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  1. Wiv Lime boots pert et? Who or what is  Lemon Shoes?
  2. Soz, Are you saying there is a NEW new card ? If so, is our lightish purple bluey coloured one the old new card ? I haven't seen a new green one, the one we have now, is from off the net. The current card we have is valid until 25th October 2007. I have read a lot about the NEW card to come, that will serve for us in France, as well as in Europe and will finally replace the carte vitale as we know it now, it isn't that one though, is it ?
  3. [quote user="Logan"]Ah Miki, so you also are fluent in Swahili. [:D][/quote] Oh yes plus another strange language known only to my wife, she calls it me talking b******s and I thought I spoke Catalan until last year and until the peeps spoke back I was doing well good.......(that's new speak I believe [:)] )
  4. [quote]So who's better off?   Them in their blissful ignorance, or me with my fluent French and keeping-up-with-the-newses? Hard to say, really!  [:)] [/quote] Well you are Rumzi, cos you went out and got a big bad dog and put on extra locks, another Anglaisie neighbour never comprended and she was number two who wuz robbed in the village. (Am I the only one who sees a fable in there somewhere..............no ?  OK just me then [:)] ) Being in suspended animacy is great, until it all comes crashing down around the lugs, when the people translating for you go on holiday or worse, go home permanent [:)]    
  5. BB and Smithy will be along in a minute to put that sentence right and I hope you get two hundred lines !! Don't speak Albanian meself but i (careless there !!) know a man who does.................... that counts [:)]
  6. No arguments from me about the two previous posters (Gay and Susan) comments, seen and heard it all at first hand myself......
  7. And is it not said "If the wind changes you will look like that forever"? And is it also not said somewhere, that should one tell a porkie, then one will grow a nasty ulcer on the tongue ? Or as my Mum always said, put clean vest and pants on, if the bus knocks you over, we don't want the neighbours talking about your dirty underwear...???? [8-)]
  8. Yes, poor Brian. "Romani ite domum" Poor Brian had to write his wrongs out, rightly, a hundred times [:)] So perhaps any offenders of the  i error, should be made to write out I me and my in capitals  a hundred times and to serve a month on the Living Albania forum, as further humiliation. That'll learn 'em [:)]
  9. Chief  that is different but wait a minute while I catch my breath from catching up with the goalposts..........[;-)] The part Dago highlighted, certainly could not be misinterpretated I guess we might well agree with those sentiments somewhat better than before but didn't Wen also make her post clearer later on ?
  10. Quite right Dago, perhaps I should have posted it in full, sorry Dick but I do it might have been you who misread it also. The major point was indeed "If i had my way, you wouldn't even be allowed to emigrate until you could speak the language of your chosen destination." That part of the quote, took it one stage further.. There is a point to be made possibly, about Wens original thought but as said, if it happened to her and she says it how she finds, why do people feel threatened that they appear to believe that she has come to the conclusion, that it is all French that are like that and they have to spring to the defence of "THEIR French" ? Is anyone aware that there are good, the bad and the ugly,  the World Over, inc Australia as Wen would be the first to admit I'm sure ! And by the way, a little French can also put you completely wrong in your thoughts. Oh boy, have I seen some horrendous balls ups due to a person thinking they had said something and it was completely and totally wrong. Culminating sometimes, in a lot of work to clear it all up and all because the person thought they knew what was being said and that they were replying with the right answer, rather than admitting they were not sure. All the bisous and ca va's you can muster, will not be part of truly understanding France, I feel myself sometimes like I have got it all sussed here but the next day, on occasion, I feel I am starting from scratch again .
  11. [quote] If speaking French IN FRANCE is a problem for you......LEAVE.[/quote] Well, many reading that better book a plane or  ferry early to avoid the rush because that's about 90% plus of Brits from my experience [:D]
  12. Of course, it most certainly is Frederick BUT when one gets a controle of any kind in France, it often comes over to an individual or company, that one is paying for the transgressions of others not yet caught. Believe me, I have seen what happens when Impôts get their teeth in to anyone, so called, breaking the rules, one soon forgets that it is supposed to be a way of life. What appears to be shown on TV and in the popular press in Britain, is in no way the reality here. There are many ways of working on the black, in ways that many French will see as fair game (those boundaries are very well known) but there are people in authority here, who every day are checking out  folks, who they believe are transgressing the rules and are seen as witholding funds that France right now, could well do with.
  13. So let's hope Dick did damage himself then. See what they did do, put the stencil around the wrong way.....I was that man [:)]
  14. Damn you Dick, I have just dropped the monitor on the floor trying to turn it upside down. See what bad advice can do [:)] THE greatest is on BBC 4.............
  15. Wasn't that on the trains though Katie ? I am confused by my ears [:)] or is it years ?
  16. No I think on this occasion Twinks, he has perhaps the choice to believe me or dump everything I have ever offered him. Of course, I may not be right on some things to do with Gîtes and C d'Hôtes but I do try to keep those things off a forum. So it's mind the platform please and move along , this bus is going to Hounslow via Clapham.................ding ding [:)]
  17. With all the changes that have happened here, especially with how Impôts operate and reg changes, what I said to you 4 years ago, some things, will of course have changed. So please, surely you don't want to blame someone else for you not knowing the regulations?  I know several French folks who employ people on cheque emploi in their small businesses, they know it is illegal but simply agree that when questioned it is cleaning on their house part. You say you asked how much, people or just me offered you the rate. I do know (and you appear to say not to you though) that it is illegal…well there you go, some I told and I recall telling some on here that asked. I simply put it on for all to see this time, not just for you to see, note, Phil picked up on parts of it and so did two others in emails. So if you read my post again, you will see this : Oh and until recently (and even under the new CESU, which only allows around 8 hours a week for something like under 30% of the year, in days) employing someone on chèque emploi for registered Ch D'Hôtes was illegal, your own part of the house OK but, rooms for biz, a no no and claiming it against tax was fraught with danger ! So pretty simple to read that it is now accepted but with limits. And here we are again, you thinking it is all for your benefit, I posted to show that claiming for cheque emploi, when it is being illegal, will, with certain tax regimes, be illegal and fines will be just part of the penalty. As for you being ready to be educated, no change there then !. As for articles in LF, if permitted by those above, I would certainly find much in the course of a year to put straight in Archants French mags. There’s them that write about regs etc here and them that are in the bluddy thick of it and, that is all too often the big difference, remember your own cases of believing all you were told, I’ll say no more ! In all the contrôles we have known, as far as ascertaining that a person has sufficient funds declared to pay all ones bills and still live the life they feel one should have, factures are demanded for all invoices appertaining to the commerce they run. All outgoing expenses to do with the house have also been demanded along with any hols or travel taken. Quite a to do and rather daunting, if your contrôle never matched this kind of interrogation, then your inspector must have been pretty sure all was in order pretty quickly in the affair.  No one implied anything, so get that stupid thought out of your little head. I said wanna bet about invoices and that offer of a bet still stands. Don't think that because of a 68% abattement, that a normal contrôle will not want to see factures to tally against ones figures. If they never asked for your invoices, I would only say it was not a full contrôle or be astonished had it been one. It is all verystrange, I am reading that you still look back at my help from years ago but for a while now, when I post anything else, you  have trouble with it, well why not simply go along those lines and throw the rest away, as perhaps it must be wrong ! I try to post only on what I have experienced and from what I know, no guess work, no man in a pub. No misinterpretation (ring any bells !!) So the advice given on this thread is along that same pattern. If you say it is wrong, then so be it but it will remain my advice and maybe a guide to anyone who just believes I might just be right.
  18. Are we back to running things up flag poles here ? [:)]
  19. That'll cut down on the gas bill then [:)]
  20. For me, the third line across, shows standing charges, the 4th, the heures pleines charge and the 5th, heures creuse charge,  for all puissance that one is actually on.  (HP and HC is in kw per hour charged)
  21. Well Katie, how bad is it then, when once in the sarf, I was speaking for the first time to a fonctionaire, so she had no details on me, said whereabout was I from in  Londres [8-)] Kids looked up at me and said how did she know Dad.........Wasn't going to tell two kids that it was my accent, especially as they thought Dad could parlee Francay like a native. They were soon to find out, after just a few months at school, that Dad was a fraud [:(] Beryl, sweet as, my dear [:)]
  22. Beryl, Heures creuse et pleine. http://particuliers.edf.fr/article494.html
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