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Suandpete

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  1. We supply bed linen, shower mat, loo mat and tea towels - but not towels either in the house or for the pool.  We offer to provide them if people fly here but have only ever been taken up on that once in 5 years.  Our clients don't seem to have any problem at all bringing their own towels - and we already have 12 weeks booked for 2009 so we must be doing something right.

    Edit: we don't charge extra for what we supply - we also provide a second set for the second week of two week stays.

  2. we also use a parafin heater in our kitchen - but you should be aware that it does put quite a bit of humidity into the atmosphere.  if like us your kitchen is a bit draughty it won't be a problem, however the drawback of calor gas heaters and parafin heaters is that they may cause some condensation problems.

  3.     Our lab did exactly the same about three weeks ago - he was fast asleep and didn't appear to notice but I could hear his tummy above the noise of the television!  No after effects though and I haven't noticed it again since.

  4. Salt and pepper; tea coffee (instant and ground) and sugar (just make sure that the containers are over half full).  Coffee machine filters.

    Washing up liquid, dishwasher tablets Jif, bleach, floor cleaner, bin bags for kitchen and bathroom; shower cleaner, loo cleaner, air freshener for loo, 3 loo rolls, kitchen roll.

    Charcoal and lighter fluid (only ever bought these once, 5 seasons ago - ever since they have been replaced by guests).

    Plastic beakers and plates for kids in garden. Haven't so far provided plastic glasses for around pool - but maybe we should.......

    Edit:  Forgot the milk, butter, cheese, bread soft drink and wine that are in the welcome pack plus whatever fruit and veg's we have from the potager/orchard.  Try to offer strawberries, tomatoes etc every few days when we have them.

  5.  Our gite is on our property but separate from our house and they have their own bins.  However one of us empties the bins every couple of days and puts the rubbish with ours so that we can ensure it is put out on the correst days.  Only takes a few minutes and ensures that the rubbish never gets smelly.  Perhaps you don't live close enough to do that?  Lots of people just want to forget about mundane things like putting out rubbish when they are on holiday.    

  6.     Our policy is with MMA and we added my brother in law for a couple of weeks when he was here on holiday.  It was free for "proches" (family) - he had to show his UK driving licence but he had the same cover as us.  Our daughter lives in UK but is permanently on our policy - she is named but it was free to add her.

  7.   We had our village do last night - from 1830 until 0200!  Just a relatively small village of less than 2000 people but there were 2 sound stages and a number of impromptu areas; we followed the band and the majorettes around the village, stopping every now and again for things like the Trompes des Chasseurs, the glockenspiels for the kids from the school of Music, the village choir etc etc.   We last peeped out at the main square opposite our house at 0100 when a rock band were giving it about 200 decibels and there were at least 20 people in the audience - all clustered around the pastis bar!  When I got up at 0700 this morning everything had been cleared away - even the semi-permanent bar and the only sign that anything had happened was one empty beer bottle in our front garden......

  8.     Just found a report of the accident in the local paper - it appears that for a so far unknown reason a car was on the wrong side of the road - the car in front of Sunday Driver managed to avoid it but Sunday Driver was unable to - he, his wife and the other driver all had to be cut out of their cars.   All three were seriously injured.

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