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  1. Jill

    We cook a dish simply titled chicken with 30 cloves of garlic.

    Peel 30 cloves place them in the bottom of a casserole dish put the whole chicken on top and roast till tender and browned. The garlic changes its characteristics and the dish is not at all "garlicky"

    Roger - Lancashire and Deux-Svres 79
  2. I really liked the bit about Sikhs being able to cover their hair as long they were discreet. The Sikh turban is anything but that. Still I suppose in France they don't see many Sikhs other than Nigel's friend Nippi.

    Roger - Lancashire and Deux-Svres 79
  3. I have a wonderful VHS tape of the 10th Anniversary concert of Les Miserables at the Royal Albert Hall a few years ago. The encore was performed in their own language by many of the worlds Jean Valjean stars including Japans.

    Roger - Lancashire and Deux-Svres 79
  4. A while back I asked for suggestions on how to make my concrete stairs more attractive. They are the worst feature of the house and although not visible to anyone but us are cold and unattractive. I thought of covering the steps (Marches) and the risers (contre-marches) with pine but could not find a supplier selling wide enough planks in the Bressuire 79 area, even my woodworking neighbour had no ideas. Back in the UK I looked for staircase timber but again the only planks wide enough were in B&Q and very expensive. I finally had an idea, window bottoms (windows sills to the un-initiated) So I have bought 13 metres of pirana pine which I intend to cut to size and glue to the concrete with "no-nails"

    Unless that is someone has any different ideas.

    Roger

    pirana pine has no knots and seems very stable, no visible shakes unlike knotty pine.
  5. I have been researching this to get them put in my downstairs bathroom (in a single storey part of the house) and have the following observations.

    They are cheaper in France

    Don't buy them yourself unless you are fitting them.

    Your local installer can buy and fit and will only charge 5.5% TVA.

    Finding an installer might be difficult I haven't started phoning yet.

    Roger
  6. LAST EDITED ON 29-Nov-02 AT 09:46 AM (GMT)

    Tim

    Check out the ING Bank savings website (ING Dutch banking group who bought Barings after Leeson broke the bank)

    http://www2.ingdirect.fr/ceo;jsessionid=0CMD0WAAAA4WSCSLJGGSYAQ?KEYWORD=MINI_EO

    You can transfer to and from a French current account into the ING Saving account apperently without fees. Its the nearest I could find to a UK internet site and you can open it with a UK address too.

    Roger
  7. Did you enquire about the free banque card that was mentioned in the recent news article. You should have a free cashcard if they are making you use the DABs.

    Roger

    On a different subject can explain le treizieme mois which the lorry drivers are going to strike over. I have tried to grasp the coscept but TF1 asumes you already know.
  8. LAST EDITED ON 31-Oct-02 AT 04:22 PM (GMT)

    According to the TF1 website BNP are going to charge 5 euros for withdrawals from "distributeurs automatiques de billets (DAB)" (ATM withdrawals) of under 150 euros after tomorrow (a partir de vendredi) They are also going to stop cashing cheques in the bank to encourage people to use the ATMs. However they are going to issue cashcards FOC in future. The motive to incourage people to use the DABs, to have less cash in the bank and to discourage hold-ups.

    They will only cash cheques in the bank if the ATM is broken or if because of handicap, ill health etc the client is unable to use the ATM.

    I wonder if they will make a charge of 5 euros against UK card withdrawals or other French bankcards for that matter.

    Roger
  9. >Just looked at Cahoots website and
    >they are offering 4.33%Gross Interest
    >rate with a 25 pound
    >Transfer fee, and a spot
    >rate for today of 1.575
    >10k+.
    >
    >This sounds to good to be
    >true.................is it?

    Can you post the url (if there is one)of the page where you found this info. I cannot find it perhaps I an too lazy to drill down.

    Roger


  10. We had dinner on Saturday with a former French teacher (of French) her family own prpoerty in various parts of France and her dad has a fine big house in a village in Champagne (he is from Paris) His house was broken into and his cellar emptied. He knows it was people from the village but cannot get anything done about it.

    Roger
  11. Hi Karen

    Why realfood?

    We bought a house this year in Deux-Svres, near to Bressuire and not far from la Vende border. We spent 10 days on the house hunting trip from Dec 27th in the cold and rain so that we saw the properties and locations at their worst. We looked at houses owned by French people being sold by French agents, houses being sold by English people directly and houses being sold by an English agent through an intermediary in the UK. Our conclusions were that English vendors wanted more than their houses were worth to us and were not prepared to negotiate. The English agent whilst very pleasant didn't listen to our requirements and showed us expensive rubbish. The French agents all seemed willing to volunteer the fact that we could knock the prices down. We bought from a French agent who spoke excellent English, wasn't in the slightest bit pushy and in the event gave us almost three whole days without showing the slightest impatience. We went back to the house we bought three times. Other French agents were equally accommodating.

    I hope this is of help even though it has nothing to do with Carcassonne.
    Regards

    Roger
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