magaret

[quote user="Steph"]Hi, We have a campsite in the dordogne and are opening a shop as a campsite facility for 2008 as we are quite rural.  We need to know if there are any other trade shops, like Metro between Angouleme and Perigueux? We would be grateful for any suggestions. Thank you very much. Steph[/quote] Its a long way between Angouleme and  Perigueux   Lots of   s/marches in lots of places.  Where is your camp site?

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[quote user="TWINKLE"] Mags! Can I call you that love?  Get all the neighbours kids to come over when it's stops raining, make them a lovely picnic, then sit down on the lawn with them and make daisy chains all day.  It'll cheer you up no end - if not feel free to PM me and I'll give you the website address for something that will (delivered with complete discretion)!   [/quote] Thank you for your kind offer,but if it is such a good wedsite  please let all the forum see  it. Then there will be a happy gang.

[quote user="barneysfriends"]friends are buying a house that has a fosse toute eau thingy, but the local inspector has been unable to find evidence of a 'soakaway', or any other form of drainage. The seller claims that the fosse was installed 3 years ago, but has no paperwork to prove it.....job was done as a 'favour' by a pal. Any ideas about what sort of drainage there might be that isnt obvious? Should my friends back off in case it 'backs up'? [/quote]   Tell them to go and talk too the local Town hall. The people there will help.

[quote user="NormanH"]There should be something like this, as well as a compulsory language test,  for British people coming to live in France. [/quote] Yes would agree with you. But the answer would be, We are english ,why do they not speak it?

[quote user="lost in espace"] Has anyone had lime plastering done and can comment on the price we've been quoted, please? We're trying to renovate part of a two storey stone house in the Drome.  Well, it was two storey but we've taken out the upstairs, so at the moment it's one space approx. 7m square with just a new beam and joists installed for the new upper floor.  We've realised rather late (doh!) that the walls really need replastering and that chaux is the thing to use but are dismayed by the devis we have received. The walls add up to 128 sq.m and we've been quoted E22.00 per sq.m. to take off the crumbly old chaux and odd bits of concrete and polyfilla that's on them now, and E55.00 per sq.m. to lime plaster them anew, three coats. On top of this are charges for protection of the huisserie (door and window frames?), temporary boarding of the joists, taking debris to the dechetterie, a compresseur (not sure what that is), 8.5 tonnes of sand, some lime, and TVA of course, all of which brings the actual cost to E34.50 sq.m. for removal of the old plaster, and E81.00 sq.m. for putting on the new, E115.50 sq.m. altogether. Does this seem a bit excessive, or is lime plastering just expensive?  Thanks! Jacqui [/quote]   Why not dry-line it your -selves a english couple we know did,and very cheap is was.

[quote user="Benjamin"][quote user="lorna"] This HMRC site: http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/exrate/european-union.htm gives an average for the year and a "spot rate" for 31/12. [/quote] It's showing a spot rate for 31.12.08. Do they know something we don't? [/quote]       That is ready for us next year. Then we will have  more time for other things. Or is it to help the French Impot

[quote user="Washy"]A friend of mine has just been 'invited' to go and see the gendarmes today.  She had been offering board and lodging to a young american guy in exchange for light duties around the house she found him on a web site.  He cut wood, walked the dogs, painted a door and did some gardening.  She has now been told she has committed a crime by doing this.  According to the gendarmesonly close relatives can be deemed as helping you out, not even cousins can help with the DIY without being classed as working on the black?????  I know the French have withdrawn from the WWoofer organisation and have organised their own scheme. Now when she was at the gendarmerie she was fingerprinted and her photographs were taken, questioned about distinguishing marks etc.  She said she was not told she had committed a crime but 'could have', she signed a Proces Verbal.  At no time was she told she could have a lawyer and she said she did not really know what she was signing!!!!!!  She had a bit of a panic attack during the visit and was told as she left she should get a doctor's report and see a lawyer. In retrospect she isnow really worried. I have now been trying to find out her actual rights in this case.  Can she ask for a copy of what she signed?  Can she retract it as she did not really understandthe procedures? [/quote] Did this happen in your dept. e.g. 11

[quote user="billyo"] Hi, Hope someone can help, ive looked in a couple of books trying to find the regs for connecting a non built in two ring electric hob (hope that makes sense!). Can I just run it off a seperate circuit of 3x2.5mm cable or does it have to be on 6mm like the built in ones?   Cheers Billyo [/quote] Check the power of your incoming power. Then you will have a idea the size to buy.

[quote user="pcwhizz"]Well Magaret with that atitude what do you expect !! There's no quick fix, dig it up and start again if you truly want rid.!  My Grandfather used to go around with a knive cutting out pesty weeds (buttercup is by far the worst). But that was with lawns of a few 100 m2, try that with anything approaching 1000m2 and you'll soon give up. But, easiest is just keep it mowed, once per week in the growing season.  Then harrow and reseed in the spring and autumn.  Thick grass will soon be back ! If you have space for sheep, that suggestion is a very good one, they keep a nice tight crop of the grass without tearing it.  Then you can stock the freezer come winter. [/quote]   Thank you           Someone with at least some advice that seems good.        Again i thank you.

[quote user="Sunday Driver"] You can keep your eyes open as long as you like - there is no such thing as the official rate.  Follow the link that Ron kindly posted for you - it takes you to a current thread where the matter of rates is being discussed.    [/quote]   Chessfou post says different  Or am i reading it wrong?

[quote user="mogs"] Being new to the Dordogne, perhaps you can tell me if this rain is normal? When will it stop?   It's so depressing, I had hoped that by now we would be experiencing some warmer weather but it doesn't appear to be happening. If anyone has a long range forecast that is looking better, please give me some encouragement.................or is this it?   I think its even worse here than in the South of UK, cos everytime I speak to family/friends they say its not bad, but its always wet here.[:(] [/quote]   If i recall, is there not a lot of trees and green rolling fields in the Dordogne And i think the top near Dept.16 is called thePerigord vert. But i hope it stops raining for you.

[quote user="spg"][quote user="magaret"]                          Can somebody tell me the rate to use for the impot forms this year. [/quote] As far as I know there has not been a French declaration about the official rate for 2007 yet this year. Sue [/quote]   Thanking you              Will have to keep my eyes open.

[quote user="Tressy"][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] [/quote] croire que

I was told as a young person that England was a land of  Shop-keepers and Gardeners. Well from the answers above you lot must have all been shop-keepers before you moved.  Thanking you all for nothing.

After all the above                          Can somebody tell me the rate to use for the impot forms this year.

Will they get the roots out?

We have a very large lawn that is full of daisys,they look nice but we wish the remove them.Is there a pelleted type killer for this sort of thing,or the like that will remove them  for good.

[quote user="woolybananasbrother"] All of this being said, it is true that is was a tradition of running off abroad to escape debt and there may be a few in France or, even worse, Spain, who have left something behind. I have come across lots in my career. What else is there to say? You do or you don't do a runner. Whilst I would not condone such behaviour I can understand it to a certain extent. I wouldn't worry about the fierce creatures on here too much. Just bite back and they will eat out of your hand, or ignore them and they fade away like ghosts in Belgium. [/quote]   I have  met one or two in France over the years,and one pair that have been many years.,  are now running back U.K. as they are getting near 65yrs,and wonder why. Could it for free hand outs?

[quote user="Cat"] As Ron says, we do sometimes do get posters that are not genuine Magaret.  There's even a bit in the forum code of conduct about it ... The forum is an open discussion board for Francophiles. Please be aware that it is a message board which from time to time is visited by hoaxers and those not necessarily interested in discussing France and French lifestyle. If you encounter users who you feel are abusing the message boards, please do not respond to them. These users are only encouraged when their messages provoke a response, so the best thing you can do is ignore them. Click on the 'Report' link on their message and Forum Admin or a moderator will deal with the complaint.   [/quote] Thanking you allso.                            But it looks to me the short time here,that one or two people jump down hard on some posters.

[quote user="Ron Avery"] If you are a genuine poster, you can easily say where you live, it helps when answering  to know where people live and if they are resident, visitors or just timewasters. Unfortunately this Forum like many others attracts,  at times people who are writing books or are on school holidays and have too much time on their hands with no connection with anything French. Those threads you have been given links to will adequately answer your original question. [/quote]   Thanking you for your promt answer,  I am not any of the persons you write about above,just a newbe to the foum world. It seems i will have to learn quicker if i wish to carry on. home is in FRANCE and has been for many years in Dept.24 It is the P.C.world that is very new allso.

[quote user="Ron Avery"] Already been done to death see here if you are really interested, http://www.completefrance.com/cs/forums/978880/ShowPost.aspx In future I'm not going to reply to any of these discuss type posts or to posters who cannot be bothered to say where they live. [/quote]     Why is it so important that you need to ask the question ( where they  live)

[quote user="Cat"]Mageret, are you a friend of Terry by any chance?[/quote]   Can you  tell.  who is terry? as i have no friends by that name.

The idea of moving abroad to escape debt seems to be more of a common pratice these days, people move abroad for a fresh start and build a new life. Is it a thing you agree or disagree with?

[quote user="bourrut"]The contractor who did most of the work on our farm ,new roof  ,new windows, new doors ,cement walls floors, septic tank, etc etc when  we accepted estimate we gave deposit, he never cashed it in or give us a bill untill 1 year later, still the same price so laid back untrue(.beat that if you can).[/quote]   That is very good,i think there are not many about like that.                                                                           Bet he gets a lot of work.