nomoss
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It's not a French thing. We had a similar experience in England.
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It's so good to know that someone else has their hair cut so infrequently.I try to avoid getting mine cut in France, as I have never managed to find a decent male barber. The few females who have cut my hair have always industriously snipped away at it interminably, a few millimeters at a time, leaving it only slightly shorter, but me looking like a slightly camp interior designer. On top of which I can't find my parting after their attacks.Until the restrictions which began in early 2020 I would have my hair cut in about May, when it began to feel a bit hot and itchy with the onset of warmer weather, and again in September, before shorter hair caused a thermal shock.My last proper haircut was done by my usual barber in Figueres in September 2019. I have used him for almost the last 20 years since we left Spain, after being disillusioned by the efforts of our local young ladies, who were obviously trained in giving haircuts to their own ideas, rather than to their customers' requirements.I chanced a haircut at a newly opened local unisex establishment in around July last year, but received the usual overpriced bodge. I now have hair much longer than I like, which my wife has trimmed to keep it above my collar, and am determined to stick it out until we are again allowed to go to Spain.
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Some vineyards expect frost and are more prepared than others.[url]https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gallery/2017/apr/28/winemakers-light-fires-to-fight-frost-in-pictures[/url]Many of the Swan Valley vineyards in W Australia are on slopes, and there are permanent, large raised "beacons" filled with brushwood at the bottoms of the slopes, ready to light in case of frost.The owners' families came mainly from Italy and Yugoslavia, so that is probably the system used in those countries.
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The possibility of dying from Covid is around ten times as high in France as in the UK, so those worried about slight negative statistics would be ten times safer moving there.Also, the possibility of being killed while riding a motor cycle is probably many hundreds of times more likely than getting a fatal blood clot from a Covid jab, especially for older riders, who are probably less fit, less alert, and have slower reactions.So I'm rather surprised that anyone who accepts such a high risk activity is worried about a routine vaccination.
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Good Grief! They've produced yet another attestation - dual purpose day/night.
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[quote user="Gardian"]Returning the thread to the original subject (!), the Belgian Navy also has a Coastal patrol vessel called the ‘Pollux’.I’ll bet that has caused a few grins if ever it has put in to Pompey !!![/quote]Nothing wrong with that name, it's the name of a star in Gemini, and was also the name of a Royal Navy hired tug, which I saw many years ago in Portsmouth harbour, and several other tugs around the world.It was the name of our last boat, which we bought from a Canadian from Montreal, who, however, named it after the character in "Le Manège Enchanté", known as Dougal in the English version "The Magic Roundabout".By our apartment in Le Barcarès. Apartment and boat now sold [:(][url=https://postimg.cc/SnsrhJQj][img]https://i.postimg.cc/SnsrhJQj/View-from-aft.jpg[/img][/url]
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[quote user="bixy"]Gardian asks 'why ask on here?' Well it was the Easter weekend and the insurance offices are closed and I thought someone else may have had the same experience. In the past when I've looked at the forum there have often been helpful, not to say sympathetic, responses but perhaps times have changed. To all those who did respond, in whatever tone, many thanks.[/quote]Bearing in mind what idun said, I was also wondering why, after being in the UK since Christmas, you were suddenly unsure whether your insurance was still valid.Have you been driving the car for months without knowing that?I think the regulars on this forum are still helpful and sympathetic, but their patience may have been strained of late by pleas for help from people who don't necessarily give the whole story, if you know what I mean.
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Provided you have a French registered car and can prove that you are resident in France (Carte de Séjour) your French insurance is valid.The UK does not accept French insurance on a French registered car when being driven by a UK resident, nor on a UK registered car in any circumstances.French car insurance remains valid until it is cancelled in writing, it is renewed automatically on each anniversary and you are liable to pay the premium unless you have given notice to cancel it.
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[quote user="Lori"] .................. For whatever reason (unknown), I cannot get that CD of the zones to open for me Nomoss. Just stays on a blank screen. .............................[/quote]When you click on the link "Lancez le CD de l’Atlas des Zones Inondables"You should get this (click on it to enlarge) :[url=https://postimg.cc/mzqBs5G5][img]https://i.postimg.cc/mzqBs5G5/Aude-basin-floodable.jpg[/img][/url]Clicking on "Découpage ... 1/10000" should give this:[url=https://postimg.cc/hQdgP1DP][img]https://i.postimg.cc/hQdgP1DP/Aude-basin-towns.jpg[/img][/url]Then, clicking on La Redorte will give this, which can be zoomed with the scroll wheel for more detail :[url=https://postimg.cc/2bPRJLQp][img]https://i.postimg.cc/2bPRJLQp/Floods-La-Redorte-crop.jpg[/img][/url]At the top of the map at some point there is a link for the legend.The pale blue area is the largest extent of any flood.
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You still need a declaration, which admittedly you could possibly write on the spot if challenged, but the one offered seems a convenient way to go.Print or write out a few, and just tick the appropriate bit according to what you're off to do.Or make up a few of your own Declarations sur l'honneur for different purposes to have ready if you don't like the ones on offer.Or, print out the newspaper article to wave at the Gendarme [Www]
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The flood zones atlas for the Aude is here [url]http://www.aude.gouv.fr/atlas-des-zones-inondables-azi-par-bassin-versant-a9483.html[/url]It's a bit clunky, but if you click on the link for the atlas, then choose the article "Aude (11,34,66), then scroll down, you can launch the CD of the area.Choose 1/10000 scale sections, click on the bit you want on the subsequent chart, and you will get a more detailed map. The legend is on a pdf accessed from the top.
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[quote user="cajal"]I would say this is it: HEREEdited to add agents photographs. Click on the string of images at the bottom, on the site, to show enlarged image.If you look at the agents photo 2 and the street view, both the rear of the property, you will notice the similarities. The shrub against the wall and the lower roof to the left.Also, if you look at the agents photo 4 and the satellite view HERE you will see the solar panels on the higher roof are identically laid out in both images.The images of the pool, far-end right, both show the dimensions to be wider to accommodate the steps.The address is:8 Chemin de LavalLa RedorteOccitanieHope that helps.[/quote]Well spotted. You have more patience than me.The stream which was to blame for the 1999 flood in la Redorte was the Argent-double, to the NE of the town, which was blocked by debris, flooded across open fields into the canal, and increased its level until it overflowed, just reaching the very lowest waterside properties. Only an area about 250 metres uphill from the canal was affected, just beyond the old railway bridge, where the level reached about a metre above the road.The Rec de Naval, to the SW of the town, seemingly misnamed as Laval in the street name - caused the flood of 2018. The reason for this was because it flows through a pipe under the canal in the port, which became blocked with debris and made the stream overflow into the canal, which has an embankment stopping water flowing out of the canal along its downhill side.Again, the canal absorbed the excess water, and the level barely reached the lowest properties.The Rec flows past the end of the property to the SW of the house for sale, but there is no chance of flooding there because of the slope towards the canal, the high banks of the Rec, and the fact that excess water runs into the canal and only slightly increases its level.I wish this house had been available at today's price when we bought our place in 2010!
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The subject of the video is very familiar to me. Spain for some time has attracted the worst kind of British visitor, with thousands of them in illegal full-time work.Although I was not allowed to vote on Brexit, as Norman may remember from posts long ago, I was in favour of Brexit - not however expecting the shambles that May and Johnson have managed to make of it.Firstly, I didn't think the UK belonged in the EU - they were never really committed to it, especially the stated end objective of Union, and almost every year seemed to ask for - and expect - derogations from the rules.After 20 plus years in Mallorca, most of them spent running a business there, I was sick of the behaviour of Brit tourists there, which I don't need to describe for most here. No other nationality behaved as they do, and anything limiting their access had to be for the good. They were part of the reason we left, as they took over the quiet suburb we lived in for longer and longer periods every year.I moved to Spain well before it joined the EU and had no problem becoming resident there with a work permit, so didn't expect any great problems after 20-odd years in France. As a Spanish pensioner I admit I also have the right to return to Spain as a resident, but that would be a last resort.So the WA arrangements were an unexpected but very welcome bonus, and if some illegal immigrants never intend to return, that is the icing on the cake.
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If your old enemies have died/moved away/don't talk to you any more .............................. Join a forum and make some new ones [:D]
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[quote user="chessie"]Oh dear - Danny - I am sorry for your tale of woe.But I couldn't halp thinking of Flanders & Swan - 'Twas on a Monday morning, the gas man came to call...........'It's hysterical; might cheer you up if you find it on YouTube - whole sorry saga of gas man, plumbers, etc, calling, doing damage to be repaired by another tradesman.Chessie[/quote]I don't think I'd heard that one before, although I saw "At the Drop of a Hat" at the Fortune in the late 50's.It reminds me of an episode in our naïve days in our first house in Mallorca.My wife saw water running out of the wall of the shower room/toilet, so called in the plumber recommended by our nearby hardware shop. He arrived on a bicycle with his toolbox on the rear carrier. She showed him the problem, and left him to it.Loud bangs emanated from the room, then the sound of his blowlamp, and he eventually came out to announce it was fixed. My wife looked in, and saw the tiles smashed over about a square metre, and a large hole half way into the wall, with a lazy loop of lead pipe pushed back into it. She asked if he was going to repair the wall, but he replied that he was a plumber, she would have to get a builder to do that.That visit eventually cost us a lot of time and money. He said that the lead pipe was rotten because it was attacked by the yeso used to lay the blocks of marés from which the house was built, which meant we could have similar problems throughout the house.The hole in the wall became the front door, replacing the previous one rather inconveniently located in our son's bedroom. The shower room became the entrance hall and a handy cupboard. The kitchen became the new bathroom/toilet, and we built a new kitchen in an extension from the dining room. All the lead plumbing was replaced with copper, and new drains were laid, complete with appropriately located manholes, which were apparently deemed superfluous when the house was built.We had no plumbing problems for the next 18 years or so, until we moved to France, where I was surprised to find that iron pipe was still being used for water when the house here was built.
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The picture of Emperor Emmanuel on his throne sums up how he thinks of himself, but in his interview he sounds like a naughty boy making excuses, or the builder who screwed up a big job on my roof.
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As requested, when we went to hand over our photos and be fingerprinted, we took our passports, a photo each, and copies of the emails we received, which had a reference numberWe were not asked to show our current Titres, didn't offer them, and were not asked for them.I'm wondering how many people were asked to surrender their current Titres, which are still valid until replaced, and could be needed before the new ones are received, and how many offered them to the fonctionnaire, who, being a fonctionnaire, hung on to them "just in case".
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Mint.Are you quite sure the two pins don't fit into the two lower holes in your house outlets?
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I doubt that the twenty-year-old battery is still functional.If you get an adapter, before you put it on charge, put the shaver somewhere it can do no damage if the battery bursts or gets too hot.
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[quote user="idun"]I can think of lots of places I wouldn't mind being confined to, and here is just fine thankyou. And there have been real advantages to be in the UK at the moment, really there have.Still, if we had still lived there, I would have been OK in my old french house, because I could have done sweet fanny adams about it[Www] and the views were actually splendid, fantastic.Not like on these silly programs where they show fields or something rather boring and yet there is an 'ooohhhh, look at that view![/quote]The poor gubbers have possibly never seen a view from their house with more than one tree or a bit of sky not vertically above. And if you sling in a cow or two they will go nuts.
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I suppose it's up to French teachers of English to use topical material in their lessons, but I do wish they stressed the importance of correct pronunciation a little more.My wife had her wallet, with her bank card, TdS, and a few Euros in it, stolen a week or so ago while at the local clinic.We reported it immediately to the bank, but on returning home there was a phone message awaiting to advise us it had been found discarded in the clinic car park, minus only the cash. Unfortunately they didn't have her mobile number.The following morning we went to our bank to check the situation.After announcing our presence via the touch screen system, a young-ish man exited his booth, and I explained, in French, what had happened, that we now had the card back, and was it actually cancelled?He replied, in English, which he obviously felt was better than my French, "No, you can use the card"I said, still in French, "But I was told on the phone that it would be cancelled"He motioned me to look at the screen in his cubicle, tapped a few keys, looked at the screen, and said "You will get a new card in a few days, you can use the old card""Pourquoi vous envoyez une nouvelle carte si ma femme peut utiliser l'ancienne?" I said, fearing my French must be incomprehensible to him.Visibly agitated, he impatiently replied "I said she CAN use the old card - C, A, N, T, - CAN"I suggested he use "cannot" or "can not" in future, but felt my words were falling on deaf ears.
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The EU's Great Leader seems to be doing a good job for the UK[url]https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/03/18/mirabile-dictu-global-capital-leaving-europe-coming-britain/[/url]
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Also explains why the French are so fond of cobbled roads [:D]
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If you only bought one then you have a case of a twin virgin birth, which could start a new religion!
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Le paiement en espèces est soumis à des plafonds dans certaines situations.
Le paiement en espèces entre particuliers (achat d'une voiture ou d'un tableau par exemple) n'est pas limité. Un écrit est nécessaire au-delà
de 1 500 € pour prouver les versements.Règlement des impôts et taxes
Le paiement en espèces au guichet des centres des finances publiques est limité à 300 €.
Paiement à un professionnel
Le paiement en espèces d'un particulier à un professionnel ou entre professionnels est autorisé jusqu'à 1 000 €.
Ce plafond est relevé à 15 000 € si le domicile fiscal du débiteur est à l'étranger et qu'il règle une dépense personnelle.