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  1. Thanks Wooly.  What I really mean though is how to discuss with a doctor whether or not I will be "weightbearing" or "non-weightbearing" after an operation - and I can't find what seems to be appropriate in any of the on-line dictionaries.

  2. Just wondered if anyone could tell me the French words for weight-bearing and non weightbearing.  I have ordered a couple of medical phrasebooks but they haven't yet arrived and I can't find the translation even in my super huge dictionary.

  3. If it's anything like the Saint Varent by-pass don't hold your breath!   Ours has been on-going for about 15 years with a selection of different routes being "flavour of the month" each year.  Every now and again we get the chance to vote on the alternatives and then it all goes back to the drawing board.

    Mind you, Chiché probably needs one more than us.

    Su

  4. We have to collect 75cents per adult per night - unless they pay Taxe d'Habitation at another address in Deux-Sevres in which case they don't have to pay twice.  When it started the procedure for bringing back from UK people who had refused to pay it was explained to us and I said that if anyone did refuse I would simply pay it on their behalf and the Taxe de Sejour team were horrified - we must never pay it for them!

    It's not too onerous but as our gite is really only occupied during the late spring, summer and early autumn it would have to be a pretty low one off payment to equal that.

  5. I sent an email to ours and got this response:

    Nature de la demande : IR revenus

    Objet de la demande : Demande d’information pratique ou rendez-vous

    Référence : TCHE-7RRGNB

    Traité par : Isabelle MOREAU, SA

    Bonjour Madame / Monsieur

    Madame,

    Le taux de change à retenir est celui au 31/12/08 à savoir 1,04986 pour

    convertir la £ en €

    cordialement,

    Isabelle MOREAU

    CDI de THOUARS

    Tél. 05 49 96 02 02

    ______________________________________________________________________

    Votre demande :

    Bonjour,

    Je voudrais savoir, s'il vous plaît, le taux de change de la livre

    sterling à retenir pour les revenus de 2008.

    Merci de votre assistance

  6. Ours is going to be 8 years old this summer and up to now there has been no deterioration of terracing or anything obvious to us.  We changed the filtering medium to zeolite a couple of years ago and it has been even better than it was before (and we thought it was good then)- no greyish tint at all.

  7. We have been running our salt water pool for a number of years now using salt pastilles produced specifically for swimming pools.  Just wondering if anyone uses water softening pastilles?  On the bag it says Chlorure de Sodium. Are there likely to be any problems if that is used instead?

  8. We have quite recently discovered that we can receive radio 4 longwave on our car radio in Deux sevres (79).  it's a bit dodgy when you are driving past big overhead cables or in town centres - but it is really sureal (sp?) to drive around rural France listening to the Archers or womans Hour.........

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