Ty Korrigan

Once again I am not kidding... Whilst I was on a training camp for cyclists on the island of Mallorca my mate had a puncture in a village. He propped his bike up by the village sign to mend the tube and I took a picture of the scene.  The village was called BUGER... which incidently was the phrase my mate used....  

It really exists!  Also I almost had a crash when I passed a sign between Neulliac and Gueltas in 56 that I thought said 'Kercun!' (use your imagination) but it was in fact not a dirty word just a dirty sign that read 'Kercunf'  Have you chaps found any other schoolboy humour level place names on your travels...?  

Richard R...   Its a joke friend!  

Really I am not.  My french lass's mother is a bit of a paysanne and so eats 'interesting' things. However last weekend Regine announced that there would be no more Pissenlit (Dandelion) salad as now they are in flower they are too bitter to eat...  Thank nature for that!  Incidently... The word Dandelion is evolved from an old French name for the plant Dente de Lion or Lions teeth, what the leaves are said to resemble or prehaps the flavour which has bite...

Answers please.  I want to bait my French lass with the responses as she would like to move to the U.K...

Dear St Amour,  You are a Saint and I am a bad boy who loves to tease. I wish these no harm to come to these innocents and long may they thrive (I give it 3 years). They don't annoy me but give me a small pleasure. I have been trying to get my French lass to sign on to a forum for French ex-pats living in the U.K to see what numb questions are asked by our alter egos...  Prehaps.... Can we buy andouillie/steak cheval/pissenlit salad in U.K supermarkets...?  Will we die of cholestrol poisoning if we eat British food...? Can I drive my French car on the right...? Who are my english neighbours?, I have lived here 5 years and have never met them.           Bisous            xxx

Yes, thats the latest numb post on A.I.   Evidently a couple with serious priorities getting the 'really important things' ready before making the big move...

Hello Dick, After my first summer in France I returned to the U.K for the winter and found work in the village Co-op. Working evenings I got used to certain locals who bought the 'King sized Rizlas' and in a mad moment opened some of the packets and wrote on the inside cover phrazes along the lines of 'JUNKIE!' 'DRUGGY' and other very rude things... Purile but it really raised a laugh amoungst the 'victims' and the staff.

Region? is it less/more expensive to employ a gardener there...? I am 200euros labour only for an 8hour day. If you want handstands and 'other services' then the price is negotiable...

Hello,  I should like to add that the cost of the materials was less than 1500euros including all the controleurs. Ease of installation... a blind baby could have laid the mat out. Yes I am limited to electric but for the size of the place it was a good option and the least expensive to install. For my main house I would have chosen to install the geothermal system and as I am a working tax payer here I would benefit from a 50% reduction in cost.

Hello,  With an electrician friend, I installed 3 mats in the 3 rooms of my 40m2 renovation which is my living quarters. The total power including an electric towel rail is 3.5kv. I insulated the walls and put 30cm of rockwool in the roof space. I ran it constantly but even during the bitter winter the heating was never on more than half. My electric bill is 44euros per month. Prehaps some-one with more 'nows' than I could work out the cost of running this system 24/7 as our American cousins say...  I would be interested to know. Also I have just the standard abonnment to E.D.F.  Regards

I bet he thinks he can register as an association and go out and do building works and the like...  

Hello,  This 'property services' that Brits register as is a loophole unused by the French but allows those with the nerve to take on quite large works involving building works.  In Bretagne this is heavily promoted and sanctioned by an English accountant living in Pontivy in Morbihan 56. I couldn't understand why I was always being asked to to building works despite obviously being a gardener with a sign written green van but now I realise that it is generaly expected that I am working as an undercover builder...  I think I shall go and join the black market in labour as it seems to be all the rage here in 22 and I feel left out and lonely when I go to an english bar...  Also,  The R.M.I is in fact offered to new businesses by the chambre de commerce when you do your course....

Hello,  Does any-one strongly suspect that 'Zencherry' is a representitive of A.I...?   There has been an interesting development in the U.K with a person actually being sued for libel for abusing some-one she fell out with in a chat room.  I think though, that the hard words doled out here are a long way off being used in a court of law.  This forum certainly is a cut above the others in terms of the quality of users... generally....

E-type and poor....?  Discovery as well...    Can't picture some-one on the minimum wage here...  

Ah...  Thankyou for that Hover 'dog'....

Hello, I buy gravel from my local quarry for around 15 euros per ton including TVA but its the delivery that is the expensive part... So if you are particular about the colour of your chosen material you may well pay 35euros per ton plus delivery from a building merchants.

Hang on ....  Tower Hamlets? E-type Jag (I take it) Discovery? Is there a posh area in Tower Hamlets? I thought it was all tower blocks, Somali and Bangladeshi poor folk....  Or did you win the Lotto!

Hello there,  Monday... Sunny and dry. Medical at St Brieuc and then I saw a French client with 3 houses on a building site who wants lawns putting down. I drove my van into a pothole of mud so deep and sharp that it twanged off my bumper and so I had to be pulled out by two roofers working nearby. The client wouldn't help as he was all suit and Merc... Yesterday pop riveting bumper in the rain and then a devis for large works I am unlikely to get... Rain again today... Must go out and face the brambles, mud and damp or its back to the factory/workhouse for me... Oh... and I must remember to feed myself today... My biggest enemy is my motivation....  

Lets not fight amoungst ourselves chaps!  We should unite against the common enemy!  Anglomisinfo!

So...I have read your post again.  Have you imported your car but not bothered with changing plates...? Are you not displaying a valid U.K tax disk whilst displaying U.K plates...? You may only have yourself to blame here....

Eh?  Imported into France and still on U.K plates...? Why..? There is no road tax here. If you had imported the car then you would have been given a 'cart grise' and could have obtained your plates within hours. Is this really the whole story...? Sorry for your troubles though.

May I ask how the French define 'poverty'..?  Because the U.K version seems rather 'Rich' to me...

Hello, I am just refreshing my last post.  Any-one any ideas?  Thank you in advance dear friends

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