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  1. You can't pick and choose which bits of the regulations you will accept. You either have a free market economy or some state control.For example books cannot be discounted by more than 5% in France. Probably unacceptable to the UK thinking. Mortgages in France are restricted to a certain percentage of your disposable income and generally may not continue after the mortgagee retires. No 125% mortgages here.
  2. Can one of you intelligent bods please confirm or correct my understanding of our sat dish situation. We have UK freeview from one dish which I believe is set up on Astra2 We have another dish which received TPS. It was already on the (high) chimney and the installer did not fancy going up and moving it. This I think will be pointing at Hotbird 13° E. I believe that TNT uses Astra 1 19°E as TPS/canal+ will do by the end of the year. Does this mean that it is unusable for receiving TNT ?    
  3. Driving up to the channel one time we stopped for our bit of snap in an aire. We only had sandwiches and fruit. When we saw the French with tableclothes, glasses etc etc we sluk away into a quiet spot!
  4. I have a very cheap one , probably what is called "badge engineered" It is fine, makes a 700 or 900 g loaf. The instructions are in French but they are simple. They just give you the ingredients and the sequence in which to put them in. It has 12 different programs including pizza and jam. I would suggest this may be the way to go in case you go off the idea or get bored with it.
  5. I've taken to reading Figaro as an antidote to the pink spec brigade. A few days previously a teenager killed her granny for €6000.
  6. I don't know about tax implications but the 40sq m rule applies when calculating the house value for insurance purposes so perhaps it also affects the tax hab and fonciere.
  7. [quote user="ErnieY"]  A burgeoning world population, fuel and food and water shortages, anybody else think the film Soylent Green is beginning to look less and less far fetched [+o(]   [/quote] Check http://www.emi.u-bordeaux.fr/public/asimov/saveearth.html
  8. Can get a bit more complicated as a sejour over a certain size (25sq m ?) counts as 2 pieces.
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