babcock
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I don't want the service. I want to use the Leclerc service with the phone that I bought from Carrefour. If I just buy the SIM from Leclerc will it work or has the phone been locked. I know that this happens otherwise why would there be so many sites to help unlocking. A supplier is not going to sell you a phone at a discount if you can then use it on any network you please. I am getting the impression that no one actually understands my question. Probably me being poor at explaining (or so MOH says)
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I will try to explain a bit better. The unlock code must be some sort of algorithm. It could be based on the IMEI, and the original service provider or the IMEI and the provider of the SIM physically sitting in the phone. In the later case putting the locked SIM into the old phone should? work. I suppose it depends on exactly what is locked. As I say I don't understand these things and I may be talking a lot of rot.
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I did not top up my Carrefour mobile in time and so the SIM validity ran out. I could get it unlocked but I don't like the phone anyway. I have unearthed an ancient Nokia but it has no SIM. Can I put the SIM from the Carrefour phone into the Nokia and unlock it? I know the IMEI and the Nokia model. Ta in advance
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A friend who is a good cook, apprenticed to a top chef decades ago, invited his neighbours round for a real English roast.
He gave them roast beef and Yorkshire pudding "pudding with the meat!", plated all together "you have the vegetables with the meat?" and "are these vegetbles al la dente?". He served them cheese after the desert "this is the wrong way round!" Still they enjoyed the experience.
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Where are you? I have a friend who has the equipment.
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Does anyone remember Tom Jones's original nose? It was a good characterful conk. What he has now(for many years) is a pathetic snubby thing. I have this theory that Tom Jones's original nose sits somewhere growing older while the one he currently sports sits there , on his face, not ageing at all. Shades of Dorian Grey.
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Frenchie, I think that you are developing an English sense of humour.
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[quote user="hindo"]Carpets should only be shampooed 4 times a year at most. Constant exposure to water and soaps will degrade the carpet and pushes the dirt into the padding, which, if you don't extract all the water, will end up moldy. Vaccuum weekly, spot clean where necessary but save the deep cleaning for special occassions.[/quote]
4 times a year! Ours get done once a year after the fire is put out for the last time. Wood burning fires are mucky - even an insert- and the amount of sludge that we throw away is astonishing.
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My SIL left this person's book behind when she came to stay. I tried to read it but couldn't get into it. Very lightweight, much like this article.
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Another oddity in the French view of business is that "it doesn't matter that the immos fee is 8% because it's the buyer who pays" A local immo put his fee down to 5% and was visited by a rival immo who said they all had to charge the same and threatened him with the gendarmes.
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Our village had a wine cave. These days after modifications and extensions it is also a small(ish) Spar market. They will even deliver your groceries. It would be profitable on its Sunday morning trade alone! It's open 8:30 - 7:30 and yes it does shut for lunch. I have never been the only customer whatever time I have been in. It's a family business and a great asset to the village.
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The industrial stuff can certainly be used for cooking, it's just that it has no more flavour than 5% sulphuric acid or hydrochloric acid
Is that the type the Austrians use in wine ?
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I thought that that was antifreeze?
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It has nutritional values on it so I don't think that it is the cleaning kind.
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According to my recipe for raspberry vinegar the vinegar to use is 5% acidity. I can only find 8% cristal. Can I just dilute it 60/40?
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I think our Super U has them in the fishing bait section.
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I have a maiden name, a name from my first marriage and my husband's name. It was simple in the UK and to change from my first husband's name to my second was going to involve costs so I didn't do it. So if I am being forced into changing by French intransigence how do I go about changing the name on my passport?
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I went to a "progressive" primary school in greater London, back when Adam was a lad and times tables were not taught. As an adult I had lots of problems with arithmetic due to this although I achieved a good GCE in Maths.
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True they don't hang their meat for long enough. A retired French chef of my aquaintance agrees. He used to buy a side of beef and then hang it for another week or so. If you are anywhere near Correze a local (English) farmer is proposing to market meat hung as the brits like it.
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I had a friend who had never had a regular boyfriend, went to Italy on holiday when she was 18, fell for a German lad - love at first sight- and has now been married to him for 40 years. How's that for following you gut instinct.
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I understood that unless the bathroom was very small you MUST have a socket in there.
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Regarding insurance excess you can take out an annual policy to cover this. "Loss damage excess reimbursement insurance" We used insurance4carhire.com but there are various offers. Picking up and dropping off at an airport means that you are limited in the availability of special offers but I would try using the UK sites for Budget etc as booking direct with French sites seems more expensive.
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Could it be a strawberry tree - Arbutus unedo. Google it for info and pictures
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[;-)]Apparently peeing in the pool raises the PH
Never on a Sunday or, in France, any other day either
in The Complete France Post Bag
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So Normie, you are a man of two properties. Hmmm, so much for pleading poverty![6]
Anyway, driving round as I do and seeing both loadsa markets and empty properties, it strikes me as odd that the latter are not inhabited by people in the arts and crafts fields, the results of whose labours could be sold in said markets. France seems to have a dearth of such things.
[/quote]Such peaple would, no doubt, have to be registered and have to pay cotisations etc. As George Bush said "do the French have a word for entrepreneur?"