Out of my price range for any replacement car now I am afraid. plus the insurance cost too. I don’t have the luxury of a big pension or spouse to boost income or any chance of getting credit which I would never do out of principal anyway. Luckily the public transport here is good, I can walk to the supermarket if need be and family are ten mins drive away with two vehicles.
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No, it’s dross.
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Not good news is remembering that you forgot to empty the kitchen waste bin after you have driven for a couple of hours. Right now we’re in Val de Bagnes, Switzerland, to see our son for the weekend, and going back via Cussy will take the driving time to 10.5 hours and 940km. No-one in the village has a spare key.
It’s tempting to leave it with the winter coming, but downstairs was 22 degrees this morning and it will have plenty of time to ferment. I also suspect the smell will be absorbed by the fabric of the house, and not just dissipate before the next visit. So a VERY long drive seems likely on Monday.
And blummin’ Eck, diesel is 2.45 CHF a litre here?
Does the dustbin have a lid? And is there no fish in it? If so I’d leave it!
And maybe install a discrete key box or similar next time you visit.
You are not the first 
, luckily our gardener came to rescue the bin a fortnight later. However, there was one time years before the gardener and when I returned there were some potatoes with 2 foot roots on the shelf but the bin was not as bad as expected so hopefully the same for you.
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An EV is certainly the long term answer but requires investment which some may be unwilling or unable to do.
Friends forgot to turn off the tap to the swimming pool! 
Fortunately the tap was outside and the gate wasn’t locked and they were able to email me.
In reverse, in Chichester, I gave keys to neighbours on both sides of us, even though I’d only just met them. I wanted them to be able to get into our new house in case of an emergency. I do recommend the spare key option - feels safer.
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Leave it long enough and it’ll be dessicated.
I left my flat in Paris for the weekend and the first COVID lockdown meant that I didn’t get back for 4 months. Everything was just dried out when I got back in July
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Yes I have a spare telecommande for the front gates in a code protected box, known to a limited number of people, but that is more to protect Jules and me. The neighbours know how to get into the house.
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Presumably you would apply the same logic should they need to replace there current presumably ICE vehicle?
As an example a non technical friend took himself off to a car dealership and spent all his money on his Skoda, he asked his insurer for a quote and they came back at £4000 PA! He has managed to get that down to £2000 now and told me, I said you have bought a VRS, yes he said, so you know about them, err yes. For £500 less I found him a newer Renault Zoe 41kw battery EV. He said he’ll ask me next time but will enjoy being a boy racer (72 years old) for a while. He lives in inner London and a 20mph area.
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Filled my little car up with SP95 yesterday and all the SP98 pumps were covered saying Hors Service so there had been a run on that. I paid €2,259/litre in the end and it was €2,299 at Carrefour on the other side of the Perp/Canet road my son said last night when he was on way home from work. My daughter said she was paying $4/GALLON there and people were up in arms, just shows the difference between continents. Can see the resurrection of the Gilet Jaunes if this carries on as winter is coming and people want oil and gas for heating.
We filled up yesterday. The leclerc garages (one on the Route Nationale, Parthenay and the other in the shopping complex) had SP95 at 2.229€ per litre. But we go to HyperU where it is always cheaper (by at least 4 centimes per litre) and yesterday it was 2.189€ per litre. There were no queues as such at any of the pumps. 
Those requiring electrons must be very happy they have broken the ties to smelly fuels, especially in France with it electricity prices.
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My electricity payment was increased this week for next month’s DD in line with an October increase.
Indeed, and although EVs are expensive when bought new, they can be had very cheaply if bought second hand.
I don’t plan going back to an ICE car when our lease ends, but I’m definitely going to consider getting a used EV where someone else has swallowed the initial depreciation.
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Just had an email from the impôts to say Taxes Foncières online for 2026 so had a look and gone up by €2/month for the next year so not too bad
Already had and paid mine, €127. 17 years ago it was €13.
Could be worse. You could have been on your way back to the UK.
Good. Tbe gas price, if anything, must surely cause a change of leadership in the US?
Mine was never more than €250/year right upto moving south, here I pay €1320 with a little bit off, for the latest bill. A good chunk is for waste collection from my gate