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Ay more hints?   I am an absentee Gite owner and do have a local manager, but anything to make life more controlled would be useful.   My contribution...  a keybox is a good idea even if you have a 'meet n greet' management service.   Mostly you only provide one key anyway and often a booking contains many responsible people. Locking the key near the door is a good compromise.

Theer are oafs on both sides of most arguments.   However it is worth noting that noise/power can often have an effect across a very wide area, partcularly one which was hitherto relatively quiet.  So one person's fun can actully be destroying many, many, others' enjoyment.   I hope that makes sense. It is a bit late. BTW I don't know the answer. Both sides need to be accommodated somehow.    

Oh Merde. Please can the teccies remove the duplication (pref the first) and this request. I know they can cos I have had a lot of innocuous posts deleted over the years.  

I have a small job to do and it needs to have some holes filled with poly foam from a squirty can. Can anyone tell me please what I need to clean me squirter tube afterwards. I think that it is either white spirit or acetone? Recent Years Experience: Not worth the effort. Treat it as an excuse to pile all the jobs up so you can do them all in one day, this year/next year. This is FRANCE. An Attempt to be More Helpful I think that the solvent for polyurethane was MEK. But if you google 'solvent for Polyurethane' you might get a different answer. AFAIR acetone was the solvent of choice for superglue or any of the tube-solvent glues (though washing up liquid also worked on superglue).   P.S. Do NOT line the tube with water. Water helps the reaction.    Good luck   John    

I have a small job to do and it needs to have some holes filled with poly foam from a squirty can. Can anyone tell me please what I need to clean me squirter tube afterwards. I think that it is either white spirit or acetone? Recent Years Experience: Not worth the effort. Treat it as an excuse to pile all the jobs up so you can do them in opne day, this year/next year. An Attempt to be More Helpful I think that the solvent for polyurethane was MEK. But if you google 'solvent for Polyurethane' you might get a differnt answer. AFAIR acetone was the solvent of choice for superglue or any of the tube solvent glues (though washing up liquid also worked on superglue).   Good luck   John    

Publishing a guest's e-mail address on a web-site ? -Words fail me.    

- eating cheese after pudding - I suspect this is considered barbaric I perosnally thought it was merely an excuse to drink Port !

I have used an alternative. It is large panels of laminate that tongue and groove together and then the joints are siliconed. I 'think' I bought it from KGS in northampton or peterborough.Specially for wet rooms.   It looks OK and does have less joints (visually better and more resilient). It wasn't very expensive.

I posted a reply in this thread which, more or less, commented that the UK is not an homogenous place nor is France and that a lot of the comparisons being made may be unfair.  The post then got deleted for being off-topic.   Would it be off topic to ask whether the question heading the thread refers to *returning to rural UK or URBAN uk *from where ?

[quote user="Mpprh"]I'm in a funny position. I am self employed here ........ I'm open minded. If I had to move back, I would want to be in a rural area near a city (same as for the last 30 years). ....I could never go back to the London sprawl. .... The only real problem for me is the if I could live with "little islander" mentality : foreigners are greasy - we are the best in the world - the BBC is independent- the only ones with honest policeman and without corruption are the Brits, etc. Am I a stateless person ? Peter [/quote] No Peter you are not stateless, you are an individual like we all are (visions of a tick-box marked 'individual' are now crowding my head !). I have spent 19 years self employed in Britain during which time I made my investment in France. (I am now a student teacher - a voyage of personal madness !). I live in a large village near cities in the East Midlands, and am repeatedly reminded how much I value 'community'. BUT the bit of France we went for also has community. It is not sparsely populated nor a city. I only mention this because it is indeed necessary to compare apples and apples.  When contrasting 'countries' what bits are we contrasting ? Even customer service varies by outlet and locality, so why do some generalise about 'France' ?  Similarly Britain is not full of whingers or deluded triumphalists, they are just dense and in visible areas !   BUT argue 'systems' and there is a lot to comment on which is near homogenous within a country.e.g. The French employment regime. Many French educated youth leave France to work in the, more flexible but also harsher, UK. Many UK 'winding down' people leave towards France. What is the long-term effect of both moves ?  

I am from Sheffield originally. AND I am just over 50. But my property is in 66 and I am based in the uk.   OK. Lets swap schools St Joseph's / De la Salle  

'Cheers' is a usefu; sign-off. But do people use salutations to start an e-mail ? I confess I don't, as it has the 'to' directly above the space I am typing in.

Could we rely on the eekers to stay off-subject in an off-subject forum ?

Do remember that burgers need 'binding'. There are vege burgers sold in the UK that are so full of mushed veg that they are useless.   As a vegetarian I would sooner have veg soup , or veg croquets or rissoles than squidgy non-burgers.  

Aargh. This debate is near permanent on the forums (fora ?) and it seems that the positions get more entrenched and less of a debate each iteration. YES to: New price models in air tranport . New local airports. New routings A commuter 'bus via the air' for workers and double homers and weekend partyers. Innovative approaches to cost reduction   NO to: Anti family policies Anti-holiday maker policies An embedded 'harsh' culture - from Leary's public mouthings to frequent, and short notice,  changes to T&C's   The top set were what made Ryanair. The bottom set  may be its undoing as every business needs 'sustainability' and I am not sure that there will be suffiicient market in workers and double homers and weekend partyers to sustain all routes. So I politely suggest to those who vociferously defend R air (because it suits them and other people should read T&C's more carefully etc.) might take a bit of care. Unless the business can pay for it then their pet route will disappear. Small improvements now might make a world of difference to long term survival.    Easyjet is in fact a valid comparison, though it has its differences.    

And while we are at it. Does everybody realise that the criteria for buying the cheap 'educational licenses' of windoze pods are VERY WIDE.   Then again . OpenOffice is a free download.

I don't think that Nimes is South Western France. Correction. I do, compared to the northern Med area Nimes is SW, but this site and others treat it as South Eestern France. Having wafffed through that, you need  a Gite near good restaurants and takeaways ! Mine is too far away alas. Good luck. John

Sorry for the jargon. You interpreted IWB correctly. It seems that there is as much variety in the use of IT in French schools as there is in the UK. Though perhaps there is a richer pool of 'stuff' available on t'web than your tutor managed to point out. Good luck John

>John, I put a question on the TES staffroom even before I posted here. but no-one replied. Mistral I have found your question there and, its a bit wide open !  Similar to some that get flamed here (smile). You might have done better to search on 'English Key Stage 3' (or KS3) and follow through the many links, THEN ask a question to help put the stuff in perspective. There is even a resource section within the TES site to help start it off. I just tried 'English KS3' (Google search UK) and the first page generated some guff about the curriculum, only one offer to sell books and lots of resource pages. I am now a student teacher (maths) and there is MASSES of stuff available on the web, if you have the patience to trawl and sift. As an aside how much use of IWB's and PC's is there in France ? Good Luck John p.s. FWIW I think the pupil SHOULD be kept in touch with what his English peers would be doing. For his own intellectual development if nothing else (as presumably his 'French' is weaker than that of his peers. I am not suggesting that 'the French intellect' is any weaker than Brits).  Its not just apostrophes and grammar is it ? John

Hi Just a thought. Can you not tap into the various on-line stuff that teachers in England / Scotland use? Keep him in-line with peers over here AS WELL AS what he is doing there? My stuff is all Maths but there will also be a lot for English. http://www.tes.co.uk/main.aspx is a good start point http://www.tre.ngfl.gov.uk/ can be good as well. Good Luck. John    

I suspect that, as in everything else in life, a mixture is good. *Underfloor heating is great, and especially so if fed by low input sources like geo-thermal. Would be my preference in bathrooms and bedrooms anyway. *Storage heaters somewhere within the prop are good for the prop , but the maths  to make the economic balance right are not easy. *Rayonante in living rooms are far preferable to the, more drying, convectors. *Fan heaters to get an effect quickly are good - BUT on their own are almost useless at generating 'Comfort Heat' (e.g. sit down and read a book). *Wood burners are wonderful once lit !

I presume he was charging that to the state as entertaining. Fair enough then! But invite me.

Font Romeu. Nice small village, close to skiing and Andorra and nowt else. Prades nice town. 40-50  mins to coast, 50-60 mins to skiing. The drive is mostly OK apart from when it isn'y. You wioll learn to use snow chains at some time. Carcassone, Limoux, over the hill from me but both nice places. My guess is that Carcassone is crowded in summer, over an hour to the coast and 90mins or more to decent skiing.   Summer weather hot but not as windy as the coast. Yes swimming pool in Prades worth having. There is a lake nearby (Vinca) that has people swimming at least June - September, probably longer. I hope that helps.

I m rapidly apporoaching 51  - this weekend. Try this.   A Web site is actually like a massive jigsaw puzzle very loosely held together with pointers/string whatever your analogy. Basically many 'pieces' have to fit together well for it to work. Updating a web-site is a pain. A 'Forum' like this one provides a structured environment within a web page where we mere mortals may post streams of wisdom and rubbish without interfering too much with the jigsaw. Essentialy we have neen given 'playing rights' on one piece of the jig saw. 'Blogs'  are similar to a forum in that they operate within a few pieces of the overall jigsaw. Generally one person leads with their own stream of thoughts, and others can add their two-pennorth. All without getting involved in the nuts and bolts of updating a web-site.

From my experience of Co-props --- Bonne Courage !