woolybanana
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I could only go to UK if I thought of it as yet another foreign country with natives to discover and eventually convert
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[quote user="sweet 17"]Wooly
Don't you mean a bad woman? The good ones aren't half so much fun?
[/quote]I can turn any good woman to the bad. You just gotta feel my hands[6]
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A good woman!
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The Consulate may have a duty of care here but I'm not sure if it extends to getting him resorted in UK.
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[quote user="sweet 17"]Wooly
How long since you left the UK and how long since you last visited? Just curious and also wondering whether for me it will always be a case of a corner of a foreign field that is "forever England". Not that I'm planning on dying just yet, you understand.
It is just so strange, this feeling of exile and I must also confess that it has come as quite a shock as it was the last thing I'd expected.
[/quote]I am not typical by any means as my career took me abroad but I havent lived in UK for nearly 12 years and have not been back at all for about six I reckon, and even then for all of three days.
The way not to get homesick is not to listen to the BBC, not to look at things which represent the past. Be French, live French and things will be fine. I could go on. Otherwise keep popping back like so many people then be stuck somewhere in the middle which is, in my view, a very uncomfortable place to be.
Keep taking the Frog pills.
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Only at Xmas and that was a long time ago. Now, I think of UK as a strange country that I no longer know.
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Pearley to the rescue. Not sure I can do it myself. Still, cant be much more difficult than a boat cover can it?
How loose it loose?
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What I cant understand is how, if you pay income and other tax in France, you are different from a French citizen working here. Or is 'unearned' income to be classed separately for foreigners. This is clearly a different situation from someone who is early retired and taxed in UK and therefore contributing less to the French exchequer. Perhaps it is being an individual earner rather than an employee that makes the difference. But what about the rentiers.
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Given that a significant number of recipients of IB are quite capable of work, is this a problem? NOT ALL.
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I know what it was!
Rolf Harris singing -
"Four little boys"
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Didn't Gary Glitter want to cover that? [:(]
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I have spent all day trying to remember one I never liked so completely forgot. I just LOVE it dont you. And because I have forgot it I cant go onto that song thingy site and find it. So, please, just listen and be swayed by the power of it.
I used to sing this to my three brothers whenever I met up with them and was pissed or over the fone when I was feeling a bit blue.
Awwwwww the power of the rhythm is doing my head in[blink]
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Were the govt not carrying out a revaluation as well? Properties being adapted might be the first to be affected.
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There are plans to bring the centre des impots and the tresorerie together by the way. Not yet implemented but be warned.
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[quote user="woolybanana"]Mackenroe. You gotta be joking. I still dont think you are the real Frenchie. Your taste is changing.[/quote]
What did she taste like before?
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Please, this is a respectable forum. I could not tell (chocco milkshake with peanuts! shhhhh).
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The Gremlins Xmas song?
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Mackenroe. You gotta be joking. I still dont think you are the real Frenchie. Your taste is changing.
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Forget the article in the Times. It is inaccurate. Just wait awhile
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OK, wrong thread and a blunt needle but further forward I hope. Still disappointed that mudulation did not come forward and earn a bit on the side. (noooooooooo). What I cant get quite right is how to measure accurately so may send them off to get that done as well. The pleasures of having ugly old furniture. Maybe I'll get throws instead and just attach them with elastic, then tell people they come from Mauretania. Anybody want to knit a throw?
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I feel you might have been having a swipe at me on that one Nick. Ok, then let me give you an example: It may be beneficial to choose the date you move from one country very carefully in order to gain the greatest advantage to yourself. That is what I mean by understanding the implications of your answers to questions and adapting them to suit yourself.
Example: When I first started working abroad, many many years ago, remittances to UK were taxed regardless of where they came from in the year in which they were earned. However if you placed your money in the Channel Islands until the next financial year (which need only be one day), then they were not taxable. And this was legal, the tax office told us so. So, those people who did not bother to adapt their circumstances ended up paying extra tax.
And what pray is wrong with that approach. Your trite "false and misleading" might now be withdrawn with a little apology because you did not understand what I was talking about, despite being qualified?
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very often here they are almost monopolies and missing items are easily covered. For the rest, you are their victim and prisoner.
Your experience is unusual in the extreme. Here the local Super U is cynical, unreliable, the staff lie and their labelling is mendacious or depeptive. About par for the course i think.
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I anyone was offended they only had to contact me privately or publicly. Guess you won't want my Chalky with a lisp and a limp joke impersonation. How about the antics of a white van, Asian, Brummy living in France?
Oh and you can take the piss out of my impediment to your heart's content.
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Well the girls from mudulation did not reply so guess I'll have to do it myself if I can get the mixed brocaded thread for sewing the fronts.
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Where do I get that really nice thread with e multiple colours so I can put my loose covers together? On a sewing machine I hope as my hands geth tho thore thowing thick n thin pieces of brocade to make looth coverth.
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