Hi to All.

My wife, Sharon, & I completed on our house purchase in Nerignac back in December.

For now this is a maison secondaire, habitable but no heating, and with potential to expand into the haylofts upstairs.
Over the next few years we'll firstly just enjoy the location & get to know the neighbours, and secondly do the building work the house deserves (a very English outlook I know).  The overall intention being to end our days in France, lazily, supping vin rouge in a location & house that we've made our own.

A dream of many I'm sure, just working towards the reality !!

Now wasting my lunch hour on the web & preparing to jump in the car for a Friday night crossing to Caen.  Managed to stumble across this forum looking for a potential carpenter - have a photo of Sebastien Cousin's sign board on our neighbours driveway, and it brought me here.

And all this in response to my Sister & B-in-L who upped sticks & moved to Luchapt permanently last summer, bringing both of our retired mothers with them  
They seem to be enjoying it, and I've suggested they sign up to this forum.

Goodbye for now, here's hoping local knowledge can assist in the future.

Rgds
Matt

A story with a happy ending. One of our cats developed a problem with his back leg during Saturday.
Conquering my fear of making phone calls in French, I rang three local practices and received a "we're closed" answerphone message. Two if them did go on to give an emergency number but when I called those they weren't answered.
However, within 5 minutes I received a call back from the vet in Montmorillon (the one in Rue Terrier Blanc, which I always think is a great address for a vet!)

He went to his surgery and we met him there about 20 minutes. A quick examination later the cat was diagnosed with a pulled muscle: "he jumped and landed badly" according to the vet!
An anti-inflammatory injection and pain killer plus  a week's worth of medicine were dispensed and we left the surgery with a happier cat  

So if any of you have pet problems out of office hours, give the Montmorillon surgery a call. I know we're not allowed to recommend vets on a public forum but if any of you would like clearer contact details please drop me a pm.

Brian

Blimey, I leave the country for a couple of months only to find family GPs up in and arms and some of them refusing to accept the Carte Vitale.

What is this all about?

I'm told they're protesting over "proposed" reforms in the health service.  What are these reforms?  Surely they can't be going down the bankrupt NHS route.  Or can they?

Honestly.  I can't leave this country for a minute without everything going to the dogs.

All useful replies on the back of a 50€ note please as this will help me pay future bills.

• The owner of the house has to supply the detector.
  
• You must perform regular checks to ensure it's working.
  
• They must conform to NF EN 14604 and have the CE marking.
  
• You must have at least one. (I'm not sure what room it should be in though if you do opt for only one)
  

As there seems to be NOT a lot of posts on a good forum as far as I'm concerned .......
I'm going to bore you with my posts so if you get fed up ..... Just say ...... LOL !!!!!!!!!!!

OK here goes ...........

I suffer from Vasculitis an "autoimmune condition"

in and out of hospital since I've been here, six and a half years, lots of steroids and chemo but I'm still here
it ain't got me yet !!!!!!!!!!!!!

We have a wood burner and I think the the chimney needs sweeping. Does anyone know a good one who speaks English. We live in Montmorillon.
Many thanks.

Hi there

Could anyone tell me where I could get IBC's from (theses are the big plastic cubes, usually with an external metal cage used for transporting bulk liquids) and also wooden pallets, please ?

Hello , help needed please.
Does anyone know how you go about doing a change of address on a french driving licence. We went a bit too fast through the speed trap at Montmorillon today and I realized that it is probably a hanging offence not to have told the relevant authority of our change of address in September. Any ideas gratefully received.

Hello

Right, I promse this is the last one for today could anyone tell us where we could buy reasonably priced electric fencing preferably around Le Dorat?

Many thanks

Stuart

Hello
Me again theis time we are after pigs, does anyone know where we could buy some around Le Dorat ?

Thanks again

Stuart

Hi
Sorry about the individual post but just trying to get my posts past five as quick as possible, We live just outside Le Dorat and are wondering does anyone know where we can buy a couple of Goats?

Many thanks

Stuart

Hello again,

Does anyone out there know where we could buy some chickens? (non frozen) as we would like to have some for eggs and possibly some for meat birds.
thanks in advace for your help

Stuart

Hello,

I am a newbie to the site, something you may have already gathered from the subject line, I along with the wife (the boss) have recently moved into the area    and live just outside Le Dorat.
I will no doubt be popping up on the site from time to time to ask "where can we find this or that" or "how do you do such and such" as you will have a vastly superior knowledge of such things to us (which won't be difficult)

so for the time being, all the best
Stuart

It's census time so you will soon be getting a knock on your door.

It starts on 15 Jan and an agent recruited by your Mayor will be bringing the census to you, make sure you know who they are or ask to see their card.



You can do it yourself either on the papers they will give you or on-line.

But I get them to do it for me, when they turn up just tell them you don't understand enough and they will fill in the answers for you and all you have to do is sign it.

The agent that came last time to us was being driven around by on of the Mayors staff, and he knew all about us and the house so it was simple and painless.

Website: https://le-recensement-et-moi.fr/rpetmoi/accueil

We have an elderly Chesterfield style 2 seater settee for sale, can email images if interested.   50€

Also Britax Duo plus car seat  (up to 4 years). Isofix, as new, still got all the original packing. Our grandson has outgrown it having hardly used it!  rrp. over £200.   80€   Again can email images if required.

20mins. north of Montmorillon.

Bike wanted to suit very tall young man
Who's visiting for a while - so not too expensive  thanks

Further to my earlier plea to find a good supplier of wood, I have now found one.
Hi name is Jirka Habi and he is based near Adriers. He can be found by searching for bois de chauffage, Adriers in LeBonCoin.

His wood is a mixture of oak and ash, 2 years old and priced at €45/stére. I was most surprised that he also stacked the wood at no additional cost.
He also supplies kindling at the same price.

I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post his phone number or email here: Fred, advice please!

Brian

Does anyone know of someone who could put a wood burner in for me. I have been let down by the person who had promised to do it, and the nights are getting coldhttp://aroundmontmorillon.com/images/smilies/sad.gifer!

Hi we are looking for a log burner with
14kw output old style glass doors, no boiler
needed but stove top would be ok. Needs
to be in good condition up to 400 euros, we
can pick up.
thanks Rosie and Huw
Brigueil Le Chantre

Hello and welcome to the latest in my seemingly endless chain of questions

My wife and I are planning to return to see family in the UK at Christmas for just over a week.

All fine apart from the fact that we have two cats over here that need either to be fed or banished to a cattery for the duration.

Andrea has found one cattery but the space available for the cats is very small - she reckons the two of them would be sharing a space about the size of a small fridge - and it's a fair drive away from base. So that's not going to happen

Does anyone:
a) know of a good cattery within (say) an hour of Montmorillon
or
b) know of someone who'd be prepared to pop over to our place near Adriers once a day or every other day to leave them some food. In return for suitable payment, of course

Thanks in advance for any help. Or even sarcastic replies...
Brian