Alexis

So it is the 31st then?  OH said he thought that it was this week end....

Is it Anais?  As in the perfume Anais Anais.  I know that there are dots in there but can't control this typewriter.  

Blowing a gale and chucking it down here, top of Morbihan/Cote d'Armor.  Not a good forcast either.

They were selling chasse taupe at the Floralys in Nantes this spring.  They are Incarvillea bulbs.  Wonder if they are the same? I have not had trouble with the moles this year thanks to the chickens.  I think.  Touch wood etc. 

I have seen people parked up overnight in the actual car park too.  The parking bays are longer if you go past the terminal and park in front of the hedge. I would go either for the St. Servan one or go into the swimming baths car park and park at the end there, same view.  The St. Servan car park did have signs saying the flic would chuck you out when I walked through in August but it could have just been the time of year. The swimming pool is the next turning on the roundabout then after about 20m, you will see the entrance. For the very best entertainment, be sure to be stood on the side of the road next to the roundabout when the ferry docks in the morning.  You can have little bets as to how many times a certain car goes round the roundabout. . .  I love it!

Now.  I have always gone to the ANPE first.  As in help me find a job.  Then Assidic.  As in I am registered for work give me the dosh...... The ANPE will give you documents to take to the Assidic offices and so many days to make your RDV or your claim is cancelled.  They like cancelling claims.  Gives them a feeling of power.

Cut off in prime then.  Chucked off.  Useless Wanadoo.  Just editing my double post

I see that you weren't off line long then!  Certainly not enough time to get the paintwork washed down.....!  Lucky you! I'm not that keen on sausages, big or little.  Saying that, I got some out of the freezer the other day and just HAD to cook them yesterday so made sausage rolls.  Just had the last one two seconds ago.  All in golden brown ruff puff.  Now a nice bit of ruff.....  Forgot what I was going to say

If you only need lightly coloured emulsion, mix it yourself.  I buy great tubs of white and mix it.  Doesn't work if you want bottle green or dark burgundy for example but the paler colours work fine.  I use the M. Bricolage really cheap stuff in 2.5 litre tubs for walls and ceilings, mat, and pour it into a 10 litre biggy if I need a lot.  On promo it can cost less than £2 a tub.  I was doubtfull too at first as I have enjoyed painting with mucus here, but this was fine.  I buy the acrylic tubes from the artist shop.  Or chuck a small tin of a colour in. Also cheaper to do the walls white and sponge them with the colour desired . . . Just make sure that you will have enough mixed up to do the room as there is nothing more annoying than needing another half litre!  Apparently!!

Hey!  I'm selling up!  All the properties are going to be sold and we are going to buy just one.  With mains drainage and central heating. Still stopping in peeing it down Brittany though. Must say, a glowing moat sounds VERY attractive  . . .

Quick, send me your address.  Lulu actually caught the other mouse this morning so I will post her to you before she loses the nack. You have to watch her though as she doesn't know what to do with it once caught......  She could be daft enough to bring it to you in bed! Hope we are mouse free now.

Don't be a spoil sport Penny!  Where is your sense of advenure? A PALACE for £3000......shows you what the state of this place is like. . . .

Now, don't quote me on this but OH says that a pickup truck type 4X4 thingy with only two places pays road tax but a normal one with five places doesn't. He doesn't seem awfully sure.  For a Frenchman, I sometimes despair.  Perhaps that is why the French don't buy them? 

In a tidying up frenzy, I found the paper with the article in.  My neighbour had brought it across from the UK as I pass my copy on. It was indeed Bulgaria.  I just happened to be looking at one of the property sites last night....... Just off to find my passport!  £3000 for a PALACE!!! Only problem is OH who won't be able to talk to anyone and will spend all day annoying me.  Why to men wait until you open the magazine to start droaning on..????

Well, I hope that you will be very happy in your new house.

It is going to be a long Christmas break this year here with the 26th being a Sunday.  I can't wait! Then the same again for St Sylvestre.  Gatte!

And the tiles themselves.  Seemed like a good idea a few years ago but now I want to rip them up, sand the floor, waterproof it and be trendy.  There aren't many, thank goodness, just a smallish bathroom. Actually, the ones I ripped up yesterday had the most dispiriting floor underneath so might end up re-laying them......

£50,000?  Bloody hell, the one's I saw were for £5,000!  I will have to investigate further.  Shame that I always pass the paper on.  Will try their site to verify the country I was reading about.  Yes, know I will be chucked off!

I asked about moving the meter here when we moved in.  It is in the bathroom...... Was told that it would be no trouble but I had to talk to the technician. Still in bathroom as haven't got around to it yet.  With all the fuse boxes, and about a thousand wires.

Most of the cream goes to make up the fat levels in the cheese. New here is the creme fraiche liquide.  Not bitter at all.  Pour it on my trifle.

It is because of her hair.  Bunches.  Couette.  As in cover for a bed too.....

Trouble is, you have to give two months notice of temination of contract so looks like you are lumbered this year. I would go into the assurance office and thump the desk and generally rage about robbers who stitch up the English and see what they say.......If you don't pay, they will treaten you with all sorts but just keep telling them they are robbers and bandits and go somewhere else. Might STILL work but a good ten years ago .....

Try www.ouest-france.fr to as they have a property guide.  In fact, just looking, there is another, www.agencesreuniesouest.com who have a house in Malestoit - carefull there, it floods! The others seem to be Cabinet Drouin 02 97 93 69 92 in Ploermel.

I have seen DVD thingies for sale here for 39€ and 59€.  Seems very cheap.  Guaranteed too! 

I was very lucky to be in the UK in my youth (29 and some months, me!)  I started in the green houses at 12 for the summer packing cucumbers and I worked well, always.  Baby sitting, checkout in the new, wonderfull, supermarkets until 8pm Friday and all day Saturday.....  I was seriously rich.  Pound a day in the green houses then half a crown an hour baby sitting.  Can't remember what I got for the check out. Bit later on it was working during the day then working in a bar the night.  Mecca ballroom at one time!  I would leave a job on the Friday to start another the Monday for maybe a quid a week more.  I have had HUNDREDS of jobs. This CV, obviously 'doctored' for the ANPE  to reduce the number and variety of jobs, took a lot of explaining.  Here, as far as I can understand, you decide very early on what you want to do and stick to your choice through thick and thin.  No possibility to change.  Shame, I enjoyed my changes.  How can you decide at 15/16 what you want to do with the rest of your life? Anyway, the French are at last realising that stopping at school is no use.  What France needs is brickies, plumbers etc.  No point in all the kids stopping at school for their exams then all taking the same or similar course then most being unemployed.  On TV the other day.  As a 'scoop'! Still want to take the money in a brothel though....