February 2016 Newsletter No 164

Lunch and art galleries in Draguignan

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT…

An excellent 3 course lunch (with wine) at one of Draguignan's most respected restaurants, MB2/La Terrasse, 11 Blvd Jean Jaures, 83300 Draguignan, at a really attractive price of 22€ for members and 24€ for non-members:

Terrine Chicken in Brie and beer Moelleux of chocolate. 1/4 bottle of wine

Followed by an escorted visit to the oldest part of town, now being transformed into an Artists’ Quarter, at pedestrianised Rue de Trans - just a 2/3 minute walk from the restaurant. You will see artists at work on many styles of sculptures, paintings, wood carvings and stained glass, also available to buy.

DATE: FRIDAY 22 APRIL - Lunch 12.00 – 14.00, visit to Galleries 14.00 onwards. Free Parking 12.00 – 14.00. Otherwise, on street parking and free car park in Rue des Jardins (behind Rue de Trans). And then if you wish, wander up the road to the American War Cemetery (5 mins walk or free car park in front), or visit one of the two museums which are close by: Le Musée Municipal d'Art et Histoire, Culture, Patrimoine et Tourisme, 9 rue de la République or Le Musée des Arts et Traditions Populaires, 75, Place Georges Brassens.

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Forthcoming Events B e n e f i t s f o r BA V members Committee meeting (Please show your membership card) 22 February Lunch in Moissac Bellevue Co-operative - 5% discount available 15 January with the special BAV fidelity card. Full range of Coffee Morning- wines and sparkling wine available together 19 February with fresh cheeses, wine accessories etc. Lei Cigales, Route de Draguignan, Lunch at Montferrat 04 98 53 02 88. Offer: complementary 27 February espresso coffee in this restaurant specialising AGM in galettes and crepes with a separate menu 16 March du jour at 13.50€. Artists’ Quarter & Lunch Draguignan Nathalie and Fabrice Alric Antiquities, Place de 22 April l'eglise, Villecroze - Offer 10% discount on a range of antique style household furnishings Coffee morning & croquet at Nans-Les-Pins and a larger discount on antiques. plus lunch in St Maximin 13 May La Provençal, Place Martin Bidoure, . 04 94 70 00 24. Free espresso coffee with meal. Lunch & Quiz at Trout Lake Le Grand Hotel, Place du Général Duchatel, Aups. 04 94 70 10 82. Free coffee or digestif 13 June with meal. Les Trois Marches, 11 Cours Gambetta, Cotignac. 04 94 04 65 99. Pretty provençal Lunch at Bastides des Moines restaurant. Free espresso coffee with meal. at Montferrat Hotel and restaurant L’Orée du Bois, Quartier Ste Roseline, Le Muy. 04 98 11 12 40. Free Saturday 27 February 2016. 12 noon. The menu will coffee or tea with meal. be 27€ with guests at 29€. Those of you who have New York Break, 19 rue Picot, close to Place been before will know the delights of the huge de la Liberté, . 04 94 98 69 14 or 06 42 range of entrées, fromage and desserts to choose 65 08 21. Free drink with every meal. from on the buffet, in addition to the main course. Avi va I n s u ra n c e , V i d a u b a n . L u c d e

Buffet d’entrées, un plat chaud au choix, buffet de fromages et Bardonnèche offers various insurance discounts for BAV members – see his advert in de desserts, vin à modération pendant le repas the Newsletter.

Idées de Suggestions – plat chaud: JF-Assurances. www.jf-assurances.com e-mail [email protected]. Tel. 04 94 40 60 94. Gigot d agneau au jus ’ 10% discount against detailed quotations. Joue de bœuf en cocotte Chevreuil grand’veneur Faux -filet grillé origine C.E.E Magret de canard grille Filet mignon aux délices des bois Coffee Morning and Books Daube de sanglier Friday 19 February Kangourou en poivrade 10h00-12h00 Filet de rouget au beurre blanc At the home of William and Jean Naisbitt Pied paquet de Sisteron xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Assiette végétarienne xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Bookstall. Donations to the Welfare fund. Dos de cabillaud à la provençale Telephone xxxxxxxxxxxxx On the right as you approach Montferrat from the south xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on the D955.

2 “What’s On” Guide” Zenith Oméga, Toulon: 0892 700 840 27-28 Feb Sillans-la Cascade, Château. Salon www.zenith-omega-toulon.com Orchidées. Free. Opera House, Toulon: 04 94 93 03 76 28 Feb Les Arcs, Café de la Tour. Thé Tango – www.operadetoulon.fr Argentine tango lessons. Free. Optional lunch. Draguignan Theatre: 04 94 50 59 59 15h00-19h00. 04 94 73 30 56 www.theatresendracenie.com 28 Feb Cotignac, cinema. Ballet film – Nutcracker Forum Theatre, Fréjus and Centre Culturel, St (Tchaikovsky). 18h00. €13. 04 94 04 61 87

Raphaël: 04 94 95 55 55 www.aggloscenes.com

February 2016 4 Feb Ste Maxime, cinema. Opera film – 2016 Annual General Meeting - Cinderella (Rossini). 14h30 and 19h30. Nominations for Committee 6 Feb Draguignan, Pôle Culturel Chabran. Requiem (Fauré). 20h30. €10. 04 83 08 30 30 There are 6 vacancies for committee due to 6 Feb St Maximin-la-Ste-Baume, La Croisée des resignations, and the completion of three year Arts. Symphony orchestra and traditional terms by Kevin Bell, John Lloyd, Ann Mitchem and Provencal music. 20h45. €25. 04 94 86 18 90 Michael Wharton, all of whom are eligible to 6-7 Feb Ste Maxime, town centre. Fête du stand again. Lorraine Strong has been co-opted Mimosa. Free. Parade: Sun 14h30. to serve as welfare coordinator and her place on 08 26 20 83 83 committee will need to be ratified at the AGM. 6-21 Feb Ste Maxime, Théâtre de la Mer. Ice rink. 14h00-18h00. €5. 08 26 20 83 83 Any Member wishing to become a committee 7 Feb Cotignac, cinema. Opera film – Le member must gain the nomination of two Cenerentola (Rossini). 18h00. €13. members of the Association and send the 04 94 04 61 87 nomination in writing to the secretary, Michael 8 Feb Draguignan, cinema Chabran. Opera film – Wharton before 15 February 2016. Cinderella (Rossini). 14h00. 13-28 Feb , town centre. Carnaval. See www.nicecarnaval.com for details. 13 Feb- 2 Mar Menton, town centre. Lemon Festival. See www.feteducitron.com for details. 15-17 Feb Various villages. Boucles du Haut – cycle race. See www.velosporthyerois.com for details. 20 Feb , Espace F Mitterand. Misa Criolla concert – CAD Vocale. 20h45. €15. 06 85 24 43 00 21 Feb , place George Clemenceau. Classic car rally. 8h30-12.30. Free. 04 94 73 10 28 21 Feb Grimaud, Eglise St Michel. Soirées Musicales de Grimaud - concert. €22. 04 94 55 43 83 21-22 Feb Various villages. Tour du Haut Var – cycle race. See www.tourduhautvar.com for details. 22 Feb Draguignan, cinema Chabran. Ballet film – Nutcracker. 14h00 26 Feb Draguignan, Pôle Culturel Chabran. Improvisations on Mozart – piano concert. 20h30. 04 83 08 30 30 26 Feb Les Arcs, Café de la Tour. Fish and chips – book by previous Monday please. 12h00. €12.50. 04 94 73 30 56 27 Feb Draguignan, town centre. Carnaval. 15h00-17h00. 04 94 68 68 90

3 Chairman's Report French public holidays in 2016

There is always a slightly anxious time after 1 January 1: New Year's Day (Friday) November when the membership subscriptions are March 28: Easter Monday due as it is clearly a barometer of whether or not May 1: Labour Day (Sunday) we are serving the members’ needs. I am pleased May 5: Ascension (Thursday) to report that we have maintained close to the May 8: VE Day (Sunday) usual level of membership at 380 with 13 yet to May 16: Whit Monday renew. The statistics themselves are interesting in July 14: National Day (Thursday) that we regrettably have had 5 members that have August 15: Assumption (Monday) passed away during 2015 and 23 have returned to November 1: Toussaint (Tuesday) the UK or left the area. The returns to the UK are November 11: Armistice Day (Friday) interesting in that whilst several returned in 2013 / December 25: Christmas Day (Sunday)

2014 due to the poor exchange rate, it is somewhat surprising that so many have moved during the period with improved exchange rates. Medical Transport Perhaps this is, in part, due to a more fluid property market thereby enabling the move. One matter that regularly arises with Regarding the 'churn', overall 52 have left during the welfare team is the question of the year whilst we have happily had 44 join us. transportation to and from medical appointments. Whilst we do have a We are certainly not complacent about the number of members who have offered membership and ideally would like to have events, a ss ist ance (incl u d in g a ss ist ance with coffee mornings etc in all areas of the Var. We do transportation) to the welfare team, for which we strive to achieve this but need the help of members are grateful, it is quite usual in for medical to suggest venues in their area. Attendances at transportation to be provided in more serious cases event have been good recently but we do need to eg. chemotherapy, radiography, dialysis and in the attract those in the more extreme areas of the Var. case of disability. However this is not given We certainly appreciate members’ loyalty to the automatically and you would need have a Carte BAV in attending events and the AGM. Vitale and to obtain a prescription from your

consultant or doctor. It would then be necessary in the case of a hospital visit to obtain a Bon de Fred Carpenter MBE Passage (confirming your attendance) and a Bon de Transport. In some cases taxi drivers will ask for We are sorry to report the death of BAV member these on your behalf (as otherwise they don't get Fred Carpenter from Aups, who was a talented paid). If this fails then please contact the welfare painter whose work was selected for BAV team and we will see what we are able to do to Christmas cards on several occasions. He was a assist. founder trustee of the charity MS Research and had a long history of public service to multiple sclerosis, recognised in the award of an MBE. We send our Emergency contacts: condolences to Sylvia, his wife. Medical help/SAMU 15 Police/Police Nationale 17 Fire and accident/Sapeurs Pompiers 18 The Bereavement Support SOS – all services (calling from a mobile) 112 Network of the Var (BSN) BAV Welfare phone 06 42 86 49 01 EDF English speaking number 05 62 16 49 08 This organisation exists to support not only the Orange English speaking No 09 69 36 39 00 bereaved but also those who are terminally ill, and their families and friends. If you, or someone you know, could benefit from our confidential, free support, then please contact: Sandra - 04 94 84 64 89 or 06 32 35 31 24 [email protected] or www.bsnvar.org for further information.

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Where is it?

Each month we will show a photograph of somewhere in the Var, some easier to spot than others, and we would like you tell us where it is on [email protected] or 04 94 50 38 46. The first right answer received will get a mention the following month. January’s location was the Basilica at St Maximin la Ste Baume, as spotted by new members Tim Molyneux and Katrina Donaldson from Flassans-sur-Issole.

MEMBERS’ GROUPS Boules / Lunching / Golf Group Free legal advice

We meet to play at 10.00 at various Offices that give free legal advice should be open villages. So please contact me at: in courts across France by September. The service xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx if d’acceuil unique du justiciable (SAUJ) will have you wish to join us. information on rights and procedures and free forms (divorces, rent contracts, etc). The offices will eventually allow people to initiate legal action The Azur Photography Group in any court through them, or make a request for legal aid. A new official legal information website – Portalis – is also promised this year. At our first meeting of the New Year, Eamonn Phillipson

gave us a wo nd e rful New regions for 2016 presentation of printing photos on different media. He From 1 January 2106 France will have 13 instead of showed a wide variety of 22 regions in a bid to streamline local government photos in both colour and – but residents will have to wait a few months monochrome with a choice of different frames. before the new names are finalised. The Included were a number of prints which were departments have not changed but are shared out rejects though most members would have been within the new regions. The aim is to help the happy to achieve that level! He coupled the councils plan strategically across larger areas and presentation with a talk about the factors to be more effective and less wasteful. The Var is still consider when planning a print and the various in the region “ Alpes Côte d’Azur”. problems one encountered. The talk was La Métropole du Grand – a new particularly appropriate as the group’s new A3 intercommunal grouping – comes into being on printer has now been acquired and is awaiting January 1. It consists of Paris and the petite transportation from England. couronne plus parts of the grande couronne. This The next meeting of the group is on Tuesday 26th ‘greater Paris’ zone will have a conseil métropolitain January, when, weather permitting, we shall of about 210 councillors and will deal with planning photograph the Lac Saint Cassien. Please contact strategies across the zone, accommodation me for further details.. policies, economic development and protection of For more details, please contact Alastair Ross: the air and environment xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx .

New Members Painting Group There will not be a painting group meeting until the We welcome to membership of the BAV Allan and Spring unless someone would like to hold one. Janice Clifford from Besse-sur-Issole, and welcome contact Hilary xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx back Vivienne Crowther from Aups.

5 anonymous folk who served the VISIT PROVENCE – nation aboard the navy’s vessels (places to go in the Var and beyond) or who faced stormy seas

aboard merchant ships. "Today St Tropez the World comes to Saint- Yes, you have been many times as a tour guide for Tropez, we will tell you about the your visitors - taking the ferry from Sainte Maxime, times when Tropezians ogling the yachts, fighting your way through the travelled the World". market, buying the dearest drinks of the summer – but what about the real St Tropez? Here are some Citadelle de Saint-Tropez, suggestions of what to see: 83990 Saint-Tropez. Tel :0494 97 59 43. The XVIIth century citadel citadelle@ville- sainttropez.fr Dating from the 17th century, Open every day except bought by the town in 1993, this January 1st, May 1st and listed building is one of the most 17th, November 11th and visited historical and cultural sites. December 25th. Composed of bastions and a From 01/04 to 30/09: 10 am to 6.30 pm (last hexagonal keep built between 1602 and 1608 to entrance at 6 pm) the drawings of engineer Raymond de Bonnefons, From 01/10 to 31/03: 10 am to 12.30 pm and it is the most significant building between Antibes from 1.30 to 5.30 pm and Toulon with stunning panoramic views over the Annual closing period in November. Guided visits as Bay. above.

Citadelle de Saint-Tropez, 83990 Saint-Tropez. Tel : Musée de l'Annonciade 04 94 97 59 43. [email protected] The Annonciade Museum reminds us that the Open: October 1st to March 31st (10:00AM – village of Saint-Tropez was one of the most active 5:30PM latest entries at 5:00PM). April 1st to centres of "avant-garde" painting at the beginning September 30th (10:00AM – 6:30PM latest entries of the XXth Century, thanks to Paul Signac who, on 6:00PM). Closed on January 1st, May 1st, May board his ship l'Olympia, discovered this little 17th, November 11th, and Christmas Day. Annual fishing harbour in 1892. He fell under the spell of closing period in November. the place, bought a house, la Hune, which he Guided visits at 11 am and 3.30 pm. (by turned into his studio and invited many other reservation) in French, but an English guided visit painters to join him: Cross, Matisse, Derain, is possible on request. Marquet. The collection on show, ranges from 1890 to 1950 and is both of surprisingly high standard and homogeneity. The artists displayed have based their work upon the study of colour as well as shape, and the whole collection is composed of top quality pictures, essentially belonging to the Pointillist, Nabis and Fauvist movements. The Maritime Museum Proud of its rich maritime past, Saint-Tropez has Place Grammont, Le Port, 83990 - Saint-Tropez. created a modern museum in the dungeon of the Tel: 04 94 17 84 10. [email protected] town’s citadel, allowing all visitors to discover the Open every day except Tuesday. Closed in daily lives of men and women who shaped over the November, 1st January, 1st May, 17th May and on centuries the Saint-Tropez of today. Visitors will Ascension and Christmas days. 10.00 – 13.00 and follow the town’s seamen across the seas of the 14.00 – 18.00. world, whether on short trips or fishing expeditions along Provence’s coast, voyages aboard large Maison des Papillons merchant sailing boats beyond Cape Horn, This museum was created by Dany journeys along the coasts of Africa and India or on Lartigue, son of the famous liners of the famous Far East steamship company. photographer Jacques-Henri Lartigue, The Museum of Maritime History provides the and grandson of André Messager, opportunity to discover famous Saint-Tropez heroes member of the French Academy, such as the Bailli de Suffren, General Allard or manager of the Paris Opera and close Hyppolite Bouchard as well as thousands of friend of Fauré and Debussy. The butterflies are presented in their former family residence, now

6 the property of the town of Saint-Tropez. In this Committee typical Tropezian home, a fabulous selection of all Chairman - Rob Flanagan the French diurnal species is on show. They have [email protected] been assembled by Dany Lartigue over the past Secretary - Michael Wharton decades. In all, there are more than 35 000 items, [email protected] representing extinct or protected species, and Acting Treasurer – Rob Flanagan others which are rarities or abnormalities, such as [email protected] the Black Apollo from the Mercantour region. There Welfare Coordinators –Ann Mitchem is also an extremely important collection of exotic Lorraine Strong species from Amazonia and the Solomon Islands: [email protected] «The most beautiful butterflies in the world». Events Secretary - Kevin Bell Thousands of specimens are still being sorted and [email protected] repaired to be presented under the best conditions, Publicity – Sandie Docherty the mode of presentation being the specific quality [email protected] of this collection. With his artist's sensitivity, Dany [email protected] Lartigue attempts a highly original approach. In Book-keeper – Blake Long many instances the natural environnement of a treasurer@baofthevar species has been painstakingly reconstituted, John Lloyd enabling the visitor to appreciate the subtleties of [email protected] colour and camouflage. The scientific value of the Important non-Committee Members collection, as well as its intrinsic beauty, are Membership Secretary - Peter Rowson recognised by entomologists the world over. An [email protected] xxxxxxxxxxxx enriching experience for all age groups. Newsletter Editor – Shirley Rowson 9, rue Etienne Berny, 83990 - Saint-Tropez. Tel : 04 [email protected] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

94 97 63 45. [email protected] Opening hours: 7 February to 1 March, 4 April to 8 Please let us have your Advertisements, Articles and November, 12 December to 3 January. Reports for the March issue by Monday to Saturday 10.00-12.30 and 14.00-18.00. Monday 15 February All contributions to: Sunday 10.00-12.30 and 14.00-17.00. [email protected]

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xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx AGM Please Note: We appreciate the support of our advertisers and encourage members to consider As a Member it is important you show your support using their services; however, BAV cannot take by attending the Sixth Annual General Meeting. responsibility for the quality of goods and services. Please indicate your attendance or your apologies, and if you will stay for lunch, on the booking form at the back of the Newsletter. Lunch is at your own Budget TGV link to be extended expense. The SNCF's low-cost rail service, Date: 16 March. Time: 11.00 - coffee and OuiGo, will expand in 2016 to croissants offered from 10.30. Place: Brasserie les serve twice as many Jonquières, 1005 Boulevard de la Liberation, 83490 destinations. OuiGo launched a Le Muy. no-frills rail link from Disneyland

Paris (Marne-la-Vallée) to Lyon

and in 2013. New OuiGo destinations in Maisons de services publics 2016 will include Nantes and Rennes. See www.ouigo.com for more details. The number of Maisons de services publics in rural SNCF is about to sign deals with the big three areas is set to treble to 1,000. These are often mobile operators to guarantee internet on-board housed in post offices and combine services such 90% of all French trains by 2020. Other as utilities (EDF, GDF) and bureaucracy (Cpam, Caf, improvements to the TGV experience will include Pôle Emploi) and can help people with bills and reversible seats allowing passengers to always face paperwork. the direction of travel, and more efficient air conditioning.

7 Food Waste – Doggy Bags in sizes and the option for clients to purchase adapted portions, food waste awareness activities for staff France? and clients. Franc e has a National plan on Furthermore the food services authorities aim to food waste develop guidelines for the use of “doggy bags” in prevention called restaurants. The Rhone-Alpes Region has “ National Pact conducted a survey in the food service sector to Against Food enquire about the possibility of using doggy bags. Waste” launched According to the survey, 90% of the consumers in June 14th 2013 support the “doggy bag” in the food service sector by the French and 75% of the interrogated caterers in the food Ministry of service sector are ready to introduce one in their Agriculture. restaurants.

This aims at reducing food waste by half by 2025 and lays down the tools which will be used to reach Headlights flash 'is dangerous' this target: 1. A rallying sign to make visible the motivation to Drivers who flash their headlights to warn combat waste. oncoming cars of a speed check could be putting 2. A national day against food waste; an “anti- lives at risk and helping criminals, gendarmes have waste” prize to reward smart food practices. warned. Their message comes after an incident in 3. Education about food waste in agricultural high Normandy where gendarmes were close to schools and hotel industry training colleges. catching a gang of burglars by a road side, but the 4. Terms and conditions for reduced waste in thieves escaped by doing a U-turn when other contracts for the public procurement of institutional drivers alerted them with their lights. The catering. Gendarmerie Nationale says that "helping" other 5. Improved knowledge of the legislative and drivers avoid a speeding fine could also help child regulatory framework relating to ownership and abductors and other dangerous criminals avoid liability in the area of food donations. being caught. The Gendarmerie Nationale posted 6. Measures against food waste in waste on Facebook: "Gendarmes are not just there to prevention programs. issue fines - they are there above all to ensure 7. Inclusion of food waste measurement as part of people's safety, help finding missing people and Corporate Social Responsibility. catch criminals."

8. The systematic replacement of the existing

“expiration date” on the label (French abbreviation “DLUO”) with “to be consumed preferably by……”. Breast cancer screening 9. An advertising campaign against waste. Breast cancer screening will be reimbursed at 10. A new vers i o n of the web si te: 100% for women of any age with a family history www.gaspillagealimentaire.fr. of the disease, from this spring. Those aged 50-74 – A year-long experimental citizens’ food are already given a free scan every two years. donation program based around a digital platform.

The national www.alimentation.gouv.fr website now includes “anti gaspi” (anti gaspillage/against Electricity meters waste) marketing materials, as well as information Three million new-generation Linky electricity and advice on reducing the amount of food thrown meters, which allow customers to be charged for away and explanations of best-by dates. Specific actual consumption, not based on estimates, will targets for food waste are also set in the French be installed in homes by the end of 2016. Tests on National Waste Prevention Programme. a version for gas, called Gazpar, start this year. Issued in 2014 and valid until 2020 it is promoted by the Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy. The programme sets British Association of the Var specific targets for the reduction of food waste in Welfare Coordinator France. The objective is a 50% reduction of food Ann Mitchem waste by 2025. It also aims to reinforce the fight 04 94 70 74 55 or 06 43 86 49 01 against food waste in catering and canteens by [email protected] introducing special provisions with regards to supply, preparation of meals, portion

8 Dual-SIM phones ideal for expats Wine description changes The strictly protected world of French wine is being For expats who regularly travel between the UK shaken up by EU rules that makers fear will and France or other countries the question arises challenge the primacy of vintages whether to get a second mobile phone for the such as champagnes, grown in other country – or a dual-SIM phone. Dual-SIM specific areas. From 1 January table phones allow users to have two numbers wines can be produced and sold connected to the same device, so you can be easily anywhere in France without giving reached on either your French or your British an area of origin, only the grape mobile number, for example. varieties used. Until now, only The phones have slots for two SIM cards – the regions designated by French authorities have been chips that identify each phone and allow it to allowed to produce wine commercially. access a phone network. Some also allow users to take a call on one card when they are talking on From now on the labels appellation d’origine the other one. They have been used in the Far East contrôlée (AOC) and indication géographique for several years, but were quite slow in arriving in protégée (IGP) or vin de pays – established the West despite previous attempts by firms certificates of quality – are joined by vins sans including Samsung and LG to introduce phones indication géographique (VSIG), wines without with similar technology. For several years they were geographical indication. costly, but the technology is now widely available at an accessible price. Would-be growers bordering premium areas such as Champagne want permission to plant vines, but The earliest dual-SIM phones were just adapters champagne houses fear competition from cheaper (Pseudo-Dual or Passive) meaning that while they rivals, who still could not call their produce could carry two cards, only one worked at any champagne. They have already faced increasing given time and you had to switch between them competition from Italian, Spanish and even English when required. A slightly more developed model is sparkling wines. Dual Sim Stand-By, where both cards work at the same time, but when you receive a call on one card, the other one is deactivated for the duration of the call. Dual Sim Active (DSA) phones are more common today: they are capable of receiving calls on both SIM cards, and the more advanced models allow for users to receive a call on both numbers at the same time, called Dual Call or Dual Active. Some models, while having two slots, do not give equal functionality to both: for example, the primary card slot allows for 3G or 4G fast mobile internet, but the secondary slot might be limited to slower 2G.

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9 NEIGHBOURHOOD NETWORKS

Cabasse, Carces, , Cotignac Congregation of the Ascension and Le Val Meetings are on the last Friday of the month part of the Anglican Church of Lorgues at 10.30 at Bar Maigey in Cotignac. with in the Var Contact Michael at: Michael Wharton You are very welcome to join us at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The Presbytery, 37 Rue Ste Brigitte, Montauroux Les Arcs, Lorgues , & We meet on the 1st and 3rd Sundays of Vidauban The month at 11h00 for Family Communion The next meeting is at the Cafe de la Tour in We also have a Bring and Share lunch Les Arcs at 10:30 am on Friday 19 February. afterwards. Please contact me if you have any Please ring Hilary Rost at 04 94 47 70 67 or comments, suggestions or queries. Rev Peter Massey at 04 94 73 93 37 for details xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.lorgueswithfayence.org Entrecasteaux, , and Villecroze ~~~ The Villecroze,Tourtour etc coffee morning will be on the last Tuesday of the month, St John’s for the Var place to be announced later. St John the Evangelist Ann & Maurice Mitchem Ave Paul Doumer, St Raphaël xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Rev Keith Bretel Holy Communion is held La Motte and Le Muy every Sunday at 10h30 8 of us met, 6 regulars and 2 new members followed by refreshments and a monthly lunch. who were made welcome. We plan next

month's get together for Friday 12 February, Grimaud Village Church same time, same place – Bar des Cascades, Ecumenical service at Grimaud village church La Motte, 10am. All are always welcome. on first Thursday of the month at 11h00 from Alexandra Lewis-Smith September to June. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Please ring 04 94 60 87 05 for details www.sjevar.com We meet on the first and third Tuesdays of the month at 11.00 at L’Arpillon café next to ~~~ Casino. Richard Tolaini xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx L'Oasis Christian fellowship LORGUES part of the Anglican Church of Lorgues St Maximin la Ste Baume, , with Fayence in the Var Brue Auriac, , Meounes, Every 2nd Sunday at 11h30 at Neoules, Ollieres, , Arc-en-Provence, 1801 Chemin des Pailles Pourrieres, Seillon Source d’Argens and and every 4th Sunday at 11h30 at Notre Dames des Anges Maison de We shall meet on Thursday, 18 February Retraite from 10.30 onwards at the Cercle We have a Bring and Share lunch afterwards. Philharmonique in the main square of St. For details or directions please contact Maximin la Ste. Baume. We have become a Rev Peter or Shirley Massey 04 94 73 93 37 or friendly group of regulars, but there is 06 87 94 04 83 always room for more. www.lorgueswithfayence.org Diana Andre de la Porte xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ~~~

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British Association of the Var Reservation Slip When booking multiple events at the same time, please attach separate cheques for each booking in order to facilitate the banking procedures.

British Association of the Var Reservation Slip LUNCH AT MONTFERRAT €27 members, €29 non-members. 27 February 2016 Venue: Bastide des Moines, Route de Draguignan, 83131 Montferrat. 12 noon Names of those attending Member Value Y/N €

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Please return this slip with your cheque made payable to BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF THE VAR To: Kevin Bell, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

British Association of the Var Reservation Slip AGM and optional LUNCH in LE MUY 16 March 2016 Venue: Les Jonquières, 1005 Bd de la Libération, 83490 Le Muy. 10.30 Names of those attending Apologies for absence Lunch Member Value Y/N Y/N € N/A N/A N/A N/A Donation to BAV Welfare Fund Total value of cheque enclosed Additional names overleaf Please add contact details below as an acknowledgement will be issued.

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British Association of the Var Reservation Slip LUNCH AND ART GALLERIES IN DRAGUIGNAN €22 members, €24 non-members. 22 April 2016 Venue: MB2, 11 bd Jean Jaurès, 83300 Draguignan. 12 noon Names of those attending Member Value Y/N €

Donation to BAV Welfare Fund Total value of cheque enclosed Additional names overleaf Please add contact details below as an acknowledgement will be issued.

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