Frederick
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[quote user="idun"] Why don't people eat potatoes with the skins on. Well because sometimes it simply is awful with the skins on. How could I make good quality puree or mash with skins on, pas possible!I watched Masterchef tonight, all that butter and cream ...................delicious. Maybe the youngsters getting fat is natures way of making sure that they don't live as long as the last two or three generations. [Www][/quote]When did you last hear a mother say "Go out and play ? " Most of us on here are of an age when we spent as children ,most of our time ,running about with other children up and down a street if you were in town or in the fields. Now they take food into their bedrooms stare at a screen and start filling out because mothers think the world outside the door is filled with bogymen .... Very sad state of affairs .
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[quote user="You can call me Betty"][quote user="Frederick"]I noticed a few days ago our local "Big Issue " seller is no longer around . He has been replaced on his pitch by a guy I assume has recently arrived .He is calling out to passers by " Big Issue Man ".... " Big Issue Woman " ...which I imagine is what somebody has told him to say ...He didn't appear to be doing much trade but his status is "Self Employed " so the Council is duty bound to find him and his family housing or pay the housing benefit rate to a private landlord now we have him living among us .[/quote]You know he has a family?[:-))] You know his accommodation situation? [:-))] Yet you don't know whether he is a new arrival or not.... I'm puzzled. Anyway, if he IS recently arrived, whether self-employed or not, he will need to have been here for a while to be able to demonstrate habitual residence in order to qualify for any benefits, including housing benefit. The council has no greater obligation to find him accommodation than it does for anyone else, if he doesn't meet the criteria. If he does, and as a self-employed person he is legally obliged to pay NI contributions (and tax, if he earns enough to be liable), then he's paying into the system and is as entitled to assistance as anyone else.[/quote]A court case brought by Roma determined that being a seller of the Big Issue gives self employment status . Roma are now using the Big Issue to claim the benefits that self employment status brings .... Selling the Big Issue gives rights to assistance as a homeless person . http://www.bigissue.org.uk/get-involved/how-become-vendor
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I noticed a few days ago our local "Big Issue " seller is no longer around . He has been replaced on his pitch by a guy I assume has recently arrived .He is calling out to passers by " Big Issue Man ".... " Big Issue Woman " ...which I imagine is what somebody has told him to say ...He didn't appear to be doing much trade but his status is "Self Employed " so the Council is duty bound to find him and his family housing or pay the housing benefit rate to a private landlord now we have him living among us .
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I would have thought it simple to rule that when moving to another country.You are paid benefits at the rate of the country you have left and paid into for say five years while you work and build up a share in your new countries benefit pot . Perhaps be required to make a claim from the country they have left for those five years if a claim has to be made .It would make people think twice about going for just what they can claim ! It makes no difference if its the UK or any other EU country If a generous system of "Free Money " is shown to exist and is there for the taking and on offer to millions of poor from throughout Europe then they are going to rush to take it . All this at a time when the services of a country are being slashed back due to a recession and are hardly able to meet the demands on it as it is . Shows the policy is pure madness .......and the EU who cant afford it are still planning to bring more poor from the former soviet union countries into the fold
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[quote user="PaulT"]Frederick said:"The wind at the moment seems to be coming down from the North The Arctic this summer was one of the coldest recorded the usual 90 days of Arctic warm was less than half and the ice is building up fast ... So I read in the Science publications .....the feeling is that cold in the North will come south. It will be fun in the snow for many when it does . "Surely not colder as we are constantly being told about global warming![/quote]http://www.athropolis.com/map2.htmNote position of Alert on the map just North of Greenland ............August 15th this year temperature minus 4C . This appears to be the coldest August the 15th since records began in 1950.
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The wind at the moment seems to be coming down from the North The Arctic this summer was one of the coldest recorded the usual 90 days of Arctic warm was less than half and the ice is building up fast ... So I read in the Science publications .....the feeling is that cold in the North will come south. It will be fun in the snow for many when it does .
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[quote user="gardengirl "]How strange - and I've only had half a glass of wine! We seem to be back on the 2009/2010 thread instead of the 2013 one! [8-)][/quote]Well spotted !
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[quote user="Chancer"]
You must remember to do that Derek!
Having got a rebate several years ago for the same reasons as above I keep forgetting to inform them of a change of status (silly me!) and it has not re-appeared on the following years demands, in fact it has been so long that I dont realise that something is missing from my TDH bill [;-)]
I have yet to recieve this years bill, perhaps it will be on it this time, has everyone else already got their bills?
[/quote] Yes..............and you might be pleased to know ......this year .....audiovisual ..........E131.00 -
[quote user="You can call me Betty"]Clair, we non-residents get a letter each year asking us to confirm we don't have a TV. That's how the fact we don't complete a tax form is overcome. Basically, if you DO have a TV (or whatever) you need do nothing, whereas if you don't, you must return the form as a declaration to say so.[/quote]Correct ! Do nothing you get the charge.... and they should do the same in the UK IMO
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The high costs of the Health here are also under discussion Norman . But unlike France and reading your link about the fiddles I suspect our Transport is better controlled under the watch of the Ambulance Service...... as it is here .Its a pity you don't have the volunteer system As I know in France there are many people who willingly give their time supporting those in their communities who may need it in may ways A community transport system would not be difficult to set up .... But ....I can see the unions kicking off if it was . The transport costs to patients / insurance you quote are shocking .... The people I take get a free ride as my Ambulance Service does not make a charge ....some of the patients I take probably would not make it back if I asked them for the sort of money you had to pay .
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Norman Wrote : Can no-one see that the 'villains' (or at any rate the ones who make the money out of the system and so take the resources) are those who milk the state for what they can get: transport providers; I do not know any " Villains " who do this in France Norman or know what they get paid .... But this "transport provider " in the UK like many I know from all walks of life who have the time in their retirement to "work " from 8 in the morning to 5 or 6 in the evening "Milks " the system for 45 pence a mile a price not changed since 2008 . Uses his own car and puts in a number of days in a week as required .Can also get called out to run somebody into hospital from a doctors evening surgery . "Transport Providers " can spend all day waiting for patients to have their treatment and end up driving no more than 50 miles a lot in bumper to bumper traffic so Norman there is no profit in it to the "milk" the state for .
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[quote user="sweet 17"]
Betty, aren't they now talking about doing away with walk-in centres as they are deemed not to be cost effective?
I am not sure of my facts here but I thought I caught in passing, that is in passing between the dog and the husband playing on the floor, a bit of an interview with somebody or other about this?
Would be interesting if you could comment as I thought that these walk-in centres were an excellent alternative if you were sort of between boil on the bum and gasping your last?
[/quote] New role of the Emergency Care Practitioner Paramedic will be to take on these sorts of patient who dial 999 and treat them so they don,t have to go to A&E . Graduate entry paramedics will be trained to deal with a lot more than the old "Ambulance Man " with a first aid kit that many of us were used to coming into contact with when we injured ourselves in our younger days ..... A good thing too ! I see a lot of people sitting in A&E waiting to be seen who really are not an emergency and by the look of many and listening to them they may not have got round to registering themselves with a doctor .... Some bring the whole family so there can be half a dozen people demanding immediate care for one of them... A& E staff in the UK need the patience of Job just to deal with all the stuff that is associated with their task in patching people up . -
Next year is going to be interesting when it comes to who does and who does not go to vote . http://www.diplomaticourier.com/news/regions/eurozone/1911-french-nationalism-and-euroscepticism-sign-of-greater-discontent-in-eu-elections
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This is all very interesting and I would like to install camera / light motion detect equipment at my place . My insurer insists if the house is to be shut down over 30 days then power and water have to be turned off ... Kind of makes things difficult with a holiday home does it not ! I have caught a swarthy looking type inside my gates who produced scruffy photos of roofs before and after cleaning ...I have been lucky so far but people round me all have dogs which helps .
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Is there not some privacy thing the French have a hissy fit over when it comes to people installing cameras ?
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[quote user="You can call me Betty"]Back to the postcode lottery, I guess. OH was taken by the pompiers to our local A&E in France after a nasty fall from his bike. I think we were there for 4 hours and he came out still covered in blood which they couldn't be bothered to clean off. He had to have about 3 months of treatment back in the UK for an injury they didn't even detect whilst he was in hospital in France. And when the pompiers came for him it turned out he'd chosen to have his accident bang on the line between the jurisdiction of two different hospitals, so two lots of pompiers turned up and spent 15 minutes arguing the toss about who was going to take him, and to which hospital, whilst he sat there in pain.[/quote]Which gets me thinking ...........Just how well trained are the "medics " provided by the pompiers .?... Are they scoop you up and run for the hospital or are they trained well enougth enough to stabilise patients at the scene or in the ambulance before leaving your home ? . I ask because if I need them in France I know that the doctor near the place they keep the ambulance if he is available sometimes turns out and goes with them if he needs to So just how well trained are they ? Can they give injections ? Do they even carry morphine ?
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What is in the dog chews ? Any trace of a meat product that would be caught up in the import banning regulations that the French put in place after the BSE outbreak that are still enforced ?
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http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/11/11/french_president_francois_hollande_booed_during_ceremony_to_mark_end_of_wwi.htmlNo matter how unpopular a President is its out of order to choose this day for a protest . Is this a first for France ?..... if so I would hope its a last !
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[quote user="Quillan"]I just had a rummage round the Internet to try and discover exactly what happened i.e. the cause of death etc but cannot find anything. Is there any news of what actually happened and her exact cause of death?[/quote]
The body of missing British expat Carol Sheridan was found Wednesday
at the foot of a rocky cliff in the Haute-Savoie region of the French Alps, police said."The death seems consistent with a fall from a considerable height," a spokesman told AFP.
From "Global Post "
Another report I read stated her death was instant ..... Its all very sad and I truly feel for her relatives in their loss . Carol's reports on some of her walks in the region described being on very narrow ledges and wire rope attached to cliff walls to give support When she was reported missing I did wonder if she was on one of those ledges ... A very brave lady doing what she loved ..... writing about it ....and who will be missed by many....
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This explains things well http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/09/business/international/standard-poors-downgrades-france.html?_r=0
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[quote user="Mrs Trellis"]Why is this posted under 'The lighter side'? It's not very amusing! [/quote]One the day my curser had a mind of its own....and its below "Other Topics " OK I should have deleted it ......GUILTY ...
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[quote user="Mrs Trellis"]Why is this posted under 'The lighter side'? It's not very amusing! [/quote]One the day my curser had a mind of its own....and its below "Other Topics " OK I should have deleted it ......GUILTY ...
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He looks happy in his job !
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/a-giant-leap-for-india-proud-nation-counts-down-to-mars-launch-8918125.html
Mr Bagla, the journalist, said that India can afford to
spend on both science and poverty reduction. Others say the problem is not a lack of money for social programmes, but that corruption and bad administration means the issues are not tackled"There
are around 400m Indians without electricity. There are 600m who defecate in the open and living lives of utter poverty," he said. "But do you think $100m is going to make any difference. There are already social problems spending billions of dollars."They don't need the hundreds of millions of pounds from the UK or the Euro Zone then do they ?
Britain sleeping walking out of EU
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