Deux-Sèvres Life

Thank you and goodbye

With no more horses and finding the maintenance work on the farm too much, we have reluctantly given in to the requests from the family to leave our beloved France and return to the UK. So thank you all for reading my posts over the years. I hope you have found them interesting, informative and useful. Wishing you all a safe and healthy future at the end of the pandemic nightmare. Read more →

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This guy is sooooo out of touch with life as most people live it...moneyed priviledged public school private education...only need to look at him to know it! Grrrr. Sign the petition. Read more →

No exchange of Brit driving licence for French licence at the moment

Another fallout of bloody Brexit!! Exchanges of UK driving licences for the French equivalent are currently not being accepted due to problems with the legal framework for exchange following ‘full Brexit’. There is as yet no Franco-British agreement on exchange of diving licences and driving licence exchange was not covered EU-wide in the new future relationship deal. Read more →

Latest on Covid- 19 new measures in France

Read the latest measures in The Connexion Read more →

From the British Embassy, Paris, 8 1 2021

MANDATORY COVID-19 TESTING INTRODUCED TO BOLSTER BORDER MEASURES · All international arrivals, including UK nationals, required to present a negative COVID-19 test taken up to 72 hours prior to departure for entry into England · Passengers will be subject to an immediate fine of £500 if they fail to comply with the new regulations on pre-departure testing · All passengers arriving from countries not on the Government’s Travel Corridor list will still be required to self-isolate for ten days, regardless of test result · Passengers will still be required to fill in a Passenger Locator Form and be subject to... Read more →

Driving RHD UK reg vehicles in France

From the RIFT facebook page Without going into issues about driving RHD, vehicles are still generally cheaper in UK than France, so people are still going to be tempted to import them. However, since 1 January 2021 registering a UK vehicle in France has changed. Apparently you should declare permanently imported vehicles on arrival at the border otherwise they will be illegal on French roads. So, at the douanes, if you already have residency here, you present your CDS showing you’re not a tourist, thus ensuring your passport won’t be stamped, but you’re driving a car on UK plates. On... Read more →

Happy New Year again

Enjoy this music by friends of friends of mine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4KcZDzg_pk&feature=youtu.be Read more →

Happy New Year to all my readers

Wishing you all a very healthy New Year. And may the best of 2020 be the worst of 2021. We can only hope. Read more →

Johnson's Deal is NOT a good deal for the UK

From the CEO of the European Movement UK The Government was forced to listen to you and thousands of others and pull back from the brink of No Deal disaster. But let’s make no mistake, Johnson’s choice of Brexit is a bad deal for Britain. Our President, Lord Heseltine wrote to you on the day the deal was done, and he was right to say that this Brexit deal has no upsides to justify the fanfare with which it has been received. This bad deal for Britain leaves us in a worse position than we held as a member of... Read more →

Please sign and share widely - protect the songbirds and migratory birds

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