KathyF
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[quote user="NormanH"] By the way you only need 30 years for a full UK OAP so at 29 years you shouldn't be far below the maximum
[/quote]I'm afraid that's true only for people who reached state pension age after April 2010 and I don't think 5-E is one of these (nor am I [:(])
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Just catching up after weekend visitors and delighted to see you posting again, Coops. [:D] Here's to a rapid return to your own bed and the best possible pathology results and treatment plan.
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That is such good news! [:D] Very best wishes to you both and I can underline the 'don't lift, don't stand for long' advice from personal experience.
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Spot on, RH. For my money, Amy Winehouse was one of the most individual female soloists I've heard for a long time. An amazing voice and a huge potential that sadly she will never now fulfil. What a waste of a young life.
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Oh, b*gger, Coops! I was rather afraid that might be it. Keeping the good wishes coming as hard as I can, as the doctors work out what they can do for you. K xxx
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Another with everything crossed here, Mr Coops. As someone who has had the word prognosis used to her twice in the past, I know just how scary it can be and send you both my very best wishes for the best possible outcome.
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Yes, it's a good course, PPP. I used it to get my very basic knowledge of Italian before my first visit and still have it as a refresher when I go again. I wouldn't say I'm fluent, though....
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I am so sad for a small, peaceable, open society hit by this horror. It will change things forever for them, I'm afraid.
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To my knowledge there is one short stretch of toll-road alongside the M6 north of Birminglam and tolls on a few river bridges and tunnels, but that's it. Hardly to be compared to the network of toll-roads in France.
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We got our first quote before heading across for our summer in Normandy and have other surveys booked for our return in september. The figure we've already had quoted is considerably less than you mention (haven't got it to hand but can find it) and the sums add pretty well. The firms are all local to us, with plenty of installations for us to check when we get back and I can foresee it happening this autumn if all goes well. Will report back....[:D]
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FWIW, we're only in France for three months a year over the summer and I can't see much difference between the prices last year and this. The thing that makes a difference is the lousy exchange rate, but many of the prices are the same as last year, which is definitely not the case in the UK!
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We're actively investigating the possibility of this for our UK house and will almost certainly decide to go for it. Interest rates are so low, that the prospect of being paid by the electricity company, even for the electricity we use ourselves, let alone what we export to the grid, looks decidedly better than watching our savings depreciate as interest rates fall well below inflation. MOH is a Scot by birth and as careful as they come [;-)] but he's 99% convinced already and is busy getting competeing quotes for the installation. Hope that helps.
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We're with Ornage (basic Internet Decouverte) and just bite the bullet and pay for it year-round. Our phone line is Ligne Residence Secondaire and we simply turn it on on-line before leaving the UK and off the same way before leaving France. Works every time. [:)]
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My first concern would be her health-care and that of the children. As pensioners, you and your wife are covered by an S1 form, but you would need to ascertain how your daughter and grandchildren would be covered. If they can't be classed as your dependents and your daughter doesn't have an E106, they would need full private health insurance which would be expensive and perhaps not something that could easily fall within your budget.
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When I was having radiotherapy for breast cancer 12 years ago, the guidance notes from the radiotherapy unit recommended patients to increase their fluid consumption to 2 litres of water day on top of normal tea, coffee. etc. It sounds a lot, but it was to wash away the toxins released by the radiotherapy. It took a bit of getting used to, but by the end of 5 weeks of treatment, I was merrily drinking that amount and feeling much better for it and have always drunk a lot of water ever since. My husband was rapidly convinced of the benefits too and now we always have a glass of water (plain tap, not bottled) on our desks as we work and get through at least a litre a day even in the depths of winter and much more in warm weather. As has been said, by the time you're thirsty, your body is already on the way to dehydration.
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I love making jam, whether using the French method or the British, depending on the fruit, and we always seem to manage to get rid of it all before it has a chance to go off.[:D] I have a proper jam pan at last and have always saved jam-jars and reused them. My only trouble this year is not having enough in France for the summer. I was given a lot of raspberries and blackcurrants recently (had to go and pick them, but you know what I mean) and that used up almost all the jars I'd been saving for when the jam apricots arrive up here in Normandy. Luckily a friend is also a jam-jar hoarder and she has just come to the rescue. Guess what I'm spending this wet weekend doing....
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Having just caught up with this thread, I've read the Midi Libre report and it says that when hit the girl fell and banged the the back of her head on the school boundary wall. This is almost certainly what killed her. It doesn't take away the horror of what was done to her, but I really doubt the boy intended to kill her. That can't be said of the case in South Wales which almost beggars belief.
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Just echoing all the above. Very best wishes to you both.
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And that's something to smile about, PP?
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Talk about a clash of cultures.... Anyone may think this kind of thing about someone else, but to email it - the mind boggles.
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In small country parishes over a number of years, rather well. I've seen more (veiled) racism in the Daily Mail than I've ever heard from any of my parishioners.
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Not in my experience, Pommier, but what do I know? I'm just a retired vicar......
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[quote user="Patf"]Kathy - that's more or less what I wrote too [:D]
from another grumpy person. [/quote]Great minds thuink alike, Pat. [:D]I tell you, my memory is so bad now I can't even remember what i've just read on the previous page....[:$]
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I'll put my two-pennyworth in and say I think it's the most appalling waste of money to buy expensive clothes for small babies. All they do is eat and sleep and they're almost guaranteed to posset milk down a new outfit, however cute, the minute it's put on and grow out of it in a matter of weeks [:D] The embroidered bib sounds a better bet than a 56 euros T-shirt snd shorts. Our daughter, who has a lot of friends and colleagues producing babies, always knits the new arrival a little sweater with some unique decoration and the parents just love them.
I'll go away and be grumpy in private now....[;-)]
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