NickP

Wanna bet, try telling your insurance company when you trash the vehicle. When you register a car in France you have to give your primary residence address. A maison secondaire isn't a primary address. Good luck

Are you aware of the legal difficulties of second home owners and the ownership/registration of a French-registered car?

If you have an S1 the EHIC isn't necessary in the UK, just make sure you have a copy of your S1 number

It is not a good start to the first week of the French Olympics. They are saying it's vandalism, seems to me to be a rather organised and well-planned attack on the rail lines. I can't think that vandals would be that together.

When I was young single and lived in a bedsit with a baby Belling as the cooking oven, I hardly ever ate in, but when I did, a tin of beef, a tin of vegetables in a sauce pan, heat up, voila Casserole ala NickP 😄

They would have as much chance of getting hundreds of Euros out of me as being handcuffed to a ghost. I can't believe people would be so stupid to fall for that

Yesterday evening the doorbell rang and two scouts asked if they could camp in our garden. Of course, was our reply, so they picked a spot down by our mill stream under a tree. My wife was starting to prepare supper and suddenly dropped back into "Mum" mode, asking the lads if they would like to join us for supper. Of course, being large growing boys their faces lit up and said Merci bien. So she cooked a large pot of Pasta, Bolognese sauce, and garlic bread. This disappeared in no time, and while we were sitting outside on the terrace demolishing our ice cream supply the Guinguette along from us and on an island in Le Loir started their Friday evening music show, which was unusually a tad loud. We had said to the boys if it rains you are welcome to come and sleep in the house. Half an hour after disappearing down the garden there was a gentle knock on the door, Madame the music was so loud we could not sleep, so once again Mum mode took over, they left this morning after a hearty breakfast faced with another 25 kilometre walk to their next destination. Overall a delightful episode which involved us in a touch of French country life.

He was lucky that Alec Baldwin didn't fire the gun.

This post has a very misleading and clickbait headline. It stinks of rabble-rousing.

Up date, we received our voting papers today

Anybody, French residents who are registered to vote in the UK election had their UK voting papers yet?

Our annual village lunch today, Repas Champetre au board du Loir. everybody was wearing overcoats and scarves, we still had a good time among neighbours and friends.

Fingers crossed that it works out OK, I've even missed Norman. 😀

You will be issued with a new certificate of insurance, it's called le Mémo Véhicule Assuré. Which you must carry to show to plod should they ask to see it.

A shame it doesn't happen in the UK, although if it did certain towns would probably become like Dodge City on a Sunday, empty. 😀