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Chief: my thoughts were as yours, but I've been pilloried on here before for suggesting that sppeding enforcement is about revenue. However, there may be hope for this site yet. Some of the very aggressive posters are conpicuous by their absence, before I went away at Whit we had a reasoned argument on speed-related issues, and now I'm back I see someone posted a clip from the Daily Mail, (Shock! Horror!) and NO-ONE pilloried them. Some people even agreed with it. Yet three weeks ago I was accused of being a Daily Mail reader as if that were the worst insult imaginable. Go figure.

Sounds good.............until you need to match the colour. Some time ago I bought some paint from an English builders' merchant, which they mixed up for me. The mixing went wrong, but I liked the colour, so they sold it me dirt cheap. Wouldn't you know it? Thats's the room that water ran down a wall, ruined the paint job and there's none left in the tin.

[quote user="chris pp"] Nope, I think it's to do with safety, there's absolutely no doubt that lives are saved when people, often children, are hit at lower speeds. Chris   [/quote] Well, OK, but here's a thought: if it REALLY is all about child road safety, why do they not bring back "Cycling Proficiency" and the "Tufty Club"? SURELY it's better not to have the kids hit at ANY speed? Or am I missing something?

Thanks, I'll do that next time I'm over. We still have to floor-sand, then seal the floor yet.........

[quote user="chris pp"] They will make the soil richer, which in turn will make the grass grow more. Is that a lasting bad effect? Only you know the answer to that.[:D] Chris   [/quote] D'Oh!

Anyone else think it JUST might have something to do with, shall we say, "encouraging" folk out of their cars and onto public transport, their feet, bicycles etc etc?

Get yourself a copy of Michelin's "Camping, Cravanning France". It lists hundreds of sites, with facilities and opening times for each. Around £8. They sell 'em on board P&O ferries too.

We've just got back from our place in the Southern Haute Vienne. The last visit was in April, when we cut the grass to a SHORT level. Arriving back last week and the place looked like a wilderness.[blink] There was main grass over 12" high, some grasses in clumps over 18" high and weeds in places over 30" high. I KNOW it's the main growing season, but my lawns in the UK don't grow like that[:@] Anyweay, what with the foul weather, (it rained HARD at least once every day), we only managed to cut it to maximum height and NOT collect the clippings. What I need to know is, will the clippings left all over have any lasting bad effect? Thanks.

I gather that this is farly regularly used in France, and we are next looking at using something like it to convert a newly-floored area of 75 sq m into rooms. Can anyone give me any ideas on: Sizes of pieces of framing available, and where to buy from. Can walls be ANY height, or is there a fixed height? (there's no ceiling yet[8-)]) How thick the walls end up when plasterboarded. Do people generally apply insulation inside interior walls, to cut down noise etc? Costs of bits. And finally, do folk plasterboard, then plaster skim, or just apply boards and.........? Thanks for any advice.

[quote user="Jo"]I have a Stoves dual fuel range cooker, when I contacted Stoves here in the UK to ask if it was possible to buy jets to convert it to take bottled gas, I was told very bluntly that they would not recommend using any appliance bought in the UK in France as it "hadn't been designed for use in that country"[8-)]!! They then went on to give me the contact details of Stoves suppliers in France! Either I must sound very thick, or else cookers got very complicated when I wasn't looking![:D] [/quote] Ours is a Stoves, and we got the same, even though it WAS jetted for LPG, they wouldn't help with my query about fitting it to a French LPG gas supply, (my cooker had a female fitting and needed a male. I think it's C.Y.A syndrome.

Helloooooo? (sounds of wind whisling) Anyone out there? (more wind noises) It's still doing it! (wind whistles louder) HEEEEEELLLLLLLPPPPPPP!

[quote user="Mel "]   Quite honestly F.A., I would be surprised if life-long Labour voters are too enthralled with the thought of Brown being our next Prime Minister. And when it happens like this, surely it is time the system was overhauled? And I will not allow the Daily Mail in my house.....   [/quote] Point1: agreed, some friends of mine have been members for as long as I've known them, but have recently declined to renew............ Point2: why ever not? It's as good for lighting fires as the next rag. And can be cut into smaller[:D] squares, and hung at your convenience

PLEASE, everyone. I HATE them, they are the only creature on God's earth of which I am truly afraid, (as against respect). All this snakey posting gave me a nightmare last night. The wife was NOT amused when I leapt out of bed shouting that there was a snake in the room. And we're off to the house tomorrow, so  I REALLY don't want to hear any more snake posts. And don't bother saying don't read 'em, I HAVE to, you see........[blink]

It's doing my head in.

[quote user="cooperlola"]FA, surely the best discussions on a forum end with one person who is palpably losing an argument, saying "you're wrong" to the other people in as insulting a way as possible, then flouncing off and not posting again in the same thread?  All this polite, pleasant logical argument is doing my head in...[/quote] Muahahahahahahahaha! It IS and it isn't, cooperlola. It's the ONLY way when you have rude comments posted about you. Why bother to argue with someone who can't make their point without being insulting, or snide, or nasty,  then accuses you of being childish when you return the compliment? TBH, if someone argued with you like that down the local pub, they'd either get ignored by the whole group, or a slap..........or both[:D]

Yep. You ought to have heard my wife scream at our computer last sunday morning when it "vapourised" her very long e-mail. She was so loud I got out of bed before 9am on a sunday!

How nice. A thread in which we DON'T all agree, but we put our arguments without recourse to insults, snide comments etc. Mind, there's time yet...........

It was OK for me today too, up to 1300, then it's SUDDENLY gone veeeeeerrrrry slooooooow, and has double posted something on another thread, and THEN won't allow me to delete one of the posts[8-)]

[quote user="Mel "]I'll be a lot happier when we are saying goodbye to his successor as well![/quote] Me too..............but say it quietly. It doesn't do to criticise Labour on here[:P] You'll be labelled "Tory" or "Daily Mail reader" as sure as eggs is eggs.[;-)] Won't matter if, like me, you've never voted Conservative in your life............

[quote user="Meg and Mog and dog"]Wheelbarrows here seem either rubbish or very expensive. [/quote] Agreed. Mine came from Wickes, and is brilliant at just under £20. The only tool I've bought that was cheaper than it's UK equivalent was an SDS drill bought as an end-of-line in Mr Bricolage. EVERYTHING else has been cheaper at Screwfix. And I don't mean cheap brands, either, Bosch, deWalt etc. I DO stock up on Srewfix own brand expanding tapes, and "Stanley" knives though. I reckon there are three of each, lost SOMEWHERE on my property[:D] I found a knife on top of a bathroom cabinet, when flooring the rom above, last time I was there.

But "apparently" if you are in lane 1 passing the first such camera, and in lane 2 passing the second, it can't catch you. Not tried it, of course, but logic and some inside info says it's right. Personally, my take on this is as follows: What is the job of the cameras? Is it to catch speeders who haven't slowed down, to educate us to slow down, or to generate revenue? Well, supposedly, according to DfT and the Safety Camera Partnerships, the purpose of speed cameas is to educate us to slow down. After all, unless you have cruise control, or are CONSTANTLY looking at your speedo, it's very easy to go over a posted limit when LOADS of others are, (it's called keeping up with traffic flow, and forms part of the UK test......not speeding, but keeping up with flow[:P]), or to go over the limit on, say, a straight, dry, empty motorway. And to me, say what you will, I'm safer at 80mph under the latter conditions watching the road, than watching my speedo. So..........how to do this best? Clandestine cameras generating fines? Or openly visible cameras with warning signs, that everyone slows for? Or even flashing warning signs if your speed strays over the limit? I know which I think would do the STATED job best. And I also know that the STATED job just may not be the real job.[;-)] Oh yes, and what of the drivers who STILL speed, then slam on the brakes when they see a camera? I've almost been in two accidents caused by that particular manoevre, (sp), and I reckon it'd get worse if cameras were not signed, coloured etc. Seeing them at 50 yards STILL results in folk braking "just in case", as they haven't time to check speed then brake. What on EARTH would  roads be like if cameras were suddenly "there"? 

Looking at the photo of our house, it appears to have been taken during the drought. Was that 2002? Or 2003?

I'd recommend deciding on approximate times you'd like to travel and EXACT dates, then give RailEurope a ring. They will book it all over the phone, will suggest best connections with enough time in between, best stations to connect at, and are friendly and very good at their job. They saved me money and embarrassment when I booked for my wife to do France>> UK, then different station in the UK>> France, and I reckon to be pretty good with timetables.

[quote user="Paysages de France"]Sorry, I don't understand  the reference to 'rambler' or 'red socks' ........ as for long sentences: I still have the habit of reading books (remember them?) in french and english so I'm not afraid of reading a few words strung together or indeed, writing them. [/quote] But please remember the limerick: There was ayoung man from Japan, Whose limericks never quite "ran". When asked why this was, He answered, "Because, "I always try to get as many words into the last line as I possibly can" [:D]

Agreed. And I'm slowly but surely coming to the boil with older drivers who do 40 or 50 in a perfectly good 60 limit, AND THEN FLASH THEIR LIGHTS AND GESTICUALTE AT ME WHEN I OVERTAKE THEM[:@] I don't sit ten feet off their bumpers trying to make them go faster, why do they feel they have the right to tell ME what speed I should, or shouldn't do? So long as I'm not breaking any limits, and am driving safely, who else's BUSINESS is it?