NormanH

https://www.20minutes.fr/sante/4074786-20240206-sante-sait-piratages-geants-vol-donnees-millions-francais

More generally I sympathise with ANYONE who has a cancer diagnosis. To quote John Donne "If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. As well as if a promontory were. Each man's death diminishes me, For I am involved in mankind" .. .and the same can be said of illnesses such as Cancer. Would that the same concern as is being expressed at the State of the King's health, were given to his subjects.

Thanks for that information. That is how it should be.

I would hope so. You have a good point about the effect of the publicity. I had regular checks for both prostate and bowel cancer from the age of 50, and one after another they came up positive well before the symptoms were obvious, which meant that both could be caught early

That would be a very good thing, but the fact that those who govern have access to private medicine means that pay only lip service to the NHS. The same applies to private education. Until the day (which I very much doubt will ever come) when those in power have to use the facilities that they provide for the plebs, or in King Charles's case his subjects, there is little incentive for improvement.

Cancer is not necessarily a death sentence, nor is immediate as several of us are aware. My first diagnosis was in 2006..... I would imagine with the superb and constant medical attention that members of the Royal Family have that whatever it is it will have been spotted early.

You could almost say that they had lost because if the Italian kicker had succeeded with the penalty which just swerved wide of the post at the end of the trajectory Italy would have won

The rot set in when Tony Blair affected an accent to appear a 'man of the people' I don't watch UK TV very often but I certainly notice it when I see films.

I do but knowing the level of your French I posted a link that even you might be able to understand a glimmering of ....and it was free...

True but I reckon that more of the posters on here are over 65 than pregnant😇

Which sort of rodeur is it?

As in the Telegraph article above..

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/02/01/french-farmer-tractor-protests-live-updates-paris-brussels/

https://www.lefigaro.fr/conjoncture/renforcement-d-egalim-transmission-des-exploitations-aides-a-l-elevage-ce-qu-il-faut-retenir-des-annonces-de-gabriel-attal-pour-les-agriculteurs-20240201

of the free deliveryoffer free delivery I had two separate deliveries from Amazon today(don't ask me why they separated them) I have a delivery of household products from Carrefour for tomorrow, and the site didn't show any shortage of what I wanted. As an aside I don't know if every body knows that Carrefour will let you order online and offer free delivery to people over 65 years old

I am not sure that either bananas of cherry tomatoes at this time of the year count as local produce.....

I heard that the A75 was also blocked, but the situation keeps changing

Over here it has felt like that for a large part of the year. Some days I have eaten on the terrace of a restaurant in 25° (a sun-trap admittedly) with people in T-shirts

" It rained for 11 days out of 14" The couple who run my favourite restaurant have just got back from a fortnight on Île Maurice. After working very hard for two years without a break, plus all the extra work over Christmas and New Year they were rewarded by the Hurricane, and confined to their hotel room for two of the days, with the airport out of action, not😰 sure when they would able to get back

Not my usual reading https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/01/30/europe-france-war-on-farmers-is-playing-with-eurosceptic-fi/

I think that it is in a 'bowl' so suffers from heat in the Summer, and is cold and damp in the Winter. It is also subject to atmospheric pollution. https://www.linternaute.com/voyage/climat/grenoble/ville-38185

I believe that the share of a family's budget that goes towards food has diminished considerably over the years.https://www.fortuneo.fr/blog/budget-nourriture-francais-735

There is a better film version made in two parts by Pagnol himself. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manon_des_sources_(film,_1952)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKfF2pfFwxw