Boiling a frog

[quote user="Ron Avery"] [quote user="cooperlola"]There's a special form, Ron (it changes each year).  Mine is at home on my desk so can't get the number in short order but no doubt somebody else knows.[/quote] If you have to do a self assessment which I still have to after 6 years away from the UK, there is no need for any other form.  Provided that your savings interest is below your freepay you just get the tax paid back.  You don't have to declare your UK private pension on your SA as that is already taxed in France.  This process is as instructed by the non residents tax office at Bootle and has worked OK for the last 5 years. [/quote] Your scenario does not work for everyone. I,and many others, have a pension which is taxed in the UK (a Govt pension) I pay tax on this pension as it is over my tax allowance. Therefore if I followed your advice and declared my interest on my building society account I would not obtain any relief on the tax paid. I have to complete the form to claim back the tax paid. So it may work for you but does not work for everyone.

A friend of mine, HGV driver, having been made redundant by his employers(Dutch) signed on unemployed .He was  given a grant by the Chambre de Commerce to complete the FIMO course, which costs around 2000 euros. I think he was given 1800 euros. The course is in French so you need a working knowledge of French. On completing the course he applied for a couple of jobs with French companies, was given an interview and is now employed by a French coy working out of DAX.There is another English driver working for the same company.

Looking at previous posts the OP only registered with CPAM via an E121 in the middle of November. Having said that he does seem to be rather confused about the health system if his other posts are anything to go by. If he is not yet in receipt of an attestation /social security number from CPAM confirming his entry into the French system then he will have to pay the full price for any medication. He cannot register his wifes ALD because he is not in the system, in fact it appears that he has not asked the doctor for the ALD notification Perhaps someone needs to talk him thro the system from begining to end.

There is the small[:@]matter of some 1300 French sailors being killed. No wonder the French do not see it that way.

The simplest thing to do is telephone your assurance help line, usually found on your certificate of assurance and explain what has happened and ask them what to do,.

If the tank is not firing at you or anyone else [8-)]why not

I see that the peaceloving Government of Gaza(Hamas) are not responding in kind to the unilateral declaration of a cease fire by the Isralies. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7835794.stm

[quote user="master of none"] Thank you for the resposes, ideally I am looking for personal recommendations as I have been quoted some very silly prices! [/quote]   My reply was based on your post which I have quoted above. Generally speaking if you obtain several quotes ,which you appear to have done, and they are all expensive(in your opinion) then the people are quoting the going rate. If you are looking for a cheaper price the only route that I can see you being able to take is the ex pat with a large caravan transporter who is willing to do it for cash ,no questions asked. As I pointed out there are not many if any of them about and even less change in the tight area where you are seeking someone. This is the general way that people proceed when faced with ,in their opinion, extortionate devis for building work ie. An ex pat working on the black. That is why I made my comments.  

I have a similar tale of woe told to me with the advice never to use a particular assurance company because they were a bunch of con artists. The tail, told to me second hand, was as follows. An English woman with a holiday house in France asks a French roofer to repair her roof . The roofer arrives while the woman is back in the UK. He has no access to the house but needs water to mix cement, so turns on the mains water supply to use the outside standpipe. He completes the work that day but does not bother to turn off the water supply at the mains. He does not realise that the woman had left all the taps open  in the house and the plug in the bath. Result was that bath overflows and ruins the kitchen and all the electrics, plus a hefty bill for water consumption as water was running for 2 weeks. She is insured by assurance XX company so she makes a claim. The assurance tell her that the French artisan is responsible so it should be him who is making the claim. He also happens to be insured with the same assurance coy XX .He however refused to accept liability and refuses to make a claim. The English woman cannot see why the assurance cannot pay out her claim and take it up with the French artisan who is insured with the same company and uses the same agent. The agent and insurance company are then tarred with being con men, and advice is given to anyone who will listen that they should not touch the agent or assurance with a bargepole. Being France this story spreads like wildfire among the English speaking community.   I expressed my thoughts on the matter and kept my assurances with the agent. Several months later I met the English woman in question( I had never met her before). She was having her kitchen replaced and informed me that the assurance had eventually paid out on HER claim. She also told me that the French artisan was, unbeknown to her,working on the black and was not insured. Hence the delay by her French assurers while they investigated her claim but they had eventually paid out.   The point of this tale. I just find it most unusual that a couple of days after pipes had burst the assurance coy had sent out an expert to examine the damage and announce that they were not paying out, seem remarkably quick for a French assurance coy    

I suspect that what the OP is looking for is some Ex pat ,possibly working on the black willing to do it for a couple of hundred euros. Unfortunately I doubt if there are many, if any, ex pats,  with a specialised transporter for mobile homes , who  are just sitting twiddling their thumbs waiting for the OP to offer them a couple of hundred euros.

I concur I tried all the Main dealers in Scotland and none of them could supply a LHD car.That was 7 years ago so things may have changed. Anyone advertising new LHD are not main dealers and are importing the LHD from the continent.

Think of the saying You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs [:D]

I suspect that your French issued passport with a UK rabies jab valid for three years will be valid. The difficulty may arise if you take your dog to your vet in Frence for its booster at the end of the three years. The French vet may well say that you will have to start the process again as you did not get yearly boosters as per the French guidelines.

[quote user="Bugbear"] I certainly have no bias, but I am struggling with the shooting, at close range,  yesterday of an old woman (in the head) and a young girl (in the thigh) by a israeli tank machine gun when they were leaving a building under a white flag having been asked to leave by the israelis. This is not propaganda and has been verified by independant sources. Gary. [/quote]   That was your first statement, pretty unequivical, this incident happened, it has been verified   Then you change your mind when I quote BBC news You now say Not first hand knowledge BoF, thats a silly thing to say, but given the two comments below together with the surgeons statement on the news last night, I know which version I'm leaning towards. So now you are not quite as certain [8-)]

[quote user="Scooby"][quote user="Boiling a frog"] Bearing in mind that these claims have not been verified and to continue with the scenario Several people are lobbing rocks from your neighbours garden  into your garden damaging your house and narrowly missing your dog who could have been killed by a large rock.You cannot use your garden for fear of being injured......+And so it continues. Perhaps one day the English person and his neighbour will be able to talk to one another but in the meantime each insist they are only defending themselves.  [/quote] Seems to miss the point that you hadn't lived in the house for long...you squatted and threw the previous residents (your neighbour's entire family) out of the house onto the streets, despite the fact they had lived in that house for generations.  Then you tried to do the same with your neighbour - so you could have a bigger garden.  That's why your neighbour started throwing stones. [/quote] Our ancestors lived on the land where our house is now built until they were driven out by ancestors of our neighbour in approx 628 AD  and they then took over our land. In 1948 we negotiated with the maire and the maire came up with a plan .He decided that the land should be divided with our now neighbours being allowed to keep part of  the land  and with us regaining some of  our original land. We agreed to this proposal.The neighbours did not but with the agreement of the Maire we occupied our land. Since then there has been occasional skirmishes with our neighbors but we have always won.     So the picture you paint is not factually correct Scooby, we did not throw them out into the street we did not squat, we came to an agreement with the Maire to only occupy part of our land but our neighbours wanted to keep all the land that they stole many generations ago.

[quote user="Bugbear"]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7828536.stm Of course there are some who would probably need to stick their fingers in the wounds before believing that this happened. . [/quote]   Did you read the full report and see this bit Israel is denying access to Gaza for international journalists and human rights monitors, so it is not possible to verify the accounts. B'tselem said it had been unable to corroborate the testimony it had received, but felt it should be made public. Journalists and B'tselem are unable to verify that it happened but Bugbear obviously has first hand knowledge of these events  

There is a British architect (fully registered in France and UK) who has his office in La Rochfoucauld, Charente. Perhaps a phone call to him would establish a ball park figure.

Bearing in mind that these claims have not been verified and to continue with the scenario Several people are lobbing rocks from your neighbours garden  into your garden damaging your house and narrowly missing your dog who could have been killed by a large rock.You cannot use your garden for fear of being injured.  You try speaking to them but are told to f##k  off. You go on a forum and ask what to do. Go to the Mairie ,they are duty bound to solve the problem say most of the forum members Some of the forum members say go and talk ,invite them round for a drink or a cup of tea. You try that but are told by them that you are foreigners and you should go back to where you came from .putting up house prices and their children cannot afford houses .They continue lobbing rocks. Some of the forum members tell you to lob rocks back at them ,go round to their house with several of your mates and sort them out. You ,having failed with the cup of tea go to the Mairie who promises to go and talk to the neighbours but does point out that you are English so can expect some resentment. Some time later the rocks are still being hurled ,but you notice that the lorries delivering the rocks are gaining access via your  private lane over which your neighbours do have a right of way . You decide, being a reasonable person and not wishing to go round with your mates and sort them out, decide to block off your private lane so that your neighbours cannot get rocks delivered. In the meantime the Maire reports back and says that all your neighbours want is for you to leave your house and then they will stop lobbing stones.He also mentions that the blocking of your road is illegal because your neighbours have a right of way and he insists that you remove the blockage. By this time you are confused, it appears that the authorities are casting you as being totally in the wrong. You discover that your neighbours have managed to get round your blockade by persuading their French neighbours to allow them to cross their land to gain access to their property. They tell them it is to bring home their shopping but you keep watch and realise that they are smuggling in large boulders disguised as Bayonne ham This continues for several months  with the situation not getting any better. The commune elections come along and your neighbour and several of his family are elected onto the council and then your neighbour(Front National)  is elected Mayor. The situation then gets worse, with a constant barrage night and day of rocks,  with huge posters erected saying English out  and a campaign of harassment mounted against you by the Mayor and his family. Eventually you decide that enough is enough and along with a large number of friends go next door and beat the sh##e out of your neighbours and tell them that there is more to come if they do not stop. Your neighbours complain to the gendarmes because you have mistakenly beaten up several people who were allegedly  at your neighbours house purely by chance and who when interviewed said that they did not really like the Maire but he had invited them round for a party and they didn't like to refuse. So you go back onto the forum and update the members and ask for advice. What you get is a slagging off for attacking your neighbours and lots of the pink fluffies saying Oh dear my heart goes out to those poor people and other such banalities. +And so it continues. Perhaps one day the English person and his neighbour will be able to talk to one another but in the meantime each insist they are only defending themselves.     

Formula 1 only allow one dog per room at 3€

Do not worry The flights will have no wish to make a fleeting landing in England so your daughters are safe

http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/news.php?yr=09&month=jan&story=rte-en-140109   Starting End of March Edinburgh to Limoges and Poitiers  [:D]

Hardly a bodge job if it did the job for 17 years. Our local cafe bar's pipes froze last week and I am quite certain that the plumber who installed the pipework ,probably at least 20 years ago, was french

Everyones gone to TF

We use Mutuelle de Poitiers. but I suspect that they will not exist in your neck of the woods.

The Banque de France will change them into euros for you