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  1. Sincerely yours. (je suis bien à vous)
  2. Bonne chance et prompt rétablissement - nous partons demain matin - de retour dimanche prochain au soir. xxx
  3. After a lovely sunny day - it is snowing like crazy now!
  4. Est-ce que c'est vraiment décidé - ou attendez-vous encore plus d'information sur la fosse? Oui, les Hirondelles, c'est joli.
  5. ARGHHHH - je suis vraiment désolée Sweet - j'espère que tu iras mieux bientot et je pense bien à toi. Comment va ton épaule? Bizarre que le grand froid en Suisse n'a pas déclenché ton asthme - mais le froid plus humide de retour chenz toi te fait souffrir. Le printemps sera bientot là - à quand la première hirondelle. Connais-tu le proverbe 'une hirondelle ne fait pas le printemps'? Qu'est-ce qui est bon chez toi :   LE moral ..... ou LA morale? Les deux peut etre! xx 
  6. I did 12 km last week and could have gone further - but 400km and over the Alps might be a tad too much. Next year, maybe.
  7. I've actually got one made of granit - ouch! I don't even use it for patisserie - too heavy - and could be kind of dangerous.
  8. We are going to St Foy Tarentaise tomorrow. As usual we checked the itinerary with tcs.ch (the Swiss AA/RAC) - with dates of travel. Their itinerary took us to Martigny (Swit.) then over La Florclaz to Chamonix, Tunnel du Mont Blanc, then Pre St Didier and over the Petit Saint Bernard and then to MontValezan and St Foy. Checked about opening over the Petit St. Bernard pass on internet - and it is CLOSED. Phoned the tcs and they apologised profusely - and said they buy the itineraries from Michelin - and that they should have sent us via Geneva, Chambery, Albertville, Bour St Maurice! Imagine if we had gone all the way to Petit St. B and found it was closed- and had to go back via Geneva!!!!     Anybody in the area who can tell us what the situation is to get to Tarentaise via Italy. THANKS.
  9. Swissie

    SAC ??

    Perhaps ask on a golfing Forum. BTW, here the word sac is used pejoratively to say somebody is a twit (+vowel change) - : Quel sac celui-là! Or for fed up 'j'en ai plein l'sac'' If your query is genuine, I am sorry I don't have any advice- but I do hope you find help. Bonne chance.
  10. je viens de temps en temps voir ici si on peut faire un brin de causette - mais vous ètes bien silencieuses (+eux). J'espère que vous ètes tous et toutes en pleine forme. Je m'en vais quelques jours dans la Tarentaise (Alpes Françaises) skier et faire du babysitting. Alors à tout bientot à mon retour. Amitiés     Odile/Swissie
  11. Perhaps you will need this new French word ... or are you practised already 'le rouleau à pate' (avec circonflexe sur le a!).
  12. Off to St foy Tarentaise for a week of downhill + babysitting! Near us in the Jura we have 4 local downhill resorts - 2 in France and 2 in Switzerland: Métabief/MtD'Or (where the cheese comes from for your tartiflette), and Les Fourgs (F) and La Robella and StCroix/Les Rasses (CH). All 4 have been great this and last year- but had poor snow previous years.
  13. I'd never seen one just standing there - only making a blindingly fast swoop, catch a bird and go. This time he was there for a long time, just in front of our eyes. Wonderful.
  14. Glad to hear you got tickets. Thinking of you - hope for peace for your mum.
  15. In the ash tree right to the side of the house, about 3 m. from the bedroom window - and just above my bird feeders. That explains the feathers in the snow and we do have many many sparrows (both tree and house). In the UK we had one that would sweep from the lime trees next to our house and take a tit from time to time from the bird feeders.  He was there for ages - OH went to get his camera and as he walked back in, sparrowhawk flew away. He'll probably be back soon.
  16. A LOT of snow here still ... I do not yearn for Spring - love winter too much!
  17. Would chickens cope in an Eglu in a Swiss winter I wonder. I really want a movable run so that they can have access to grass all the time- I hate to see chickens in a muddy run. We also have many foxes here, as well as pine and beech martens - so it must be as well protected as poss.
  18. We used the Leicester based Britannia (Mr Bardwa owner). They were excellent, but not cheap as Coops says. They stored a piano for delivery to our daughter's in Surrey, and did a part load to a Storage place and then on to the flat we purchased in the meantime.
  19. The couple from Kent said they were very surprised how many English speaking people they came across at their local resorts last week- but no idea how many live there. That was both in Metabief/Mont d'Or and Les Fourgs. As said if you ever wish to pm me, you're welcome. And if you do come on a recky, would be happy to meet up for a chat. In our village we actually have 2 English ladies - both married to Swiss guys and been here yonks.
  20. Col des Saisies - happy memories of kids learning to ski in Crest Voland a long time ago. I remember the controversy- and personally agree it was tragic to destroy that habitat forever. If I can remember rightly they had to make some effort to 'put back' afterwards - but such delicate environments took millions of year to evolve and just can'be be reinstated. I can assure you that here in the Jura all the tracks are on entirely natural landscape. Lots of very special peat bogs here, like in Siberia- but all tracks go around them at a fair distance. When Spring comes, there is NO sign at all that the tracks were ever there. Wonderful.
  21. I am so sorry Dave, and really feel for you. I came to see mum 'as an emergency' so many many times over a period of years. In the end she I wasn't there for her when she did die exactly 1 year ago. S*ds law. Thinking of you. I was able to book on the internet for EasyJet every time within hours of flying. Otherwise I would have turned up at the airport, go to the desk and explain and wait. Bonne chance.
  22. Well this is not ex-pat country - which is why we love it (biased of course as I was born and bred here). We are just over the Swiss border. We've met a nice couple with a house on French-side who come regularly but still live in Kent. Which area are you looking at? Do ask if I can help. Bonne chance.
  23. [quote user="Will"]Then try something like this. [/quote] I love the eglu because it is fox proof and can be moved around. anybody who has kept chickens will know how quickly a lovely patch of grass will turn to just mud. It is also very well insulted against hot and cold, and very easy to clean. But at nearly £600 it makes every egg very expensive!! Perhaps will ask for one for my big birthday next year (yeah 21 again). Also sold in France - the large one at E905!
  24. Here in the Jura 100s and 100s km of tracks are prepared and all link from one end of the range to the other. Usually there is a wide smooth piste for the skating style, with 2 double tracks for classic on either side. They do a great job. Pierre I have downhilled all my life and there is nothing like it for that adrenalin rush - BUT there is an increasing BUT - I hate the damage large resorts do to the countryside, the huge energy output, the effect on wildlife, etc. Cross country is actually much more physical- (hence your aching in places you didn't know you had!) - but so much more peaceful, ecological, etc - you really feel so close to nature, in such a simple way. Can't wait to continue the discovery of just our small area- then go a bit further. The great thing about the Jura is that you ski on top of the range, rather than in valley bottoms (as in the Alps) - so views can be breathtatking, and areas link well. So glad you seem to have enjoyed your adventure Sweet17 - hope you will keep it up in the future.
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