Harnser
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Welcome back Noisette - good to hear your opinion again!
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14 minutes ago, DaveLister said:
I know Brittany very well. My family came from there and I have relatives in the vicinity to where I'm thinking of setting up shop. I was more interested in the mechanics of running a second home in France. How do you run the day to day managing of a property remotely? Do you pay an agency or rely on neighbours. What types of property should you avoid?
Things that spring to mind are:-
If no mains drainage avoid fosse systems that rely on electrical power to function - power cuts etc
Avoid properties with a lot of trees, arborists are a lot harder to engage than a regular guy to keep the grass down and the garden tidy.
Make sure whatever you buy has a good tight roof - old slates crack and leak, no tiled roofs north of the Loire!
Most local gite owners will do keyholding and regular inspections for a modest charge.
Etc Etc
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24 minutes ago, menthe said:
The many times I have been in Brittany, I have always found that 56 is considerably warmer than 22.
Have you found this also, harnser?
I believe the wet part is Finisterre and we were warned about that by a French friend when we were househunting.
Pretty much true about that 56 is warmer than 22 - probably due to the high ground - the "Mur" = Wall that runs roughly
east/west along the middle of the Brittany peninsula.
Drought last year, no drought this year, although the prefecture is trying to talk up a drought as we have had 2-3 weeks without any significant rain.
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Brittany isn't necessarily wet and it can be hot here - it was very hot in July last year. This was the temperature outside our kitchen door on July 18th 2022 at about 5.30 pm.
We are in postcode 56310.
A good source of historical weather data for just about anywhere going back 14 years https://www.timeanddate.com/
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1 hour ago, menthe said:
"The point is that a very large company like GmbH should have spares for their machines."
Errm - cough cough
What Is GmbH?
GmbH is an abbreviation of the German phrase “Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung,” which means “company with limited liability.” It’s a suffix used after a private limited company’s name in Germany (vs. AG, for aktiengesellschaft, which is used to indicate a public limited company).1 GmbH is the equivalent of LLC (limited liability company), used in the United States, or Ltd. (limited), used in the United Kingdom, and is the most common form of incorporation in Germany.
1 hour ago, menthe said: -
We ran breadmaker(s) for about 4-5 years after coming to France and found that the paddles/stirrers and the shaft and seals that turns them wear out quite quickly at a rate of 2-3 loaves per 7 days. So it makes sense to buy a well known mainstream make where repair parts are readily available. We stopped making our own complet loaves because we could get a decent complet loaf from Aldi. Now they have changed their supplier so that their complet loaves are the same as Lidl which are not really complet. So we may go back to using a bread maker again if we can find a source of wholewheat flour.
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Looked up Arebos UK and they seem to do just one breadmaker.
https://www.arebos.co.uk/en_gb/home-living/kitchen/bread-maker/bread-maker-1500g-white.html
Replacement paddles for Arebos breadmaker - (model number unspecified as they probably only do one model)
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21 hours ago, crabtree said:
Is your car still insured. Normally once you are resident in France your UK insurance stops.
Also if you have not imported it within one month of being here then you are breaking the law, and likely to have it confiscated if stopped.
Referring to this guide on importing/registration it appears that the period is 6 months not one month.
https://www.french-property.com/guides/france/driving-in-france/vehicle-importation-registration
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8 hours ago, alittlebitfrench said:
Buy a LHD car in France.
Take that one off the road.
Go through the hoops of importing it. That will give your first real experience of France.
Once done, you can sell it on Le Bon Coin at a higher price than in the UK.
Not much chance of selling a RHD car on Leboncoin - but worth a try.
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I seriously doubt that any french car dealer would risk buying in or taking in part ex a UK registered RHD car unless they are insane.
The possibilities of getting landed with a car that cannot be registered in France are endless depending on what the car is, condition and original source of the car.
Importing is a minefield of paperwork, and import taxes have to be paid making it uneconomic to import RHD UK cars any more.
There is an english owned garage near Lyon who seems to get involved with LHD and RHD part exchanging and they have some RHD vehicles for sale so presumably will take them in on part ex. If anybody can sort you out if it's possible they can.
https://www.gary-automobiles.com/product-category/used-vehicle/ (Click on used vehicles)
Apart from that,your best course of action is to advertise it for sale on as many brit expat forums as you can, many brits don't want LHD french cars, and hire a car in the interim between selling it and buying a french car.
Some supermarket chains offer cars and vans for short and long term hire at better rates than the well known hire co's, SuperU and Intermarche spring to mind.
https://location.intermarche.com/nos-vehicules/
Edit - There is an english owned garage near us in Brittany who also buys and sells cars LHD and RHD and his daughter does the french registration procedures.
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"TV reports this year seems to be "sur le quivive" with regard to the pompiers and the forest fires"
I've seen references to that phrase in books about the Royal Flying Corps in France in WW1 "on the qui vive for the Hun"
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2 hours ago, cajal said:
Perhaps:
$1300000 outstanding on Stormy Daniels debt.
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$90000 to cover whom ever bankrolled the original payment to her.
But that isn't corruption Biden -style is it?
Corruption is where somebody or country pays the president/vice president to obtain their influence or favour in some way, like the Biden crime family has been been receiving the payments for years on behalf of Joe Biden.
Paying a call girl off is the entire opposite!
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9 hours ago, anotherbanana said:
Not sure I would want to cite the Federalist as source of good balanced material; looks like the usual right wing bilge.
But you didn't comment on the link to the Guardian story? A source of good balanced material? Since when?
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You can say what you like about Donald Trump, he is many things, wild, loud, unpredictable etc, but not corrupt or bent, you can be sure that the combined resources of the Democrats and the FBI would have uncovered any corruption by now.
DT didn't even take his presidential salary - he donated it to various government departments.
It is a matter of record that the Bidens are seriously bent and corrupt to tune of 20 to 30 million dollars from foreign governments, this is not Guardian gossip but proven by solid evidence of bank records and sworn testimony etc to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability of the US congress.
https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Third-Bank-Records-Memorandum_Redacted.pdf
You need to ask yourselves why the mainstream media has not reported on the fact that the President of the USA is taking bribes from foreign sources for influence!
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Corporate media enabled Biden family corruption by refusing to ask tough questions about Hunter. They should not regain Americans’ trust.
"There is more evidence that the man leading our nation sold out his country to enrich his family than there ever was in the FBI’s Russian collusion witch hunt; the corrupt corporate media simply doesn’t care enough to hold the current president accountable"
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What should concern you is not photoshopped images of the ex-president of the USA for the purpose of denigrating him and making him a figure of fun but irrefutable evidence that the current president is head of a crime family.
https://nypost.com/2022/01/27/chinese-elite-have-paid-some-31m-to-hunter-and-the-bidens/
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No mention on this onion sub-forum of the Oignon de Roscoff? They are pink, sweet, crunchy, slightly peppery and tasty in salads or cooking.
The origin of the english stereotype of the frenchman, blue and white striped jersey, beret, with plaits of onions strung on his bike is Breton not really French.
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Calm down everybody, apparently that was a video taken 10 years ago of a fire involving gas cylinders.
Why would anybody make up a story to cover it? I've no idea.
https://www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/194240/tesla---do-ev
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18 minutes ago, alittlebitfrench said:
Survive France has just imploded. Lol.
And it was not an electric car catching fire bringing it down.
On the subject of electric cars exploding, a video recently taken by a french traffic officer of a Tesla on fire after being hit from behind by another Tesla is quite spectacular.
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It makes a change from the lamestream media scaremongering of late that the world is burning up, all the weather maps are splashed with red and we are all going to disappear in a cloud of blue steam next week.
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7 hours ago, crabtree said:
Be careful with the other sellers on Amazon, they can be difficult with returns and refunds. They do not come under the same conditions as Amazon themselves, especially if they are French (we know how the French are so good at customer service). I know from personal experience with other sellers and I only buy from them is there really is no other option.
We have experience with Amazon regarding refunds for goods sold by Amazon supplied by third party sellers.
Long story short, we bought a high end Dell laptop from Amazon and had a long trail of woe with it including remote operation/diagnostics by Dell, reprogramming, 2 home visits from Dell engineers replacing hardware etc etc. During one interaction with Dell we found out that the device was on their records as a refurb, but it was advertised by Amazon as new.
(Always keep a screenshot of the amazon webpage that advertised it & where you bought it from)
Within less than a week we had a full refund of the cost - around £500 and they didn't want it back.
The absurd thing was by that time the laptop was behaving itself and we carried on using it for 3-4 years after that!
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On 20/07/2023 at 20:59, menthe said:
Harnser, I WAS looking at a "samsung galaxy something or other" if only because it's a name I recognise! Hmmm I'll wait a bit for other comments🙂
Lori, I looked up the One Plus Nord and it is apparently Chinese made. Not that I think Chinese spies are looking at all my textos but maybe I'll keep looking a bit more!
Thanks both for your input.
OH is a smartphone addict and when I ask her to answer mine she cannot make any more sense of it than I can.
I will say it's got a brilliant camera - unless you want to take a picture in bright sunlight, then you can't see the screen to see what picture you are taking.
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Just buy the cheapest reconditioned one you can find, you may not like or adapt to fiddling with the dammed thing.
I have a samsung galaxy something or other- don't get one of those.
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1 hour ago, Riggers said:
I am sure my friend Steph wouldn’t appreciate being called a wierdo
Would that be Stephen or Stephanie?
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You forgot - Rishi Sunak has planned that the deadline for the prohibiting of the sale of petrol & diesel vehicles will be pushed forward to 2035 from 2030.
Cue emergency delivery of smelling salts for Guardian readers........................😂