With the UK warning people about the heatwave and the weather forecast for this area saying it's going to get hotter, I thought it would be a good idea to have some tips on how to survive a heatwave.

What you should do:

• Keep out of the sun from 11am – 3pm.
  
• Avoid coffee and alcohol.
  
• Avoid hot meals.
  
• Avoid protein-rich meals.
  
• Drink plenty of water.
  
• Eat plenty of fresh vegetables.
  
• Keep your shutters closed during the day.
  

• Visit public buildings with air conditioning.
  
• Downstairs is usually cooler than upstairs.
  
• Keep a spray bottle filled with cold water in the fridge.
  
• Take cool showers, and use moisturisers.
  
• Wear a sun hat.
  
• Wet towel or a bag of frozen peas can cool your head.
  

• Heat Cramps.
  
• Heat Rash/Bumps.
  
• Heat Exhaustion.
  
• Heat Stroke.
  
• If you feel sick, faint, weak, or nauseas get to a cool place, sip water and try to cool your body down.
  
• If your body stops sweating and you feel confused and lethargic, you should consider getting professional advice from a GP or Hospital.
  

• Rapid panting.
  
• Wide eyes.
  
• Lots of drooling.
  
• Hot skin.
  
• Twitching muscles.
  
• Vomiting.
  
• Dazed look.
  

If you use or want to find L'agence Pôle emploi de Montmorillon (Unemployment Office) from Monday, July 29th 2012 you will need to go to the new office at Rue Daniel-Cormier which I think is near the Funeral Directors just off Boulevard Du Terrier Blanc on the North Ring Road.

Lately I've been getting a lot of annoying phone calls, It's bad enough getting unwanted phone calls as it is but the ones I'm getting now are automated.

I pick the phone up and get an auto message telling me I have an important call, or it tells me to push 1 for this 2 for that etc.

Just wondered if anyone else is getting these as I have told freinds/family they will have to talk to my answerphone before I pick up, though the other day one of the automated calls started rabbiting on to my answerphone.



Any suggestions or solutions gratefully received.

Certainly of interest for those looking into visiting the area is 'what's the weather like?'

Well I see that for the rest of the week it looks nice...



But I may have you all beat for the rest of the week...

A friend told us you can park a motorhome for free overnight at any town in France

We currently have a caravan but are thinking of buying a motorhome and wondered if anyone could clarify that you can park for free in montmorilon and is it safe.

The new Around Montmorillon Forum is now officially open and you can now register for membership by clicking the Register button.

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We have just finished making 100 sausages from the left overs of a half a pig we purchased from the Ferme de la Vallée de la Brame and worked out we are paying around €1 per meal for excellent quality pork.

They are very friendly people and do speak a little English, they asked us how we wanted it cut up so you can get it cut to your liking. I got the skin and made some fantastic crackling, they even had a choice of sausage skin sizes. I'm thinking next time of buying a slicer as there was a nice piece that would make some great bacon.

The half a pig was just over 50Kg and cost €200 and we have got well over 200 portions. OK you have to lay that money out but in the long run if you can do it, you will save a huge amount on pork and the flavour is 1st class.

The number of speed cameras in France to be dramatically increased in number.

Although it's well known in certain areas to have them end up looking like this...

We are selling our cafe bar La Petite Fontaine in Le Dorat
This is a great going concern with 8 years trading
The price is very affordable its a turn key business up and trading
for further details contact us on 0555 602974

La Petite Fontaine
Is a cafe Bar serving great food and hosting music and other events come and visit us in Le Dorat

Tel: 0555 602974

Quiz night Friday 28th June 8pm
Food will be served from 6pm till 8pm

La Petite Fontaine
15 Grande Rue, 87210 Le Dorat
View map · Get directions

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If you have a qwerty keyboard and need to type French words try this free handy on-line tool: https://french.typeit.org/

With this you can type the following accents.

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Has anyone built their own house around this area?

We are thinking of a new build two bed bungalow and was wondering if anyone had done this. We have the land and could do most of the interior stuff including insulation, tiling, kitchen, bathroom, water, and electrics.

I'm just asking for peoples experience of self build, and a rough idea of costs for a 2 bed bungalow of footings, walls, roof, doors and windows ready for us to finish.

Thanks.

Fred.

If you want to help promote Around Montmorillon Brian has kindly made us some business cards.



If you know Brian he does have some cards he could pass on to you, or send him a PM and see if you could meet up with him in a secret location.  

For those of that don't know Brian he has also made up a PDF that you can download to your computer and print them off as and when you need them: Click here

*If you do use the business cards in you local shop, bar, etc please do not put them out without permission from the owner first.

Thank you.

This is a list off all Official French websites in English (*Note pages that lead off from the landing page may not be in English.) If you know of any more or find a mistake please post here and I will edit this post and remove your post to keep it neat.

France.fr is the multilingual reference portal for all the resources and services of the French public Internet.

Service-public.fr is the official website for the French civil service and a good gateway to the French civil service.

Ambafrance-uk.org is the French Embassy in the United Kingdom.

Legifrance.gouv.fr is the French government entity responsible for publishing legal texts online.

Assemblee-nationale.fr is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of France under the Fifth Republic.

Senat.fr is the upper house of the Parliament of France, presided over by a president.

Conseil-constitutionnel.fr is the highest constitutional authority in France.

Conseil-etat.fr is a body of the French national government that acts both as legal adviser of the executive branch and as the supreme court for administrative justice.

Courdecassation.fr is the highest court in the French judiciary.

Diplomatie.gouv.fr is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Defense.gouv.fr is the Ministry of Defence.

NOTE: Although the links above are official websites, when dealing with the French authorities I would advise you to get a professional translation especially when dealing with legal matters.

Sorry folks it looks like the time has gone wonky on the forum, I've tried fixing it with a big hammer but no luck. It should come right at the next clock change but that's not till Sept.

So for now members can fix it by going to their User CP > On the left click "Edit Options" > Scroll down to Date and time options > Change to GMT + 1 if not already done > Then change the next box to "Always use DST correction" > Scroll down and save options.

If that doesn't' work set it back again and save then try again. If still no luck you have two more options.

#1 Wait till September to see if it fixes itself.
#2 Borrow my Hammer.

Medical: 15

Fire and Rescue: 18

Police: 17

Maritime 1616

Very useful numbers listed above, one thing that a lot of people may not know about is the Pan-European number 112. If your French is not up to it (and we often become tongue-tied in high pressure situations) this service will normally have an English (or other) speaking person on call.

If you have any further advice, feel free to add to this thread.

Hi I'm Jen we found montmorillon a couple of years ago while camping and someone told us about the around montmorillon forum. I joined but never posted as we still live in the UK. but when I saw the announcement about the new forum I thought I would join and this time say hello.