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So be strong and stand your ground if he wants you to move because he has a better use of the land he must pay you big time thats if you want to move its out of order you have rights here in France use them as a French person would   Good Luck

It must run different for each of us but to me its flying compared to two days ago when all I got was timeout pages

A french guy told me  "In rural France there are very few jobs and if one comes up the first choice is a French person  the second choice is a very fluent foreigner and that leaves whats left for the likes of you" That is why you have to make your own work in France

yesterday was very slow and today  is a lot faster

Spot on I agree with you. there is a lot of talk of integrating with the french at the moment and I am sure that the average french guy does not have the micky taken out of him as much as the thin ice walkers. In order to integrate properly we have to stand up for ourselves a bit more i know sometimes its easier to let the small things go a little but if something serious happens like a dog biting someones daughter or jumping over someones fence and attacking family pets as suggested on this forum recently you must stand up for yourself, you are not integrating by taking this sort of behavior and I think the offenders are laughing at us when we leave it

No way should that offensive wind up merchant be let back on this decent forum "it" encouraged racism both ways and should not be tolerated even though it was a obvious wind up and perhaps even a bored english troll.

My missus has had some problems with bites in that her hands etc started swelling quite badly when she recieves a bite from these nasty little insects  after going to the doctor she was given "xyzall" and this has helped a lot I have posted this because xyzall is available without prescription and works very well for her lowering the swelling within 24 hours and stopping the inching that goes with the bites

Thanks a lot for that I will send the V5 off and put it my name in the UK I have checked for rust ETC when i bought it but a good idea to CT it first I just have to get some headlights any idea of were the cheapest might be found .I would like to get this on the road as with a little trailer it might help me in doing a little work (legally of course) and I only have a  old faithful petrol french corsa it never lets me down but I treat it a bit like a van

I have bought a escort van GB registered off the notice board in SuperU the ladys  husband tragically passed away last year whilst renovating their retirement home and the van untaxed since october last year was left in the garage until the lady and her husband came over to sort out their affairs they advertised it on the notice board at such a very cheap price that I could not resist even though I could see the complications in registering it I have the V5 but not in my name and wondered if I should first register it to my UK address first telling them it is not being used on british roads and then import it here before starting the trail to french plates has anyone ideas on the best method I wondered if it was possible to register it with the V5 here but not being in my name it might be awkward any help would be appreciated   cheers

Come on will ban this punk orsanton, unless of course someone in authority has invented this character to beef up the forum in a similar way that the "thatcher" poster who wanted to carpet bomb paris was allowed to stay for longer than was decent.

Very good I can see all of us in there somewhere in fact I even see you Dick "to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing light bulbs"  Tee Hee

We have tried several stakes on the BBQ and the only one that was not hard was one called FONDUE the rest even dearer ones were too hard for the meat eaters in our family

Wonderful news I looked at the second forum http://forums.asp.net just for the hell of it and noticed in the Bugs & Problems with this website on the third post the following.  does it ring a bell When is searching going to be fixed 

To Ron you are talking giberish I am not bragging but saying that if someone is in a rut they can possible go into a chemist and get one if they grovel a little and by the way the inhaler costs 4 euros so were did you get the 50 euros from anyway. what else could one expect when they try to help

I sometimes go into a chemist and show them the British inhailer for the wifes asthma and tell them we are on holliday even though it is prescription only I always walk out with one .I got bored of doing this so we went to the doctors and now we have to go back every 2 months and pay him 20 euros to get the prescription I know we will get 13 euros back as soon as her medical card is sorted but it does add the price up I might go back to blagging the chemists again saying we on holliday but it only works once in each chemist saying that there are a lot of chemists in France

I thiink some people who come to live in France get a little frightened by it all instead of living like the French they feel being English we have to do things to the letter of the law and whilst the French break every small law we have to be more careful and not do so  Well I say if we are going to intergrate into this lovely country we should learn that some little daft rules need to be broken and "WHEN IN ROME LIVE LIKE THE ROMANS" so dont tell me you have managed to fully intergrate and then not do as your neighbours do and if a leaves want burning burn them carefully or a neighbour or friend offers to help with a bit work  accept it graciously

Does anyone know if they copied the information from a similar site because this site does not work and it was handy. so if there is another similar it would be nice to know of it  THANKS

When we came her in december last year my mothers sister and her new husband came to visit and went on there own to the local bar when they left the other customers started shouting "cuckoo" to them and when they told me I jumped to the conclusion that cuckoos kick other birds eggs out of the nest and lay their own in .So it seemed natural to me this was a reference to English buying houses from the french in order for them to have their own children at the detriment of the french . this being a serious insult in order for me know who was insulting my guests , Paul  and I went back to the bar but luckily for me the group had left because I was boiling .Going to the estate agent were we bought the house I asked her about this antibritish cuckoo behavior and she told me the french use  "cuckoo" as a friendly gesture and indeed their French colleagues use it to them all the time  What a disaster that would have been I still feel guilty thinking of it

Excellent I have felt quite guilty about buying a house here We need a bit of positive PR for the brits.   

Elderly parente bring them with you my mother is 70 and enjoying life here more than us she is so determined to stay that if we went back to blighty she would stay here. She has since dec2004 gone to yaoga lessons gone to line dancing gone to regular french lessons and joined in far better than us

From "French news". Three of the four automatic radar cameras in deux severes have been smashed at Niort.Saint Pardoux and Frontenay Rohan Rohan . The prefet has announced that six more cameras are to be installed 3 on the RN11 one on the RN150 and one on the A83 and a sixth not been specified yet

A couple of quotes from "French News" "In the southWest of France. agriculture uses 90 per cent of the water yet only pay for 1 per cent." "The deux severes is the department worst hit by the current drought The authorities are seriously considering turning off the water supplies to residential premises and using standpipes instead" How am I going to flush the toilet?    

A couple of quotes from "French News" "In the southWest of France. agriculture uses 90 per cent of the water yet only pay for 1 per cent." "The deux severes is the department worst hit by the current drought The authorities are seriously considering turning off the water supplies to residential premises and using standpipes instead" How am I going to flush the toilet?    

More doom and gloom .I came here because I thought it could be paradise but you needs lots or rain for that .the quote in the article "Britons have forced up property prices, pushing out locals in rural areas " is not lost on me it is something I suspected a month after I got here but have been trying to ignore it even though I know I have contributed to the property prices by buying here .Every time I go past the English estate agent down the road from me I see unsuntanned couples looking in the window .The lady that owns the gite near me said she was quite busy with all the "house hunters" I suppose the gite business could be a bit like pyramid selling if you are not carefull .Get yourself a gite and rent out to people looking for homes in France and what do the people do for income run a gite renting out to people coming to look for homes here. One day the bubble will burst .I even looked at the second house I have nearly finished for mother to live in and thought mum could stay with us and we could turn the house into a gite but pushed it out of my head

I hope for your sake it is not like the UK were PRS used to takes heaps of hard earned dosh of me for playing music in public . The money is used to pay royalties to the people that own the music  even hairdressers with the radio on in the background were liable