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I agree that an extraction, or in my case to let the dentist even probe about without an anaethetice[:-))] would be horrendous and to be blunt, I would not have sat still long enough for the tooth to be pulled! I also agree that different folks need different things in a dentist, Mr O used one in the UK that was a facial reconstruction surgeon and thought he was great, I met him once when my dentist(same practice) was absent and One of the children needed treatment........there was just something about that man that made me uncomfortable, same here in France, Mr O goes to a very modern practice with a dentist who trained in USA........I do not like the layout of the room..everything seems to be going on behind the chair and 2 or 3 assistants in the room....just makes me edgy, whereas my dentists  is pretty slummy looking , he works alone, there is only him and the equiptment behind and loads of space in front of the chair........so Mr O can sit guard at the door, he also knows he has to treat me with kid gloves!

I had also been logged out.........fortunatly I could remember my password.

Val 2 ........Mr O says you are spot on with your last sentence!

thanks all. Firstly , the car was "sold" to the new owner with at least 6 months CT on it, so the former keeper did his bit, he also filled in his bits on the transfer forms. At that stage I was approached by the "new " owner of house and car if I would help him out with the paperwork.......well yes I would have done that without question, but as I mentioned earlier he has only visited his new property once and he was "too busy" because they are "busy people"[blink] I have done as much now as I am prepared to do, the guy hasn't emailed or phoned me back since I informed him of his predicament, he could possibly have sorted out some insurance for this car with a bit of paperwork via fax and our helfull broker at this end....but as has been said.....too lazy is a better term than too busy! He will now have an expensive learning curve into French paperwork, as I can immagine the reaction at the CT station if and when he turns up there with his car! Right enough said , I'm off to work.

I had an English neighbour who sold his house and a car to another English man (both trasnactions took place last August ). the new guy hasn't done any of the paperwork involved in the car sale, ie that the carte gris is still in the orriginal owners name, the forms are all there filled in in part by the "former" owner,(the house is a holiday home and he has only been for one short stay...no excuse i know!) I check the post box on this house and send the mail to the respective new or old owners.   last week when I looked in the box there was a letter, which must have been there for some weeks(I only go once a month or so) from the Control Technic place .I contacted the new owner , as I recognised the logo and knew what would be in there, the CT runs out on Saturday. This man has asked if I would take the car to the station for the test (I am still thinking about this as I assume that he has not insured the car either!)  If this CT expires , I understand that the car will later be on the road illegaly, but what would be the procedure to get it through the CT, 1) will he need another form before the car can be CT'd 2) the orriginal owner has written across the carte gris(vendu and the date, and crossed it.....in a very unproffessional manner) and I fear this will give a multitude of problems with the fonctionaires! or am I being dramatic? I feel like washing my hands of the situation, but my gut instict tells me I should help someone who knows even less than me[Www]

Cheers Nick.  Oh dear, more paperwork!

I was not sure how to tittle this thread or where to post it so I put it here to hopefully get a wider audience.   I have a Danish neighbour who I have been helping with his paperwork with CPAM etc, yesterday we were talking and he asked about our TV licence...I explained to him that it is paid through the foncier/hab? and that one pays it automatically unless ticking the box to say that there was no ariel/tv in the house. He replied by saying that he doesn't have to pay his licence here as he pays it in Denmark and it is covered through all of Europe, I told him that I had never heard of this system and asked him to make sure that he is correct as he has apparently not paid for his licence in France via the appropriate departement. Can anyone out there shed any light on this situation.

Was your home a Band B when you bought it? If so who did you buy from? and why is the estate agent not advertising your sale as a B and B, If this is what you want it advertised as , then surely you only have to say so! Seeing that you are on such a popular walkers route then you obviously advertise yourself to the walkers for your business......then surely you should be using the same medium to sell it[I]

Since Easter we seem to have had our winters worth of heavy rainstorms......we are in the midst of one now! I was out in the car an hour ago in temps of 28 degrees, as I was driving back home it was dropping huge blobs of rain and now the village is like a river.

[quote user="KathyC"][quote user="cooperlola"][quote user="KathyC"] [quote user="cooperlola"]I've never had a gite but I find this interesting.  I used to clean houses for a living (for a year or two before I left the UK).  Most clients expected to have their houses cleaned from top to bottom in 4 hours max. (And with a lot of personal belongings about, they were very fiddly to do in some cases.)[/quote] Having worked occasionally as a cleaner myself, I have to agree with you. Unless outside work is included, I can't possibly see how it could take anything like this amount of time. Perhaps the people who take this long to do things have never been directly employed by somebody who wanted the work done efficiently and speedily! [/quote]That must be it.  We've rented a lot of cottages in our time.  When I left one of them - 2 receptions, 3 bedrooms, kitchen and 2 bathrooms - two girls arrived to clean.  They were doing 5 cottages between 10 am and 4 pm on a contract basis.  Similarly the owners obviously weren't expecting them to take 2 hours a room![/quote] You should see the speed they have to do caravans on the Isle of Wight! Not too sure of the end result though. [/quote] From vague memory we had about 3 hours to clean a 6 bunk charter yacht........baring in mind that for about an hour of this the hatches were battened whilst a team member cleaned the outside, this was in Turkey in july and August. phew...hot! the paid money was also topped up with the added bonus of as much water as you required to drink and a lunchtime meal at a quayside resto. Plus any leftover goodies the holiday makers left behind.

Went to her potager with her truckle, filled it with cherries, salad and onions and then deliberatly broke the lock on the hen house door......she would make friends with his wife first , tell her of her problem . Everyone knows how henpecked these englishmen are and if the rumours about the english women really were true then..........

I had a lovely glut of cherries off my 2 trees this year, they are all gone now[:(] I am awaiting on the plum tree to produce. But just this evening , my 89 year old neighbour brought me a box of his first peaches of the season ......they are small but smell devine and i shall leave them untill tomorrow before i attack them!

You are not on the run again Georgina?[:P][:-))]

lollie, you have saved my bacon! Mr o has been ltrying to view their site from about 7.30 am today and thought we had a bug on our system as he kept getting diverted via yahoo and then just giving a server error message.......... Oh well , no long weekend in UK for me now, try another week!

Collection of quimper pottery. The Headteacher was rather pleased to hear........

a dibber to put the seedlings in her garden........meanwhile Madame was embarassed to say the least but also anoyed that she would have to make a return visit with her curling tongs, and since everywhere had stopped giving out carrier bags she would have to find somewhere discreet for her "personal" item for the walk home! i know she thought.........

Nothing to do with planes, but a chic looking lady in a HUGE 4x4 came directly onto the roundabout and i just missed smashing into her, I sounded my car horn, she jumped and dropped the mobile phone  she was talking on out of the window[blink][:-))]

Brilliant........i knew there was more to it, so tomorow we shall be skipping along and hopping along two by two until our song is through. That is a good site, i shall have another look through for something for next week.   I shall sleep tonght........more than I did 22 years ago tonight.........its our  wedding anniversary tomorrow.

err no definatly not that one! Come on all you mums/grandmas /ex nannies/childminders........this one is driving me silly!

Ok , following on from my post about teaching a 3 year old English, it is all going well and i have come to realise that this little girl responds well to a sing-song and action songs. Today we were talking (or I was and she was listening) and something clicked in my head and i started sing ing this........ marching along, singing a song, marching two by two ........... and that was all i could remember, I used to go to all sorts of play sessions with my 2 when they were little and remember this one where you all march round, this little girl loved it and we passed about 20 mins just pacing up and down the salon with me singing and her saying "again" So who knows the some more of this song? I have looked on my Tumble tots video and it isn't on there[:(]

The French also have a problem with their memories, when was it that the teams from the european cup knocked the French ones off the leader board???????? So back down at the local bar and PMU discussions were lively, what with Football, fosse ceptics , the latest style of pinnies and guessing whose knickers belong to which resident on the washing line up the road, did they realy think that Mme pierretta with 5 children wore those strings or where hers the camis or....

Raphaels wife michaela used hers to rinse off the soil from the potatoes and salad from that English woman across the road, Michaela tutted every time she saw her....she had never settled into village life that English one, walking around and doing her house work without a pinny on, its not as though they couldn't afford one, after all evryone knows les Anglaise are.......

Buy those Oasics shoes for his daughter......at over 80 euros a time! he could remember the days when.........

Well blow me down......we have known since we lived here that there is a house owned by a fellow Brit but had never knowingly met them. The other day whilst out fo a walk we spotted a brit reg car outside this particular house and introduced ourselves, one thing led to another ie where we hailed from in the Uk, he said he knew the town as he had been managing some updates to working systems in a particular company in the 80s.........I was a departement manager there at the time......we spent the next half an hour discussing people we knew , my other half and his were nearly asleep!