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Having a fake driving licence card won't cut it from this year - the police/gendarmes will have mobile access to the databases.

Ooops!🤣

Two recent events - the price of the diesel fuel they must use, the marginal profitabilty of their boats depends to a large extent on the price of the fuel, a few cents per litre increase means they are running at at a loss because of the amount they use. And Biscay fishermen are on a month's lay off to protect dolphins which get caught in the nets - breeding season etc.

"I cannot understand why the system in the USA can select a convicted sex offender" You need to understand that Donald Trump is not a convicted sex offender. It was a civil case not a criminal prosecution. https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/05/16/no-trump-is-not-required-to-register-as-a-sex-offender-fact-check/70217795007/ Now let's look at some real lying and corruption with all the bank records and copies of cheques now in the public domain. Yes it's the lifting of the stone that the Biden Crime Family has been hiding under and look what slithered out ! "Joe Biden received $40,000 in laundered China money from the account of his brother, James Biden, and his sister-in-law, Sara Biden, in the form of a personal check (including an image of the cheque) https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-reveals-how-joe-biden-received-laundered-china-money/ And that's just the tip of the Biden family chinese-dollar iceberg. Why hasn't Biden been prosecuted, impeached, etc?

Why on earth would would any sane person in the USA vote for Biden? Apart from the media concocted "Orange Man Bad" faction of course!

Erratum - I have just been corrected by MOH - we have been transferred from the 15 year registration register to the life registration register or list or whatever.😠

We contacted our local authority where we have been registered to vote for the last 14 years and they have told us that we are still registered, we will be transferred to the 15 years list and there will be no requirement for us to register every year.

Those of us who use MF may have noticed recently as I have. the disjointed and slightly odd forecasts of temperatures. Examples include the 7 day forecast not matching the daily forecast and the 15 day not agreeing with thre 7 day forecast. There could be a reason for this:- “Staff at Météo-France will go on strike this week, claiming ‘absurd mistakes’ are being accelerated by loss of human oversight” “Since Nov 13, weather forecast data models have been crunched together via an algorithm and then directly sent to Météo-France’s internet site or mobile application. The software that has led to the strike has predicted that the eastern city of Strasbourg will hit a baking 28C on Dec 9 despite it currently experiencing freezing temperatures” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/12/04/algorithm-replaced-weather-forecasters-december-heatwave/ Before the time of storm Ciaran I started using ventusky.com and have found it very accurate as regards local actual and forecast temperature. You get temps, winds direction/strength, baro pressures for your location and loads more. Meteo is basically not worth using a the moment.

It's not quite as simple now as how cajal describes it, it was before 2007 when I had an enduring power of attorney over my mother's affairs, the subject has now got much more complicated and has introduced the issue of mental capacity. For information on POA's explained in plain language see this:- https://www.ageuk.org.uk/globalassets/age-uk/documents/information-guides/ageukig21_powers_of_attorney_inf.pdf As you will see when you read it - you need to act now while your mother has mental capacity. Getting a solicitor to assist is probably a good idea, particulary with buying your sister out of her share of the property.

"Activist" As soon as anybody is introduced as an "activist" for any cause - I reach for the off switch or change the channel.

"Is the machine unleaded or leaded fuel fed? If you use the wrong fuel or mix or not you can cause the engine valves to burn out" "2 - strokes don't usually have valves.

This happened to OH a couple of weeks ago who ordered items from M&S france. It states on the website for M&S france:- "Do I have pay to any customs and/or duty charges? No, there is no additional customs duties or tax to pay now the UK has left the EU" A week or so after the delivery by Fedex she got an invoice in the post from Fedex demanding €17 She referred it back to M&S who said it should not have been charged.

But the UK doesn't issue a CDS, it's a tatty bit of paper called a "right to remain".

Same with me but what if, when you came to renew it, they said you don't earn enough I am certain that having applied for, and been approved, for the issue of a CDS, having declared your income when you origially applied for it, there is no requirement to establish your income level upon the occasion of your CDS renewal. In other words, having been issued with a CDS you are entitled to renew it for the rest of your life.

The French government is also looking to restrict immigration from certain countries. The number of French visas issued for Algeria will be reduced by 50 percent The French government’s plan was announced on Tuesday in response to North African governments’ refusal to take back undocumented migrants sent home by French authorities. “We will reduce the number of visas very significantly,” Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said in Paris on Wednesday. The number of visas issued for Algeria and Morocco will be reduced by 50 percent, while visas granted for Tunisian nationals will be reduced by two thirds, he added. The minister said the step was taken because the three countries refused to take back some of their own nationals, who were expelled from France because they had committed crimes, had become “radicalised” or had no residence permit. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/29/algeria-summons-french-envoy-over-visa-restriction-plan

The first thing to know about these low volume cars, as with the voitures sans -permis is that the level of built- in crash protection for the occupants is not to the same standard as normal cars - would not consider one for that very reason. Why buy something like the car you featured when you can buy a Dacia Spring EV from the mainstream Renault/Dacia brand at a comparable price? €15800? https://www.dacia.fr/gamme-electrique-et-hybride/spring-electrique.html

I had never heard of Doves Farm yeast so looked it up - it's made in France !! https://www.dovesfarm.co.uk/products/quick-yeast-1x125g Click on ingredients = Made in France I usually use Allinsons yeast.

You need to follow the standard procedure for transferring the registration from yourselves to your buyer. The best way to do this if you are uncertain about the procedure is to use an agent or garage. You go to the agent with the buyer and it's done on the spot. https://www.eplaque.fr/en/vehicle-ownership-transfer-france

Not me - we aren't on a grue flight path here in Brittany!

It wasn't mentioned because it didn't happen as foretold.

More on Starlink's status with the French government. https://ts2.space/en/starlinks-regulations-and-the-french-authorities/#gsc.tab=0

Mobile signal from SFR has been a problem here since mid-October despite complaints - not just us, our local bar tabac in the town also has the same lack of signal with his bank card machine. OH's Leclerc/Reglo/SFR mobile payg account has about €25 on it so she will run that out and change to Free which has 5G. Our copper land line broadband connection, whilst adequate under normal circumstances sans tempete, will not go to fibre anytime soon or ever, as there are not enough potential subscribers out here in the woods to warrant their investment in fibre so the service will never improve and may deteriorate due to lack of maintenance. Starlink's monthly fee is the same as the orange/nordnet but for us the Orange/Nordnet hardware is zero cost in a white zone but we would have to pay for installation and setup- no setup fee needed for Starlink. Orange/Nordnet comes with the free phone call deal - starlink doesn't AFAIK. Not generally known is that Starlink is technically illegal in France - typical Elon Musk! https://www.presse-citron.net/pourquoi-starlink-risque-detre-interdit-en-france/ So still thinking about it all !

Firstly Martin, rural France isn't Devon - the power lines and the phone lines are all on poles around here, falling trees take them both out in a storm, lack of mains power then takes the phone masts out. And then you sit there incommunicado for 2-3 days, it's true that our generator lets us keep the lights, sat TV and a modest tranche of electrical appliances working but we do need access to email etc as to pay bills we are now on email card transaction authorisation since our SFR phones went out 2 weeks before the storm. I've looked at Starlink very critically and there is uncertainty about the level of tree obstructions it will cope with, granted it's a very clever system but our situation is we have a lot of very tall trees mostly all around our immediate horizon, and ASFAIK there is not a phone deal possible with Starlink. With mains power from our generator we had a satellite TV connection during and after the storm when nothing else was working, that's the incentive to looking at the Orange/Nordnet proposal for broadband and phone particularly as:- "Keep your existing land line phone number and make unlimited calls to landlines in mainland France and 50 other destinations, and unlimited calls to mobiles in mainland France and 8 other destinations" I've also looked up the dish pointing direction and elevation for the Eutelsat Konnect VHTS satellite and we have a clear line of sight from the gable end of our house to the satellite. And as this new offer is backed by the French state there is a good chance it will be better than the old system.