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A good 20 years at least! Any offers welcome, why sell a house when I can sell him! Lol

Thanks for the info....Betty, I could throw in my husband if anyone wants him! Lol

Why would it be an April fool thread, I am asking for people's opinions and advice ... I know people may have problems selling their house in the UK and might be wanting to buy in our area...so it seemed a good idea to do a swop as it's a win win situation and cuts out the agency fees! It's a 6 year old bungalow, it's in a beautiful village, I honestly can't think of any negative and if we didn't have to sell we wouldn't consider it, but life changes and needs must! I have done some research and it looks like the properties in France are not selling very quickly at the moment...just wondered if it was just as well to try selling privately ior through an agency ...if people are looking to buy, where would they look? Thanks .

We are wanting to sell our beautiful 6 year old bungalow in Lesterps, near Confolons, our tenants are moving out, does anyone know how long houses are taking to sell at the moment and also is there any web sites that may do house swop? I would consider swopping our house in France for one in England

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hello We are looking for someone who can come and look after our 3 dogs for almost 3 months, starting on the 18th October until January 2011. , We live between Hyere and Toulon in a small town with twice weekly local market. Only 15 min drive to the beach, 5 minute walk to the vineyards with beautiful mountain views. Only genuine enquiries please and references required. Must be dog friendly and willing to walk them twice a day and give them lots of cuddles at night.

Hi Looking for a house/apartment for a long term rental from January 09, for 2 adults and 2 small dogs, must be within an hour of Heyres, Hubby starts his new job in January so must find somewhere to live, any help gratefully received. We are moving from the Charante and will have to find someone to rent our house.

Hi all, hope you can help me, I want to go to French classes but can't find anywhere advertised,( I have searched- but probably not in the right places)  though there must be some local to me, I live 10 mins from Confolens.  I don't want private lessons ( tried that) would like to be in a class with others to learn, can anyone point me in the right direction?? I don't mind travelling a reasonable distance.

thank you for all your responses, just thought there might be someone else out there that had bought one for visitors and would be happy to sell/lend me one.  I have been to the carrefour and they were 40 euros,  they also have the mattresses there for 8 euros to fit in a travel cot which I will buy so as to have a new mattress.  My grandson will probably not be over again after this visit until next summer, that was why I thought a second hand one would be better for us. 

Hi We are needing a travel cot for our grandson from 5th Sepember for 10 days, has anyone got one for sale or one that we could maybe borrow?? Dept 16 area Thanks

Hi Does anyone offer a dog/house sitting service out there, we would like someone to come and look after our dogs in our house when we go away. We are in Dept 16 10 minutes from Confolens. We have 2 small friendly dogs who love people and cuddles and playing. We used this service in the UK but can't find anyone on the house/dog sitting site for France.

Hi Has anyone been to the pool at St Junien? I have been trying to get info on this by googling, but not having any success, I hear they do aqua aerobics and would love to go, I suppose I could always pop in for info, but thought I would see if anyone has used it.

sometimes people just react to a situation without thinking, we probably all have done something in the past and thought why did we do that!  we hopefully live and learn, this poor couple can't do that, how sad for them and their family.  But if it makes us stop and think then we have learned something from it....

Yep definately paint we need, the neighbours are all painted a brown colour (not wood stain) we have to go with what the mairie tells us we can have .

Hi All I am having problems understanding which shutter paint to buy....we are only allowed 3 choices of colour in my village, so I am sticking to white...but when I go to the local bricomarche it is so expensive and as I have lots of new shutters to paint, I would like to buy a huge tub not the small ones on sale there...can anyone point me in the right direction for big tubs of paint, and does it need to have a special undercoat - if so what is that called? Thanks in advance for any help on this.

Hi I went to a shop in St Junien but sorry I can't remember the name - it was a cheap shop that sold lots of household things and they had lots of covers to fit chairs and sofas, and the prices were around 30 Euros...it could be called Gifi...but not sure.... I have also seen them in the big supermarkets like Leclerc. Can't say the designs were fab tho'

Have pm'd you.  from Debbie

Thanks Panda will look on there, I have googled LHD but was not getting the sites that I thought I would, sometimes its easier to ask someone else and save hours trawling the net. I have had lots of nice responses to previous queeries and no doubt will ask lots more before I get settled in France, aren't Forums great!

We now have a removal company and will be moving in easter weekend! fingers crossed everything goes well.  

Hi We are moving to France permanently in April and are looking to buy a second hand LH drive car- preferably an estate, we have a car to sell, so could be a swop if anyone was interested. Has anyone come across a web site aimed at people like us??  

We are looking to rent in / or near Sevres area of Paris , will only be using the apartment during the week as we are moving to the Limoge area in April, so rather than commuting to work in Paris have decided to rent an apartment for 6-12months.Any one renting in Paris or have any good contacts?

Hi Cat   Just had a look at the website and it looks good, its good to see a site like that and thank you for posting the details on here, we are suppose to be moving out in April and haven't booked yet just incase there is any delay in our house build...you never know ;o) Will most likely check this list again when we get a firm date for moving.

Phil my parents emigrated to South Africa when I was nealry 13 and it was awful for me, but at least the language wasn't a big problem as just about everyone spoke English and I did learn Afrikaans at school, but it was hard being an emigrant and for that reason I would not put my kids through what I went through, we had lots of chances to go abroad and live when they were young but I think unless your kids are really young it can be very traumatic for them, especially if they don't speak the language,  Our kids have left home now and we are embarking on a great adventure by moving to France in April, we are lucky in a sense because my husband works in Paris and will commute, we also have been having French classes for the last year in preparation for our move. If you are really determined, have you looked for camp sites that are up for sale? This way it is already an established business and a lot of people tend to go back to where they have been before.Could be worth looking in to. I would also have thought with you being a mechanic that you could make a living in France doing that with the English people living there already . Good luck whatever you decide.

We are going to be about 15 mins from Confolens in a small village and as far as I am aware there isn't any other English living there, or if there are there isn't many. That isn't a problem to us as we want to get to know our locals and the ones we have met in the village restaurant when we visited were very friendly even offering us to try their dinner!! So hopefully all will be well.

Hi Was wondering if anyone on here is living in the Confolens area? We are moving out in April and would like to get in touch with others in the area . We are bringing our 2 little dogs with us, and will be looking for nice walks in the area, we visited the lakes last time we were over but noticed we could only take them on the beach there out of season, is that correct? The river is beautiful at Confolens so lots of walks there too. Are there any social activities going on in the area ?  Hubby will be working away sometimes, so the sooner I meet new "friends" the better. I was thinking once we get settled in to our new house, that I would invite our French neighbours round but our French isn't great yet (we are having lessons).  Any tips you can give will be very welcome.