You lush, 
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The only problem Cat is if you are outside the SFR signal, which we are. Very frustrating.
Our local vigneronne keeps her card machine in her cave, which is a cave.
Iāve spent hours in there, waiting for a signal.
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On the whole so would I. But how many times have you just started with an h.b when the phone rings and the h.b. spends 20 mins discussing an issue with someone the other end of a phone line? Me? Lots and lots. Serial offenders - hardware shops.
Or your h.b.1. gets snagged by the h.b.2. at the next desk and has to explain at infinite length how h.b. 2 can proceed? This happens often at the pharmacy.
Making the dreaded comparison with UK, the clinic I seem still to be regād with has a link to the pharmacy. A quick online RdV with the doc and a new scrip is ready and waiting at the pharmacy. Here I have to drive 45 mins for a 5 min RdV to get a follow-on scrip and 45 mins back.
As for watches, Iām 1/2 n 1/2. I never wear one but I am minded of the advice by the fashion editor of one of the womenās glossies on what she considers makes a smart fellow - crisp white shirt, clean jeans, good belt, good shoes, quality watch. I am deficient in all depts.
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Social or personal Moray?
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Whatās wrong with Lemnos?
Or do you just prefer Skiathos or Skopelos? 
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What does the can say, I need new glasses, is it Stella Artois? Reminds me of when I first went to sea when, many ports in foreign climes throughout the world had a Seafarerās Mission bearing the name Stella Maris. Often wondered who she was. 
Never saw anyone with an iPhone either, no drift here. always well under control. 
Also motor parts factors. Many years ago I was in such a shop in Southampton where the phone was being prioritised over customers physically present in the shop by the single salesperson present. The guy behind me in the queue popped outside and phoned the guy behind the counter and kept the line occupied until we had both been served. I hope the salesman learnt something.
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dont understand the remark about giving up a citizenship. I came to france on a uk passport and took french nationality āen doubleā ie I have 2 passports.
Donāt remember saying anything to do with that @Kate_Coleridge , are you sure you have replied to the correct post?
Many years ago in the early days of mobiles I did the same in my local. I was waiting in the bar while the manager (the only staff on), who was a horse racing fanatic, discussed the dayās results with a fellow spirit in the "loungeā. So I rang the pub, he answered and I ordered a pint 
He didnāt last long.
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Yes, Stella Maris might be a bit more appropriate for our Stella More a guiding light than a piss artist (no offence intended @Stella ).
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Iāll try and find something āin-betweenā
EDIT Iāve chosen a candle 'cos it gives a little warmth and shines a little light 
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I use my Apple Watch to pay. A quick double click and you are done. It is always to hand.
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Thatās good Emily, I tend to get techy some times when having bagged up all the shopping carefully the ladies then begin the handbag search for their card. Wondered why when waiting in the queue they couldnāt have got the card ready then?
Noā¦ surely not 
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In a restaurant the other day the waitress ask if we had any allergies, small screeching children I replied, she led us to a quiet table away from the families. 
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I use these moments to practice my French expletives (under my breath) and perhaps also read the lasted edition of āMon Chatāand coo at the photos of kittensā¦if the purse hasnāt been found and bill paid, I move on to the French Sudukoā¦.
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How do you even do that? 
No, donāt tell me, it would give me brain overload (@larkswood12 & @George1 I have read your learned posts in the pensions thread but decided to come back to them a little later after steam began rising from my head 
).
After coming, as I thought, to a conclusion and deciding to put the iPhone desimmed back in a drawer because I had tested the Watch alone and made sure that it did exactly what I wanted, a falling down siren and emergency caller, I carried it around yesterday with just the time and date on the little screen. and confident in the knowledge that in an emergency I could press and hold the button to bring up an appropriate screen.
This screen has 4 possibilities. Emergency SOS, Medical ID. Cancel and Off. The first is obvious though I read somewhere that the watch could not contact them directly, only alert a chosen person to do so. The 2nd brings up medical details I could have saved to it, heart etc., and my 1st go-to helper, Marie-Paule. the 3rd I donāt know, nothing perhaps and the 4th offers a swipe thing to turn the whole watch off.
So I know where I am and what I can do, brilliant, everything Davey wanted for me.
Then yesterday happened. Glanced on my wrist for a quick time check but the screen had changed. Replacing the time and date on a black background was what appeared to be a giant red sun angled to one corner with a giant white āSā in it and a small bit of an āOā running off the screen. Perhaps a many times enlarged portion of what might appear if āEmergencyā is selected?
But worst of course, is the fact that no matter what I do I canāt get out of it, canāt even switch the bloody thing off. Went to bed with it on charge hoping that that might shake it into normalcy in the morning, but it hasnāt and I am left with yet another piece of junk that is of neither use nor ornament. If Eddie canāt work it out later Iāll leave it until its battery runs down and then will be decision time, useful or drawer bound to join the other useless lump.
Now I know some, many, will say that it is me that is at fault, I canāt understand modern technology etc. etc. etc.. Might well be true, but isnāt it exactly people like me who needs this stuff, so the obligation is on the techies to make it suitable for the non-techies amongst us? 
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- You have Apple Pay which is linked to your bank installed in the āwalletā on your phone.
- You double click on the lower side button of your watch.
- A little picture of your card appears.
- You turn your wrist over with the watch face over the screen of the machine where you would normally put in your card.
- Kerching!