Teamedup
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We always used to go skiing for the first two weeks of March to catch the new spring snow. So yes, I expect snow in March up in the alps but not necessarily where I live in the valley.
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I have to disagree there. Ours goes black no matter what we used to burn and so quickly that is was quite demoralizing when I used to try and keep it clean. When we used it a lot we used to burn well dried wood, mainly chene, sometimes some charme and fayard along with the chene; but mainly chene.
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When my kids were that age, we made friends with parents via meeting up at the maternelle.
If you live in the country you'll find that lots of young people leave the country to work in towns, leaving an older population anyway.
And if you live in towns, everyone is working, but at there is more likliehood of younger people there.
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I'd get her into grande section maternelle in September or even at the maternelle after the spring holidays. It would be better her knowing french before CP starts next year, CP is serious schooling.
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House in England has instant and we have to run a bath slowly to have a hot bath. I mean slowly. We get there but it takes time. In France with the balloon we just run a bath. I never have to think about running it, it just comes out hot enough. AND my does my husband like red hot baths. I don't know how it works, it just does.
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It will be the same when we move back Bobt, no rights in France although we will be paying in France and secu payments at that.
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We have friends who bought fires after us who never have other than a very slight smokinp up eventually. Ours is black again within an hour. We even tried making more air holes, but nothing works. So now I leave it black. I won't use caustic stuff everyday. I did that for tooo long really.
Does your fire throw a lot of heat out as a general rule? If it does then don't worry about it. I've seen fine looking fires with clean glass, pretty flames and why they don't heat, I don't know, but they don't do the job. Seeing the flames is no indication of how well a fire heats after all [:)] And that is the way I judge them these days.
Yes, burn the dry wood and not resinous.
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I have had experience of 'instant' and 'balloon' combi boilers in the recent past. The balloon is better for hot water. I much prefer it, especially for running a bath. And as we have natural gas, both worked out a lot cheaper than using a chauffe-eau electric
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Please please please Wen, stop this. The information you have given is yet again incorrect. I don't want an argument about it either. Just do some research about it. It isn't other illnesses that you seem to be mixing it up with. And it is far too serious an illness for me to let your comments slide.
And please, anyone I mean anyone who needs information about this, get in touch with a genetics unit, they will tell you everything about it.
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Cassis, I would buy one again. It isn't light, but I manage OK to open and close it, in fact it just open and closes like an ordinary ironing board. Ideally if I had a buanderie I would leave it up all the time.
Everyone said I was mad for paying that much, and that was 10 years ago now, but I have never regretted it. My husband buys quality appliances and tools for his woodworking/metal working, so why shouldn't I have something of quality too.
I get volunteers to do the ironing and it is quick as it does both sides at once on most things. It doesn't leave shiny marks on fragile things either.
I am more than satisfied with it.
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I don't like the sound of those luminous blue variables, wonder what they can be? If it were a medical condition it sounds as if it would be painful.
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[:)] Patf, I used to go to gym classes in our village with some of the older gals. In fact they were all older gals. We had been doing some excersizes one day and one of them started catching her breath and making a gasping sound as she put her hands to her chest. All I could hear was a rasping 'mal au coeur' and I just could not believe how disinterested everyone else was. A few of the women told her to just go outside in tone that was not pleasant and I was getting hysterical saying 'mais elle a mal au coeur'. To be met with shrugs.
And she took herself off and came in a few minutes later saying that she was feeling better.
I had not got a clue as to what was going on. A friend explained later what mal au coeur was. I still don't understand why that is the expression, but it is.
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Would retirement homes have children living there?
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Weedon, everyone calls it Muguet or Champignons dans la bouche for the thing that babies usually get. And champignons for genital thrush. Your doctor, your pharmacist will understand, so why keep looking up words and complicating things. These myscose are fungal infections, I have heard them called fungal infections or yeast infections in english. They are not mushrooms.
I used to have to go all round the houses describing things because I didn't know what they were called, and one gets there in the end anyway. It isn't 'bouse'ing' it is just the way one learns or one ignores and doesn't.
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Well if you had said it was your mouth and not where thrush I suspect is most common then I would have said muguet. However it is still champignon dans la bouche too. In both bodily regions it is a form of mycose.
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What can I say, he has made me hold it and explained what I am supposed to do with it, but I have found it a little awkward to hold and just haven't got the hang of it at all. It does look good though, standing there so proud. I give it a tickle with the feather duster every week just to keep it looking so fine.
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I think that you should go to the web site of the place you are going to and see what it says. It rained heavily here two days ago in this valley and bad weather was all over the Alps. Our neighbour works with ski related things and I asked him yesterday what the conditions were like. In many ressorts they had rain as high up as 1700m but lots of snow at around 2000m. And as each ressort is so different it is best to look at their web page. Incidentally they usually can get people up to the snow for skiing and then it would mean catching a lift down if there is none on the lower slopes.
It has been the oddest winter I have ever seen. Tee shirts in January is just plain wrong.
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Well you wouldn't think it fair would you Quillan. I seem to remember that you earned an awful lot of money......... and then you say that we, who could never imagine earning so much, should be paying towards things that are for FREE. Perhaps you have not realised but translators are not 'free'. AND our local hospitals are already understaffed and from what I can gather from from friends and neighbours who work there, underfunded too. What a waste of money it would be to pay non medical staff to translate for immigrants, who moved to France through choice.
Saying that, everywhere will have to make an exception for tourists who don't speak the language. I can accept that.
Planned movers, well, even I went to some lessons before I came and we moved here 'just like that'. I have no time for the dream house brigade who don't have enough sense to think that they will have a life to live when they are in their dream house, and life has it's ups and downs and ill health is part of life.
Champignons = thrush. For those of you that didn't know.
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I have a laurastar iron, expensive and worth every penny.
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Coquin, you are at it again.
My husband has his out on display, I find it rather attractive, but I don't know how to use it.
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Or you buy an iron that is like a big boys toy and is fun and then all the blokes in the house use it sans probleme.
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Logan, I know someone who moved back and couldn't hack it. They always spoke about Britain like it was when they were a kid, ie 50 years earlier. Wouldn't have it that it had changed, and their memory of their childhood was faulty to boot, just to add to the mix.
They lived there for three years and moved back. I wasn't surprised.
We have lots of friends there and just glisse into everything when we are back. We accept the changes, as we accept the changes we live with in France too. We spent a few months back there just over a year ago and nothing was other than we expected. We'll be fine.
Cerise, there is no way I could sit and relax in a sort of sinful pleasure with a good book or surf or whatever if I hadn't got other things to do. Where is the fun in that. Truth is that I never enjoy things as much as when I shouldn't be doing them.
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Come Cerise, staying in has got nothing to do with doing housework. Come on here. Read a book, do a sudoku, even go shopping, although I have to say that is my second least favourite thing but it is still better than doing housework.
The paysannes around here seem to do enough hard labour plus the housework. Can't say that the men don't work, but they can often be seen on tractors, or stood having a very serious discussion with other like-dressed men.
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How does life become in France after year 25? You start to believe France is the only civilised place on earth. The British seem quite beyond the pail and a siesta in the afternoons becomes obligatory.
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[8-)][:-))] Non, cannot relate to that at all.
Only the siesta in the afternoon seems to become obligitory after a certain age where ever one is, or as my Dad calls it a quick snooze.
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I find 'stroke' a really difficult one to remember in french and I have had to look it up just now.
Accident vasculaire cerebal, I don't know of a shortened version of that, is there one? other than I suppose AVC.