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    Celebrating the Diamond Jubilee

    in The Complete France Post Bag

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    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.

    Twin Rooms

    in B&B/Chambres d'Hôtes Owners

    Posted

    [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.

    Batten down the hatches

    in South West (Aquitaine, Midi-Pyrénées)

    Posted

    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...

    How long did your registration process with CPAM take?

    in Health

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    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.

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