Gemonimo
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Mel are your beds mousse, latex or sprung?
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Quelle belle jour! Petit déj au lit avec mon ordinateur pour compagnie (pour écouter BBC radio 4 - il n'y a que cricket à la radio) , il fait chaud et j'attend ma fille qui va me rendre visit de la Suisse pour quelques jours. Nous allons peutêtre faire un petit tour au pays basque mais malheuresement la domaine de ski du fond d'Iraty est fermé - il n;y a plus de neige! Alors, ce sera pour l'annee prochaine.
Swissie, t'es passé un bon petit moment a Loèche et un jour au spa,,,,, mmmm quelle reve! Je n'ai même pas un baignoir chez moi! Et Sweets, j'espere que ton asthma est sur control. Tu dois souffrir énormement. Frenchie, apres la Corrèze t'as un autre petit vacance prévu pour pâcques?
Aujourd'hui je vais passer la plupart de mon temps a la Mairie pour le second tour de l'election regionale. Un petit repas entre quelques membres du conseil municipal est prévu. Les français ne votent pas entre midi et quatorze heure - ils mangent..... mais au cas ou, on va cacher discretement le vin rouge (local) derriere la photcopieuse[Www]
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Babbles when you say foam, is that 'mousse' or latex? I hadn't thought about the temperature factor and will bear it in mind when I go mattress hunting next week. Thanks for the input.
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Welcome, Erica - what a lovely friendly post! Cathy is quite right, 99.9% of posters are friendly and happy to give advice. Where in Northampton are you?
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Sweets, your guest bed was very comfortable - is the mattress latex? I have been thinking that quality/price, Ikea is the answer but friends of mine have said that specialty shops are better if one has a bad back. It is such a huge expense and I don't want to make a bad choice.
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After twenty years the moment has come to change my bed but I haven't a clue where to start looking. Should I go to a specialist shop? Ikea? La Redoute? And how much shouldl I expect to spend? I have back problems so would a sprung mattress be better than a Latex one?
Any advice from Forum members who have bought beds for their gites, b&b's or just for themselves will be most welcome.
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[quote user="sweet 17"]
There's the Nantes-Brest canal so how's about canoeing the whole length of that, Jen, after the Compostelle? How's your canoeing technique?
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Is it perhaps the 'fear' of the unknown? Whatever our circumstances we do find security in what we have a nd know and a new house, new town, new friends can be very daunting. You know that the move is what you really want for a zillion reasons, so now you must find everything positive in the new house ( glossy brown beams included[Www]) and not spend too much time finding reasons to love your current home more. And I agree with Wooly - the sun plays a huge part in this....
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L'entrainement, Frenchie, c'est pour demain. Aujourd'hui j'etais prise par mes devoirs communal - j'ai livré des jolis petits bouquets de mimosa (de chez moi) chez quelque petites vieilles dames que j'ai soignee l'été dernier. J'adore ces petites femmes, si gentils et leurs histoires au sujet des gens du village! J'ai fait le plein des dernier ragôts[6]
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Quelles photos magnifique Frenchie!
Gemino a déjà commencé? Mais non! En ce moment c'est un manque d'encouragement et manque d'envie. Et en plus, il y a le jardin à entretenir. Esperons que ça va passer sinon......
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If it were in the realms of possibility I'd sand them until the gloss finish has gone and paint them in a mat finish, preferably a light colour. Good luck!
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That's soooo sweet Cathy! And you are right, boys are very romantic.
I have heard it said that boys brought up in a predominantly female home make the best husbands - probably because they have learned to keep a profile and do as they are told....[Www]
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Just soapy (palmolive) water and a plastic scotch sponge pad WJT and lots of clean rags. Those rubber scraper things take off the excess but leave marks as well.... one way or another, windows are never perfectly clean.
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Nectarine, it's my most unfavourite job and I've tried just about every method - commercial products, diluted amonia[+o(] vinegar and soapy water - and have settled on the soapy water method which is what my window cleaner in London always used. His bucket was full of murky water but my windows were always impeccable. He told me that in order to know where that resistant smudge is you should buff horizontally on one side and vertically on the other. Simple, really but I still hate the job!
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There is always www.jacques-briant.fr/ who will bombard you with catalogues but their plants are a good quality. I bought three rose bushes (Greta) from them for my daughter's wedding bouquet as the colour was the same as the roses on the shoulder of her dress and I wasn't disappointed. Is it still snowing in the Jura Swissie?
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[quote user="Swissie"]For total beginners, I'd say Les Rasses/Les Cluds near the small town of StCroix. It's all on the flat, has several cafés dotted around and fabulous views of the Alps. [/quote]
Seconded, Swissie! And the views! Sublime!
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Just John Going Back is one of my all time favourite songs. However, it should not be listened to when depressed (even lightly) and with sharp knives in the house[:-))]
When I was little I remember visiting my grandmother and was allowed to play with a very old miniature green grocers shop with miniature vegetable, miniature baskets, miniature everything. I think it ended up in the Bethnal Green Museum. It was a very girlie toy and my brother wasn't the slightest bit interested in it. He much preferred playing with his white mice that he bought for thruppence and kept in a birdcage.
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Bugsy, that was absolutely fabulous.
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"And hardly a mention in the British media ........... well, the BBC.
Many deaths, injuries & flooding, just across the Channel, and hardly a word. They're more interested in, well just about anything else."
And no mention on the whole on this Forum of the much greater disaster in Chile.
Of course for well heeled second home owners, or immigrants shielded by temporary wealth something like this is shocking, because it could have happened to them, whereas frequent reports of death and disaster that affect 'lesser breeds' in other continents don't count.
[/quote]Well CNN has covered the floods widely (in between Chile updates) and Norman your comment was rather tacky - pas digne de toi.
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I took the Margaret Thatcher route and went prematurely blonde[Www]
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[quote user="Frenchie"][quote user="sweet 17"]
[quote user="Bugsy"]Shocking news now the death toll in france has reached 45 and still some people missing.
BBC News
I'm almost ashamed to admit that I was worrying about a few bloody roof tiles this morning.
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[/quote]I know, Bugs, puts it all into perspective, doesn't it?
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YES ................. Just like Bugs, I feel ashamed about complaining earlier about a few tiles and a tree .......
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My thoughts entirely. Doesn't Mother Nature always give us poor mortals a lesson in humility.
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My daughter has been talking about memory foam but if heat is a question[8-)], then no, it wouldn't do. Ikea keeps coming back as a good bench mark so next week I'll perhaps take my 'sieste' in Bordeaux chez Ikea and test them out. The problem is, of course, that you need two people to really test a double bed and I'll be going alone so I will have to solicite a spare man to test the weight displacement ratio.
A friend was telling me this lunch time that she went to a super-chic bed store and tried out all the beds... took the references of the ones she liked and then went hom and ordered them online through a discount bedding shop and saved two thirds of the price[:-))] Perhaps this is the way to go. The other problem, of course, is what the **** do I do with my old mattress and sommier? I can't burn it and cant have it littering the garden for the next few months (voir years)...... Life was so simple when we slept on straw in a sack... As an aside, is this where 'in the sack' comes from?