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Last Monday afternoon the gas boiler serving my tenanted English office building packed up & I was advised by PJ my friendly heating engineer that at 16 years old it was beyond economic repair.
The Beast from the East was due & the tenant with about 10 staff was about to renew the lease so it was important things happened quickly,
I received a...

We are not going back to the UK but we need another car so do we go petrol or diesel?
I have not followed talk about what the French are going to do in the future but circumstances have forced us very quickly to our present situation. We do not do a large mileage, say 5 to 7 thou a year but only about 100 a week with a trip to Spain a couple of...

My nephew gave me his Sony phone when he upgraded a year ago. I'm not very familiar with what it can do, but I get by with messaging, Whatsap etc. Mostly I use the PC.

Recently our 12-year-old dog Blaze has begun to show signs of being scared when the phone pings. He immediately gets up and moves elsewhere. I know the pinging denotes something...

I’m due to start driving again and thought it might be prudent to stick a learners “A” badge on the car for others to be aware of.

Two questions...

1. Can I do this even though I passed my test about 35 years ago?

2. If I can attach the “ A” sticker are there any restrictions I should be aware of?

All horse owners in France should have received an email today from the IFCE warning them to be vigilant following a recent acceleration in cruel attacks on horses across France.

For anyone didn't receive the email…or for anyone wishing to warn their horsey friends...

Since February this year a dozen horses have been found dead in their fields,...

Looking at a photo of BoJo doing his speech today, he is using exactly the same hand gestures as Cameron used to do - a fist with thumb on top pointing away.

I cannot remember all of Alan Pease now - and I am sure what BoJo (or his body language teachers) is trying to get across is very important - so anyone, any ideas?

I wonder if these folk have a brain cell but I bet some of them have degrees!

Surely SHIRITORI hasn't become a source of argument and disruption? So if it hasn't been deleted, where is it?

No dictionary required, just thought associations.

Eg: torture => chamber => maid => maiden => over etc.

Over to you.

sex

Hi all

One thing has just occurred to me, if the FCO don’t remove the travel ban in July, then all insurance U.K. based is still invalid, is there any French insurance a Brit with a holiday home can take out?

JD

The Institute of Fiscal Studies recently looked at the average salaries of 35 year olds with graduate and post graduate degrees. They found that many Masters or even Doctors were earning less than Batchelors. This particularly applied to the arts and the humanities.

Surprisingly the review took no account of the loss of salaries and extra fees...

Do you know of a source of good, dry cured bacon for delivery in France?

The notaire was explaining to new French property owners that they need to keep all the invoices from builders and before anyone starts work you need a copy of their insurance that covers the building work.
I did not bother getting involved but most builders I know do not have insurance to cover their work.
I thought but I may be wrong that unless...

To eliminate place names in the SHIRITORI thread, here's a new challenge. Name a place beginning with as many letters from the end of the last place name as you can.

Braintree So who's up for the next one?

I went to pay my tab at the bar and said to Lionel deux bierres . Cedric at the the end of the bar said, mimicking my accent, or not deux bierres followed by 4 or 5 voices including mine say zat is the question .
I suppose you had to be there.

One of the few UK investments that people living abroad can make is with NS&I. In November interest rates on all NS&I accounts will begin to reduce drastically.

Variable savings rates – including ISAs – will be slashed from 24 November 2020. NS&I's Income Bonds account, which has often topped our easy-access savings best buys in recent months,...

Never a member of this forum I think but a stalwart of the previous one. A bit of a marmite character. Anyway.. I was pleased to see he is still alive and well.

Interesting, sounds plausable, we have the technology, but how real is it ( question mark)
( I have to write that because that key does not work on this old keyboard)
I cannot imagine a handmedown pacemaker.

In UK there are reports of shortages recently. A friend in Cornwall mentioned it yesterday and we heard mention of it on the radio this morning. Will this be due to approaching Brexit, possible further CV19 lockdown, or just poor stock level management?

Yo Ho Ho. September 19th is talk like a pirate day. Time to dig out your phrase book me hearties - and splice the main brace.

Our local Brico Cash has the above on promotion on Friday next, with only a limited number available. We need a couple of electric radiators and I wondered if these are any good. I have to admit I have no idea what a ceramic inertia radiator is, so perhaps somebody here can tell me if they're anything special and why. For info the 1000W model will...

Good morning all.
First I would just like to say that I'm very happy to be able to use this site. It's great that it's here...
It has been suggested that I resurrect this thread, seeing as 'mine' has been started by someone else, so here is it.
Personally I'm more interested in people being happy than in what they are doing (unless it makes them...

New detol spray makes everything smell like new again.
Kills 99% of stinky bacteria :innocent:

Maybe in creating this topic there will be those who can contribute to talk about what's on French TV and if someone else creates a topic called English television the same thing can happen regarding English TV, because at the moment there isn't a section of the forum where one or the other can be discussed except in The Café.

Anyway, does anyone...