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  1. [quote user="micky.p."]Could people who have been in my situation only reply please , who can understand  what a mother is feeling .As for a cheap car , maybe i can't afford to run another car , or maybe i can't drive,or  maybe...... you dont know all the facts , but as usual want to have a go. And yes we moved to rural france its where we wanted to be, so why should we be somewhere we dont want to be. As for my husband going to work in the U.K , well thats where he works, he has no choice on that one.The fact is I  am going to battle this one out, as the bus driver starts his route from me first , he can come to the house instead of twiggling his thumbs for 5 mins at the top of the lane.If my children were aged 10 + i know they could cope with getting up alot earlier to travel for a hour , but im not going to do it to them at the age they are at. [/quote] I understand very well how a mother is feeling since I have 3 small children myself. I also do not 'as usual have a go' since I haven't posted on here for ages. All this is by the by, the fact remains that you can try as TU suggests to talk to your Mairie and the APE at your school to intervene on your behalf, but I'm also with TU on the fact that the Conseil General will not establish what they regard as a taxi service. However, you will only find out if you ask. P.S. Electrical cars don't require a driving licence.
  2. We had a similar situation in our village with a French family who moved here. The husband goes out to work very early in the morning and the wife doesn't have a driving licence. Well, the mind boggles! Why would you move to a rural community without a driving licence? Anyway, in this case the bus got re-routed, however, it makes for interesting travel as he has to go faster now in order to get the kids to school on time! I'm not sure if I agree with that solution. I realise that this might be a very unpopular view, but I can't see how in this day and age you could possibly be in your situation. Why is your husband returning to work in the UK and leaving you here with two children, a 30min walk to the bus and no car? Why can't you buy yourself a cheap car, even an electric one will do with 2 small children. It is not the responsibility of your local Mairie nor the Conseil General to get your children to school. You chose to live where you do and it is up to you to sort out your transport problems.
  3. Thank you, I will ask him about that. It might also be time for a new dish or LNB or whatever else I need.
  4. Hello, I wonder if anyone has a similar problem. I've had FTV for the past 4years and never had a problem. Recently however, with all the storms over the winter, reception has been getting worse and worse. When I came back from holiday a week ago I actually had no more signal whatsoever. I finally got the repair man to come and check it out and he has been fiddling with the dish orientation. We now have reception but the signal quality seems to be worse than before. I do remember someone telling me that the BBC is narrowing the footprint in order to get rid of freeloaders like us in France. Is that so or is it just a question of our dish being too small?
  5. Sorry to have to come back again about this, but even if I take the time to trawl through the different topics and then choose 'Options' and 'Mark as read', the next time I log back on they are all unmarked again and show up again on the Not read button. So, what's the point?
  6. Flipping heck! I've just spent AGES going through all the different headings, reading what I wanted to read, go back to the heading index, down the bottom, options, mark as read, back to the main index, onto the next heading.... It's just too complicated. Why did it have to change? It was great before, especially as one could read the first few words of a post without actually clicking on it as well.
  7. Hi, I can't find a button to mark everything as read. I also don't know how to just get the threads since I last visited. It just keeps showing me pages and pages of stuff I have no interest in and no time to read. HELP!!! I also don't like that the threads are not sorted by heading, when I click for example 'Not Read', so I'm forced to read each title rather than scan the posts.
  8. HELP, I've lost Channels 4 and 5! All of a sudden the machine tells me that there is something wrong with my Sky viewung card. I'm on FTV and have never had a problem before. Is there anything I can do? I've already done all the normal things like take the plug out. Thanks,
  9. Depending on what size your business is the micro bic is not very advantageous. However, the only person who can really advise you on this is an Expert Comptable (Accountant). I would suggest you go and find one of them to give you the answers you need.
  10. My husband had his vasectomy done this year. You will have to find a Urologist who will do it. It is not illegal in France anymore but quite unusual. However, there is a 3months cooling-off period, i.e. on your first visit to the urologist you will a) have to take your wife along to show that she is supportive of your decision and b) he will give you a document to sign and another appointment for 3months later, in order to leave you time to change your mind. The other thing is that it has to be done under general anesthestic. My advice, and my husband's as well, is go to the UK and have it done there.
  11. My husband had his vasectomy done this year. You will have to find a Urologist who will do it. It is not illegal in France anymore but quite unusual. However, there is a 3months cooling-off period, i.e. on your first visit to the urologist you will a) have to take your wife along to show that she is supportive of your decision and b) he will give you a document to sign and another appointment for 3months later, in order to leave you time to change your mind. The other thing is that it has to be done under general anesthestic. My advice, and my husband's as well, is go to the UK and have it done there.
  12. I second Nick's reply. Money spent on a good accountant is never wasted. At least you will know exactly where you stand afterwards.
  13. It's actually a Spanish tune, called 'Paquito'. Hope that helps, Christiane
  14. Good morning all, I thought I would recommend the following book for anybody who is thinking about moving to France, about to move or has just recently moved, and who would like some sort of insight into day to day language and culture. It's called 'Tune up your French' by Natalie Shorr, and my hubby, who has just read it, thinks that it would have been a lot of help when we first came over.
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