NormanH

I heard that the A75 was also blocked, but the situation keeps changing

Over here it has felt like that for a large part of the year. Some days I have eaten on the terrace of a restaurant in 25° (a sun-trap admittedly) with people in T-shirts

" It rained for 11 days out of 14" The couple who run my favourite restaurant have just got back from a fortnight on Île Maurice. After working very hard for two years without a break, plus all the extra work over Christmas and New Year they were rewarded by the Hurricane, and confined to their hotel room for two of the days, with the airport out of action, not😰 sure when they would able to get back

Not my usual reading https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/01/30/europe-france-war-on-farmers-is-playing-with-eurosceptic-fi/

I think that it is in a 'bowl' so suffers from heat in the Summer, and is cold and damp in the Winter. It is also subject to atmospheric pollution. https://www.linternaute.com/voyage/climat/grenoble/ville-38185

I believe that the share of a family's budget that goes towards food has diminished considerably over the years.https://www.fortuneo.fr/blog/budget-nourriture-francais-735

There is a better film version made in two parts by Pagnol himself. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manon_des_sources_(film,_1952)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKfF2pfFwxw

An excellent documentary on the History of "les Paysans" from around 1900 to the present day. Lots of astonishing film clips and many of the re-coloured https://www.france.tv/france-5/nous-paysans/2264015-nous-paysans.html

Explained here: https://retailtimes.co.uk/brits-to-see-new-not-for-eu-labels-in-supermarkets-but-what-are-they/

I can't understand how the choice seems to be going to be between two very old men. In France the President is 46 years old and the Prime minister 34. Rivals include MLP who is 55 years old and her sidekick Jordan Bardella who look as if he will lead the campaign for the Euro Elections for her party , and he is 28 years old. I thought that Europe was supposed to be the "Old Continent" !

https://www.fwi.co.uk/news/eu-referendum/analysis-7-years-after-brexit-farmers-count-the-cost

https://www-publicsenat-fr.translate.goog/actualites/economie/colere-des-agriculteurs-ce-que-contient-la-liste-des-revendications-presentee-par-la-fnsea-au-gouvernement?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

I forgot this link to the place where the butcher offers complete 'kits' of all the ingredients for some traditional dishes. The quantities are too large for a single person but could provide the basis for a familial meal https://boucherie-reverdel.fr/boucherie/

Traiteurs tend to be outside caterers for special occasions. My local butcher also offers 'plats cuisinés' as do several places in Les Halles. They are closer to 'ready meals' t than the full menus offered by 'traiteurs' as you just buy the quantity of a prepared dish that you need https://boucherie-reverdel.fr/espace-dejeuner/ and https://boucherie-reverdel.fr/galerie/ This is a dish from one of the places in Les Halles https://www.facebook.com/reel/372003798863519 I have never seen anything edible in a supermarket here that could be called a ready meal except dubious-looking boxes with plastic tubs in them🤑 but with these "plats cuisinés" readily available elsewhere I don't need them

Nice ones thanks

True, though whether the metaphor would be understood in France is a different matter😄

I don't know of any totally private "cliniques" around here, but there are several cliniques in and around the town that are run as private businesses, but whose fees are re-imbursed by the Social Security and Mutuelles. The big difference is that in the public Hospital there are teams of salaried staff, with a senior consultant, and a couple of assistants, so there is always somebody on duty. In the private cliniques a surgeon for example will be present for the operation, and perhaps do some rounds in the evening, but the rest of the time will be a way doing private consultations, perhaps in a "cabinet" in town. The consultants are not salaried, and are paid for each medical "act" , so this can lead to abuse by which relatively unnecessary procedures are done and then billed to the Social Security. There are staff in the office who are trained to look through your medical history, and see if they can find anything that they could do which can be charger for under the pretext it was necessary. This happens because they know that these acts will be paid for by the Social Security. For example I was in for an examination of the state of my heart arteries, which was to be done by my own consultant the next morning. In the evening another consultant came to give me an ECG, which wasn't needed, and again the next day before I was discharged. In the public Hospital which is not there to make a profit, just to treat you, incentive for this wasteful and costly behaviour.

I emailed the other moderator ... the efficient one 😈

"Get" as in 'get a coffee' 'get a shower' where will they get them FROM? Why not just have one? Or in this headline "US authorities say more Boeing 737 planes should get checks after door plug blowout" "be checked" or 'Have a check-up'...

Yet the best butcher in the village in the Ariège where I had a second place for a while was in the Carréfour shop. They had a policy of having a % of local produce, and in this case it went as far as letting a local butcher source and run the meat counter. The fruit was also from local orchards, so at that period I did venture in to a supermarket.

Not only pounds to grammes etc, but also those mysterious (to me) American cups https://www.cookingconversions.org

Just a tiny point which doesn't take away the main thrust of menthe's point. "audio-visuel tax (radio and TV)" has been abolished

Perhaps they think it is your résidence principale? https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F752

Thanks for the clarification Gardian. Now I understand what you meant about the range of food in Supermarkets.