Archive for: April 2008

April 29, 2008

Planning for the Future

Filed under: Diary, twiku - 29 Apr 2008

Retirement is taken very seriously in France and many towns and villages around us are building new facilities. Our own village of Montblanc, which is less than 3,000 people is building a new complex and even a special road …

AllRentalsFrance

Filed under: Diary, Websites, twiku - 29 Apr 2008

I called the French rentals website http://www.AllRentalsFrance.com because I aim to offer a complete rentals service from this site. The site I started in 1998 was simply RentalsFrance and this is the one I was tricked out of just …

April 27, 2008

Help with websites wanted in the South of France

Filed under: Diary - 27 Apr 2008

For ten years I have been making a (small) living off the Internet – although in theory we are supposed to be able to “work from home”, I really believe that

April 24, 2008

I need Adsense

Filed under: Diary, Techie Stuff, tools - 24 Apr 2008

To be able to research information, reply to questions and keep this blog running I depend on the advertising I show on the site, a lot of this is Google Adsense. The adverts should be relevant to the information and …

April 22, 2008

Car Always Required

Filed under: Diary - 22 Apr 2008

I just wrote a post over on www.Twiku.com about the amazing French time machine with the acronym FRANCE – something I have been meaning to write about for some time has been the relevant value of the need for …

April 21, 2008

Blogging from Facebook

Filed under: Diary, Techie Stuff, tools - 21 Apr 2008

For over a year now I have been experimenting with "Web2" Internet sites to find ways they can be useful – I personally don't see the point of throwing dead sheep at people or paying real money to send a …

Blogging from Facebook

Filed under: Diary, Techie Stuff, tools - 21 Apr 2008

For over a year now I have been experimenting with "Web2" Internet sites to find ways they can be useful – I personally don't see the point of throwing dead sheep at people or paying real money to send a …

April 17, 2008

Good Greffe

Filed under: Diary, Financial, Property for sale, Techie Stuff, tools - 17 Apr 2008

If you are going to use the services of any trade person or company in France, especially builders, then you can quickly check their status and things like any judgments against them at the official Government website – it …

April 16, 2008

Moving to the South of France

Filed under: Diary - 16 Apr 2008

According to the French agency body FNAIM, price rises overall in France have slowed to a halt in recent months – some regions, Paris and the South East are still rising strongly, many regions in the center and West  have …

April 14, 2008

Swing Time

Filed under: Diary, Video - 14 Apr 2008

I just posted a blog over at Twiku of the wonderful movie “Swing Time” from 1936 – the clip was simply to show a positive attitude to adversity, but I just could not resist posting this clip which is …

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