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The area of Limousin is 80% of that of Wales. I imagine if moving to Wales you might refine your search a little. Even the individual departments in Limousin vary with topography and climate. Why not make a check list of your requirements to help choose an area then as suggested have a look at pagesjaunes.fr.

I have, when in muslim countries, dressed "with modesty" which is all I understood the Koran to ask. This meant not wearing shorts in inappropriate places and covering arms if not in tourist areas. I can remember seeing the burqa (sp) quite a lot in Preston back in 1976. At the time noone had a problem with it. Today however the world is not so gentle a place and who knows what may be under all that cover?

I am sure that I read somewhere that this ruling had been contested successfully in the international court in the Hague. Anyone else read about this?  

[quote user="londoneye"] along same lines, apart from pine, which i know about, are there any other wood which cannot be burned?   We have just cut down a pear tree and i was going to chop that up - also (sadly) a walnut tree had to come down - how about that one ? [/quote] Pear will be OK to burn.Regarding the walnut my brother in law tells me that the wood is in great demand by woodworkers so if it was a good sized tree it may be worth quite a bit.

The wood may be OK but I have just found out that the leaves contain cyanide!

I believe there is a mobile shop which calls at th big  Angouleme Intermarché shop car park on a Friday morning. Can anyone else confirm?

It may be worth looking at "buches de bois comprimé" there is a special overnight variety expressly for keeping a fire in. They are sold by various companies so I suggest a search on the net.

So,  if you are an artist i.e. you produce art for which there is no particular market (Monet at the time) what do yo do? I thought that there were particular tax breakd for artists ?

No problems with the other things. it's just this thing about possibly poisening ourselves. By the way I read that to keep chestnuts (anyone with a spare wheelbarrow is welcome) you must soak them in salt water for a week and then dry them well.

I always thought that ceps had much fatter "stems" we have some fungus that look like that in our garden - no gills but a sort of mousse under the cap. I could take some down to the pharmacie I suppose but we are SO English when it comes to such things. The previous owners of our place said that we had out own cepes Are they really worth it?

 "Because if you are on a very low wage, you might want/need to work many more hours that 35 or even 39." For example - the minimum wage in England is £5.35 ph which means you would only be ALLOWED to earn  £187.25 per week on a 35 hr week. No working a few more hours so you can afford a new pair of shoes. What can you do with extra leisure time if you have no money? 35 hour weeks may be fine for salaried people but for the hourly paid is very restricting

If you do get one remember to register it as a lean to greenhouse as otherwise it will have a nasty effect on the taxe fonciere.

We had an infestation the other Autumn just before the inlaws were due to visit! We got some canisters of a fumigant from the local Weldoms. You set it off in a room and vacate for a couple of hours. Worked a treat. Probably the sort of thing the English pest control people use but here you can do it yourself.

I was under the impression that the law had been changed in regard to "milk fed" veal and the battery type of processing was no longer allowed. If you want to criticise elevage procedure whan was the last time you saw a field of goats in France?

One disadvantage of changing to a French licence is that you lose your history. I know someone who changed his licence and subsequently could not hire a car because there was no proof he had been driving for umpteen years.

[quote user="chris pp"] No, the Gendarme didn't know what the law is, I had one try to do the same to me a month or so back, but I wasn't having any of it, Gendarme spoke to his superior, who put him straight.  Chris [/quote] I bothers me a bit that the gendarmes do not seem to know the law on a few things. Re the pool security checks where some gendarmes were saying that alarms were not an option.

Pay up quickly. If you pay online you will get a discount.

I use a device made by eradic called a detauper . should be www.detauper.com but I can't get it to work at present. The devices can be bought from bricos and some garden places. They kill the moles by the pressure blast of an explosion I think as those dug up have been whole. They are the only thing that I found that actually work. I haven't tried traps although I am sure that they work as well.

[quote user="www.centralbrittanypropertyservices.com"]Quick! step on it before it bites you! [/quote] You should have put in a smily to indicate that was a joke.

I don't think that neck fillet is a traditional cut in the UK. It certainly didn't exist say 10 years ago. I think that some bright spark realised that the scrag wasn't very popular and devised a cut which gave a nice useable piece of meat. I may be wrong of course

I seem to go around the med depending on what is available. I am considering stuffed vine leaves today, fiddly but as part of a Greece meal very good. Along with fried courgettes with skordalia, menemene (sp) , houmous - Ok for purists it's actually Turkish - and maybe mousaka. I don't think I ever cook according to where I am at the time.

I tried the feve dried one time. Never again. I ended up using them for "baking beans"  Broad beans are perhaps the vegetable that loses least by being frozen so that is the way I go now.All vrac means is loose. 

It is not just politeness that makes the French give cyclists room. It is detailed in the code de la route right down to how much room and is doubtless associated with a fine should the gendarmes be watching.

Les Coutelleries de Thiers have them website www.auvergne-menager.com They also sell from the camion if they visit your area.

Arghh , Not pink. I never used to have anything against the colour  but we bought a house from an elderly French couple whose favorite colour was PINK. I assume it was Madame but who knows! The main bedroom was papered on floral pink with the metal wardrobe door and all other paintwork in PINK. The inner hall is still in dirty PINK with the doors papered inside a little frame thing in PINK. The living room was papered in a pale stripy PINK. The woodwork is still a pale PINK. Even the door furniture is PINK. The bathroom has a bath and basin in lilac shaded to PINK (expensive at the time I think) and the tiling which is Villeroy and Bosch involves peacocks and gentle stripes of grey and PINK. Mind you I once had a house in England which was done in shades of brown from chocolate to cafe latte.