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  1. vissac

    Nemotoeds?

    IF you can get them delivered (it is a question of time as they are live) they are a third of the price in the UK.
  2. Sorry, I wasn't being picky. I was trying to illustrate that things HAVE changed. More French now holiday in all sorts of places. I even know one who has been to Goa a couple of times and loves spicy Indien food. Perhaps with the increase in world exploration there may be a change expansion in eating habite. Anyway I though that the favorite food of the French was pizza! (judging by the number of outlets around here)
  3. Homemade vin de noix is good stuff. You wouldn't want to drink much more than one glass though. It reminds me more of port than sherry.
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    Guardian article

    [quote user="JandM"]Interesting article. France hasn't been a cheap place to live for years and years, but I'm still surprised by those who doggedly stick to their British diet. White sliced and ready meals - yum yum. [/quote] Excuse me but there are loads of ready meals in the French supermarkets. "plats cuisinee" never mind the ubiquitous pizza. White sliced bread is essential for toast. Toastiligne is an acceptable make. All other French sliced bread I have tried is sweet. Nearly as bad as American sliced bread.
  5. I just thought that it ws like a caricature of apolitical broadcast.
  6. I planted some of the decorative varieties in my baskets last year. When I came to empty them they had produced tubers! The light green variety produced  round tubers and the dark purply one long slender ones. Double value. They tasted all right as well.
  7. [quote user="Sprogster"]As you are a young family, I assume you are all healthy and do not have any existing health conditions. This is important, as if any of you do have health problems, then obtaining comprehensive medical insurance can be virtually impossible. Most members of this and other similar forums who are resident full time in France tend to be retirees and therefore moved to France after their children had left home. The question you have to ask yourself is why is Limousin so sparsely populated and property relatively cheap. The answer being because there is little employment and the younger French locals have moved away to find work. As a result I would investigate carefully the quality of the schools in the area you are planning to live. Go to France by all means, I am just not sure if Limousin is the most suitable area for a young family.[/quote]    I would not entirely agree with Sprogster's comments regarding Limousin. It is about the size of Wales and varies a lot.Our little corner , near Brive, is very different to Creuse which is indeed sparsely populated with hardley any towns of any size which  in turn will reflect in the number of schools especially the senior ones. I suggest that you might try and refine your search.
  8. Britain joined the EEC - now EU in 1973. Why have they not "harmonised" things like banking and insurance by now. These are things that are important to the average person. Oops just answered my own question.
  9. Only if they could guarantee that their info was accurate!!
  10. I understand what you are saying but as I do not know the make, let alone the model or external dimensions and fittings I cannot go down this route. What I asked originally was whether anyone one this forum had any experience of replacing an insert. It appears that there is nobody who has been there so I will have to brave the French artisan complete with sharp intake of breath, gallic shrug, shaking of head and probably that hand movement that indicates ,I believe, that this could be very costly. Ah well, thanks anyway
  11. And thank you all for NOT answering the question. Why is it so often, when you pose a question, all you get is the "I wouldn't start from here" type of answer.
  12. OK, I am prepared to have it relined etc. I was also thinking of having it done professionaly but I am still concerned about the physical replacement of the insert. The chimney brest is made of some sort of plastered board with a wooden lintel above the fire. I assumed that it had been built around the insert and if so it might mean wrecking the entire thing and rebuilding. I really was hoping that someone had personal experience. Said friend is a bit of a know it all but I would't have even considered it had she not been so positive.
  13. I think that the chimney is lined. What I am more concerned about is the physical practicaliy of removing the woodburner without wholescale rebuilding of the chimney brest. A friend recons that is is relatively easy but I was looking for confirmation.
  14. We have an old insert woodburner. I think that it needs replacin as it is 30 years or so old. It is built into a fake chimney brest. Has anyone experience with replacing or having replaced such a thing?
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