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http://www.e-locaux.com/frais_kilometriques.htm The CV fiscale should be on the carte grise.

[quote user="Âme"]BaF, it is baffling. The inability to look up a place name on Google Maps astounds me, at times. Is it principally a British trait, do you think? [/quote] Absolutely not.  Time after time I have phone conversations with people looking for rooms who go through a checklist of prices, room descriptions, facilities etc then at the end ask how far we are from the beach, from Nantes, how long it will take to drive here from Bordeaux, etc.  French, British, American, makes no odds!

[quote user="Ron Avery"] I have stones discarded from my build because they are too big,  broken or mishapen and not suitable to be used for the finishing stones, nobody doing an exterior finish would want those [/quote] Don't you believe it, Ron - you should see the mish-mash of crappy stones that our house is made from!  [:P] Oddly enough, it looks okay as a whole, though.  [:)] But you're right in general - I would want to see the stones, too!

[quote user="Boiling a frog"][quote user="cassis"][quote user="Benjamin"][quote user="cooperlola"] I have a feeling that g/p is French, Benjamin. [/quote] Well aware, hence the    [6] [/quote] I thought GP was German but had lived a long time in France?  Come on, GP!  [:)] [/quote]  I thought he was half english half French but had lived and worked in Germany ,has never been to the UK and has only recently(in the past 5 or so years)  arrived in France [/quote] And that's without even mentioning the Russian mother and Argentinian father.

[quote user="Benjamin"][quote user="cooperlola"]I have a feeling that g/p is French, Benjamin. [/quote] Well aware, hence the    [6] [/quote] I thought GP was German but had lived a long time in France?  Come on, GP!  [:)]

Hardly one of the more subtle efforts, is it?  [:D] [:D] [:)] But precisely the kind of poop that I was talking about people asking about on the other place.  Are you sure you didn't lift it from there? [:D] The country code (225) is Ivory Coast, like the address.  They get very long vacations there.

That's interesting, Bugsy.  Thank you for the tip-off, I had not heard of that one.  Their advice: [quote]To protect themselves from in-session phishing attacks, Trusteer recommends that users: 1. Deploy web browser security tools 2. Always log out of banking and other sensitive online applications and accounts before navigating to other websites 3. Be extremely suspicious of pop ups that appear in a web session if you have not clicked a hyperlink.[/quote]

[quote user="Gastines"]We ... were told then that it was a legal requirement to register with the CdC. [/quote] Quite so.  If it is your main source of income then you have to register with the CdC or under the autoentrepreneur scheme (an alternative subject to certain conditions, see other threads).  But if it is a secondary source then you (still) don't have to do so.

Yes, that one gave us a laugh when it dropped in the box, too! I guess there may be somebody somewhere who falls for these things.  There's a French owners forum where you can regularly see owners posting copies of obvious hoax requests, yet they are asking whether these whacky emails are for real.  I'm waiting for the Greek priests to appear there. [:D]

Shortly after we moved here the OH tried to ask the baker whether the bread contained any preservatives.  The baker was a little taken aback by this suggestion.

[quote user="cooperlola"]Sarcasm apart [/quote] Oh dear.  Sense of humour failure.  [:(]

A scale as well?  I'm not sure I've a scale large enough to weigh it. [IMG]http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i26/cassiscassis/sausage/sosheight.jpg[/IMG]

What cards?

The screen's not big enough.

Bloody typical.  I'm going to have to carry on making some small effort on my own part.  Tch!  Call that service?  I'm appalled.

It's the same logic as cutting 2.5% or whatever it was off VAT when the retailers were already slashing prices by 50%.

Yes.  Thankfully.  Because I was caught out by a dodgy cheque from Nigeria a couple of years ago - won't make that mistake again!  But the Ivory Coast should be okay, they contacted me in French.

I would like the forum software to read my mind and post what I want through thought transference, instead of having to do all this tapping of keys and fitting in with what it wants me to do.  Can you do something about this, please, Cat?

I've never noticed a great difference between here and there, but maybe that's because I don't spend so much time on forums these days.  Plus being at the back of the class and playing with my ding-a-ling most of the time means I probably miss a lot of what's going on.

[quote user="chessfou"] la France s’est trouvée dans l’impossibilité constitutionnelle de ratifier la Charte européenne des langues régionales ou minoritaires, au nom du principe d’égalité et d’invisibilité de la République. [/quote] I don't see what he means.  Though my OH and I are divided on this.  But she talks patois (part French, part Sarthois, part Geordie).

Ah, Michael Miles.  Not that I remember the programme, I am far too young ....

Of course.  And as they were chief accountants for a major petroleum company, and the rooms were required for a surprise honeymoon present for their friends, I had no hesitation in accepting their reservation.  Unfortunately, the last time they booked, the company cheque their head office sent me was for ten times the correct amount.  I really don't know what to do, so I'm awaiting their advice.

No, the recession hasn't harmed us.  Why, only today I had a number of enquiries from gentlemen on the Ivory Coast wishing to book rooms for a month or two here.

I found it in the junk mail.

Re solid or perforated floors in wood burning fires - our wood burning CH boiler has a perforated floor to the combustion chamber.  Ash falls through the floor into a collecting box, which needs emptying every 4-6 weeks.  Air coming into the combustion chamber is regulated by a flap which allows air into the space below the chamber floor, thence through the floor into the chamber, said flap opening and shutting according to the temperature of the water circulating thanks to a thermostatic control.  This is very efficient, the water temperature remaining virtually constant.  Maybe wood burning boilers and fires/inserts operate on different principles?  Though I can't see why this should be.  Once wood is burnt, it's burnt, and it gives off heat, whether the air comes from above or below.