Grab a chair, kick off your shoes, chill and chat.
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Fri May 12, 2023 9:34 am
UK Passport Expiry
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niemeyjt »
Sat Aug 21, 2021 9:43 pm
Does anyone know definitively whether one now requires six months validity on a UK Passport to enter France?
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Last post by OTBC
Fri Dec 01, 2023 6:24 pm
Heart massage (CPR) by Vinnie Jones
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Blaze »
Mon Nov 13, 2023 10:44 am
I've just done 5 days as an SNSM Aide Formateur for the first part of the team first aid course PSE1 (state diploma as practised by the pompiers)....
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Last post by Blaze
Mon Nov 13, 2023 6:59 pm
Jokes
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niemeyjt »
Mon Jul 12, 2021 7:30 pm
How can you have a new forum without a jokes thread?
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Last post by Loup-garou
Fri Dec 08, 2023 10:51 am
What does your car say about you?
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by
niemeyjt »
Tue Dec 05, 2023 7:34 pm
It seems that my 20-year-old Volvo with over 400K on the clock says I am of low social status, poor mating material and socially submissive.
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Last post by L Austin France
Wed Dec 06, 2023 6:00 pm
Post Office inquiry
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by
rabbit »
Fri Dec 02, 2022 11:16 am
Being an ex IT professional I am viewing the inquiry into the Horizon scandal.
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Last post by rabbit
Tue Dec 05, 2023 11:57 am
Smartphones
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by
DaveW »
Fri Nov 24, 2023 7:13 pm
There is constant discussion on the forum on the pros/cons of said beasts. Let’s be realistic modern day life is going to force you that way, maybe...
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Last post by Hotrodder
Sun Nov 26, 2023 10:27 pm
How do folks manage?
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by
L Austin France »
Sun Nov 19, 2023 12:57 pm
Without a dishwasher that is.
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Last post by MAD87
Tue Nov 21, 2023 9:36 am
It really galls me
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L Austin France »
Mon Nov 13, 2023 5:04 pm
In town pedestrians have a right of way across marked crossings & knowing this step out onto them with no warning & without looking to see if there's...
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Last post by Loup-garou
Thu Nov 16, 2023 11:13 am
Doctolib scam
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by
Blaze »
Thu Nov 09, 2023 5:17 pm
I've just had the fright of my life !!!
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Last post by Blaze
Sat Nov 11, 2023 6:38 pm
Gender neutrality gone mad
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by
Blaze »
Thu Aug 03, 2023 7:02 pm
The journalist who wrote this article should have been jumped on by whoever authorises articles to go to print in the Swindon Advertiser :
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Last post by Blaze
Sat Nov 11, 2023 6:36 pm
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Wed Nov 08, 2023 10:56 am
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Last post by RobertArthur
Sat Nov 04, 2023 9:46 pm
Bats in the belfry !
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by
Blaze »
Tue Oct 31, 2023 5:01 pm
I suddenly realised that a bat was following my mouse pointer around .... perhaps he's hungry !! :lol:
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Last post by MAD87
Wed Nov 01, 2023 2:46 pm
Ukraine war
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by
Hotrodder »
Mon Oct 30, 2023 5:38 pm
Are we prohibited from discussing it here? Just wondered. The topic seems to have been missing on main stream media for some time now. There is...
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Last post by RobertArthur
Tue Oct 31, 2023 10:14 pm
Snail Mail
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Blaze »
Wed Oct 25, 2023 10:55 am
I was amused to see this article on the BBC website about the problems of snails in a postbox in Lewdown, Devon....
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Last post by Nomoss
Wed Oct 25, 2023 5:31 pm
Wine Wars - the next round
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by
niemeyjt »
Thu Oct 19, 2023 5:52 pm
It seems some French wine growers are unhappy with their Spanish counterparts. What a waste - not to mention pollution risk.
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Last post by Spectrum
Mon Oct 23, 2023 8:20 am
EDF charges (too much)
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by
L Austin France »
Thu Oct 19, 2023 5:31 pm
At the end of last year (2022) EDF refunded us approx. 30% of the monthly prelevements we'd paid.
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Last post by MAD87
Fri Oct 20, 2023 10:55 am
What are you listening to
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by
Char »
Mon Jul 26, 2021 8:18 pm
I love this - this chaps voice is tremendous - don't be put of by the picture remember appearances can be deceptive.
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Last post by Blaze
Thu Oct 19, 2023 5:03 pm
Why oh why
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by
DaveW »
Sat Sep 23, 2023 7:09 pm
Has every plastic bottle manufacturer changed the screw off lid so that a piece remains holding it on. I first noticed this on milk bottles and it...
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Last post by Blaze
Sun Oct 15, 2023 11:13 am
British, English or what?
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by
hughnique »
Tue Oct 10, 2023 1:29 pm
My dear other half, came in to the world to English parents working in what was the Gold coast, now Ghana, in 1951, , she has a Ghanaian birth...
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Last post by MAD87
Thu Oct 12, 2023 5:19 pm
vide grenier/boot fairs
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by
Hotrodder »
Tue Oct 10, 2023 11:29 am
RA 's story on another thread reminds me. On Sunday we took advantage of the dry weather and had a pitch at our (almost) local vide grenier. A small...
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Last post by Hotrodder
Thu Oct 12, 2023 11:44 am
My lucky day
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RobertArthur »
Tue Oct 10, 2023 12:04 am
If I were a musician, I could have picked up my guitar and rephrased this song : C'est le plus beau jour de ma vie, j'ai retrouvé mon chapeau. In...
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Last post by Bayleaf
Wed Oct 11, 2023 8:25 am
Sea level
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RobertArthur »
Tue Oct 03, 2023 7:10 pm
At three hundred metres above sea level and yet walking at the bottom of what was once a sea.
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Last post by ajm
Thu Oct 05, 2023 1:13 pm
Boules keeps you young.
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L Austin France »
Mon Oct 02, 2023 4:37 pm
Just back from my monday session at the local boulodrome where the members do nothing but laugh, joke & mickey take.
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Last post by Polly
Tue Oct 03, 2023 8:58 pm
Did the earth move for you?
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by
L Austin France »
Mon Oct 02, 2023 7:15 pm
Apparently we had 3 earthquakes in the last 24 hours here today with the strongest around 1455 hrs at magnitude 3.
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Tue Oct 03, 2023 8:15 pm
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