Coco
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I find it hard to believe (what about high up in the Alps?) but according to Ouest France on Thursday, Vire in Calvados was the coldest place in France on Wednesday night ...... -16.6 degrees.
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You're not anywhere near central Manche are you Macker? We need an electrician to put a new fuse box in our new kitchen along with all the usual sockets and switches. Just had a quote from a registered British electrician who DIDN'T listen to a word we said when he came to do the devis, promised it by beginning of December and it arrived yesterday (dated 31st December) and it was 3,000 euros for a fuse box and one room!!! It did include some all-singing, all-dancing system with screens and god knows what but we had already told him we didn't want that, just a plain simple electricity supply with ordinary switches that I have to turn on myself ...... surprisingly enough I can manage that!
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I've had it at least a dozen times over the last year, in both English and French.
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When we collected our birds from the local farm on Christmas Eve I mentioned to the farmer's wife that we were due some heavy snow after Christmas (BBC) she laughed at me and the tone was definitely "stupide Anglaise" when she told me we wouldn't be getting any snow this side of the new year. I hope I see her soon, just to see which side of her face she's laughing on now. It was -5 at 9 o'clock this morning and we've been cut off by snow and ice since Tuesday!!!
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We woke up on the 27th to a beautiful snow scene in the garden. That's fine I thought, can't work now, have to site by the fire, reading books I received for Christmas and eating chocolates. Now I'm beginning to get a bit stir-crazy - we can't get out, we've finished all the pheasant, ham and beef. I've eaten all the chocolates, I'm bored with all the repeat films on the tele and although Gordon Ramsay has given me lots of inspiration I can't get out to buy the ingredients!!!
What's it like where you are? We're in mid-Manche on the side of a hill that has turned into the Cresta run. Even the milk lorries aren't attempting it!
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Please excuse what I have done (I know it sounds very nerdish) but I have been locked in since Christmas Eve!!! Today I was playing with the Ryanair site to see how much it would cost for relatives to come over in January. All flights from Stanstead to Dinard free except for taxes. That sounds good. By the time I had added on taxes it came to £68, now I know that's still pretty cheap for two people but just thought I'd check out Luton to Paris with Easyjet. It was more expensive because they weren't offering free flights. However, their taxes were MUCH lower.
I then thought that in order to do a fair comparison I should see if I could find a test route that both companies fly into. So, my relatives are now going (they don't know this yet!) from Stanstead to Almeira on 6th January and back on the 9th. One is going by Ryanair and is going to pay £24 in airport taxes. The other is going by Easyjet and will pay £9!!!!! Can anyone explain this???? Are Ryanair pulling a fast one when they offer these so called FREE flights by bunging a bit on the taxes? They still work out cheapest but I don't like the idea of being told that the only charges are unavoidable ones imposed by the airports and governments when that (or so it appears) is not necessarily so.
Anyone in the know who can satisfy my curiosity on this one?
Now....... what else can I do to amuse myself until the snow thaws [:P]
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We've been snowed in since the morning of the 27th, but we are on a steep hill in basse Normandie. Friends arrived yesterday from Calais and didn't hit any snow til the Caen ringroad. It then took them two hours instead of 40 minutes to get to their house because the A84 was closed and they were re-routed via Bayeux and Saint Lo. However, the motorway is open again today and friends who arrived at St Malo this morning said it was just heavy frost but no snow.
We're still snowed in and there's another orange alert tonight! My meteo subscription has expired so I can't get more than a day in advance and tonight it is forecast as minus 6!! On the BBC world weather though our area is forecast as being 10-12 degrees tomorrow so it must be going to warm up bloody quickly overnight!!! Hope so, we've ordered a nice seafood platter for New Year's Eve and at the moment we haven't a hope in hell of getting down the Cresta run
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I'm with Miki. Never seen so many Christmas goods, or people shopping, as in our local Champion this year. Also agree with Angela about those really, REALLY naff Father Christmases. I don't see the point, they don't light up so can't be seen at night and they just look so pathetic hanging off gutters in the clear light of day. Our local village has gone very chic for rural France this year; gone are the garish decorations and they have been replaced by Knightbridge style white lights in all the trees. Very pretty.
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I would have thought 6,000 was incredibly low when you consider there are supposed to be about quarter of a million throughout France and Normandy is one of the more densely Brit-populated areas. About a year ago there was an article in our local paper saying that there were 20,000 Brits in Manche alone but I don't know whether that was permanent residents or second home owners and whether it was houses or actual people.
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I'm about to make my favourite Delia Christmas ice cream which needs 15 fl oz of double cream. Will the creme fluide be OK for this?
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I know of M Aubree. I thought he just did the work, does he hire the diggers too?
bricomarche and digi box to pick up uk tv
in French Satellite TV, French Internet and Telephone
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