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Kitty

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  1. It's amazing.  How do they train them to do this?
  2. I know that Rose can sing - I have heard the CDs and the You Tube clips to prove it.
  3. Well, well, well.  What a can of worms I seem to have opened. I only posted because I am at a loose end on Jubilee Weekend and I was hoping that perhaps there might be some public celebrations that I could join in.  I am likely to be far away from home that weekend as my husband is officiating at a sports function in Eymet.  I haven't decided yet whether to travle with him to the Dordogne but if there was a Jubilee celebration, that might tip the balnace. I didn't expect such a debate that has been waged on this thread. I have been full time in France for many years, bringing up a number of children here, speak French more fluently than most of my British friends and am integrated into the area (e.g. school governor).  But I still feel British (after all, I am British) and would love to celebrate the Jubilee with other Brits or French.
  4. How are people celebrating the Diamond Jubilee in France?  Are there any street parties, for example?
  5. I did a search to find out what non-LOF means for dogs and found this unanswered thread from 2004. Can anyone tell me what it does mean?
  6. [quote user="Louise"]I have another query... when you register with the Mairie do you include babies in the numbers e.g we have beds for 12 people but 2 cots so do I register for 12 or 14. I think I should register for 14 ???[/quote] In the UK, where I have a holiday let, when you say, for example, "sleeps 10", this means that the house "sleeps up to 10 adults and children over the age of 2".  Children and babies under the age of 2 are not included in the numbers.  I gather that the same applies in France.  So, in my opinion, you would register for 12.  I assume that you could ask the Mairie to verify this. As for twin beds, I have a house with two doubles and three twins and that works out well.  No one has ever complained that I have too many or too few double beds.  Sometimes, people put the twin beds together. There certainly was a thread about this in the past but it was probably 3 or 4 years ago and I can't find it.
  7. I was once told that rentrer is not a happy word and so you should only use it when you are not happy about going back somewhere.  I had said 'je vais rentrer en France' and the person took it that I didn't really want to go back. Is this correct?
  8. Use a hairdryer... In the UK, when we had a frozen pipe, the heating engineer used a hairdryer gently. So in France this week, when our outside loo froze - the toilet pan water and the cistern - we gently applied a hairdryer and it worked.  It thawed without cracking.
  9. This is an interesting article written by Stephen Glover, journalist, who edited the Oxford University magazine with Chris Huhne. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2096197/Chris-Huhnes-downfall-began-day-sacrificed-wife-career.html
  10. Welcome to the Forum. Alna. You need to say which part of France (or UK?) that you live in.
  11. Welcome to the Forum, Chris. I use an English speaking insurance agency called BIBA, run by Gaye Galliver.  They are very efficient and now arrange all my insurances (house, car, school, autoentrepreneur etc etc).  The telephone number is 05 53 01 13 84.  Email address is Gaye [email protected] or [email protected] I have no link with them other than being a highly satisfied customer.
  12. Surely you can only really go to those places where you can speak the language.  Can anyone live in France successfully without speaking French?
  13. I see that papers for the French electoral register closes on 31st December.  Can we vote in the Presidential elections or do we have to French nationals?
  14. The family missed Golden Syrup on their Christmas porridge this morning... Now how much do Amazon charge for delivery of that, I wonder?
  15. Thanks Bugsy.  That made me smile.  I'm going to try it on the beach tomorrow with my labradoodle although he doesn't like water and so this could be challenging...
  16. [quote user="Bugsy"]........of the English-speaking Helpline. Click . [/quote] I was wondering the same, Bugsy. I do hope that it is not axed. It is the reason that we bank with Credit Agricole.
  17. It's very difficult to sleep during these storms. The house seems to take off in the gusts. I moved the children's and our beds so that they were in 'safer' areas. We have chimneys that are solid but you never know. We stow everything away that is outside on the verandah or in the garden, we switch the boiler off and have candles and matches to hand. I was exhausted by daybreak when I needed to get everyone out of the house to school or work etc. I told them to avoid large trees. The storm died down at about 11am and so I tried to catch up on sleep in a chair by the fire but then one of my daughters woke me up asking if another had gone to work (why doesn't she just look in the bedroom?) and then my husband phoned up to ask if I needed anything - yes I said, some sleep...
  18. Just seen Bugsy's thread of the same name. Great minds etc...
  19. Crickey, it is blowing a gale at the moment on the coast west of Bordeaux and it is going to get worse. I have placed the children's beds strategically around the house away from the chimney areas. Structural damage in the area must be a near certainty. Take a look at the winds on: http://www.xcweather.co.uk/FR/forecast Scary stuff...
  20. [quote user="just john "]Don't be daft, no central heating then. . .[/quote] The Romans had central heating and pizza takeaways.
  21. Shouldn't Helga be called Georgia and be Greek rather than German?
  22. Presumably the same arrangements that Switzerland has with the EU would apply?  Swiss people are free to come and go into the EU without visas etc. And Norway. Does the European Economic Area still exist?
  23. Wooly - you have to agitate.  They take ages.  My application took nearly six months but there were six in our family. The only way that I got it moving was to call at their offices on a regular basis and be hyper-friendly. I found that going first thing (my office opened at 08h30) was best before they had a long queue. Doff your cap.  "Desole de vous deranger". Grit your teeth. Leave the screaming for when you get into your car afterwards. Then when I started work, I had to go through the process again with RSI/RAM and that took ten months... As for the number of pieces of paper that I had to produce - that's another story. Courage.
  24. On the official autoentrepreneur form, I ticked 'etranger' and took it to the desk, whereupon the administrator said that I had made a mistake.  I had ticked the wrong box.  I wasn't a foreigner but European.
  25. As requested by Breizh, an English language link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2067195/Boy-dies-father-puts-washing-machine-switches-punishment-prank.html
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