Alexis

I would love to join you but I will not weigh myself.  Haven't any scales for a start!  Stopped getting weighed years ago when I starved all week and found out I'd put on two pounds. I will start on Atkins tomorrow morning and get the old tape measure out.  You will all inspire me. As for the chocolate, best to eat it and get it out of the way.

I always used to shop at Stoc/Champion until I decided it was getting too dear.  I think I was confusing 100€ with 1000F.  You can get money vouchers from them but they don't advertise it. Now I am a great saver at Super U and I am going for the money......... 15 centimes sounds about right for my LeClerc card. Then there is Carrefour.......

According to yesterdays Sunday Times. Not for us it isn't!

If you don't have a nice pink or blue fleecy dressing gown, what do you wear to take your rubbish to the bins? I have always worn slippers.  Didn't want to catch king cough.  The ones I have on now have cats on.  Sexy eh?

Ah!  So there are other McVitie ginger nut addicts eh? There isn't much else I miss but the English sense of humour would be nice if you can fit it in the case. Sunday papers on a Sunday too. You live in the wrong dept. Penny.  Most of your list can be bought up here.  Super U have an English shelf.  There again we are surrounded by people selling UK grub.  Honestly don't miss it now. Apart from ginger nuts....

Just a paragraph in the ST yesterday to say he had died. I liked Fred.  I brought back a book of his from the UK - stolen from my Dad - and shall re-read it.

Erm.......  !! Still think that you are very very brave to even attempt anything technical though. Must be my computer.

That is not a pot au feu Pat.  That is a good old stew. I make blanquette de veau sometimes and that is boiled too.  I have never eaten it 'out' so asked OH if it was supposed to taste like it did!  I suppose I will get used to it. I always brown my meat too.  If it is beef bought here, it then goes straight into the pressure cooker to be blasted into tenderness.  Sometimes more than once.

I can't help you really but a friend of mine had this done about seven years ago.  She and her husband are British and they live here.  She had a son!  The treatment was done free.  I am also sure that it was done as a sort of, now, how can I describe this....she would be depressed, ill, unhappy etc if she wasn't a mother.  A mental thing.  Badly explained but I am sure you can understand.  I only met her about a week before the baby was due so I can't say what she was like before.  Depressive or what.  She has a very sunny nature though! It was paid for by her MSA contributions.  With your wife not having worked here, I don't know how it will work. Anyway, someone else might know....

You can buy on line from Leroy Merlin. Love the Grandmother jokes.  Glad that you found her and she is still behaving herself.....

The basic deductions here are around 20%.  This is before tax.  Tax is paid twice a year.  Taxe foncierre and taxe d'habitation is for the house/flat.  Not for how many live there.  If you are earning that much salary, I would image you will be not in the sticks so the rent on a flat could be very very high.  If you can find one.

Well, I think you deserve a medal for even trying to post a photo.  Not something I would be tempted to do.  I know my limitations . . .

Did the stock look and taste just like washing up water?  If so, you made it perfectly.  Could it be that you didn't float week old pain deux in it?  Perhaps you had chopped your carrots and not lobbed great big monsters in. The beef is supposed to be tough and dry. Saying that, I have had a nice pot au feu once or twice.  I bet the cook put a stock cube in or something.  There again, I have had some pretty rubbish ones too.  All part of my job as eating for France!

I have a blockage in my mind....my Dad has had a van for years than we care to count (it is my inheritance, yippee).  Can't think of his magazines.  There is the Camping and Caravan Club with a site etc.  Have you tried google?  Try motor home in the search too.  Will ask him when I mail him. I know it is a very personal thing, preference!  My brother has a massive new beauty but I think it is too big.  I prefer Dad's which is a Peugeot Talbot Turbo diesel....  They are expensive in France.   Anway, I will ask. By the way, they normally have heating in.  Dad always had six months in Portugal in the winter.  If he comes here, he sleeps in the van in winter.

Don't forget she had a cub.  Which has gone missing. The telly news interviewed the folk in the village and they just basically said so what.  It is their long held 'right' to shoot bears.  Strange how this hero disappeared pretty damm quick.  The tourists heard the shots but saw no one.... They have dicovered that the Spanish bears have nearly the same genes so they are hoping to 'import' some. Not, I sincerely hope, for shooting practice.

Like it.

Extrait d'acte de naissance Extrat d'acte de marriage

Don't forget that when you think the subject has lost the plot so to speak, it is all perfectly clear to the feminine mind.  You boy's just don't have our talents I'm afraid

I had the same trouble finding it.  Seemed to have vanished overnight.  Ended up with Julien but it isn't marked sous-couche.  Painture blanche Multi-usages.  It can be used as an undercoat though. Yesterday, I bought a sous couche for bois from Leroy Merlin. Both of them are quite thick and cover well.

I don't have a problem driving over bridges because I take the inside lane and close my eyes . . . Do seem to suffer from sweaty hand syndrome though.

Oh dear!  Bloody banks. I transferred 20,000€ once from my savings to Gilles account and the 'bloke' transferred it from my current account.....  I was about 19,999.50€ overdrawn. Fortunately I had been to Weldoms and tried to pay by my card and it had been spit out so we knew that there was something wrong. Oh how we laughed in the bank the next day..........

I want to go on holiday there next year and drive over the viaduct every day.  OH is scared of heights.  He won't drive over Pont de Normandie or the viaduct a bit further up.  Sunday he did a demi tour because he saw a bridge.  I couldn't believe it!  I had to drive over ... Yes, it was glorious here Sunday but it has suddenly got a bit chilly.  

In Gilles defence he did say it was the trunk of an oak. It was me drinking!  Can't be, not with a figure on it, it would be too big . . . .!

Well, according to the email, you are being charged for being overdrawn.  You will be able to see from your statement if you have slipped into the red but as you say you most certainly haven't, I would guess that the bank has made a balls up. It happens! They have probably muddled your account up with another.  Strange idea, but check your account number is correct and they haven't changed a digit around. Off you go to the bank.  Good luck!

OH doesn't know.  Null!  Null!  Null!