Jazzer

Which company are you dealing with. My order from MedicAnimal arrived in perfect condition, very well packaged.

Mine goes down every weekend for hours at a time.I may be getting paranoid, but wonder if they are trying to try out repair work whilst the operators cannot answer the phones because it's their weekend break.

For small transfers- up to the early thousands a debit card will give an immediate transfer.Otherwise it should not take 3 days. Nat West to France is done same day! Can't quite follow HIFX at the moment. Seeing a rate on the website of 1.1246 this morning, I rang for a quote to transfer £1000 to France-quoted 1.04/ Last month web rate 1.11508 and quoted 1.066. They were offering fixed 1.10 for 6 months and 1.1050 for 12 months.Tonight on the HIFX website the rate is quoted as 1.3314.Most dealers are thinking the pound is on the rise.I would expect a lower rate for small transactions but I can't see the logic behind todays quotes.

Another company I have come across is MedicAnimal. We have a Cavalier and have found it difficult to order Royal Canin from UK. Here in France a 1.5 kg bag costs €13.10. at Bricpmarche and 13.90 at Leclerc This company charge about £6.75 but a 7.5 kg bag costs £28.24.- a saving of around £15.  Frontline spot on is £13.75Post in UK is free over£29 and France £37.70. Delivery takes about 3 days. If anyone is interested PM me with your email address and you can get a 15% discount off your first order, and I get £5.  

Can' t help with shops in your area, but by post  AlterAfrica.com based in France have if I remember 3 varieties, very competitive price, and speedy delivery.Good for spices also.

If anyone is buying chocolate in Lidls,try abar made by J D Gross. There are several varieties, but the one called "Arriba Superieur", with 81% chocolate at €1.19 for 125g is by far the best chocolate I have tasted for quite some time. I have been addicted for some months now,and as there is normally a selection of different bars in each box at the shop,it'san anxious wait to make sure they have some of these in there somewhere!

Very many thanks for that-exactly the kind of information we wanted.If you do find the book we would of course be delighted to pay your costs.

I have at last managed to buy a reoska off ebay. As it is 2nd hand it has no instructions. Could anyone who has one advise me of some does and don'ts. I have looked at the Lakeland site, but it's the basic's I m after/ Many thanks

I don't seem to be as bad as some.My telephone line seems to be OK However last weekend and this I lost internet access for several hours at a time on Friday and Sunday. No amount of resetting would solve the problem I almost lost out on an Ebay deal yesterday for a remoska,but luckily my laptop has dialup. Line length 4262 metres,attenuation 438986dB.

This was the point of my email to them-does the Charente include the C. Maritime.

Their updated website says they are loking to expand into different areas, and are looking for people with dry storage and in return they will offer free delivery. I live in the Charente maritime and am trying to find out if they deliver here, but so far have not received a reply to my emails.

Your reply seems to make sense, but if I read Nectarines first posting  correctly HSBC don't seem to agree.

HIFX will only allow online transfers if you have a debit card with a UK address. The telephone option is very good, particularly when you have input details of your French Bank.

I have two email addresses, one with Tiscali the other with Free.For the past 2 weeks 2 of my regular emails do not have any content.For example I have daily emails from La Chaine meteo with weather forecasts for our house and and our gite. The first with Tiscali has no content and the other with Free is fine.Why would this happen with only 2 of my in messages?

My Teleconnect service was dwon between Saturday and Monday morning. Whether by accident or design I managed to get back on line late Monday morning. having said all that my service is now better than ever.My lack of technical experience certainly keeps me with them unless there is major catastrophe.

Does anyone know if there is a Kirby miantenance agent in or around the Charente Maritime area?

It seems the spamsters must be religious. I average some 60 messages a day in my Spam box, Since Friday I have received a total of only 6.

I was unable to access interenet between yesterday afternoon and this morning. At the moment trying to decide whether to sucumb to upgrading in case I get further problems.

My light went off yesterday afternoon, feared the worst.. This morning it has re-appeared without re-booting.Everything working OK. Have not yet "upgraded"

What kind of problems could occur if we do not "upgrade" by the 15th?

As I said to my wife only last week, when we were young we had the one channel-now with all the channels available, on occasions it is difficult to find one worth watching

Not quite.  Freesat will I beleive be the answer in the long term. I have both systems running, and using a combination of Freesat and non Freesat channels you can obtain more than 400,but for the moment you can receive the main Five, but not the others ie Fiver,5 US etc.

The whole thing is totally bizarre.I have had no emails to advise me of the problems being encounntered. I only know of the situation because of this forum. As stated previously I have had a letter following the request to downlaod in anticipation of the upgrade, then a letter avising me that in most cases the upgrade will be processed automatically before 31st march, then a letter with a CD to upgrade the modem. I have decided to do nothing, and of course the latest email dated 3rd April advising I must upgrade by 15th.Thankfully everything is working very well.

For what it's worth my latest email from Teleconnect says I must proceed with the upgrade before the 15th to "avoid service interuption". I shall be leaving it until the very last minute.

Many thanks for that. I have the manual,but as you say it's not very clear.The other link you provided was much better. I am now up and running.