Harnser
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14 hours ago, Gardian said:
I passed our local (small - just two pumps) Intermarche filling station at 16.00 today.
Didn’t need fuel - filled up 4 days ago.
There was a queue there of 8+ or so cars. OK, some would have been nearly empty I’ll concede, but more than a few were queueing for (maybe) half an hour in order to save 20-30 c on (let’s say) 25 - 30 litres of fuel.
Beats the hell out of me.
You can do what you want to do.
Everybody else can do what they want to do.
How long this freedom will continue is anybody's guess as Macron is now cosying up to Xi Jinping of the CCP.
Renault has also announced a joint venture with Geely.
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16 hours ago, anotherbanana said:
Am I right in thinking that the cost of gas and electricity will rise sharply from 1 st January when the price is no longer held down? One to watch, maybe.
Leccy is scheduled to go up by 15% in February as far as I know - don't know about gas, ours comes out of a bottle for cooking only.
Tempo is on offer again.
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If you drive a car in France, it may be a good idea to fill it up in the next few days, before the government’s 30-cent-per-litre discount is reduced to 10 cents per litre after next Tuesday (November 15).
The 20-cent-per-litre discount being applied at TotalEnergies petrol stations will also drop to 10 cents per litre on this date.
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11 hours ago, ssomon said:
Thank you for your tips on attaching cycles to trailers.
You're welcome!
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Having had some experience of trailering motorcycles, I notice you have the tricycle secured to the trailer with luggage elastics. Not a good idea IMHO - you need to get some 25 mm wide ratchet straps, one at the front from the trailer to the headstock and back down to the trailer. And one from trailer to rear axle and back to trailer.
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1 hour ago, anotherbanana said:
Spamagogo s/he gone byebye to big brown poopsy! ( sorry, it is wet outside😵💫)
Salutations and indebtedness to thee oh gen'rous and mast'rful yellow fruit
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Spamagogo wants to get to know us all!
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"And then the latest. The power went off at 17.00 yesterday. Cheese & pickle sarnies to eat last night. Enedis website said that we’d be back by 22.00. We weren’t and still nothing this morning. No signs of any blue vehicles!"
That's why we invested in a decent quiet generator and the switchery to safely connect it to the house and barn electrics after our last long term power cut due to a storm of about two and half days.
Not a problem with cooking - we use propane or if all else fails the Esse wood-fired cooking stove.
Never put all your eggs in the one basket - always have a back up.
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Well, that answers my question, as long as the insurance provider doesn't default on you.
"If the builder should become bankrupt/ceases activity during the progress of the work, or following completion, the insurance policy remains in operation, an important safeguard"
Thanks - we're not in a position to need this thankfully.
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Concerning the Responsibilite Decennale and the builder who has insurance to protect himself against claims.
Question.
A builder who does work on a property has insurance to protect himself against the financial consequences of a claim under the ten-year rule.
But he goes bankrupt in that year that he did the work and did not continue to pay the insurance premium.
Assuming he had paid the insurance premium and was covered in that year when he did the work, does that mean that the insurance then is valid for ten years to the possible benefit of the owner of the property ?
Or is it only valid for ten years if the premium is paid every year?
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I have no experience of caravans but there is an authoritative guide to doing what you describe here:-
https://www.french-property.com/guides/france/mobile-homes/caravans/
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Doesn't look like any towing webbing or ratchet straps that I've got - they are either orange or yellow.
Maybe smooth braided climbing rope.
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23 hours ago, anotherbanana said:
Seems quite safe to me; there is at least someone to supervise.
As kids in the school CCF we built death slides that were a lot steeper than that and slid down them with great glee, with ne’ery a helmet in sight. I am still here to tell the tale.
The French seem less absolute about health and safety.
The green lashing that is tensioning the zip wire looks dodgy - looks like some kind of cloth.
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11 hours ago, DaveLister said:
Because incontestable proof doesn't exist.
No one can prove the world is round
Nobody can prove that things will always fall down when you drop them.
No one can prove that the stars are far away.
No one can even prove that you exist Ken. You may just be a figment of my imagination which itself might be an algorithm in a computer network.
prove me wrong.
There is a condition called “implausible undeniablility,” when a person struggles to explain away something that’s actually true, because the truth has suddenly become inconvenient or politically incorrect. The problem is that, as Churchill pointed out, "It’s really hard to explain away the truth, because no matter what, there it is.”
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2 hours ago, DraytonBoy said:
I was aware of the blog post and saw the BBC drama about the Prof, he worked at the Climate Research Unit near where I used to live.
If that's the sum total of the 'proof' that NASA commit data fraud that's pretty poor.
Do you mean this UEA? The one where Professor Phil Jones worked? Where he colluded to alter past temperature records, so the data would fit the theory?
While it doesn't prove NASA's involvement - I've got some more on their antics for later!
Here's an email to Phil Jones of the UEA discussing how to do it.
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3 hours ago, DraytonBoy said:
If you won't accept research results from a body like NASA who have continually studied weather patterns and the climate for decades then what possible proof can anyone give you that mankind is responsible for what we are experiencing now?
NASA is about the very worst example of official organisations you could have chosen for your "proof" .
They are notorious for climate data fraud and have been for many years.
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8 hours ago, DraytonBoy said:
Control no, alter 100%.
Are you really saying the scientific community supports your theory that the climate is simply evolving naturally and the change is not man made?
Are you really saying that mankind can control the climate of planet earth?
Drayton Boy said
Control no, alter 100%.
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11 minutes ago, DraytonBoy said:
Are you really saying the scientific community supports your theory that the climate is simply evolving naturally and the change is not man made?
Are you really saying that mankind can control the climate of planet earth?
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14 minutes ago, Ken said:
Wasting your time I'm afraid! The weather is evolving but unfortunately some human beings are not!!
They've been captured by the climate cult, no reason or scientific argument will deter them from believing in their false prophets.
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3 hours ago, DraytonBoy said:
Another denier of global warming. Having been caught up in Hurricane Ian just four weeks ago and witnessed the devastation first hand it's clear to see what we have done to the planet.
We're likely to have record high temperatures this weekend followed by a week of solid rain, that's not evolution but a complete destruction of normal weather patterns.
Ever heard of the great storm of 1703?
"The storm was unprecedented in ferocity and duration and was generally reckoned by witnesses to represent the anger of God, in recognition of the "crying sins of this nation". The government declared 19 January 1704 a day of fasting, saying that it "loudly calls for the deepest and most solemn humiliation of our people". It remained a frequent topic of moralising in sermons well into the 19th century.[7]"
This occured before the industrial revolution, diesel SUV's, jet aircraft, gas central heating etc - so what was the cause?
Weather? Climate? Climate is what is expected. Weather is what you get.
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IMAGINARY CHANGES OF CLIMATE.
(Pall Mall Gazette.)
a plentiful crop of speculation from weather prophets and projectors, and half-instructed meteorologists, and all the philosophic tribe of Laputa in general, to whom the periodical press now affords such fatal facilities.
every season is sure to be “extraordinary,” almost every month one of the driest or wettest, or windiest, coldest or hottest, ever known. Much observation, which ought to correct a tendency to exaggerate, seems in some minds to have rather a tendency to increase it.
– Brisbane Courier, January 10 1871
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A handy average weather data website for wherever you are.
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2 hours ago, Lehaut said:
A new, well done state roof is a work of art. I like how some roofers shape certain slate tiles to add a bit of character to a roof. A UK architect who visited one roof we had done commented on the new stainless steel "crochets" glinting in the sunshine. They are not used in the UK and do add a certain look to a French roof - certainly unforgiving as the lines should be straight in all directions!
Sounds like your bottle of wine will be a good investment.
I shan't be pestering him all the time , it's just that we had a leak on a part where the slates are secondhand, that was done by the original french owner, and he was doing some finishing work on his roof. I don't have one of those very thin light roofing ladders to get at the site of these leaks, i'll probably end up making one.
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"If you get a complex DIY job wrong (leaking roofs for example) the cost benefit analysis takes a real hit, imo."
I must admit to feeling a bit smug about "leaking roofs".
The long unoccupied breton longere next door to us has been bought at last. The young guy who bought it is renovating it from top to bottom, end to end and is doing a very good job, including a complete new slate roof, trusses, purlins, volige. dormers etc.
He works for a local roofing company.
He already very kindly fixed a small leak for us requiring a couple of new slates, wouldn't take any money for his trouble so we gave him a bottle of wine - a nice old Burgundy.
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Leclerc, as far as we are concerned, are basically dishonest.
A couple of years ago we ordered 10 x 20 litre bidons of petrole for our heaters from our local LeClerc.
Ordered and paid for on their "Drive" system in the evening, pick it up the next day, all shown in stock.
We go to pick it up, they bring four out - "we haven't got any more" - but we've paid for 10 so can we have our money back?
"No - we just put your money on your loyalty card"
So we have to buy their stuff from their shop to get our money back!!!
Somehow or other that has to be against some sort of law.