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  • smittims
    Full Member
    • Aug 2022
    • 4086

    What I resent about the TV licensing people is their pushing us effectively to register on a list of non-watchers. I know it would make their job easier if everyone had to have a licence apart from those who've successfully received exemption , but the fact is that if you don't have a TV you don't have to declare, sign or speak to anyone. Otherwise it's one step towards 'your papers,please...'

    Whe we enlarged our house we had two addresses for a while (though they were two halves of the same building) and they wanted us to have two TV licences even though we had only one TV. I think the licence should be allocated to a person , as is, say, a driving licence, not to an address.

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    • oddoneout
      Full Member
      • Nov 2015
      • 9145

      Originally posted by smittims View Post
      What I resent about the TV licensing people is their pushing us effectively to register on a list of non-watchers. I know it would make their job easier if everyone had to have a licence apart from those who've successfully received exemption , but the fact is that if you don't have a TV you don't have to declare, sign or speak to anyone. Otherwise it's one step towards 'your papers,please...'

      Whe we enlarged our house we had two addresses for a while (though they were two halves of the same building) and they wanted us to have two TV licences even though we had only one TV. I think the licence should be allocated to a person , as is, say, a driving licence, not to an address.
      But not at £170 pp - good way to solve BBC funding woes but would probably signal mass rejection of TV licences!

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      • french frank
        Administrator/Moderator
        • Feb 2007
        • 30250

        Originally posted by smittims View Post
        I think the licence should be allocated to a person , as is, say, a driving licence, not to an address.
        Technically, I think it's to a household, rather than to an address, with one person responsible for holding the licence. Once you get them to understand that you are a single household rather than, say, letting one of your relations live in the second house with their family, there should be (ha!) no problem. Perfectly fair, of course, for mum and dad, with three grown-up children all with televisions in their rooms, to pay the same amount as a the single person living next door ...

        In other good news the builder has just arrived to continue with the kitchen work. Lunch may be ... a little late today ...
        It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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        • AuntDaisy
          Host
          • Jun 2018
          • 1621

          Originally posted by french frank View Post
          ...
          In other good news the builder has just arrived to continue with the kitchen work. Lunch may be ... a little late today ...
          On a Sunday! They're keen.
          Here's to perfectly closing doors...

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          • french frank
            Administrator/Moderator
            • Feb 2007
            • 30250

            Originally posted by AuntDaisy View Post
            On a Sunday! They're keen.
            I think it's probably more like resigned fed-upness!

            Originally posted by AuntDaisy View Post
            Here's to perfectly closing doors...
            I will drink to that . I was in the middle of making a second batch of rosehip jelly to be continued this evening. Sunday lunch (Gratin champenois aka approximately tartiflette) will have to be tonight. Or c. 4pm. The builder's WIP will continue or finish, allegedly, on Tuesday or Wednesday.

            It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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            • Padraig
              Full Member
              • Feb 2013
              • 4226

              Originally posted by french frank View Post


              In other good news the builder has just arrived to continue with the kitchen work. Lunch may be ... a little late today ...
              It must be an early Christmas, f f, and I do hope you will not be unable to lunch today.

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              • AuntDaisy
                Host
                • Jun 2018
                • 1621

                Originally posted by french frank View Post
                I think it's probably more like resigned fed-upness!

                I will drink to that . I was in the middle of making a second batch of rosehip jelly to be continued this evening. Sunday lunch (Gratin champenois aka approximately tartiflette) will have to be tonight. Or c. 4pm. The builder's WIP will continue or finish, allegedly, on Tuesday or Wednesday.
                From this recipe, I'd be very tempted by a veggie version... (I don't think the French would approve though. )

                Hope your builder finishes soon & to your satisfaction.

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                • vinteuil
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 12793

                  Originally posted by AuntDaisy View Post
                  From this recipe, I'd be very tempted by a veggie version... (I don't think the French would approve though. )

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                  ... a veggie version of a dish predicated on lardons, chaource, crème fleurette wd seem a bit of a challenge!

                  .

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                  • oddoneout
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2015
                    • 9145

                    Originally posted by vinteuil View Post

                    ... a veggie version of a dish predicated on lardons, chaource, crème fleurette wd seem a bit of a challenge!

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                    It would only be the lardons that are an issue as vegetarians mostly seem to be OK with dairy products. A vegan version on the other hand would fall into the "I wouldn't start from here " category.

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                    • french frank
                      Administrator/Moderator
                      • Feb 2007
                      • 30250

                      Originally posted by Padraig View Post
                      It must be an early Christmas, f f, and I do hope you will not be unable to lunch today.
                      french frank regrets she's unable to lunch today. Or rather she had some left over home made soup which did the trick. Main meal tonight, once the next stage of the jelly-making is completed.

                      Aunt D: I am vegetarian, but not A Vegetarian. I can't get reblochon for tartiflette locally so rely on chaource and call it gratin champenois. I have a bit of baked gammon leftovers which I shall chop up for lardons, but if you can think of a very tasty substitute for the lardons (can't think what exactly - just not vegetarian 'bacon' strips) to add a bit of exciting flavour and lots of 'erbs it will make a tasty dish.

                      Builder left at 16.45 and will be back, he hopes, tomorrow afternoon to finish off. He is a as he really has to fit me in between other larger jobs and was inconvenienced through no fault of his own.
                      It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                      • HighlandDougie
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 3081

                        For vegetarians, thinly sliced and cooked mushrooms can be substituted for the lardons fumés. For vegans, well, best not to bother.

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