Christine Animal

Glad there are people like you around Leschenauds. With all best wishes to your "happy family", Christine

Anthing to oblige Andy. If you prefer to rescue rather than purchase, the « Sheeriks » www.phoenixasso.com in your area, have started to save horses and have recently saved a beautiful grey mare. Maybe they have something. Email: [email protected] I have also seen on www.angloinfo.com under Provence, Animal Magic, Jenny Donkey, someone is trying to find a home for their donkey. Christine http://animalaidsaintaubin.monsite.wanadoo.fr

Glad to hear all is going well and that you like it here. Did you hear about the Belgian family who wanted to go to visit England via Calais.  They drove all the way and as they neared the coast they saw the sign "Pas de Calais", so they turned back! 

Thank you Will, I shall try to have a look.  I have the French version of everything! I had AOL when were up in Normandy and on another computer.  So now down here, in Poitou-Charentes, I thought I would try Wanadoo, but I am not very happy with them.

Gyn Paul, all my emails in and out suddenly disappeared yesterday and I was left with an empty Outlook Express, for the second time. All I can say is I regret aol which I had before, since I'm with Wanadoo. 

"When there's a will there's a way."   Fantastic news, wishing a very happy future to Bix, Christine

Saw part of it (Les Ripoux) and learnt that the word ripou (corrupt policeman) is « du Verlan » (backslang used among young people, inverting the syllables of words). « Ripou » is « pourri ». I didn’t know this. I knew of verlan, but didn’t know ripou came from that. I just had a look at verlan in my dictionary and even the word verlan is « l’envers » pronounced back to front. Other examples are «meuf » : femme, « laisse béton! » : laisse tomber! (forget it!), «Beur » : Arabe. There is always something to learn! I am also a fan of Antoine de Caunes and José Garcia.

It all depends what they are like.  Are they trained, cat friendly, can you leave them alone when you go out, without expecting them to have got up to any tricks while you are not there, are they quiet, well behaved, etc.?  Do you really think anyone else would want to have them, even "for free"?

East end of what? No comprendez.  Les Halles, Paris 1er, rue Pierre Lescot.

Yes, we were living in Paris, Les Halles, barricades, pavés, poubelles and all...

...and I'm not surprised that TU's crumble is such a success here, with a recipe like that, a sort of mélange between tatin and crumble.  Shame you can't send it by email! 

I thought of you yesterday when I was in Niort TU. Outside a patisserie I saw "Crumble Fraise".  Have you tried that one?!

Thanks Will.  Then I missed or misunderstood what Alfa was trying to say about a separate forum. So we continue to put them in the Pets section  

There is a Pets section on here so that is where people automatically go for anything concerning pets. I have read the "sticky" at the top of the Pets section, but don't see there is anywhere else to go for rehoming.  Perhaps I have missed or misunderstood something?  Could you please clarify? Thank you, Christine 

There are people who make a living breeding little dogs like this and then people who pay to be able to have one. When there is one who needs a new home, there is noone? Iris, do you have a photo of little Bix, it may help? Christine  

I remember a lot of things "alive" Titi, I came over in 1968

Sorry to post so late, was watching Ardisson. From Souchon to Lassana Diarria and still no sign of the bougres... it will be all right as long as we are not insulting or irrespectful. Yes, saw "l'Eté Meurtrier".  He made a more recent album than "Jimmy" and all those about four or five years ago, "Hors Saison" which is also magnifique, do you know that one?  One of my other favourite French personnages was Thierry Le Luron. I'll leave you to your football or golf or whatever it is, I know very little about either and I shall probably be insulted for saying that I am a footballophobe. Bonne nuit  

Surtout "allo maman bobo", that's one of my favourites!  We'll have to start a Souchon thread before we get into trouble with La Marie (elle n'est pas toujours facile) à la Mairie.

"Yours are bilingual" Like "when I go with my pince à Vélo..." and "when I be down..." Alain Souchon, we love him and Voulzy.

...or buy a "lance pilule" when you go to get the fogger. Wicce, I'm going to have a look at that site, thanks.   about fleas in French : http://www.france5.fr/maternelles/animaux/W00242/2/85308.cfm here's one, amongst others, with a fogger : http://monanimal.com/commande/index.php?cat2=51

TU started this and has now disappeared with a flea cycle.  So what is a fogger?  When I heard about foggers over here, I thought they had come from over there, by the name. A fogger is an aerosol can full of stuff to kill fleas and their larva in the house, the car, the garage, the kennel, wherever they may be.  It is called a fogger, I suppose, because you don't just give a squirt as with normal aerosol cans, but you press on the button and get the hell out of the room as it "fogs off" slowly on its own. You should of course have previously emptied the room of any living creatures, apart from those you want to fog off. Ask your vet or pharmacien for a "fogger contre les puces" and see if he understands.  Read carefully the instructions as each fogger is for so many cubic metres.  If you think your room is too small for the whole can, you may hold your breath and get back in the room to stop it and take it to another place needing fogging off. C'est simple... 

Ah Vraititi tu reviens avec tes calembours et je coyais que tu n'aimais pas ça! Anyway you saved Marie and la belle andouillette.  Did you see what they were going to do with such a piece of French gastronomiki ?! A bientôt j'espère, Marie-Christine

Perhaps Marie is the wife of M. le Maire ?

That's why you can buy what they call a "fogger" to do in the house, kills the fleas and the eggs in carpets, furniture, animals' beds, parquet, etc. They hatch out like mad in this heat; we still get some fleas in Winter now with the central heating.

Please let us know if you find anything useful as it is a problem.  You may find that the flea spends most of its time off the animal, so in the habitat. We have enough with the Tour de France, without the flea cycle!