dragonrouge

thanks will email them immediately.  Thanks again

Hi we live in the South Vendee and our wonderful experte comptable has now retired.  He was very much old school and spoke fluent English.  Yes before I get roasted I know I should speak better French and in routine day to day matters my French is passable.  However tax income and a few complications in respect of revenues from elsewhere means that my French is not up to a dialogue with the Tresor Public.  They have with some stealth taken substantial amounts of tax over above the figure that was agreed by the Impot last year.  The Centre Prelevement Service at Lille is basically saying tant pis. We are prepared to travel so please can someone point us in the direction of an English speaking accountant with whom they have a good relationship? thanks worried and poor of the Vendee.   I am retired so its income for my wife and I from a number of sources.

This is not directly related to the subject area but I have found out that our local Pharmacist has never been to the UK and thus never enjoyed the joys of a rugby week end in Cardiff.  Hence for next years game between Wales and France I have been let us say co-erced into taking him to Cardiff. My connections for tickets in Wales have long since disappeared so apart from joining say a local club what are please here in France are  the other opportunities for obtaining tickets. As to Dublin my favourite place for a rugby week end and Gresham Place is a wonderful area.  Then before the game bacon cabbage and pots is it?  Guinness never tastes as good anywhere else as it does in Dublin.  They are a great crowd and very welcoming.

Its Yara Phosyn Ltd Manor Place Wellington Road, The Industrial Estate Pocklington York 01759 302545.  They do have a web site but I just cannot put my hand on it at the moment.  There is a great guy there who gives advice and his name is Adrian Peter Dawson.   rdgs

Obviously Dragon Rouge says it all but I truly fear for us in Paris on Friday night and equally for England in Dublin.  We then have Ireland and Italy to account for and I do hope that game will not go down the drains of thuggery when it is played. You imagine if Willie John McBride had been around?  He sorted out South Africa when captain of the Lions and I forget the battle call but when someone got into trouble they all helped out.  It did not take long for rugby to take over.

May I respectufully suggest you have your soil professionally tested it costs about £19 take samples from around the plot put them in the sample bag provided and send them to the very nice people in York.  Within three days and by email you will have a report on what your soil has or has not. You can test for PH values chemicals residual stuff and its very comprehensive.  I have no financial involvement with these people but have used them for years. Then you can take it from there.

For those of you who are either in or around Fontenay le Comte (85) later in the summer say July time or later take the road from Fontenay towards La Rochelle direction Vix.  On the right hand side there is a sort of hut which sells wonderful chillies garlic melons and the like.  It really is a great place to stop at.  They grow lots and lots of things.

I have always bought mine either from Simpsons The Dorset Chilli company and lots of others.  I think that you will have to really dry the chilli first and then when its very dry just then use the seeds.  Be aware that sometimes they take a fair bit of time before the germinate and a long season for growth.    Chillies freeze really well In Normandie where we once lived the old owner had constructed a very large greenhouse and I fitted it out with heating and then put in a propagating bench I grew all sorts of stuff and also bought a gas heater so early crops were the norm.

Tony chilli seeds posted yesterday whole range from mild through to one of the hottest in the world.

To finalise a few things I have contacted a FX company to move some of the last of the funds across.  I had thought to do so in April but 'he' said 'leave it until say mid year for the euros is next on our hit list' His words not mine and I do not believe now anything that anyone with a financial axe to grind tells me.  Just posted it here fww.

Whilst not from Abergavenny very near and yes the good folk from 'Aber' are in parts well heeled.  But when I moved to Chepstow over thirty five years ago it was a wonderful place but Franco running the Walnut Tree and when the cooking was fantastic but the prices equally.  Was bought some years ago with an investor in the Ivy putting up the money.  Like everyone else now struggling so I am not sure this is the place for the £70 meals.  Might be at the ChainBridge pub of the other guy who now appears on the Market Kitchen programme and seems to have shot up from nowhere. Again like most places in SE Wales would not go out on a Saturday night there and there is a quarter dedicated to drugs.  It is one thing to go into the wonderful market and another to see the other side but equally relevant part of life.

By way of update three seed swaps have now taken place. I am suprised that there are not more.

It might be the cynic in me but having seen my charges for last year I think the above is another attempt by CA to part us and our money. Has anyone else please received the mailshot and does anyone have any views on it not that I ever use their cards.

We are moving back home after some years here in France initially in Normandie and now further south.  When we first purchased we paid about £67K and then at a rate of 1.675 euros to the pound.  Then we sold to a lovely couple from the Netherlands who absolutely fell in love with the house and paid the asking price.  The profit was moved to region 85 and now we wish to move home for reasons such as aged Mum brothers grandchildren and the like.  So normal reasons but still with some reluctance.  But one of the cogs in all of this is that I do not have children from my previous marriage and thus I if I hang around and my wife goes before me then my aged brothers take over and they would not appreciate paying 60% tax.  If you were to be blunt it would be better if I went first then my wife's children would benefit and which is what I would want to happen.  It is sometimes difficult to comprehend this situation but appreciate that France is based upon the codes of Napoleon  which in my opinion is out of kilter with modern day society. The problem with France is that it does not have Wimpey estates or the like so no comparables come into play. The market is the market and it will decide upon values. I do not wish to become involved in discussions as to value in that we still have our original Georgian House in the UK so if I am resident and domiciled in the UK then at least perhaps 60% does not come into play. The house here is paid for as is the one in the UK so let us see what the years ahead bring. It is a terrible thing each and every day to wake up to and because I do not have children I feel that I am being treated somewhat different to those who do.  Does anyone have a view on this last sentence!

Dave I am in the law not here in France but in the UK and where I know what I would do and do it quickly.  However this is a very very long shot but maybe just maybe this guy has assets or a home in the UK or did he simply run from the UK on the same basis.  Judgments (and it does appear you do not have it strictly speaking as yet) her in France are capable of being transported back across the pond especially for the amount you suggest. If he has assets in the UK it is quite easy to get a charging order on them takes days and not too much money.

In an earlier life I once worked with KPMG plus Norton Rose to set up an IPO and then later set up a leasing company within the PLC with then 100% write downs to protect profit and continued investment in the company.  A KPMG partner was involved and with a partner in Norton Rose on the legal side it was challenging to say the least. Of course many accountancy practices are now LLP for otherwise it they got the audit wrong then they were in the firing line. When I read the annual accounts I never first looked at the figures I looked at the notes at the back and then asked the questions.  I once asked a question let us say of the major shareholder  and Director in a PLC listed jeweller before the prawn sandwich episode.  The bank saw fit to continue lending when I had doubts.  We lost money shareholder money folks! I was then obviously in let us say a fairly senior position with a High Street clearer.  I have now moved to the law where I am happier.  In the bank I had a mandate and I could lend and I was charged with a return on capital and with harsh treatment of bad debts and the provisions against that return,  It made you really think.  Then the bank said to me as a corporate lender  of many years experience please go and shake up the personal lending side where we need greater returns.  I walked with my penion.

Tony just sent you another pm   rdgs

Tony not sure what is happening but have you please received my pm of this morning?

Dear Tony have not yet received the pm.   take care

Its Association Payzons Ferme Produits de L'Agriculture Biologique Les deux Croix 56300 Neulliac 02 97 39 65 03 email [email protected]   Tony have too much of their stuff this year sacks of pots plus shallots.  The pots are bred against bugs and blight and the rest of the nasties but bio wise.  If you need some samples please send me a pm and I will let you have some in the post.  This also applies to say six others and I will  gladly let you have some samples. I have no financial involvement with these guys.

When it comes to seeds I am like a child in a sweet shop.  I literally have hundreds from over the last two years or so including some very special hot chilli ones and specialist sweet peas.  Would gladly post them within France and indeed  to place a list on this site.  I need nothing for them save for if someone sees a collecting box for a well worth while charity or the local church or whatever a small donation in the box would be fine.  I also have some wild flower seeds. Just had my bio seed pots and shallots from the good bio guys in Bretagne and with whom I have had dealings for years. I too am a member of the other good guys near Coventry.  

Isn't that strange its exactly what our neighbour does.  Not for him Gamme Vert or any other garden centres he simply pots on the seedlings from last years crop until they are large enough and then  pops them back in to the same spot!  He does not water the plants direct (he has a sort of hollow tube that both supports the plants and down which he pours the water) and which he says protects against blight.  His crops are huge.

Clair simply that over the years it has and continue to have great write ups.  I presume for use here one has to have an adaptor?  Going home in March and will call in at Lakeland Cardiff and buy one.   many thanks

Have seen this for years in the Lakeland catalogue.  Are they that good seemingly they are manufactured in Eastern Europe?

Of course fennel and dill are different.  But when living in Normandie I found dill went to seed so very quickly.  Now living in the Vendee will indeed try it again for with fish it is really good.