d'Identité?
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Anton,I've got two of the Maria Theresa thalers which were struck by the Royal Mint; I bought them for silver value + striking cost when I worked there (early Sixties). I believe they were struck to be used in covert operations in the Middle East in the Fifties (?Aden), and then Austria decided that they were still legal tender despite bearing the date "1711".
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Perhaps he just doesn't like cats??
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I've had an Orange mobile phone bill accepted as a utility bill here in France.
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QuillanYou mentioned 'inflation after decimalisation'. This was in no small part due to the decision to adopt a £/cent system for the 'new' currency, meaning that the new penny was 2.4 times the value of the old penny, and as a result the whole basket of goods priced at less than 10d drifted rapidly up to be priced at the same number of p, followed by a sympathetic rise in the price of higher value goods. If a 10/-/cent system had been adopted, then the difference in value between old and new basic units (+20% against +140%) would have had a much smaller impact. The £/cent system was chosen because of a sentimental preference for the pound sterling. If the UK enters the Euro system when the euro is valued at parity or less with the pound, then one would not expect to see significant inflation of prices. The choices before the Halsbury Committee were £/cent, 10/-/cent, and £/mil.
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I'm sorry, but I thought everybody knew that the best National Anthem in the world is..................."Land of my fathers" (especially when sung by Katherine Jenkins at the Millennium Stadium!!).
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Best wishes to you both. I can't add anything to what's already been said!
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Thanks, Anton, but unfortunately my friend doesn't have the number of the card!
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If anybody in Haute-Vienne or the Dordogne is offered a Skybox and card in the near future, could you let me know by PM or Email? (Also a DVD recorder, and a couple of portable televisions.) This follows a break-in at a friend's house and gite complex at the weekend. Obviosly, if you can get details of the vendor, that wouild be greatly appreciated by both us and the gendarmes.Many thanks
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I've just registered a UK Merc C180 here in Haute-Vienne; Patrick Launay (the Mercedes dealer in Limoges will do the inspection and provide the necessary attestation. An MPH speedo with secondary KPH markings is fine, BUT MB France want €125 for the CofC. The Carte Grise will cost you €33.28 per CV fiscal. The sticky on re-registering your car gives full and clear information.
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Thanks, guys for the input. This is genuinely an enquiry for a friend - do I sound that stupid????He already owns and is extremely attached to the beast, and wants to restore it here in France, and I'm pleased that the consensus of your advice is broadly what I told him; i.e., fit replacement Rover engine in UK, update the registration document, then trailer it to France for the rest of the work.
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I'm intrigued! Five or six replies on an almost identical classic car problem. Doesn't anybody out there want to talk about Land Rovers?
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A friend (French resident) is in a quandary! He has a 1957 Land Rover LWB station wagon (only 267 were produced apparently for the UK market) with a completely shot engine. He would like to bring this to France and restore it, but with either a 2.25ltr LR engine or a Ford 3ltr V6 in place of the original 2ltr F-head lump.. What are his chances of registering this in France? Are collection plates a possibility?
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Corona was originally made by a firm in South Wales called Thomas & Evans; my dad knew the man who started the Corona business for them ( or so he told me ).
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He is, of course, doing what he's done all his married life: getting up first to take her breakfast in bed.
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Mr KumarI don't have any certificates, only the VC5; there is no correlation between the date of first registration and the build date.
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Thanks, Beemer. I'm waiting for the attestation from the DRIRE - that may help.
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Thanks SD, definitive as always!
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I've just acquired a Mercedes C180 RHD to re-register in France, and shall probably need to change the headlights. The original regiostration date was 31/01/1997, but it seems that there was a model update in Sept 1996, and while I can find plenty of reasonably priced units on Ebay, I need to establish the build date of the car to be sure of getting the right ones. Can anybody help?Thanks in anticipation!
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Still slightly hung over from the aperos! 19 councillors here, and two lists. 7 elected from each list, and I as the only resortissant managed to get 505 votes (out of1125 cast), so feel quite pleased with myself, but Ishall be in the play-off next Sunday. I think my appearance on France3 helped. If anyone wants to seit, its here http://jt.france3.fr/, 12/13 Limosin, Vendredi 7 Mars. Cheers, and good luck to anybody else who is in next Sunday's vote.
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Imperial currency???
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Patrick,I don't know how old you are, but when I was a kid in the 40s and 50s, almost every house in the UK had a sewing machine, and mothers made and mended clothes and domestic linen with them; seeing the machines in the houses at Oradour took me back to my childhood.Apart from the horror of what took place there, it is a fascinating piece of social history; you can see how life was in a small French town in the 30s, and also the trades that no longer exist.
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