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Harnser

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  1. 52 minutes ago, cajal said:

    Exactly.  Checking google earth, around here you would be hard pushed to find a property 'sans piscine' and the size of those installed are probably visible with the naked eye  from the international space station. I also doubt very much whether any of these pools are operated with 'eco' in mind, as succinctly described above. We had ours filled in, and a house extension built upon it eleven years ago.

    COP 26, a pseudonym for another global jolly. Can someone remind me how the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, nuclear weapons being a far greater threat to the human race, founded in London, England in 1958 is succeeding?

    Still a bit of a way to go yet apparently

    Tha CND mindset and influence that anything nuclear is bad, is alive and doing fine in the UK and has always hindered the only sensible solution to the UK's long term electricity generation - nuclear power.

    Ignoring the fact that the old Magnox reactors designed to produce weapons grade plutonium are a different design to current power generating reactors.

    All the old Magnox reactors have been shut down in the UK.

    They produced heat as a by- product of the plutonium process. Current reactors are designed to produce heat for power generation and are much more efficient. 

    That's why the UK has to use gas for about 50% of it's power generation which produces huge quantitties of pollution, while at the same time lecturing the rest of the world that pollution is bad.

  2. I would support a national policy whereby La Chasse is authorised to hunt every other Sunday, by commune and at no other time.

    Then we would  know 100% where we stand.

    This would give some relief to dog  walkers, mushroom pickers etc, who just want to wander in the woods of a Sunday, without the risk of getting shot.

    Our local rules are far from clear, and frequently we come across official looking triangular road signs that proclaim "Chasse" on any day of the week - very helpful - not! 

  3. 38 minutes ago, NormanH said:

    " The world cannot return to the pre-Industrial Revolution ever."   It may well go back well before that to a period when it was uninhabited and uninhabitable.

    As for school it is half-term here in France...

    You might like to consider a different perspective on uninhabitable.

    Stand outside and look directly upwards. You are only five miles away from freezing to death. The temperature at that height is minus 30 to 35 C

    Be glad about that nice warming blanket of atmosphere that keeps you warm. 

  4. 39 minutes ago, Gardian said:

    Two windups in a week, is one (or even two) too many.

     

    I would be interested as to whether you think this article is a "wind up".

    Extract.

    • "It is like humidity in a house. Initially the threat is invisible...." — Boualem Sansal, Algerian novelist, L'Express.

    • Bfmtv interviewed Fewzi Benhabib, a resident of Saint-Denis. Since his arrival from Algeria 25 years ago, he found in France the ideology from which he was fleeing in his former country "For the Islamists, it is a question of Islamizing modernity, not modernizing Islam."

    • Next year, France will decide to try to save itself or continue to sink. Either way, it will unleash a tsunami that will not stop at its borders and instead flood all of Western Europe.

    • "Where Islam takes hold, it is forever. Islamism is based on Islam, which no one has the right to criticize. But in your countries it also plays a role in democracy and in the rule of law. Islamism exploits these values. Since democracy recognizes all opinions, from the far right to the far left, it is obliged to recognize Islam as well. All those who do not commit attacks or violent acts are, in principle, protected in a state of law. Islamism thus immediately finds itself in a conquered terrain. It is necessary to fight Islamism from the beginning. Because it is like humidity in a house. Initially the threat is invisible, it penetrates the walls which, little by little, crumble. When you realize it is too late, you have to destroy everything to clean up. It becomes a mission impossible. France is at the stage where it has just discovered that Islam is eroding her home".

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      In the book Grand Manipulateur, the journalist Marc Endeweld reveals what France's President Emmanuel Macron says in private on the sensitive issues of immigration:

      "The Elysée employees have confided to me that in recent months, especially on the issue of immigration, Macron has not hesitated, in front of his colleagues, to take up Éric Zemmour's formulas on the Great Replacement. He is obsessed with it".

      The ostensible "fault" of the French historian Georges Bensoussan was to declare on the radio that immigrants from Middle Eastern countries absorb anti-Semitism from an early age like "mother's milk." He was put on trial for incitement to hatred and finally cleared after four years. Bensoussan recently told Le Figaro what is happening to his country:

      "For safety reasons, Jewish children have massively abandoned public education. In the suburbs, there is a climate that recalls the worst memories of the Jewish Maghreb. It is a French defeat and not a Jewish defeat, because the whole of French society is threatened by what threatens Jews today. The Seine-Saint-Denis has lost 80% of its Jewish population in 20 years".

      Link to complete article.

      https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17843/france-election-immigration

       

      

  5. 13 hours ago, anotherbanana said:

    How nice to see old members back again; Thought they had retired to be grandparents!

    I was a member back in the mists of time, but somehow it became difficult and subsequently impossible to log in despite multiple password resets which didn't work. And then there was an email yesterday inviting me to reset my password which worked!

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  6. On 14/08/2021 at 15:35, chessfou2 said:

    Having recently sent an old Mondeo (essence) to scrap, leaving us with a Focus (diesel) and a new Zoe, I have been doing a 'back of fag packet' calculation of fuel cost.

    For 100km it seems that our costs are (approximately):

    Focus €8-9

    Zoe €2 (heures creuses) €3 (heures pleines) - EDF Bleu.

    Anyone else been making calculations?

    You seem to have omitted the cost of purchasing your new Zoe from your calculations, and the cost of deprecation, which has already clocked 25% the instant you took delivery of it. Not to mention the loss of any interest that the capital might have made had it remained in the bank assuming you didn't finance it via a lease or similar.

    So you spent around €30 k to reduce your 100 km fuel cost from the Focus cost of €8 to €9 to the cost of 2 or 3 euro for the Zoe.

    Forgive me for thinking that with any car the major cost of running it over a period of time isn't the fuel cost unless you are doing starship mileages - it's the depreciation! 

     

  7. [quote user="Judith"]Good to hear that Mrs KG.

    I've got to change my driving licence soon, but hanging on in the hope that one day they will have sorted the problems!

    [/quote]

    I've been changing my driving licence since last September, and I still haven't got an actual licence.

    I've got a copy of my old valid UK licence and their "attestation" but no actual licence.

    There seems to be no end to the variety of dumb questions they choose to ask.

    Such as -"Are you a resident in France?"

    Answer- Please see carte de sejour copy which I sent you - please note it states "permanent resident"

    It makes you wonder if the staff they are employing can actually read!

    "How much did they charge, if you don’t mind me asking?"

    That's the strange bit - there is no charge apparently.

  8. My application has been in since mid september last year.

    I had an email enquiry from them in January asking if I was resident.

    This despite having sent in, with all the rest of the stuff they want, a photocopy of my Titre de Sejour card, to obtain which you have to prove that you have been resident for 5 years +

    More staff training needed at Nantes methinks.
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