Survive France
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Survive France is the largest anglophone forum for immigrants in France.
Survive France
25m ago
Only tenuously linked to changing the clocks, but I watched this video recently and thoroughly enjoyed it…
The Greenwich Meridian's Forgotten Rival ..read more
Survive France
2h ago
DrMarkH:
Beyond rebellious youth, most of us want to trust the police, but so often, in so many otherwise fairly ‘normal’ democracies they appear to be letting us down.
It seems to be normal human nature that those given authority will sometimes abuse it or believe it gives them a right to do things that would ordinarily be unthinkable. John S and others have frequently cited abuse by clergy in RC schools, we see it with police and prison authorities, teachers, politicians, sports coaches, all kinds of people. It may also be that positions of authority have a draw for the kinds of individua ..read more
Survive France
3h ago
Yes, the northern countries differed from those further south, but as the EU already spans three time zones, what does that matter? It’s just adding a north/south differentiation to the existing east/west one. At one time this would have been a very problematic complication, but surely not today ..read more
Survive France
3h ago
Today, while we were out at our French class, a friend who’s emigrating back to S Africa unexpectedly dropped off all her unwanted books on our steps. Fortunately we don’t want most of them (dozens of copies of Art in South Africa magazine) and has prompted me to get rid of all my copies too and free up some shelf space.
But, in addition there were some lovely books that I haven’t read, wanted to read and now will treasure (they’re hardbacks that won’t drop to bits while you’re reading them). So, I’ve now got Edmund de Waal’s The White Road, Orhan Parmuk’s, The Innocence of Objects, Rebecca So ..read more
Survive France
3h ago
whilst they agreed on the idea… the EU countries never agreed on when to adopt the “stop changing the clocks”… so it continues ..read more
Survive France
3h ago
Stella:
it was being debated/considered by the EU
I thought it had been debated, considered & decided - just not implemented ..read more