Tressy

It's because it's in the job vacancies section, Twinks. Only pms work for that section. I'll report it and see if the mods will move it.

[:D] Cute.[:D]

[quote user="J.Rars gone native"]I really like the way you manage to flatter at the same time![/quote] 5 insults  quoted, Vs a veiled compliment?[:D] Ron would do well not to get out of bed for that. Breakfast in Bed, Ron?

[quote user="Gluestick"]...The average person now starts to realise what analysts such as I have been banging on about for seven years: and economy predicated on insane house price rises and importing gimcrack from China has no substance and no resilience. [/quote] My bold. Some of us were saying it in 1981, 1982 - and so on.[:)] I never realisesd I used to be a visionary.[:D]

[quote user="woolybanaaaaaaaaaanersbrother"]I'll come to Fontenay with pleasure[/quote] Who wouldn't want to be the fly on the wall, or the pissed up bloke (betting on some mad horse and cart affair), or even the demented woman buying scratchcards when that meeting took place?[:-))]   [6]  

[quote user="dave21478"]... I just find it all a little strange.[/quote] Hi Dave.[:)] No kidding - it is a little odd.  I hope nothing bad has happened to them, but I also hope you get paid for the days they were in your property.  

[quote user="dave21478"]Dunno what to do really. part of me thinks "meh, its not my problem...." Any thoughts?[/quote] I've got a horrible feeling it could well be your problem. [:'(] Do you really know they have left 'everything' if you haven't entered the gite?

Thanks Cat. I've bookmarked it now![:)] Just over 800E per month is the average household income in our rural commune. Unemployment is 10%, which isn't bad compared to other rural communes nearby that I've looked at.

[quote user="Benjamin"]A lot of French people don't even earn 1.500€ a month.[/quote] There's a site somewhere (out there) that gives the average household income by Commune. I know the average for ours is way less than that.    

[quote user="sara77"]...If we could secure work for my husband before we went that would pay the rent without denting the money we've put aside for the purchase, but he's not fluent and not good on the phone so thought might be best to wait until we got there.[/quote] Hi Sara.[:)] I realise you've been doing a lot of research as I've read your other thread, but the work issue might be better looked at sooner rather than later. It's unlikely your OH will be able to earn the amount you think you'll need just for rent, without fluent French. What region are you hoping to move to?

[quote user="JSA Aude"]Hi Tresco. Wow, how many times have we done this???  [/quote] Hi there JSA.  [:)] I'm glad to hear your son continues to do well in school.  Did you choose his school after deciding where to live, or vice versa?

[quote user="terry"]Because there are a lot of people with different views.[/quote] You go first then.[:)]

[quote user="Ron Avery"] What is the matter with you Mrs T "croire que"  is Vendee slang for "Je ne crois pas que magaret est anglais et qu'elle habite dans le Dordogne pendant de nombreuses années" [/quote] Merriment most welcome[:)] [:D] Yours is by no means the most outlandish translation/nterpretation (given that it wasn't even a full sentence) of the response to me. It would be very rude of me to start laughing uncontrollably at your comment, so please forgive me for not using terms such as RAOFPMP. Thanks for your patience in this matter, Mr A.[:)]

[quote user="FurryKnickers "]"just because you are wearing gardening trousers does not mean you have to stay in the garden" (Seamus Logan)[/quote] You've just caused WW3 to break out here. Mr T insists the correct version of this quote is; "just because you are wearing boots caked in mud, does not mean you have to stay in the garden". I doubt we'll ever know the truth.[:D]    

[quote user="magaret"]  croire que   [/quote] Blimey. It's hard enough when people write incomplete sentences in English. What are you trying to say to me? You can say it in English, or French, but incomplete sentiments in Bablefish like English to French translations are a waste of everyones time.

[quote user="magaret"] Thanking you all for nothing.[/quote] Of course you can get pellets in France, as Cassis confirmed. Perhaps no one who has (so far) read this thread knows the name of a particular product, but there's no need to be rude to the people who replied in such a good natured, friendly way. Personally, I use this. [IMG]http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/twinm/DaisyGrubber.jpg[/IMG]

I didn't realise how irritating this problem was until it started happening to me. Is anybody working on it?  

[quote user="J.Rs gone native"] "if she is not good enough for the rest of the boys in the village she is not good enough for my son!" My late mother (who had a great sense of humour) when I  proudly told her that I had finally found a decent girl. [/quote] [:D][:D][:D] "I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute".- Rebecca West.

[quote user="JayJay"]...Edit: I thought it was something worse, but you're right, I didn't! [;-)][/quote] Aww, but this reminds me of the scary lecture an English PC gave me about driving around blind bends on 'local knowledge'. What if, instead of going 'bleurghhhhh bleur de blerrggh der' to the sweet and understanding JayJay, I had mouthed off to someone else?  What a terrible thought.    

[quote user="JayJay"]I heard a scuba diver,  [/quote] I think that's probably an ecumenical matter. Best left to others of an ecumenical persuasion?[:)]

Ooops. I only said S od off, and I knew you'd take no notice[:)]

[quote user="JayJay"]It's called grande camomille too.[/quote] Oh do sod off Jayj.[:-))]    

[quote user="mogs"] So there is some hope then, that spring will arrive this week.[/quote] Have you heard any frogs? They're what I go by.  As far as I'm concerned Spring really sprang about 9 days ago.

How did you work this one out Clair? I've done a few for neighbours - finding the Latin name, as well as the English nick-name - but how did you work this one out?

[quote user="Rich1972"] Hi Tressy  [:)] To be honest I was playing devil's advocate a little...It would be interesting to know the figures though, to see if the amount of money taken out of the system by the British abroad is far in excess of the amount of money that they pump into the economy.[/quote] Hello you norty person.[:)] There may be some very clever people who could work out that 'sum', but I doubt it. Be careful what you wish for.[;-)]