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  1. I have just looked at both of those sites and I think that my problem has been solved. Thank you both very much for your swift and very useful replies.
  2. I do lots of knitting and recently bought a pattern I liked from my local Presse. Then I discovered that I didn't understand the abbreviations for the stitches!!! My French is reasonably good but I have been unable to can't get any help locally. Does anybody know of anyone in my area who knits and who could tell me what the abbreviations stand for? Any help would be very much appreciated.
  3. Thanks NormanH that is brilliant. It gives exactly the result that I have been quoted. I am sure many people will find it extremely useful and it will help to avoid a lot of visits to the tax office. Also if anybody is waiting for their Avis they should use your spreadsheet to prepare themselves for a shock or not. What a clever thing to have done. Thank you very much.
  4. Thank you both for your comments. I now understand much more than I did. Last year I paid 71 and this year it is estimated to be 540 Euros. Having written it down I realise it is more like 8 times last years payment than 9 but still a considerable increase, wouldn't you say?
  5. I first of all have to admit that I am not skilled at anything other than worrying a bone to death and I am thoroughly confused by this tax change. I submitted my tax return at the Jonzac office and my Avis duly arrived and was horrendous. On examining the form however i discovered that I had transposed two critical figures. I went to the office and was advised to do a "Rectificative" with a covering letter. Feeling this was beyond me I asked an organisation to do it for me. It was quickly completed and a copy sent to me. On reading through this I noticed that in Box VI of the 2047 my total Military pension was entered. In the next column was a figure I did not recognise but when I asked the question I was told this was the total amount of tax I had paid on my income in the UK. A tax estimate for France was given which was roughly 9 times what I paid the previous year on exactly the same amount of pension and tax paid. I was assured this was correct. When I went back and said that the incorrect tax figure had been applied and that in fact the actual amount paid was over four hundred euros more than had been entered into the form, I was told that even applying that figure produced the same amount of tax liability so there was no point in resubmitting. I hope somebody has been able to follow this. I have two questions which I hope some kind person can help with. First of all does 9 times last years tax bill sound right? Secondly and probably more importantly, does the total tax paid in the UK impact on the tax calculation made by the French. Is it true that revising upwards by around 450 Euros the figure of tax paid on the form 2047 will have no impact on the tax required by the French authority? I would be very grateful for any help and offer my thanks in advance.
  6. Friends have a Sime boiler which is giving them problems. Does anybody know of a good heating engineer or a Sime Boiler repair agency in the Charente Maritime region. They live in Mirambeau. They are a bit desperate at the moment with being unable to take a shower.
  7. Thank you very much for your contributions to this thread. "Terrain de loisirs" has been especially productive so thanks for that and thank you for taking the trouble to comment. [:D]
  8. Friends of mine are looking for a small plot to site their  mobile home for holidays in the Charente Maritime region. Does anybody know where I could get information about such plots, I think they used to be called "Garden plots" !! I have looked in several estate agents  but haven't seen anything to this point.  Grateful for any help. Thank you.
  9. Thanks for the information. I really should have done my homework before I ordered. I should have known better. Buy in haste and all that stuff......... Fortunately, it looks like Amazon will take it back and then I will order the right  one. Thanks for you help, so swiftly delivered.
  10. Hi Tim thanks for your response. I have been trying all afternoon to install the machine with no success. When I scroll to the "system " it shows no signal being received. I am using a sky freeview box and trying to install the PVR through that. Bought it from Amazon and when I went back and looked at the customer reviews two reviewers said they had been unable to install through Sky freeview box.
  11. I have just bought a Humax PVR-9300T to install on my existing satellite system  here in Mirambeau on which I currently watch Sky freeview. I was struck by the capabilities of the machine but I am struggling to install it. Doing my homework, sadly after the event,  I picked up the information that I will not be able to install it here. Is this really the case? Reading some of the posts here it seems a number of you have some experience of this particular equipment. Have I made a foolish purchase? Is the situation redeemable? Most grateful for any help that can be offered.
  12. Thank you Clair, your post crossed with my thanks to sweet 17. How very generous you have both been with your time. Thanks again.
  13. Thank you again, you have been a great help.
  14. Thank you very much for your help. As is nearly always the case, it seems very obvious, now I know where to look. Did you enter the total cost of the facture and leave them to decide how much you would get or were you more scientific than that.
  15. We bought a wood burner last year, one of the best investments we have made. The fire was supplied and installed by an artisan, so no problem there.  What is the procedure for claiming the tax credit? Do you just include the facture with your tax form or is there somewhere on the form that needs to be completed. My French is not great but I really can't see any obvious place to put those details? Very grateful for any advice.
  16. I have two friends who are partners of some ten years but not married. He has an E121, only just qualified. She has an E106 which will expire at the end of January. She will qualify for her own E121 in June. Does anybody know if CPAM would allow her to piggy back off her partners E121 in the meantime?
  17. Thanks cooperola and everyone else for their comments. I have emailed your cousin cooperola also we shall be asking around locally. In fact if we had thought about it a bit more before putting pen to paper, as it were, we might well have come up with some of the very sensible suggestions my post received and saved you all a bit of time. But  not once did anybody suggest that my post was a waste of time so I thank you for your forbearance as well as your comments.
  18. Thanks very much Ceejay. I emailed that address yesterday and today they are putting my Certificate in the post. No question of any charge. Thank you.
  19. We are catholic and settling very well into our new build in Dept 17 where we are integrating slowly into the local community and catholic church. We are attending french lessons and making "good" progress but our french is not good enough to go to a penitential service with our french priest and we really do not want to have to go back to the UK for this. Does anybody know of an english speaking priest in or near to our area?
  20. I know an engineer who lives just outside of Jonzac. If that is convenient let me know.
  21. Thanks KathyC for your comments. Showing my inexperience again, exactly where is the "sticky at the top of the board"? Thank you.
  22. Thank you suein56. I must say that if my grey cells were less grey I might have thought of that myself. This is the organisation we are looking at. Thanks to the other responders for their advice. I shall take your comments on board. The policy we are looking at is for " seniors" and is very competitively priced with a 20% discount in the first year. I have to confess that one major factor in our interest in this policy is that the person we are speaking to speaks very good english. We are able to ask our questions and get the answers in plain english.
  23. We would like to thank many of you for the information you have provided through numerous threads, which we have trawled through to help us  to decide how we should proceed with regard to "Top up Insurance". We decided to adopt the cautionary approach, favoured by some of you and actually take up the insurance. We then followed advice on one thread about finding a Mutuelle on the internet. But we were not ready for the huge number of providers all vying for our business. The procedure was not helped by the fact that I did not tick the box that says "Do not ring me". We were inundated by emails and telephone calls. Gradually we whittled them down but before we make our final decision we wanted to see if anybody on the forum had any experience of the organisation we see as the strongest contender. Is it okay to say the name of the one we think is best for us?
  24. Thanks for your help. Yes I have been pressing the acquire button and the wi fi light flashes for about ten mins. When you say the security key do yo mean the WPA settings on the bottom of the Livebox?
  25. This may have been addressed before but I cannot find any reference to it on the Forum. I have just got the Livebox. Setting up the ethernet was no problem but when I came to set up the Wi Fi the problems began. Eventually I managed to configure my software, I am using an Asus lap top with their integrated Wi Fi software, when I apply the settings I get the message "Acquiring Network Address". This goes on and on. At the moment on my Wi Fi icon on the toolbar I have a yellow triangle with an exclamation mark on it. Sums it up for me!!!! So everything works, I find the Livebox and so on, just cannot make that final leap. I am not a techie so if you can help simple words work for me!! Can anyone help?
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