Jonzjob
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I will have Michel Thomas engraved on my head stone, I'm sure I will. We have got the 8 CD original course and the 2 CD language builder. The woman on the original isn't my hero, I wish I could keep up with her. Is she terminally thick or a very, very good actrice? No to be fair they are both in a very strainge position and I'm sure that if it were me then I would just freeze...
We have them playing in the background during the day, you can do that when you are
retarded retyredretired and at home most of the daze. It is surprising what sinks in. When we are out and meet neighbours, most of them here don't speak any English, we try and get on with a conversation and usually have a lot of fun too. Even in the local butchers is good fun and we get what we want and make new friends too. I go in with both feet and when I get in a mess we work it out between us. All good stuff to get to know people.John.
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I agree with all the comments. I have tried them several times on the principal that I like food! But there are limits...... Our local butcher in Villemusthavesue (something like that) does the best budon noir I have ever had
. Love it!!!!!John.
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Chris,
I nearly forgot, we used e-mail to do the transaction and everything went like magic. At the moment we woud only need the fax, still knacked, to do the CHAPS from Nationwide. With a bit of kicking we may even be able to use e-mail with them, but that won't be for a while now, no money left
.John
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Hi Nathalie,
Try the site at www.xe.com they give the rate clearly, it must be if I can understand it! At the moment the comercial rate is 1.44663. They also have a calculator so you trype in £s and it gives it in €s. The money transferers don't give quite that rate, but it is about as close as we have found.
We use HIFX for our transfers, they don't charge for the service, they make their money from the trading difference and we have found them very good and quick. In fact the last time we used them was today...
Good luck.
John.
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Hi Nick, I managed to get to bed just after I posted the last one and got a good knights (?) sleep.
I've had a look at the web site for the drivers, very comprehensive and worth a look. There is a driver for my modem and I have now down loaded it. Down load, yes -- update the driver I have now, no not a chance. When I try to upgrade or dump the modem driver and try to reload the new one it asks for the modem CD to be put in drive 'D' (1st CD drive) and I can't get it to do any different. The driver I down loaded is in a file on my hard disk and when I give that as the driver address it beeps at me and askes for the CD. PCs must be femail and as I have always been trained to give in to femails I loaded it from there.
As it had the original driver I decided to try to use the fax with the ADSL disconected from the USB hub. So that was disconnected.
Now --- I don't have anyone to send a b****y fax to!!! So I tried to send it to myself, I know that it will find an engaged line, but it reboots the PC before it has finished dialing. So this I tried and it worked, time after time. Then I reconected the USB conector and found that it wouldn't reload the ADSL driver! So I had to reboot the thing again. At this stage I opened the french doors to give me a clear throw!
The ADSL 'modem' came back with it's driver when the reboot had finished. I then tried to fax myself again and the 56k modem did not even try to dial, said on the fax window that it was dialing and then after about 30 seconds said "no answer" and went to the idle state. I unplugged the ADSL line from the USB hub and it remained the same, no dialing noise saying it was dialing and then saying "no answer". This budgerigar is definately femail!
So for the moment I have given up, it has beaten me, but I will return and beat it. I have still got the other modem to try, so when I have a little time again I will fit it and see if there is any difference...
By the way did you know know that in Aborigional budgerigar means edible? Not-a-lot-a-people-know-that...
John.
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Nationwide have no qualms in transfering big wedges of money, we did so yesterday and as soon as I can get this idiotic PC to work, again, as a fax machine it will be transfered via HIFX to our CA account. So to say that they won't transfer large sums they are pulling your leg.
See what the reaction is when you tell them that if they won't then you will take your custom to one who will?
John.
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As Victor Meldrew would say "I don't belive it!!!"
I have just spent about 1/2 hour keying in a reply on this idiot box to see it go down the drain as soon as I tried to post it!
I will start again, if I can remember it all?
Thank you for your help with this. Nick I have looked at the error logging, DR Watson. It turns on as soon as an error occurs and ther are no records since about 13.35 and ther have been numerous errors since then. When the failure occurs the screen goes from the normal fax wizard 'Finish' window, or the fax window just after that, to black (powered off) screen and then reboots. No warning...
I have an internal 56k voice/fax/data modem in the bottom slot on the mother board. It's the lowest speed and priority. The ADSL 'modem' is plugged into a USB hub and via an ADSL filter it's the first plug in the wall. The 56k modem and house phone are plugged into the correct side of the filter.
The 56k modem is needed to send/rec faxes because the ADSL modem won't dial, or if it does I would love to know how please. This configuration was given to me by the Freeserve help desk in the U.K. and worked well the few times it was used. The same config as here so I don't think ther is a clash? It isn't used in the normal internet conection Sue,it's disabled for that.
It is only when the 56k modem starts to dial out that the system reboots and not at exactly the same time.
I am a retired IBM hardware service engineer who worked on mainframes for 20 years and I would rather spend a week on a pig of a problem than 5 minutes on one of these baskets. They are as user friendly as a cornered rat!
John, tierd, frustrated and peadoff
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At the moment I am about to put our PC into orbit.
I am trying to send a couple of faxes and each time I get to the stage of the 'wizard' that says 'finnish', the modem starts to make the noises of dialing and the screen goes dark and the stupid machine reboots! Receiving them is not a problem.
I have been trying to send these faxes by doing a copy/fax from my scanner. First I thought it was a problem with the scanner so I un-installed it and re-loaded it. Of course it didn't re-load clean, it took 3 attempts... No change, still reboots as soon as the modem dials. I then tried to 'scan to application', copy to 'word', this produced 2 pages for each document. One of the pages was blank. So I got round this by doing a copy to M/soft Publisher and doing a print to fax. It worked and I had managed to get one of the documents away, once. Then it went back to the trick of rebooting when the modem dialed....
I have lost count of the number of times it has rebooted itself. I have also lost count of the modem reloads too.
PLEASE has anyone any ideas as to what is causing this, I have gone completely grey!!!
I am on Win 2000 pro, also on ADSL. The one time I managed to get a fax away I had just reloaded the modem and I realised that it was set to U.K. standard. This was set to France and I thought I'd cracked it. Bill Gates is an evil budgerigar inhe?
John.
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David, no appologies needed, TA very much!!
John.
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David, please let us in on the secret. I am sure ther are many who are under the impression that since the EU directive from about 1997 that EU members don't have to change their licences unless they are docked points. Do you know different, because if that is the case then I for one would like to know?
Aprehensive John. (11)
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At last we are now resident in the Aude
and I am starting to look around to carry on with my hobby, radio controlled gliders, building and flying. (Always radio, sometimes controlled?)Anyone out there with the same interest?
My models range from flying wings that bounce (I kid you not, they are made from bouncy foam!), scale gliders, scale and semi scale power aircraft as gliders and some thermal gliders. If anyone has this hobby, please give me a yell!!!I have found a model shop in Carcassonne which has most of the bits for build/repair and some kits, so it's a start...
John.
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You may well laugh. Celé is our second Chocky, the first being called Muffin. My daughter was 3 years old and we had to convince her that she could not break bits off to eat! Then she went around telling everyone that she had a chocolate muffin. People wondered?
Now we got Celé?! and she really is a poppet, ****** with too.(Opps, suppose that will be scrapped now?)
Talking of blondes :-
A married couple was asleep when the telephone rang at two in the morning. The wife (undoubtedly blonde), picked up the telephone, listened a moment, and said, "How should I know, that's 200 miles from here!" and hung up. The husband said, "Who was that?"The wife said, "I don't know; some woman wanting to know 'if the coastis clear'." -
Thank you very much for the info Pete and Stephen. The car, Citroen C8, is new (we got a good price for our house in the U.K., so we spoiled ourselves) so we won't need some of the papers. We have all the other docs so it should be fairly straightforward (please!!). It was bought in Holland, because we didn't have a French address and I was dammed if I was going to pay £9.000 for a 6 year old LHD Espace in the U.K. I drove it back to the U.K. on Dutch transit plates, had all sorts of fun getting it insured for that too. Re-registered it onto U.K. plates because if I'm going to pay VAT then it's going to be 17.5% not 19% in France. Paid the VAT at 17.5%, bought it over here and am now re-registering it here to keep it totally legal!
I know the history and am over the moon with the car plus the bonus of saving over £3.500.
Once again thank you folks. It's lovely tp know there are still some good hearted people in the world.
John.
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We must be among the lucky few who haven't had surly waiters since we have been here, only 8 weeks I must admit. The waiters at the restaurants we have been in in and around Carcassonne have been lovely. We have had our Chocky Lab with us and if it's been hot they have bought a bowl of water for her and usually made a fuss of her, but she is a poppet. The service has been good natured and helpful and at that I am quite prepaired to leave a tip. They also get our custom again and usually remember us.
John.
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Stephen thank you for you help. I now know the meaning of several more words in French to help me on my way. We will probably go back to the Prefecture on Monday with our nicely filled out form, ta
. There is also something called 'Fiscal' stamp (I think) costing €22. In one of the other posts, not sure which one, it said to get it from a Tabac. I tried this yesterday and was told no and that it was available at the Prefecture. There is a pay desk there... Any ideas.Slightly wiser John.
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As a newcomer to France and TRYING to learn the language it is nice when you can get a little help to intergrate as opposed to grate with the people of the country of your choice. French people do speak French and from a very early age. I learned to speak English at a very early age and now I am trying, at a late age, to learn to live in a different country and to learn the language.
Now does anyone know if there is a translation for the "Demand de Certificat d'Immatriculation d'un Véhicule" so that I can go a step further to intergrating into my chosen comunity please. Not being one who is going to drive a U.K. registered car for the duration and risk the grey area of the insurance situation...
John.
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'Later' said "Sounds amazing. We're getting some form of shreiking owl very close to the house in the early hours of the morning (in Blighty) ... "
You will probably find that it is a 'Screech or Little Owl', they are not very big, but they make up for it with the noise they make!!! The Barn Owl doesn't make very much noise, as far as I can remember. We used to get the foxes barking where we lived in the Cotswolds and the other noise they make sounds like a baby being strangled (not that I've ever tried it, thought about it a couple of times when my daughter became a teenager though!).
John.
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Does anyone know if there is a translation of the form "Demand de Certificat d'Immatriculation d'un Véhicule. We went into the Prefecture in Carcassonne today and were given this form to fill out to get our car registered on to French plates. Unlike other threads where the form was filled out for the person, we just had this plonked at us
! Quell hourour?John (hoping?)
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Hi Dick,
At the moment we are in long let, full time rental and on mains drains. The idea is that we have time to look around to buy what we really, really want (sounds like a song in there somewhere?
). If it's perfect for us and has a fosse then no problems, but I have asked the question before as to what the difference is to one in the U.K. and one here? Nobody seems to know and I must admit that it is fascinating me, easily pleased I suppose?We are definately full time here, we've sold up in the U.K.
John.
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Hi TU,
Can you help me with the idea of the fosse sep.
We have just moved over to the Aude (lovely). Our old house (built of Cotswold stone in 1735)was on the edge of Stroud in the Cotswold hills. We had a septic tank, 2 chambers and in the 23 years I lived there we only had to have it emptied about 3 times. There was always a good, healthy crust on the top and when the bloke emptied it he always made sure he left a good portion of the crust so the tank carried on working properly. We didn't take any real measures, like feeding it with bacteria, or anything like that. Our next door neighbour, it was a shared tank, used and still uses any and everything that is cheap. Alsorts get chucked into it, but it still worled very well. Can you tell me what the difference is that makes the ones over here so tempremental?
I am trying to find out because at the moment we are in a long term rent and will be buying a place sometime when we find the right one and it may well have an FS.
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Hi Chris,
We have a Nationwide debit card and, as Dick said, no problems getting money from the wall. But we have found that there has been a top of 300 euros (where the hell is the euro key?) a day for each card, even though they are on the same account. Much more flexible than our new CA cards, 350/week.
John.
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(can't find a smiley with its tongue in its cheek)"Well William you're an 'Admin type' so make one! Pas des problem?
John.
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Thanks for the gen folks.
I will investigate this further as my son-in-law is a great one for being on line with a dial-up line and it's alkward to phone him a lot of the time. So if he loaded it too then that negates the problem. Looking at Skypeout it looks even cheaper than the internet phone I've got now, so that looks worth investigating too.
John.
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Anyone out there heard of 'Skype'?
I had an e-mail from Dabs the other day and they are advertising this 'new' phone method called Skype. It uses ADSL connections and apparently you can make free calls to anyone anywhere in the world, as long as they are on line and have ADSL. You can find out if the person you want to talk to is on line and off you go. It will allow conference calls to upto 5 people too.
The only down side is that both you and the person you are calling have to have ADSL and have to be online. I suppose that with ADSL you can be online all the time anyway. Still sounds a cheep way of phoning. I still use my internet phone, it 'ain't so cheep (3.3 pence/min international) but I can phone a real phone and only I have to be on line. As we have ADSL I can even phone myself . I'm not sure I understand this new fangled technology yet?
John.
Faxing from a PC
in French Satellite TV, French Internet and Telephone
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Hi Nick,
I now realise why I love PCs so much? I decided to reload the driver from the CD again and it now dials!!!!! So I will leave it till we need it next and see if it still likes me?
What it needs is cleaning and drying. To clean use one gallon of petrol and dry with a match. Do this outside and I will guarantee it will never give you trouble again.
Thank you for all your help and time, take care,
Smug John...