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Yes ours are the same bottles, carrier bags and half wild boars are currency in our village. I love it

No but i sat on a wire brush which he left on a chair in the conservatory once........

Petite moi ? non ..... There is a little old lady in the village who catches me going out for walks often just before the whole village stops for lunch ....( our church bells tell you when to start and stop lunch... truley! ! ) She will chase me down the street with a stick and tell me to go home for my lunch ...I jest not ( all done in good humour) When i first moved there she use to hit my ankles with a stick when she saw me going up the mountain path for my walksa nd I use to think what is she going on about , my french wasnt up to understanding her then , Now I have realised she was telling me to take a stick on my walks incase I saw snakes ...  Now she makes me crack hazel nuts for her into a bowl as her hands cant manage it .... I hope Im just like her when im her age . She also stops in the middle of the road to stop cyclist and insist they drink her water ..... 

A frustrated wanna be LR dweller here and would love to hear what is happening in the area . Hows the weather Did any of you visit Carcassonne Christmas markets what were they like ? Did any one go to the Truffle markets was it a good turn out ? Any thing of Interest in the local papers ? Any new shops building going up ? Did any one see any of the filming of Labyrinth ? Has mac donalds finally left Carcassonne what has moved into the place if they have ? Come on dish the goss ..... 

I have a understairs cupboard when all the cleaning things go , hoover , bucket, mop, dusters , polish, car cleaning sponge etc. Now my husband is very house trained and uses all of these Items ......Then leaves them where he used them....I am for ever walking around behind him picking things up and putting them back under the stairs . Also he sweeps and leaves the pile of dirt under the brush which is left leaning against the wall.   Bless his little cotton socks...    

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I did offer it to my farmer but he has plenty of his own land , he tells me he is happy to cut mine because he is just glad to see it looking tidy now after years of living next to chap who had it before . Plus his nephew leaves a tractor in one of my old out buildings ...  So I think he is happy that we all just get along as I think the old owner gave him loads of grief

No i think they were more horrified that i didnt stop for lunch ..... ;)

You might laugh but I had to clear the 1001 empty bottles and worse in some cases refilled ones !! that he had left laying around the field along with a million and 1 car tractor and washing machine parts and any other piece of rubbish he had left laying around which by time I brought the place was 10 foot under brambles and weeds. It took me 3 months clearing by hand with a pair of hand shears and loppers . First morning my neighbour from the next field a farmer saw me doing it , he laughed and said if I got it finished and left it in a pile by the lane he would clear it all to the dump in his trailer. He was joking as he didnt expect me to do more than a days worth ....as he told me later . After the first month he had to start clearing as he couldnt get past the lane to his field there was so much stuff. Everyone in the village came to see the mad english woman clearing all the rubbish and cutting a 3 acre field with a pair of hand shears. And telling me what a mad bad man he was .... Come the summer hols people sent grandchildren to help ....but I couldnt let them it was too dangerous with rusting metal and broken glass every where , half buried saws sticking up from the ground etc. But its now done , my new friend the farmer keeps it cut with his tractor and its lush and green and everytime he see's me in the bar he tells people thats the woman I told you about in the field ...and they all look at me in horror ...I some times wonder what he told them .....     

Yes it is an exsisting  200 year old barn/glacier and has had windows etc. in the past but all rotten away now. The last owner lived in a caravan on the land for many years until he died . Yes has its own electric supply and water connected to the field but not the building . I believe the last owner wanted to make it into a house as it has a street number and address, but drink and age got in his way.

Wow JJ ..very clever No wonder you never email me any more to busy playing with bits of wood ..... 8>(    

Thankyou for your reply The barn( glacier) is a seperate building from our house so will not be adding to our area of habitation. We recieved no extra form H1 just the letter as above . It is just walls, roof, some soil floors and some wooden floors , there is electric connected but no water. Before we brought it it was used for animals and storage of hay and other odd items . So Im just going to write to them to let them know the roof work which was done at the end of last year has been completed but on going work will continued as and when we can afford to do it. The next job is to replace the rotten shutters and doors this will then make it weather and people proof . After that when we have saved up is to repoint the stone walls on the out side , plus some repointing of the inside.  My next question is how far can we go and still call it a barn ? One day I would like to remove the soil flloors get it damproofed and put in concret floors. Plus make windows . So at least it will be animals proof as well and we can use it to store items .  Its probally going to be 5 years before we can decided weather we can afford to turn it into a house , It would depend on selling the other house first as well which could take many years . But Id like to be able to store all our belongings safley in the barn by this time.   

Many thanks for the replies ... I will write and tell them what has been done and what is still to be done .  

Thankyou NormanH Vous avez obtenu un permis de construire pour un immeuble (maison, appartement, local professionnel, etc.) situé à l’adresse mentionnée dans le cadre ci-dessous. Si les travaux ne sont pas terminés, je vous saurais gré de bien vouloir me retourner cette lettre en indiquant la date à laquelle ils devraient être achevés (ou la date à laquelle le projet a été abandonné). Dans tous les case, il conviendra d’indiquer. La nature exacte des travaux. S’ils sont actuellement achevés, vous voudrez bien préciser la date permettant une utilisation effective du bien.   Lieu des travaux La chaussee Nature des travaux (construction neuve, extension, niveaux supplémentaires, changement de destination, locaux sans fondation, autres travaux)   Je vous informe qu’en application de l’article 1406-1 du code général des impôts, les travaux affectant les immeubles bâtis (constructions nouvelles, additions de construction, démolitions, etc.) doivent être déclarés à L’administration fiscale. Cette déclaration doit être souscrite dans les 90 jours de L’achèvement des travaux, par le propriètaire effectif à cette date. La notion d’achèvement des travaux au sens fiscal (1) s’entend de local utilisables, c’est-à-dire, notamment, pour lesquels le gros œuvre, la maçonnerie, la couverture, les fermetures extérieures et les branchements sur les réseaux extérieurs sont terminés. Cette déclaration doit être adressée au Centre des Impôts dont les coordonnée figurent ci-dessus, au moyen des imprimés ci-joints, à raison d’un imprimé par local. En cas de difficultes rencontrées pour remplir ces imprimés, je vous invite à prendre contact avec notre service. En vertu des articles 1406, 1729 B-1, B-2 et B-3 du code général des Impôts, le défaut de déclaration dans le délai précité vous privera de l’exonération temporaire, totale ou partielle, de taxe foncière sur les propriétés bâties à laquelle vous pouvez éventuellement prétendre, et donnera lieu à l’application d’amendes fiscales. Je vous prie de croire, Madame, Monsieur, à l’assurance de ma considération distinguèe.  

I have a barn across the road from my house that i have had some work done to to keep it safe and bring it up to a usable condition. So far the roof beams have been resited as some of the stone work had given way underneath , this is now made good and a new roof put on. We have also had a number of old wooden shacks taken down as they were rotten through and dangerous in the strong winds . One of which was a garage , the ground area here is going to be prepared as an area to park a car , and the next jobs are to fix the stone work around the area of the windows where some stones have come loose , and new shutters put on ,  We are still unsure what we will do with this building , We dream of turning it into a house as its a stunning shape and large but we know its going to take a lot of money that we dont have have, But never say never .... We will continue over many yeas to do what jobs we can affford when we can afford them. But its more than likley it will be no more than a storage area and a place for hubby to do his hobbies and keep all his tools .   I have just recieved a letter from Direction Generale Des Finances Publiques Service Des Impots Des Particuliers. Which appears to say ( my french not that good) you have obtained a permis de construire pour une immeuble .... permit for a building ? Now I have not done this but assuming my builder did ? Is this a permit to make a house or just a bog standard permit for any building work? They seem to be asking me to let them know when the work will be finished and what works are to be done . They then quote some codes  1406, 1729 B-1 B-2 B-3 of code generale des impots They seem to want to judge if it is nesserccessary to put up my Tax fonciere . It says I must let them know within 90 days of the work being completed ...  As the work is not going to be comleted probally for a long long time , do I need to reply to this letter and if so saying what ? Im going to send a copy of this letter to my builder , who will over the years be doing all the work , but im not holding my breath for him to act or do anything . Is this just a bog standard letter that is sent out or some thing I need to do some thing about before I get in to trouble ??  Any thoughts any one has on this would be good ...Many thanks Ps ..I can copy and paste the french letter into here if it helps any one to be clear what the letter says . 

Good Luck RH Ah but also means no washing up , hoovering , cooking . Hope your chap has had his weetabix ?

Try changing the bacon for smk salmon for a different take on this dish

Um......um...... dunno ..I think I maydo on my phone but not sure about my laptop ....Im afraid I just survie on tecnollogy leaving any thing complicated till when hubby comes home once every 4 months ....I meant to ask him to do it over christmas but so much other stuff was going on it totally went out of my mind .He's gone again now till March so I wont see them till then. But thanks for the thought .... 

Keni have you also taught yours to walk on the lead ? I think when there is 2 together they tend to rely on each other for what they need and are more independant of us than a single cat I wish I could talk cat and know what they were thinking ...  There have been moments through my life when I have been so sure an animal has spoken to me maybe not in words but in a way I can feel what they want ...But some animlas like people are closed books and you just cant reachthem.

Oh dont the only down side off a move to France one day is that I leave my last 2 dogs here. It breaks my heart ... But I have to believe they are where I am  where ever I go . So maybe he did make it with you and got a free ticket there . Black Lab with manners ....Ha who you kidding !!

I must admit Im very proud of him and how far he has come in the last year and a half , he now has one of the many pockets in my heart along with all my other friends present and past ... He thinks he is more dog than cat and I have some great pic's of him on my phone of him out walking with us ..sadley I dont know how to move them from phone to computer But here is one of the 2 waiting to go out for a walk [IMG]http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z22/pads_03/IMG_5988.jpg[/IMG]

Oh..... Wot a picture !!! Its true what they say one picture can speak a thousand words ... Thankyou for that one xx 

Just to proof he is awake some times and I dont drug him into staying ...... My King of the jungle .... [IMG]http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z22/pads_03/IMG_5949.jpg[/IMG]