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    Swimming Pools 2018

    in Swimming Pools in France

    Posted

    We've got a polyester (?) coque pool which has developed a brown waterline about 8 inches wide. We bought a gel which said it would clean it and that we didn't need to lower the water. Although it's maybe a bit cleaner it hasn't gone.

    Can you advise how to clean it please?

    Ordures menageres

    in French Finance

    Posted

    [quote user="You can call me Betty"] However, that flat rate now entitles everyone to just 19 collections a year. [/quote]

    Lucky you! We just get 17 collections a year without paying extra. Ours is included in the TdH, but I don't expect that to reduce.

    Easter

    in Other Topics

    Posted

    Brian Bilston is a really good poet, not only creating comic verse.

    “REFUGEES

    They have no need of our help

    So do not tell me

    These haggard faces could belong to you or me

    Should life have dealt a different hand

    We need to see them for who they really are

    Chancers and scroungers

    Layabouts and loungers

    With bombs up their sleeves

    Cut-throats and thieves

    They are not

    Welcome here

    We should make them

    Go back to where they came from

    They cannot

    Share our food

    Share our homes

    Share our countries

    Instead let us

    Build a wall to keep them out

    It is not okay to say

    These are people just like us

    A place should only belong to those who are born there

    Do not be so stupid to think that

    The world can be looked at another way

    (now read from bottom to top)”

    Easter

    in Other Topics

    Posted

    To continue the flowery poetry theme:

    THE FLOWERS OF THE GARAGE FORECOURT

    Budding lovers beware

    of the Flowers of the Garage Forecourt;

    they are not for courting.

    Love will not blossom

    with the Flowers of the Garage Forecourt,

    these blundering bouquets

    of cellophaned sadness:

    the slip-road roses and tarmacked tulips,

    petrol pump peonies

    and crushed-dream chrysanthemums.

    All those dahlias of desperation.

    The I-forgot-you forget-me-nots.

    Please know this, would-be customers

    of the Flowers of the Garage Forecourt:

    romance wilts with a lack of forethought.

    Beian Bilston

    Changing region on a DVD player

    in French Satellite TV, French Internet and Telephone

    Posted

    An American friend has sent me quite a lot of DVDs (the postage cost alone was horrendous!) and they won't play on our DVD player. We could watch them on the computer, but I saw on Google various people saying that you can make the DVD player work with DVDs from all regions. I tried to follow the instructions, but got nowhere. Is it possible, or am I wasting my time? The player is by LG model DP520H.

    French High Street charity shops?

    in The Complete France Post Bag

    Posted

    A charity shop opened a year or so ago near to us and it seems to be doing well. Everything is clean, sorted into various departments and is sold at very low prices. It's only open on two days a week, but there are always lots of people there. https://www.ouest-france.fr/pays-de-la-loire/soullans-85300/soullans-ils-ont-cree-une-ecocyclerie-associative-4588665

    Passports

    in Other Topics

    Posted

    [quote user="woolybanana"]Think how many people will be given work by that, Hoody. And with all the Poles returning there will be plenty of work for everyone so no need for food banks!![/quote]

    I read that the contract had been awarded to a German company.
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