ssomon
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2 hours ago, Ken said:
With or without the associated body parts? You seem to know!
You seem to have an unusual fascination with this subject.
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Every forum needs a jester
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I think the problem is that they no longer have the manpower to deal with the mass of queries arising from erroneous data in the system which has accumulated over the years.
The description of one of our our properties, a barn in another village, with no services, is totally wrong. I never looked at it before, and it didn't matter anyway, but now it appears to be habitable.
I sent a message on May 17 explaining that the questionnaire is not appropriate. I received no reply, and continued getting reminders to complete it.
On June 6 I saw a notice saying the declaration should be completed even if the description of the property is wrong, so I completed the declaration to the effect that the property is vacant, and has been so since January 2000, when we bought it. At least this has stopped the reminders, but I still have no reply to my message.
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BSBB😄
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I don't know the temperature where you have to seal, but I successfully sealed the flue connection on the back of our pellet stove to the flue using high temperature (black) silicone sealant.
It is still OK and flexible after 12 years.
The mean flue gas temperature is quoted in the manual as 218C, but I've never measured it.
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I think it may be a bit late to offer advice on a problem encountered over 2 years ago😀
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He has friends!
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After about 6 months my runny and blocked nose seems to be clearing up.
My mouth is no longer dry in the morning due to breathing through it, but I have to avoid sleeping on my back to prevent this, and snoring.
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We had our 5th jabs on 17 October 2022.
Soon afterwards I developed a persistent blocked and runny nose, my wife had no problems.
I bought two Covid tests on Dec 17; we both tested positive, but still had no other symptoms.
We had our 6th jabs on May 15, no side effects except slightly painful arms for 2 or 3 days, which didn't happen before.
I still have a blocked and runny nose, but my wife has no symptoms.
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I think the only people who have problems are those who don't have the correct paperwork.
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On 31/05/2023 at 07:09, Ken said:
just why, if there is fraud, don't the government ( and chemists, doctors et. al.) ask for I.D when giving over the Carte Vitale. Surely that would be just as valid and a lot less expensive than setting up a whole new system! It also raises another question for ex pats who don't have an I.D. card. How are they going to accommodate us, there are many in this situation!
My Titre de Séjour has always been accepted as identification in situations like that. Try using yours.
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It's strange how some people don't recognise a spurious response on a thread. several months after the last post.
Doesn't say much for their intelligence.
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I don't consider him as people.
Actually I wouldn't even p*ss on him if he were on fire.
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52 minutes ago, Riggers said:
Yep ,it was normal then it is now
BTW Ken is that you Ken or another Ken pretending to be you Ken?
That, I'm afraid, is beyond our ken.
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This may be helpful https://www.blevinsfranks.com/france-uk-double-tax-treaty-inheritances/
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One thing I would like to know about arises from a comment I heard by a Grenfell resident who escaped from a flat some way up the building.
He said that the first he knew about the fire was when smoke seemed to start coming out of the wall below and around the window(s).
This suggested to me that perhaps, when the insulation was installed, this caused the windows to be recessed into the walls, by the thickness of the insulation and cladding, restricting the view, which led me to think that maybe the window frames were moved outwards so they were again flush with the walls.
This would mean that the "exterior" insulation would now be inside the building around the windows.
Also, the windows would have to be fixed in their new positions, and having seen how new windows in our son's house in England were installed, I just wondered if they could have been held in place with the ubiquitous polyurethane foam.
Doesn't bear thinking about, and it's all disappeared now.
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I notice that the facade is of the building in Nantes is covered in wood, which to me is quite obviously inflammable.
Our nephew was in York university until recently. I looked on Google Street View at the residential buildings at his address on campus and was surprised to see they are clad in wood.
The latest timber clad buildings were finished in 2022, five years after Grenfell. https://www.dezeen.com/2022/05/18/tateco-supertexture-creative-centre-york-st-john-university/
Does someone think that timber is less inflammable than plastic materials?
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18 minutes ago, Harnser said:
But perhaps he wouldn't want to do that in case it goes Psst instead of Boom.................!!!
Maybe he doesn't know that's possible.
Maybe there is no-one who isn't afraid to tell him...................
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I've also been wondering if the ageing, ex-Soviet, Russian nuclear weapons would actually work.
Not only because of lack of maintenance of the weapons themselves, but of their infrastructure.
Things like regularly maintaining, lubricating and inspecting heavy moving parts, and testing they actually work in simulated operation. Mundane stuff which tends to be ignored because of laziness or simply lack of personnel, skills, and spares.
Apparently many Russian tanks and other machinery broke down in Ukraine, which may be a good indicator. Tank tracks wear down quite rapidly when used on hard surfaces, so repeated ceremonial parades, while perhaps impressive, can be costly in maintenance, if it is even done properly, and spare parts are available.
On a similar note, in another part of the world, in a country where this wouldn't be expected, I know of at least one big ship which went aground on a rocky coast due to lack of maintenance. The engines couldn't be restarted after an electrical failure, because those in charge didn't follow the correct procedure, and neither anchor could be dropped because they had been dogged down, and everything was so rusted they couldn't be released in time. (Bl**dy BIG anchors)
A colleague who had been in a large navy told me that those in charge had decided that the engine scheduled maintenance programme was a load of nonsense, so the work was recorded as carried out and all the highly expensive spares which should have been used were thrown over the side to keep the records in balance.
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1 hour ago, menthe said:
It's about as believable as the barrel that Wooly insists Norman lives in😃
Norman had a picture of his barrel on the forum long ago
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You have misunderstood the terminology.
NH already said he rents a more comfortable place than he could afford to buy, as you have seen.
He rents it FROM someone, he doesn't rent it TO others.
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I assumed the Brexit comment in brackets was yours.
Post Brexit import duty
in The Complete France Post Bag
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Some time ago I had the same problem as Menthe with a book from Amazon UK. It was sent under Amazon's export scheme and I should not have been liable, so I also refused the delivery and phoned the third party vendor.
They told me they had had the problem with other shipments, that Amazon was sorting it out, and refunded my money.
I have had no problem since then, as I check carefully if there is any liability, and that any duty or TVA due is included in the price. Sometimes the price is even less then for the same item on Amazon France.
I bought a new laptop from Amazon UK on Jan 27 this year, and paid an Import Fee Deposit of £76.36.
I was happy with the price as I wanted a QWERTY keyboard and it was about the same price as on Amazon Fr.
Yesterday I was delighted to get an email from Amazon to inform me that the deposit was being refunded in full, and it appeared on my credit card account last night.