Clair

[quote user="Jo"]Having a slightly different problem, I leave myself logged in , but every now and then I get logged out. When I try to log in the page comes up ok, but it won't accept my details, says they don't match. I have changed my email address when we moved to france so my old fix in the uk of saying I had forgotten my password please email me a new one doesn't work as I can no longer receive emails to that address. I have just created a new account so I can use the forum, but I'd like my old one back! Help?[/quote] Jo, The old email add is used by the system as your username, but does not need to be your actual current email address. If you cannot access your old forum account to change the email address, please send me a PM or email with your old email add and I can try to make the necessary changes for you.

[quote user="minnie"]In winter time I regularly use my UK purchased electric slow cooker. I see that they are quite cheap now and I'm proposing to buy one as a gift for a French friend. I've extolled the virtues for long enough. If I did buy one for her does anyone know of a French recipe book to buy to go with it?[/quote] I have found very few slow-cooker recipe books in French which aren't Canadian versions of US recipes (are you still with me? [:D])... Here's a selection. There are differences with the names of the cuts of meat and sometimes with the names of vegetables too, as well as ingredients which may not be available in France... This might be a good start: Seb (pdf)

[quote user="PaulT"]Filmon problems: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/09/as-filmon-is-shut-down-by-courts-all-eyes-are-on-aereo/[/quote] This is not current news (Sept 2013) and regurgitated news from another (unreliable?) French forum. FilmOn is working fine on my laptop and Ipad.

[quote user="sweet 17"]In Charente Maritime in 2007, installed an (at that time) all-singing, all-dancing fosse complete with Flygt pump (international brand and top of the range) for 9000 euros.  This sum included putting the soil back on the land but not for grass seeding or landscaping.[/quote] In 2003, we paid € 6500 for the installation of a 4000-litre fosse, complete with Flygt pump and holding tank, and a 35m² draining field (situated up a slope from the house, hence the pump) in the north of the Lot.

This might help... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/advice/8768505/How-do-I-recover-deleted-files.html or this maybe... http://www.wikihow.com/Retrieve-Temporary-Internet-Files

At the border of the Lot and the Cantal, we have excellent reception (for now?) with a Zone 2/60cm dish... Mr Clair went up on the roof to check the mast as we were getting a lot of pixels last night in the strong wind... It appears the dish suffered from a bit of a droop and all is now fine, if not better than before!

[quote user="Judith"]Going hunting for a new oven later this week - and having a problem with the terminology. I want what I would have called in the past, a fan oven ... but I have seen pulsé, brassé, and and tournante to describe the heating method and I cannot tell which is what.  So can any kind soul tell me which is which, please?[/quote] Some info HERE.

Norman, the French tolerance towards infidelity is a well used cliché in the English-speaking press, all the more to engage readers in yet another discussion on morals and whatnots, but... I have had this discussion with several French women (note: women) and they all more or less agree that a person who lacks morality in his/her private is also likely to lack morality in his/her public life. One asked "If he can lie and sneak around like this in private, when nobody is supposed to know about it, how can we trust he's not doing the same in his job?" I was somewhat relieved to find they were in agreement about this, after the discussions I'd had on this forum about DSK... As I have said before (about DSK at the time), you cannot dissociate his private behaviour from his public one. If he lies and cheats in his private life, he is not a lying, cheating man just in private. He is a lying, cheating man, full stop. There's an element of voyeurism attached to this soap, but for me it just helps solidify these politicians will do whatever they feel they can get away with as long as they're not found out... and then they'll cry foul...[:@]

[quote user="Chancer"]C*n is not a swear word in French Quillan, it means a fool, not even as strong as an idiot...[/quote] Beg to differ... The word may be money courante (see! I can do Franglais too! [:P]), but it is used because it's meant to be an insult and cause offence. For me, it is as offensive to me as its English-language equivalent. Quite coincidentally, I'm in the middle of a discussion with Amazon.fr on a similar topic, as a book using a derivative of the French word in its title keeps appearing on my Amazon page under "best-seller"... Having failed to find a way to remove the book from appearing as a "recommended buy", I resorted to contacting Amazon to ask them to do it for me (and other users who may share my distaste for offensive words when they click to view their Amazon page.)

If various sources are to be believed, he'd be playing 'hide the sausage' with Valérie T. for two years before Ségo R. called it quits (after her failed presidential campaign.) It would appear he's been playing the same game, also for two years with Julie G. behind Valérie T.'s back. If he sticks to the pattern, it is possible he may come out as Sarko's main supporter in a few months... [Www]

I have no love for either of them but what a despicable way for him to behave... [:@] He installs his de-facto wife in an official residence, puts her in an unofficial public post, all of which more or less forces her to curtail her professional commitments so they do not clash with his position, making her financially dependent on his whims, all the while carrying on with a two-bit actress, until he is exposed by a gossip rag and forced to choose... and all because he doesn't have the gumption to end one relationship before starting another... Yuk.

I hardly ever use the channel list as it is. I selected all our preferred channels in a 'Favourite' list, arranged them in a way that makes sense and use that list 99% of the time. Menu/Edit Channels/Edit Favourite List From there, select all the channels you want, move them in whatever order you prefer, then save. To access, use the OK button, then use the green button to select your Favourite list.

Hello there! [:D]

[quote user="Chancer"]Bloomin Google translate wont let me view the original articles and I dont want to read the translation [:(] [/quote] HERE and HERE...

Journal du Dimanche (translated) article  HERE. Paris Match (translated) article HERE. (This is the mag Valérie Trierweiler works for.) The comments below the article are a fair representation of how she is viewed by a majority of the general public: a materialistic, manipulative, scorned woman who is getting what's due to her. (I have no personal view on her character; I just wish she'd grow a backbone and take charge of her life rather than wait for Dimwit to decide who he wants to be with...[:@])

[quote user="NormanH"]What exactly has Valerie Trierweiler done to merit the name 'Rottweiler'? [/quote] I have read several articles this week which state she was given the nickname after she slapped a man (colleague?) whose hands had wandered where they were not welcome... It could be that the articles were merely repeating and/or embellishing a single comment...

[quote user="Chancer"]By the way does Flamby mean the same as Humpty dumpty or is it another egg shaped cartoon character?[/quote] No problem, Chancer [:)] I believe Flamby came up as a nickname during the presidential campaign to summarise his wobbly indecision, his flip-flops... I call him Humpty Dumpty because... I mean, look at him! [:D]

[quote user="Chancer"]You may not agree with Sarkozy marrying so soon and I understand entirely your viewpoint but at least he was decisive and did things in the correct order.[/quote] I cannot remember agreeing or disagreeing with Sarko's conjugal decisions, either when he was with Cécilia (and I remember a forum member trying to engage us in a discussion about her at the time) or with Carla. With hindsight, it was undoubtedly a good decision for them to come out so early in their relationship. At least, they were both single and there was no deception of a third-party when they got together.

I really don't know how Mme Still-The-Official-Companion can get out of this with any dignity. The longer this drags on - one in hospital with the faints, the other waiting for her to feel better - the less dignity she has. She should make a sudden recovery and get out of this before he gets a chance to administer the coup de grâce, something which he should have done before embroiling them all in this embarrassing dramedy...

[quote user="woolybanana"]Apparently the hospital where Mad Rottweiler is 'resting' will not let him see her. [/quote] And yet, it would seem that Ségo has been allowed to visit... That has been denied by both sides, yet it is said there are pics of Ségo entering the hospital shortly after 8pm last night... (in English)

[quote user="idun"] I don't think that it matters how long someone knows someone else before they live with/marry them.[/quote] Nothing to do with that... Sarko was ridiculed when he married Carla Bruni shortly after they met. Hollande is being ridiculed for skulking around, a helmet over his head, for non-conjugal fumbles between the sheets with a two-bit actress. Which is the least embarrassing? [:'(]

[quote user="sweet 17"]Hm, Clair, I expect the charges are a bit more than 22 euros a day?[8-)][/quote] Keyword: "from 22€..." Who knows how much this will really cost...?[;-)]

I ask myself which is better... A President who marries a woman within 2 months of their first meeting, or a President who slinks out behind his official companion's back and skulks around Paris to shag a young(er) piece of derrière...? Edited to add: Car rental advert (pic)[:-))]

[quote user="Catalpa"] We're very rural and our Facteur Fred picks up (stamped) mail as well as delivering mail. He gave us a magnet sticker thing which we stick on the outside of the box if there are (stamped) letters in the box which we'd like him to take and put in the mail. I think it's normal around here.[/quote] I'm dead jealous! [:@] If I want Michèle (our factrice) to stop to collect some post, I have to clip a clothes-peg on the letterbox to indicate there's something for her to pick up... I've thought of getting one of those US-style spring-loaded flags... [Www]

ob·se·qui·ous: 1. marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness 2. eager to help or obey someone important 3. French journalist when in the presence of their head of state The French journalists who attended (were invited?) know that they have to show deference and reverence unless they want the papers/TV shows they represent to be frozen out of press meetings and other sound-bite opportunities. It's a large - and cozy - bed they all share, as was amply demonstrated with the DSK revelations in 2011-12.