Sorry now I am back employed I dont have much time to read all the posts
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I was only teasing… I’ve noticed how Connexion sometimes seems to follow our forum…
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More good news…
The low fuel warning light on our VW Passat estate came on this morning, so I had to put some diesel in today at Intermarche in Treignac, Correze. €2.17 a litre!!! Last week it was €1.87 litre and ten days ago it was €1.69 a litre. Only put €15 worth in! We won’t be able to afford to drive soon if this gets much worse!!
I wish I’d read about the 35c drop before I went to work on Friday! I topped up my 1/4 empty tank at 2,27€ or something, so 12l was over 25€. Donc also took all our mower cans in and filled them at a similar price, over 50 for 24l. Regretting my just in case now!!
Slightly off topic, but only ‘slightly’ I hope
When I lived low-down-(ish - nearly 3000 ft up) on the Eastern Cape coast of South Africa, one could get 97 octane petrol everywhere locally, but I’d always fill up before heading north because in the High Veldt and Gauteng (Jo’burg area) they only ever had 93 octane and at an altitude of nearly 6000 ft even a big Merc coupe tuned for the coast used to struggle and choke a bit on their steep gradients.
Wondered if other SF members had had similar experiences in other places…
I used to do the same climbing in the high alps (and sometimes in the lower bits…)
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When posting, I’d thought of this problem as something being ‘Third World’/‘Global South’ ‘exotique’ rather than it occuring much closer to what is now our ‘home’.
And how many quotation marks can other SF posters fit into a single sentence?
I paid 2,33 EUR on Thursday on my way to the tunnel - highest so far in the uk has been 1.78 GBP per litre
We paid £1.659 tonight in Tesco Bicester. Prices have increased, but slowly compared to France.
Ha I lived in Biscester when I first arrived in the UK in 97! Tesco was brand new and such a culture shock for an Aussie 
My drivers licence still has my address there
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We live about 8 miles away, in Somerton near Upper Heyford and have been in the same house since 1990. This may sound a slightly weird, but I wonder if we ever met at some stage - your face in the avatar pic looks a little familiar. Tesco actually moved a few years back, the land being subsumed into Bicester Village shopping outlet, and is now close to what used to be Whyevale garden centre. Bicester has developed enormously since then, with farms being sold and more houses all round the outside. 
Let’s just say that the lack of development in the Morvan is one of the things that’s extremely attractive about having a house there.
'97 - I was 36 YO and had 2 pre-teenage children living at home then! I was made redundant for the first time that year.
Gosh such a small world! I only lived in Biscester for 6 months then moved to Thame (my sister who died last year lived there). Also because the company I worked for moved there! Are you a musician? My ex played in the Christmas band the year we were there. I was only 21 at the time but loved it as an Aussie experiencing the UK for the first time. I did love Thame much more!!
I am (guitar player) although I think it would have only been a church band that Christmas. Thame is a nice little town, and we had some friends move there around that time to open a cafe.