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  1. [:)] And some of us didn't have mother's that we got on with or liked. Or had any particular envie to have anything to do with them, though I did for my Dad.  Her passing was just that, someone who died, I didn't 'cope' or need to cope with it, it was expected and it happened c'est tout.  I don't have issues either. Takes all sorts to make up a world.
  2. The Haute Savoie is in the SE of France on here and is the 'real' SE of France, as opposed to the 'faux' SE like Perpignon. Think everyone will find that being near two countries to the E/SE of France ie Switzerland and Italy, rather than Spain says it all. There was fresh snow in the Alps yesterday afternoon. I can see it from my window and would imagine that it was pretty general. Why don't you look on La Clusaz's web site, they will have one. Easter is quite some way off yet and they could get more snow or if it warms up then they'll have less or none. By chance I asked my voisin what the neige was like on Saturday as his jobs takes him to most of the resorts. He said that the snow was good from 2000M, but when is it not really. As I said they must have had snow since then too. La Clusaz, if memory serves me well does go pretty high, so I'm sure that whenever you are there there will be snow on the upper slopes.
  3. [;-)] I had to ask, I was just about to get my old fella to retrain. [:)]
  4. La vette, post or don't.  My very first post attracted a far worse assault than the silly little side swipe/snipe at me. So it apparently  doesn't make any difference how many posts I make, seems there will always be people who don't like me or my posts. Tant pis and gallic shrug. The only reason I posted in the first place was because there was too much pink fluff on here which didn't reflect the France I had lived in for so long.   Bureaucracy in France isn't as bad as it was. It used to be really bad. And even a lot of the fonctionnaires are a lot pleasanter than they ever were. I just tell it as I find it, usually. But do you know quite often I cannot. The petit sensibilities of some posters I suspect cannot be offended too often. Hence I didn't post about my hospital stay in it's truly terrible detail. Or when I had to go in for tests again and the anethstatist asked me why I was so nervous and I said because I was convinced that after everything else they had done to me that I would not wake up, how was that for confidence in the world's best health service. I suppose no one wants to know the ops I have been told about in the last two years that have gone wrong? And I am still talking about France here. My France obviously and not the other France.
  5. Do tilers really get about 4000€ month brut?
  6. [:)] Do you still dish them out? The rare ones I got at school were wonderful and really gave this very average pupil a great sense of achievement.  
  7. ALD is a scheme for people with serious illnesses to get their treatment free for that particular illness. The Caisse de Maladie has a list of illnesses recognised as such and this cover has to be applied for.   Our pharmacie has a machine to take blood pressure, but I am sure that you have to put coins in it.
  8. Was it a pint? I thought that it might be 50cl and that would be two demi's and it is pretty easy to pay 3.50 for a demi, whether it be a glass of coca or beer or guiness when we go out. Why do you think we don't go out very often? I'm sure that an irish friend of ours has paid rather more than that, he usually has a whine too when he has paid a lot more than local prices.
  9. [quote user="Dick Smith"]"And if my parking is english, then surely my garage is french." Exactement! [/quote]   [:-))] Do I get a gold star for that?   RH, I looked it up after I mentioned it.  I can only remember seeing it used on here recently though.
  10. I just think in my rather simplistic way that IF people hadn't done a sort of franglais some considerable time ago that we wouldn't have all the french words we have in the english language that we have, and it could well be the less rich for it. And if my parking is english, then surely my garage is french.   I'm for it all. It is just how people communicate. I don't like the idea of the Acedemie in France, languages that are too closely monitored start to die don't they.   And sometimes I have a bit of fun, with things like bread ends, now doesn't that sound awful. And for such amusement, then maybe looking things up will show a lot of things up, ie that some dictionnary's are not very good, or the real meaning of the word.   Patf, OP isn't on this list. I am not quite sure what it means, but everyone else seem to. http://www.magicpub.com/netprimer/acronyms.html
  11. An  EHIC issued by the UK is no longer valid as soon as you become resident in another country. If you look at the site it says that in the conditions. So IF someone decides, off their own bat, that they can circumvent the rules because someone said that word approprate, then more fool them if they get done for fraud, and end up with debts because they have to repay the health system. The EHIC is a good thing, it won't be if abused and the rules change.   I suspect Charallais, that if you say you will take responsibility for your daughter and grand daughters, then them handing in a letter refusing an E106 might be enough to get them into the french health service. That doesn't mean to say that they could claim much else in France and they really would be your responsibility. They have entitlement in the UK.    Why don't you read all this and the links and phone some of these numbers yourself. I would if it were my family. I would be making a song and dance and not posting on here about it or moaning about the people on here. http://www.womensaid.org.uk/domestic-violence-survivors-handbook.asp?section=0001000100080001 http://www.womensaid.org.uk/domestic-violence-survivors-handbook.asp?section=000100010008000100320005    
  12. Coco, what is this all  about. Sometimes using a french word is just right, or I can't think of an english word that will do or it just comes out anyway. It is exactly how I speak english here to other english speakers who speak french. And we all understand one another because we speak both languages. It isn't something that we do pretentiously, or unnaturally, none of us are like that.  Simply we speak a sort of franglais between ourselves and there is nothing wrong with that.   I DO not do it in England. However, this board isn't England or the UK. AND you know sometimes someone might  look up a word that I or someone else had used and learn a new one, and maybe even get the sense of what it means in every day use, rather than a clinical dic'ndharry definition which may not be right or have all definitions. And since when don't the french add in the odd english word when they are speaking english, lots do entre eux these days.   So no, I won't stop my franglais.  
  13.    indecrottable   There are some wonderful french words. [:D][:D][:D]
  14. Traci, I won't pretend to understand you. Due the times you have posted I assume that you have a phone, an ordi and internet access. How broke have you got to be to have these things? I just know that we didn't have a phone at all for the first two years we were here.   It is true that in the UK you cannot always get financial help, if a person has what the government considers to be means. Owning a property in France was probably something that they considered as means.
  15. Bobh, If you spoke really good french......... then why not try and inject a bit of humour. When you don't, then why would you want to go down the road of not getting it right. Del boy may be funny on Only Fools, but in real life, nah, not really.  It is a very hard language to learn. I'm not policing anyway. I just think it is plain old daft to not only mis-spell a word, but to get the wrong word to mis-spell in the first place. And remember you are coming to a country that takes it's language very very seriously, THEY have L’Académie française here, to police how the french should use their own language. Just think, everytime you cross your threshold, you will have to speak french and listen to french.
  16. micky.p I have told you what to do........... parents d'eleves and Mairie. Also 1km is not a great distance and I don't know whether they will change the route for you. There are bus stops in France like everywhere else and not a 'taxi' service where the bus picks up on a person's doorstep. The only thing they might do is have a new arret bus nearer you but it is not guaranteed. The conseil general will not want to set a precedent of house calls, I'm pretty sure of that, although, unless you ask properly then you'll never know. As has been said, you chose where you wanted to live. You must have realised, or have asked how kids get to school before you moved too, you did didn't you? The headmistress of our primary school used to live up the mountain behind our village when she was a girl. They had to walk up and down four times a day in all weathers. No school cantine and sandwiches, packed lunches, nah, not in France. Country people are used to having to sort themselves out and walk, it is the accepted thing. You obviously perceive this as an injustice, but it isn't our fault that you find yourself where you are and in these cirumstances either. I can't see the local paysans being that sympathetic about it all, but I may be wrong.
  17. can't see that it takes 2 people to trail round Leclerc     Truthfully, for some people around here, 'that' is socialising. Don't get it my self.   Since we moved to France we have been together a lot. He worked such strange hours that we always saw a lot of one another. Now he is not working and we are at home all the time, then I need time to myself sometimes as does he. My neighbours used to live apart a lot, he was in the military and seemed to think that every minute of every day should be with his femme when he retired. She left home for two years within the first year of his retirement, couldn't stand it, she is back now. Re the language, well my husband has the ear and picked it up quickly. It took me far longer and for all I started to understand a lot of what was being said, for some time I was like a tiny child could only reply in single words or very simple sentences. And when we were looking for land then I made the effort to find somewhere away from the other anglais in the region, a very very good move for me. And gradually my french built up. I think I still speak like a vache espangnole, but there you go, I can have a chat to anyone about anything under the sun really. I will never give up driving unless my health gives up. I have french and english female  friends who have done just that when they got to about 60. I have no idea why, but I like my independence. I reckon when we move back we will see one another less than we have in years and years. It will be OK and novel actually. We both have plans as there is so much that interests us and that we want to do. I imagine that we are going to have to make time for 'us', it will be quite different and I suppose if we miss 'all' the contact, then we will adjust our lives accordingly.
  18. Ram file? I must go on a computer course. I couldn't get it to open, but frankly I know how my french is. Although I would be curious to know what this impartial test thought of it too, if I could get it to open properly.
  19. [:-))] I worked out last night how often we had been to A&E. And who went. I have been twice in the last four years. Once because my GP sent me and I don't think I should have gone anyway and then last last year. I timed my visit last year and was right about how to time it  as it happened, and  I was taken in very very quickly. The suite to that was disgusting and disgraceful and my full day and night on A&E was a nightmare. The rest of my stay in hospital was really awful too.   Our youngest son doesn't know when to stop trying, to stop pushing, at any sport he does and would always try and go further than others, that is probably why he ended up being a french champion at one point. The price was injury. Hence we had quite a few visits with him over the years. He didn't reserve his casse cou antics to France though and we had him in A&E in the UK twice in two different hospitals. Truthfully between our city hospital here and the ones in the UK there was absolutely no difference in waiting times at all or treatment. He never for whatever reason managed to break or strain anything when we were in these obviously 'rich' regions of France for  health care who have the moyen to have staff 'awaiting' patients. Financially I have no idea how that can work. And it did make me think a few years ago when we were in Brittany visiting english friends on holiday there. Their son had broken his arm on holiday and they were extolling the virtues of the french health service. They had gone into an empty waiting room, were seen and treated immediately and left to an also empty waiting room. With the Seçu and it's huge black hole and hospitals like ours with staff shortages, just how can any hospital afford to have staff 'wating' for patients. Even if ours were full staffed, I would doubt that we would have instant accessibility to them, in fact I would think that this would never happen. People who are seen instantly are usually brought in by the pompiers, but even then I have seen trolley's queued up with what looks like badly injured people  and fire men stood with them waiting as a triage is most certainly done and some were left along with the rest of us. Also when we have been waiting and I have heard them stop the 'walking' wounded from coming in and have sent them off 20-30 kms to the hospital in the next city. Apart from myself, in spite of the long waiting times, as I said 6 hours was pretty normal, sometimes more, rarely less, the treatment received was 'correct'.  I can't say that I like these long waiting times and very hard in both countries with a child in pain. But what can you do. I have no idea what any of the big cities are like in France. I remember SB saying that she had a very bad time with the A&E at Montpelier a few years ago. And the lady in the next bed to me last year got the pompiers to drive her 80kms to the city hospital as she refused to go to the one only a couple of miles down the road from where she lived, so what that must be like I have no idea. And apart from one uncle and now his son in law, the medical treatment my family has received in the NEof England has been fine. It hasn't worried me when serious illness has struck at all as the doctors and hospitals have been on the ball so far. And GP's will always see them same day if they phone early or next day latest. But that is the NE of England.
  20. Emma5, how do the french cope with your daughter's name?
  21. Please don't encourage them Turnip. ALL conversations naturally deviate from the orignal subject......... it is the way we all think. There really is nothing to stop you going back to the original topic though. Before the board changed format, you could reply to a poster and it would slip in under their post, so it made the conversations going off a bit and sometimes a lot easier to read.
  22. And we have to wait for to six hours maybe more, and your point is? How can any hospital run with an A&E with  medical staff immediately disponible amazes me.What are they sat around doing?  Financially how does that work? And with the trou in the seçu budget, well how long will this priviledge last? Yes I know of friends on holiday who have had just the same happened. My casse cou son was at les urgences toooo frequently, it never changed. If anyone depends on 'instant' treatment in all of France, then don't.
  23. Cassis, so what about these places like Book'In who do sell cheap books? The first french paper backs I bought were always in large print, which always seemed odd to me at the time and I never found any proper paperbacks. Not that large print is a bad thing, I rather like it now.[;-)]
  24. And that is why we both sign every time. Evites us forgetting when we arrive in the UK and means we will be legal when we get there.
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