TWINKLE Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 Ding! Ding! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miki Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 No I think on this occasion Twinks, he has perhaps the choice to believe me or dump everything I have ever offered him. Of course, I may not be right on some things to do with Gîtes and C d'Hôtes but I do try to keep those things off a forum. So it's mind the platform please and move along , this bus is going to Hounslow via Clapham.................ding ding [:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Katie Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 And please mind the gap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miki Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 Wasn't that on the trains though Katie ? I am confused by my ears [:)] or is it years ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 Or, as the painters on our local station wrote it after a liquid lunch, wiup the gap. (Turn it upside down) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miki Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 Damn you Dick, I have just dropped the monitor on the floor trying to turn it upside down. See what bad advice can do [:)]THE greatest is on BBC 4............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tresco Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 [quote user="Miki"]Damn you Dick, I have just dropped the monitor on the floor trying to turn it upside down. [:)][/quote]I have just banged my head against the wall trying to read it.So that's a double damn, then.[:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miki Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 So let's hope Dick did damage himself then.See what they did do, put the stencil around the wrong way.....I was that man [:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frederick Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 A few years ago it was explained to me why a UK fisherman took his catch into a port in Britanny and not the UK. It appeared that when he landed his catch in Newlyn he had his boat pounced on by fishery inspectors busting a gut to examine every fish on board to catch him out landing undersized fish and penalize him should they find one .. In the Brittany port he was permitted to select fish from his catch box it up and present it to the fishery inspectors for examination .....no doubt on both sides of the channel all the correct paperwork can be produced to show every fishing boat had its catch inspected on arrival..... which side of the water is playing by the correct rules here then ... when it comes to fishery inspection ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frederick Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 I meant to add in France people give the impression at times that rules seem to be there to be broken ......a way of life ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miki Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 Of course, it most certainly is Frederick BUT when one gets a controle of any kind in France, it often comes over to an individual or company, that one is paying for the transgressions of others not yet caught.Believe me, I have seen what happens when Impôts get their teeth in to anyone, so called, breaking the rules, one soon forgets that it is supposed to be a way of life.What appears to be shown on TV and in the popular press in Britain, is in no way the reality here. There are many ways of working on the black, in ways that many French will see as fair game (those boundaries are very well known) but there are people in authority here, who every day are checking out folks, who they believe are transgressing the rules and are seen as witholding funds that France right now, could well do with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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