NormanH

My Dossier was sent to Montpellier in October 2017.I had the interview in January 2019.I finally was naturalised in January 2020, and got my passport and  French ID card in June 2020 There is a Facebook group that might be more helpful then this Forum on this matter.

https://www.santepubliquefrance.fr/dossiers/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-chiffres-cles-et-evolution-de-la-covid-19-en-france-et-dans-le-monde should be a live link to the site Lori mentioned

https://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/coronavirus-7379-nouveaux-cas-au-cours-des-dernieres-24h-20200828

https://www.midilibre.fr/2020/08/28/coronavirus-passage-de-lherault-en-zone-rouge-quest-ce-que-cela-implique-concretement-9038354.php   and https://www.midilibre.fr/2020/08/28/beziers-deux-nouveaux-cas-de-covid-19-a-lasbh-9038559.php

not quite what you asked for, but part of it https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2020/04/01/coronavirus-visualisez-le-nombre-de-personnes-hospitalisees-departement-par-departement_6035199_4355770.html

I tend to find that now I think in a mixture of the two languages. There are some things that are 'neater' in French such as 'les élus', but sometimes English is more direct and active. I do sometimes struggle to find words from both languages when I am speaking, but that might be short-term memory loss..[:D]

I was talking to the Doctor in Biology who directs the Lab I go to for my 'prises de sang'. I know him pretty well as we often chat about his sons who were in the Comedie Française, before launching their own touring company, and in the past when it  has come to town he has given me a lift to see their show as the theatre is a way out ot town.... Anyway I know him  well enough to tease him and I said to him today... "le malheur des uns fait le bonheur des autres...j'image que t'as gagné beaucoup des sous avec tous ces tests Covid..." He replied with an engaging smile "On s'est fait des couilles en or" [:D] [:P]

mint I have sent  you an email about something else...

More WB's reading material than mine usually.... https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12474511/emergency-plans-perfect-storm-no-deal-brexit-coronavirus-second-wave/

Do you need to use Sosh for the second phone.? There are other operators who offer very cheap 'forfaits' for example http://mobile.free.fr/fiche-forfait-2-euros.html

It is quite usual to make an offer subject to getting a loan, and for the loan to be refusedThis clause is called a 'condition suspensive'. For detail about an auction put this link through Google Tranlate https://www.pap.fr/vendeur/preparer-vente/la-vente-aux-encheres-notariales-comment-ca-marche/a11768

Except the right to vote

NormanH wrote:free photos upload website Always be careful uploading photographs onto an internet site. If they are not 'your' property, both yourself and the site owner/s, could be in breach of copyright. Always do a background check. To circumvent a possible breach of copyright, a link to the photo source should suffice. Changed it  thanks

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8643669/Gavin-Williamson-U-turns-offer-support-exam-regulator-Ofqual.html

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/aug/19/ofqual-exam-results-algorithm-was-unlawful-says-labour

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/aug/19/chris-froome-and-geraint-thomas-dropped-by-team-ineos-for-tour-de-france-cycling Wiggins Froome Thomas...

There are certainly other things to be said about the A level results.The Guardian a paper you might well consider 'silly' printed this which looks at things from another side: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/aug/17/u-turn-exams-may-create-new-set-problems-england

From John Bercow’s page;-------------------I hope the Prime Minister is enjoying a well deserved rest so don’t spoil it by telling him what’s happened this week: 1. The govt launched a “Fix your bike” voucher website 2. It broke in less than an hour 3. The govt said we should all lose weight 4. The govt is still issuing vouchers to help us buy burgers 5. It was revealed the govt spent £400m buying a bankrupt satellite company, OneWeb, to replace the Euro GPS system we lose due to Brexit 6. Months before, a study by MIT found that OneWeb’s tech is 6x less efficient than the EU solution: the worst of the technologies studied 7. In June the govt merged the Dept for International Development into the Foreign Office, and said the move "guaranteed there would be no cuts in International Aid" 8. This week the gov cut International Aid by £2.9bn 9. And the govt quietly granted permission for your health records to be given to Palantir, a controversial data-mining company said to have worked with Cambridge Analytica on Brexit 10. It did both these things the day parliament broke up, so there couldn’t be any questions 11. But in answer to questions about the Russia Report, the gov’s suggested solution is to (I'm not making this up) to ask Russia to tell us who their spies are 12. Ex-Russian intelligence staff say 85% of their work is not spying, but “political funding and misinformation" 13. Which brings us to: Funding and Misinformation news 14. Since 2012, the Tory party has had almost £3m in donations from members of Putin’s cabinets 15. 14 current govt ministers have received donations from individuals or companies connected to the Russian leadership 16. Priti Patel said the Russia Report could be ignored because it was now 9 months old and “out of date” 17. The govt delayed the release of the report for 9 months, and the reasons given were described as “simply not true” (aka "misinformation") by the Intelligence Committee 18. Now Covid news, and Matt Hancock boasted he had met the targets on his “Six tests” on Covid 19 19. Full Fact found 4 of the 6 targets were missed, one target couldn’t be met because it had never been defined, and 1 “relied on a definition [that] does not reflect practice” 20. The cross-party Media & Culture Committee found that the gov’s support for arts was “vague and slow-coming” and “jeopardised UK culture” 21. The cross-party Public Accounts Committee found there was an “astonishing failure to plan for the economic impact” of Covid 19 22. It also said the policy of discharging patients into care homes was a “reckless and appalling policy error” 23. It called the govt “slow, inconsistent [and] negligent” 24. The chair of the Committee said “A competent government does not run a country on the hoof” 25. More on-the-hoof news: the gov quarantined tourists returning from Spain because Spain was a danger 26. The day before, Spain had 2 Covid deaths. Britain had 114 27. The transport secretary was on holiday in Spain, so was effectively trapped by his own dept’s decision 28. Which brings us to Brexit, and a report from London School of Economics showed a WTO Brexit will permanently shrink 16 out of the UK's 24 industry sectors by up to 15% each. Permanently. 29. A Tory MP tweeted “??WTO here we come!” 30. Another pro-Brexit Tory MP with a grasp of what's to come tweeted “my strong advice is: take the opportunity to live abroad” 31. Dominic Cummings tweeted that leaving the EU "could be an error” 32. And now PPE contracts, so prepare to begin eternal screaming: 33. £252m to Ayanda Capital, registered in Mauritius for tax purposes. PPE not delivered 34. £186m to Uniserve. PPE not delivered 35. £116m to P14 Medical Supplies, with assets of just £145. PPE not delivered 36. £108m to PestFix, with just 16 employees. PPE not delivered 37. £107m to Clandeboye Agencies, a sweet wholesaler. Yes, a sweet wholesaler. PPE not delivered. 38. £40m to Medicine Box Ltd, with assets of just £6000. PPE not delivered. 39. £48m to Initia Ventures Ltd, which registered itself as “dormant” in March. PPE not delivered. 40. £28m to Monarch Acoustics, which makes shop furniture. PPE not delivered 41. £25m to Luxe Lifestyle, which has no employees, no assets, and no turnover. PPE not delivered 42. £18m to Aventis Solutions, which has total assets of £332. Not a typo, £332. PPE not delivered £10m to Medco Solutions, incorporated just 3 days after lockdown, with share capital of (not a typo) £2. PPE not delivered 44. In all, approx £1bn to inexplicable suppliers for PPE that hasn’t been delivered 45. The gov still polls well for economic competence. Go figure 46. Meanwhile a Nuffield Health study found after 10 years of "chronic underinvestment", UK is at the bottom of the league table for health resources; and diagnostics and surgery by the NHS will take 4 years to return to pre-Covid levels. But £1bn for non-existent PPE 47. The gov’s “world beating” test-and-trace programme was described as “scandalous” by the British Medical Journal, and found to miss its 80% target in every Covid hotspot announced this week 48. And finally, Boris Johnson refused a public enquiry into gov handling of Covid 19

"Macron is losing popularity and is manoeuvring by screaming his head off over fishing. And sending planes and a rubber boat destroyer to the Med. to threaten Turkey. His party has had some defections; the last thing he wants is for it to break up completely. Xavier Bertrand as his election opposer?" That may or may not be true, but it would be the subject of a different thread.I can only assume you are trying the 'dead cat strategy'  so beloved of Boris Cummings. To quote a writer I loathe in a publication I despise, but I refer to it as it might just still be simple enough for your waning powers of reason to grasp: https://www.connexionfrance.com/Comment/Opinion/UK-s-quarantine-rule-for-France-is-profoundly-stupid

The first round of the 2022 French presidential election will be held between 8 and 23 April 2022, with the second round held two weeks after the first.....Not quite sure what that has to do with the UK imposing quarantine on people arriving from France, which  seems to me a  case of  locking  the stable door after the horse has bolted..

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/14/uk-holidaymakers-in-race-to-return-from-france-before-quarantine-deadline

https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2020/08/08/coronavirus-le-port-du-masque-en-exterieur-obligatoire-dans-certaines-zones-de-paris-et-d-ile-de-france-a-partir-de-lundi_6048496_3244.html Scroll down for the list.When there is a yellow button click on it for more detail.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/08/french-tourist-chiefs-on-knife-edge-as-country-may-be-next-on-uk-quarantine-list

https://youtu.be/LQqj-cmFMO8

I have those problems, and  despite the fact I have had more life theatening illnesses (as have others here) I can say that the inability   to walk about (or drive but  that is a different issue) is the one that most spoils  my quality of life. manger bouger as the French say [:D] https://www.mangerbouger.fr/