1st January every year sees new taxes appearing on the scene as the ever-ingenious politicians find new ways to wrangle money out of us. Amongst 2012’s offerings in France is the sugary drinks tax. A tax of €7.16 per hectolitre (= 100 litres) of such drinks, boissons sucrées, has been introduced. This will mean a [...]
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Since this is the land of cheese (around 429 varieties I believe), I thought it was time I started to pay attention to fromage. So for the next little while it’ll be ‘Cheese on Tuesday’ on my blog every week, looking at some of the more popular and/or unusual cheeses on offer. The dentist needed more of our money so today I took, sorry, dragged, Benj to Guéret to have something or other done to his long suffering teeth. The dentist started trying to straighten them up about three years ago, but went a bit far when he burnt a hole in the roof of Benj’s mouth [...] Yesterday was the second part of my food hygiene course. Mercifully it was only a half day this time. A full day of French is rather heavy going. |
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