fred

forgive me if its here already but the oldies r the best.....3 blondes walking in a forest and suddenley they come across some tracks in the snow..they all pondered for a minute and then the first one says "theyre wolf tracks, them" the second blond pipes up "dont be soppy theyre obviously bear tracks!,the third blonde then shouts "dont be silly you pair of idiots ,theyve gotta be deer tracks......anyway ,they were all still argueing when the train hit them

[quote user="Val_2"]Well I was justified in reporting illegal work to URSSAF because the french person in question was officially working for us and being paid by us at the time when he was supposedly off sick with a bad back. No way were we going to let that go when we had no money for ourselves after paying him and he was using our vehicle too! In fact our accountant gave us the local anonymous phone number for URSSAF because it was her husband who told us about this bloke who turned out to be a thief and a rogue and sacked by many other local builders but of course, being France you can't get references unless they are offered.[/quote]fair play to you

[quote user="Cat"][quote user="hedgehog"]what sort of person would inform against other Brits.....Cowards. Most of the French that I have worked on my house want cash in hand do they inform on each other?   No they leave it to people like you The french are cowards but some brits make me ashamed to adtimt that im british [/quote] Fred? [/quote]lol...im flattered Cat ..not me but i think i know who it is ,...been a bit of a topic at work for all of us working black..lol...ps tht was a joke..

thanks for all the answers and im sorry if i threw all my toys out of my pram earlier!but at the time it felt like i was being treated like a leper!!and it was all very real too me at the time ,its not nice being that broke and being pushed from pilar to post,being told come back at the start of the year etc etc!I didnt come here to live on handouts and tbh i never asked for any ,im no spounger,i will say no more about the subject other than i totally agree with wots been posted here about taking someones job etc etc but the fact is it was the mairie who gave me the work!!needless to say this was 7/8 years ago and im happily settled now ,kids at school etc and im working paying my dues etc,but im still appalled by the fact that there are members(british!!) here who would of had me in prison/fined etc just for doing at the time wot seemed nessacary(im betting your not all "snow white"),would you see your kids starve?... i thought not ...shame on you.. ;please try and see the other side of things before looking down from your ivory tower and try to ruin somebodys life !as we havent all got "second" house or a pension to fall back on..fred...ps can i have herbal kint back,i kinda liked it!!

[quote user="Russethouse"]Years ago we had a lady on this forum who had bought a wreck of a house in France and her and her husband were due to move, literally the day before they were going, and with her UK house sold, her marriage collapsed. She went ahead with the move with her two small children. Within a few months her house in France had been deemed uninhabitable and her local community rehomed her and paid her an allowance too....it looked pretty bleak but there was help available - are you sure you explored all avenues ?[/quote]at the time (like i said this was a few years ago now)i felt i had tried all of the angles available to me but felt i kept hitting a "brick wall",my french is actually ok(ish) like in said in an earlier post i was even told "it would be better if you went home",it got to the point where i didnt have the petrol in the car to even get to the rsa,urssaf et al ,the offices are 45 minutes away from where i live!!

I thank you for your understanding,at the time having the money to buy a flight back was out of the question my only thought was feeding my kids!!

ok..

no ,just checked its herbal !!!lol...my appologise for coming across as a "ranter" but can u not see my side of the coin?as i feel i was left no choice at the time

herbal kint offends you?????...actually you could be rite!,verbal kint eh!?

is the change acceptable?...if your doing a search to find out what it is its a character from "the usual suspects" no "hidden "meaning in there im afraid

as my first post has been deleted i thought id answer here,first of all its just a name get over it and buy yourself a sense of humour!,please dont comment on why i ended up in France as frankly its none of your business!needless to say it wasnt up to me to move here,circumstances prevailed.At the time my french was very limited and nobody in authority seemed willing to help or give advice in fact one "official " told me "it would be better if you go home"...Im just shocked how many Brits on here would happily see someone like myself (who was struggling at the time)out of house and probably doing time simply because im trying to put food on the table,from this i can only assume that most of you are affluent and dont understand the meaning of "being skint".Im sorry if my first post annoyed anybody but i find it hard to fathom the reason behind wanted to grass on a fellow brit who is only doing wot i can to survive,i can only pressume this "elitist" forum is not for myself as i dont own a rolls royce!get over yourself people...