The threshold for any TF discount is fairly low I think.
Those Stetsons are ridiculous - very inconvenient to travel with, anyway. They’re enormous and really solid. A p.i.t.a. on planes. After a gig down Phoenix/Tucson way my boss bought one.
Without a large box, no good as checked baggage. Far too big to go in an overhead bin. I could see it was going to need a seat of its own.
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Not again, please. As has been said before, they charge you what you agreed to.
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I’m intrigued as to how your taxe foncières bill can be missing the second page. One would imagine these documents are all churned out by the same program. Are you sure there is no second page?
As said the resources ceiling is fairly low, I believe but could be wrong that it is less than 20k for a couple.
The tax office does make mistakes of course but not very often. It seems unlikely it would have got yours wrong consistently year after year. But worth an ask.
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Mea culpa. It has a p2. The sum to pay at the top of P1 s the same as the sum on P2 with all the % this and % that. No indication of any reduction.
I know I must qualify [income level] because I get the CSS health benefit, which I think uses the same figures.
If a reduction has been applied, you should be able to find it hidden somewhere on page two.
Question on Pointless some years ago:
“Which President was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas?”
Contestant after a long pause:
“JR”
I wonder if there was a fankle on account of they thought chez moi was a res secondaire. My tax fonc started out as tax hab 
After a bit of to-ing and fro-ing chez moi was confirmed as my one and only res and tax fonc applied thereafter.
Vamos a ver.
Did you used to work for Bono, by any chance? 
Neither Bono the muso nor Bono the race mechanic for Lewis Hamilton whilst at Merc.
But I have met that Mr. Sting. He was kind enough to say that my phone answer machine outgoing message was the best he’d ever heard.
We went to hear Rchard Thompson at The Mean Fiddler but had to leave - too loud.
Doesn’t mean that I have to like it and not point out what I consider to be extortion.
Monday v Sunday - almost half the kWhrs but double the cost.
My conversation with EDF yesterday had the nonsense trotted out again that these red days are to encourage people to consume less electricity. And that these days are deliberately imposed in cold weather to make the point.
In my case, as with anyone one else in the same position, with no other means of running anything but by electricity it’s legtimate to critisize this policy.
Don’t you have to decide to do Tempo pricing? If you think it is extortion can you not switch off it?
Well, quite…
This has been pointed out more than once.
With respect, perhaps what you should be criticizing is your own decision to choose this particular tarif?
I had a long discussion with EDF before I took it up. Although doubtless the info was available about red days, it was not explained to me at the time, in that discussion.
That I am entirely reliant on electricity for everything came home to roost on those days, which came out of the blue [sic] when the first three days were imposed 3-4 weeks ago - a year after I took the contract.
Putting aside my decision to take this tariff, I still maintain that IN PRINCIPLE the imposition of rates x2/x3 of a ‘standard’ rate at periods of particularly cold weather - a deliberate policy - is inequitable for those who rely on electricity for heating, do not go out to work to premises they do not have to pay to heat and may be at the level of income where assistance/benefits for other expenditures are in place. This last something that EDF could easily find out and factor in. And includes me.
As my neighbour said yesterday, “It’s to pay for the over-run on the nuclear generating budgets.” Maybe so …
Frankly, I’ve been following discussions on this forum and elsewhere about the Red Day tarif… and it’s been very thorough and very interesting.
Since prices for elect started rising… our household tried to reduce the amount of leccy we use.
Did similarly for Water too (with great success).
As a result, of us being careful, EDF refunded the excess we’d paid over the precious 12 months and reduced our on-going monthly DDebit to reflect what we are actually using nowadays. Hurrah.
I can live with this.
But there is no way I can live with NO leccy during certain winter days… no way whatsoever.
Can you change your contract to something more in keeping with your needs and your pocket ???
Richard Thompson is fab.
Yes he is. I saw Fairport Convention many times. They played our college refectory in 1968 and we sat around after the gig shooting the breeze, talking guitars.
One of my pals had a Watkins Rapier, a British clone of a Fender Stratocaster, Thompson’s forever electric axe of choice. Thompson had a play on the Watkins and was very kind in his comments of this poor shadow of a Strat.
I saw Fairport and Jethro Tull in the refectory of the LSE for 10/- ! Even I could afford ten shillings. I can see in my mind’s eye now Martin Lamble, Fairport’s drummer, hanging over the back board, watching Tull’s drummer. Sadly, Fairport had a bad road accident in their van not long after and Lamble was the one fatality.
My god daughter’s dad was in the support band for Fairport at some college. He remembers the scribbles on a blackboard that went on to be Fairport’s album cover for ‘What We Did On Our Holidays’
I recall Thompson observing, regarding his rather dark lyrics, that he can be sitting on a sunny beach but the songs come out dark.
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Ah, even then those London prices! Around the same time I saw Pink Floyd at M/c U for a mere 6/-
Look forward to the SF cheapest gig race -
We’re already a long way from taxe fonciere…