La Quercynoise

One of the best things you can do for your daughter at this stage is work really hard on your own French so you can help her as much as possible once you get here.  I am sure you will be surprised by the amount of homework they are expected to do and even the instructions for it are quite complicated.  My son started in CP aged 6 this year and I speak fluent French - it has not been straightforward even for us. He had two years of French before we came (from age 3 1 hour/week) and is just now starting to speak after being in school from September.  Kids do adapt quickly but it is not necessarily easy for them especially with the emotional upheaval as well - even aged 6 my son is still quite upset about leaving his English friends behind.  Dont want to be negative but just trying to be realistic.  Please contact me if you want any more advice.  By the way, we are about 20 mins from Cahors so not far if you are in South Lot.

a bob is a un carré  (an caray) and layered is dégradé (daygraday).  Hope this helps.  Just watch out if they want to do un touching rather than un brushing!

Hi Foz n Robbo We are not too far from you, about 8km nw of Caussade.   We have been here about 6 months now and dont regret a thing.  I dont know about it being quiet here though - theres plenty going on if you want to get out and about.  The brilliant thing is you can easily have a balance between the very quiet and rural but with good towns and cities within easy access.  Feel free to get in touch if you want any advice or help.  Good luck with the move.

We have just had a satellite dish installed, tuned to Astra 2 and bought a free to air box for international channels which also receives French freeview TNT. We have successfully managed to get all the UK TV channels but are having trouble with radio. The various BBC stations comes up on the menu from the box and on screen it says we are getting a signal (green line) but there is no sound coming through. The only radio station we seem to be able to pick up is CNN news. Does anyone have any idea why this may be? Many thanks for your advice.

Hi there.  I detect a familiar air of panic in your post having been in the same position as yourself just a few months ago but as it turned out, it was really straightforward.  Our son had the vaccination here in France just a few weeks ago with no problem at all.  When we moved over, we went to register with the doctor in our local town and sorted it out with him.  The NHS didnt want to know back in the UK.  Best of luck.