DaveLister

Personally I think Corrin is a real person. Aren't you Corrin ?

Love it !! As a child I grew up next to the sea and would regularly go down at low tide to collect 'supper'. You learnt early on what shellfish to avoid. If a mussel didn't close when you approached, or a limpet came off the rocks too easily, you left them well alone. The best was collecting rasor clams. You'd walk the beach looking for their air holes, sprinkle a little salt in, then grab the clam when it came up having mistaken the salt for the incoming tide. As I got older I learnt how to catch the spider crabs that hid in the rocks at low tide. Those would be boiled in a large pot on the beach before being taken back to the house to eat. I don't often get to visit a beach nowadays but still can't resist a forage when I do.

I suppose they don't want to muck up their hair. I actually saw an interview with a bloke yesterday who was wearing his glasses round the back of his head, tucked over his ears. Now that's really weird.

" Ah, Bless" as my mother would say.

I think you'll need to provide a bit more information. Location, budget, timescale etc. I'm afraid a post as generic as yours is likely to just attract spammers attempting to sell services.

Well I suppose technically CA can charge what they like for the use of their ATM's but I agree it sounds outrageous. One to avoid I think. I don't know whether or not this would help but I recently set up a Wise account. I've set it up with two 'pots' one in euros and one in sterling. I can transfer funds online and then decide which pot I want it to go into. I then use the debit card to pay for goods or withdraw cash. I think I used a CA ATM to activate the card and I certainly wasn't charged 6 euros for the privilege.

That's a new one on me. Usually I only pay the issuing bank's charges when using a card overseas. How do you know CA are levying this charge? Have you tried using another ATM from a different bank?

What exactly do you mean by 'withdrawls from a foreign bank'? What are you asking CA to do?

Over the Easter weekend I managed to go back one hour, forward one hour, and forward one hour again. Just got home and all the clocks are at the wrong time. Quite discombobulating.

It was Archant's rights I was referring to Betise. No criticism of you at all. I'll have to get back to you as to where the t&c's are now located ( I'm travelling so don't have my normal access ). I know it's tricky to find them once you've created an account which is why I copied them into a PDF when I became a mod.

Good reminder to all of us. Always read the t&c's.

No scolding at all, I assumed it was a honest mistake. BTW, make that 4 with the same car 😉

I thought from the original posters question that he intended to be at the signing(s) himself. I'm not across the current POA regs as I've never used them.

Go with your gut. There's no reason why, in this day and age, the Notaires can't communicate with each other by email. Once you're happy with the final Compromis you can sign it at the 'local' Notaires office. If you do decide to go with a translator, make sure they're court appointed. That way you can sign an English version of your contract which will be held, with the French version, at the Notaires office.

Mickie, that was it. I remember the battle of the B&B'ers. 😄 He was another one who would give short shift to any newbie.

**** Smith had a sparring partner I seem to remember. Used to run a B&B in Brittany. Anyone remember his name?

CooperLola. I was thinking about her only yesterday. The way she took the lead during the CPAM crisis. I know there were other groups involved but what she and other members of this forum did was amazing and instrumental in changing the UK government's position. If it hadn't been for them I wouldn't still be in France.

I like how 'reach out' is being reclaimed from the office environment. I'm reminded of this diagram.

We had 512K broadband when we first arrived in France. It felt so high tech after our dial up in rural Norfolk.

Well, unless there is a late contender, I hereby anoint Cajal and Hectorsdad joint forum Doyens. 🏆

Mmm me thinks a touch of sour grapes. Fortunately whoever was concerned isn't the only person who knows how to edit a Wikipedia entry.😉

From the article. 'The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs says it spent £200m part-funding new facilities to cope with post-Brexit border controls at 41 ports. It acknowledges that fewer checks will now be required and says ports are free to use spare capacity as they wish.' Portsmouth is just an example. Also from the article. 'The British Ports Association meanwhile has raised concerns with ministers about the preparedness of the new inspection regime at new border control posts (BCPs), due to be enforced in less than six weeks. The trade body says ports have still not been told what hours BCPs will be required to open, or how many staff from two state inspection agencies will be required on site. Crucially, they also do not know how much they will be able to charge importers for inspections because the government has not revealed what price it will levy at the wholly state-owned and run BCP at Sevington in Kent, 20 miles inland from Dover.' As I said this shower couldn't organise a P155 up in a brewery.

So we're currently looking at 2000. Anyone earlier?

Well you've got two years on me Hectorsdad. Any advance on 2001

Whatever your thoughts on Brexit this government have made a complete b*lls up of it. https://news.sky.com/story/portsmouths-new-brexit-border-post-could-be-demolished-without-ever-being-used-13099358