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Intriguing, fascinating, informative......I'm running out of adjectives but this is something very close to your heart (Norman's heart but perhaps many more hearts than just his)[:)] [url]https://www.france.tv/france-5/chef-d-orchestre-symphonie-pour-un-cerveau[/url]

Yes, pharmacies and supermarkets[:)]

But don't all pharmacies have that little machine thingy, usually near the entrance, where you just put your card in and it updates, as Wooly says, in seconds? I can't think of a pharmacie I use that doesn't have the machine.

En Dordogne, comme dans les 11 autres départements de Nouvelle Aquitaine, les indicateurs de surveillance du coronavirus évoluent de manière "défavorable et rapide", alerte l’Agence régionale de santé (ARS) dans son point de situation épidémiologique de ce jeudi 17 septembre. Le département reste en situation de "vulnérabilité modérée".  Look, I have now found défavorable but the context is clear.  What was favorable is now défavorable.  This seems to be a comparison; the situation is now worse than it was before. If this is indeed a useful way to say something is not as good as it was before, are there then lots of ways to do this with other adjectives? Anymore suggestions similar to défavorable?

No, we don't get a débreak but we do get a break back[:)] Thank you for your explanation.  BTW, I still remember what you said about "débaucher" and its having nothing to do with er.......carousing!

Yes, thanks AZ.  It's always good to know the outcome when someone asks a question and answers are provided. I for one then feel that I have learned something. 

Eric, thank you.  Yes, I see how it is done now[:)]  Interesting and fascinating ....... I shall be trying those words out. I shall be seeing the surgeon soon and I shall listen hard to see if he says couper or découper![:-))]  Whichever word he uses, I shall ask him why he didn't use the other one[:D]

Oh Eric, it's me who should apologise.  Clearly, I did not make my question plain. Why and when do you say débreak when the tennis player makes a break. Then, why décompter 11 thousand cases instead of just compter? As Weegie then points out, why do we say découper instead of couper? Come to think of it, why rajouter something or someone to a list instead of just ajouter? And so on.....also in the word indefatigable in English, why does that become infatigable, dropping the "de" which I thought was DE rigueur? Over to you, Eric.....[:)]

Loiseau, thank goodness!  If such a francophone as you gets confused then perhaps all is not entirely lost for me? BTW, I remember months ago discussing inusable with you.  That means you can use it for a long time, ie it's a useful article and NOT of no damn use at all (as anyone might expect)[:-))]

But I am forcing the issue[:-))] So how about this in the French language section......he makes the break (breaks opponent's serve), il a fait débreak, meaning exactly the same thing. He is indefatigable but il est infatigable. As for the covid positive cases being counted at 11 000 yesterday, that little dé makes its way into "décompter", making no sense to me. I get poser and déposer but suddenly it's débreak and décompter??? Eric and all the French language enthusiasts out there, come and help ........svp[:)]  

You describe a happy and romantic time[:)]  And no expenses spared.....[:D]

I know it's not possible for you to watch this and I know about iplayer no longer working for us.  But there MUST be some way of accessing this.  I just KNOW you would LOVE this programme: [url]https://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/article/bernard-haitink-celebrated-on-bbc-two[/url] When it finished, I couldn't trust myself to speak for several minutes.  The footage of the war years in Amsterdam and his account of how his father was removed for questioning by the gestapo would give anyone knuckle-biting anxiety. And the music, oh the music......first and foremost moving to the very last note.

Our ordures manageres bill has always been included in the TF and we also take our rubbish to a communal bin but there is such a bin just beyond our garden boundaries (not visible from our property and OH push it far enough away so that we don't get any smell!) However, TF bill has gone up 6.5%.  Don't know if that is more or less universal? Sorry not much help in answering your question, AZ.

Me too, I have du pain sur la planche and I shall do it when I have a moment or two.  Isn't life just like that?  Nothing's happening or EVERYTHING'S happening......

Bravo, Eric[:P]  That is a good joke.  But could you spell Lyon and Marseille in English?[:D]

WHOSE "national heritage" would that be then? I thought they were part of a frieze of some GREEK temple?

Might as well ask whether Britain should hand the Elgin marbles back to Greece?  A one word answer would do, Wooly.

Yes, just been watching the news on TV and the maires of Marseille and Paris and some restaurateurs are indeed fuming, steam coming out of their ears. Government just said they were introducing nothing that hadn't been discussed with the relevant persons beforehand. I just knew anything like new restrictions were bound to be angrily disputed.

For those having to go into hospital for any sort of procedure, it seems that you will now need a test 72 hours before admission. My surgeon has written to me today, enclosing an ordonnance and advised me to go to my local lab for instructions. It is called an RT PCR Covid test and, on reading about it on the internet, I think it involves a swab as well as a blood test.  Also, during the course of my research, I learned that a new saliva test is to be rolled out au debut d'octobre.  I might not be in time for it so might have to have the dreaded prong up the nose[+o(]

Yes, and when pronouncing place names like Montpellier and Grenoble and St Malo; can no longer do it the English way without thinking about how the sound is going to come out beforehand! Even when talking about the Dordogne or la Dordogne.....quite a difference[:D]  Can't avoid this one because I live there[:-))]

Yes, Judith, I think Weegie does have a very sharp eye and a wicked sense of humour[:D]

Weegie, whilst it might be both of those things, septic and sceptic, I believe I wrote sceptred?[:P]  Now you've got me all tied up in knots, I no longer know what I wrote or didn't write[:-))]

OH Jonz, so sweet, and that's just about the Red Baron.....the plane doesn't look too bad either[:P]

Is that the official forecast in Béziers, Norman? Here ours says "there might be some rain, which might be a bit heavy at times"[:D]  Well, they do call it Dordogneshire, don't they?

I thought that South African soprano was superb[:)]