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I've enjoyed this thread - nobody griping or sniping, and really interesting. I needed cheering up. I've just come in (well after midnight) out of a beautiful still Somerset night, where I had to mask and Beconase my RAO mare who was coughing away for no apparent reason. She's running two other ailments at the moment, and I felt like a bit of comfort and sanity before heading to bed. So thank you everyone - wherever you are.
 
SuenRoux said:
Thanks everyone for the replies - am impressed.

Jokadoka - My stallion came from near Alsace when he was a weanling did you know the Peyres Appaloosas? (think the village was Peyrelongue?) - they have now moved the stud further down France. I didn't go to see him but I believe the stud was on the Swiss/Germany/French borders. And it was on the side of a hill (cos he has two legs shorter than the other two - only joking - seen many photos). His present field is on the side of a hill so he feels quite at home, though gave up speaking French to him ages ago!
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No, not heard of them, but I don't know anything about Appaloosas, but there are al lot of them about in this area, so they might well be one and the same thing, especially as they all have 2 short and 2 long legs as well :)! We're at the top end of Alsace, so still a bit of a way from the Swiss border.

Fairynuff...I have the same thing, but me having been brought up in the Dutch language,and then having lived in UK for 23 years I dream, think and do everything else in English and struggle a bit in Dutch. People in my French village are finally getting used to this Dutch person speaking to all her animals in English, mind you, some of them still seem to think I'm Danish, even after living here for 4 years(!)
 
jokadoka said:
Metz isn't far from here, well relatively speaking....
Missing Old Blighty very much tho...
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I know that feeling. We lived in a tiny hamlet in the Allier, Massif Central for 8 years ( husband is French ).

We ended up coming back to Yorkshire 10 years ago.
 
horsey mad matt said:
that must be hard only seeing them for 7 weeks a year!!! is it a perminant bases or just tempory??
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Sorry, just read this - yes it's very, very hard but either I work in Hong Kong and send my kids to a good school/university and afford my horses OR I move to Morocco and have children who cannot read or write and not be able to afford to keep my horses. It's like a prison visit (not that I have much experience of this you understand)!
 
millreef said:
... the bit about your lovely picture being too big!!!

I too got 'reported' because my picture was too big - sour grapes I reckon! It was my first attempt at putting a pic on and thought that if it was too big it wouldn't appear! But it did and lasted a good few days - then TFC got onto me - I put a lot of effort into that pic and have not had time to 'doctor' it so replaced with a smaller image of a foal that I bred as it is SPRING. You need to read the instructions first, dear!! Not hope for the best!!!! ;)

Glad that this thread wot I started has cheered people up :) :) :)
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rosy said:
I know that feeling. We lived in a tiny hamlet in the Allier, Massif Central for 8 years ( husband is French ).

We ended up coming back to Yorkshire 10 years ago.
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My husband's contract has still got 5 years to run but we think we'll set the wheels in motion for our return to the UK a couple of years prior to that, since we'll have the house etc to sell off first.
We'll be going back to Yorkshire as well, as OH from there and our daughter is living there too.
How does your husband get on with living "oop north" as a Frenchman?
 
kiritiger said:
I'm English living in Wales! :D
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How do you do that toothy grin please? I can only do winks and smiles (and saddo)! colon and bracket and semi-colon and bracket - how please? I have tried clicking on the emoticon but it doesn't go where I want it to go, perhaps it won't work on a MAC!

Is it sunny in Wales today?
 
jokadoka said:
My husband's contract has still got 5 years to run but we think we'll set the wheels in motion for our return to the UK a couple of years prior to that, since we'll have the house etc to sell off first.
We'll be going back to Yorkshire as well, as OH from there and our daughter is living there too.
How does your husband get on with living "oop north" as a Frenchman?
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I do think adapting to live in France isn't necessarily as easy as some Brits think it will be. I don't regret having had the experience of living there but I was very glad to get home. I hope all goes well with your plans for the future.

The old man has sort of got used to things now. He found the local accent a bit of a problem but not as bad as Scottish, Irish or Geordie - if there is ever anyone on telly with one of these accents I have to ' translate ':D

He also moans about the cold, the damp, the rain....you name it, he moans about it.

However, there are certain things he prefers in the UK, he doesn't have quite so many forms to fill in here ( the dreaded 'papiers' ) and, although he isn't thrilled by most British food, he really likes roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, so it's not all bad.

It was actually the kids who found it a bit harder to adapt. They were bilingual so there wasn't a language barrier but they had a different feeling about living in France than I did - I always felt very much a foreigner whereas they feel French and they are all planning to go back to live when they are qualified.

When you do get to come home whereabouts in Yorkshire will you be? We're right on the South/ West Yorkshire boundary between Barnsley and Wakefield.
 
rosy said:
I do think adapting to live in France isn't necessarily as easy as some Brits think it will be. I don't regret having had the experience of living there but I was very glad to get home. I hope all goes well with your plans for the future.

The old man has sort of got used to things now. He found the local accent a bit of a problem but not as bad as Scottish, Irish or Geordie - if there is ever anyone on telly with one of these accents I have to ' translate ':D

He also moans about the cold, the damp, the rain....you name it, he moans about it.

However, there are certain things he prefers in the UK, he doesn't have quite so many forms to fill in here ( the dreaded 'papiers' ) and, although he isn't thrilled by most British food, he really likes roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, so it's not all bad.

It was actually the kids who found it a bit harder to adapt. They were bilingual so there wasn't a language barrier but they had a different feeling about living in France than I did - I always felt very much a foreigner whereas they feel French and they are all planning to go back to live when they are qualified.

When you do get to come home whereabouts in Yorkshire will you be? We're right on the South/ West Yorkshire boundary between Barnsley and Wakefield.
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We're not sure yet, but our daughter lives in Pocklington ( just East of York ) and we used to live on a farm not far from there, so probably that sort of area. We like the Yorkshire Wolds, there are some lovely villages there, with beautiful riding, so that's a possibility too. Got to make sure it's right tho, as after 14 moves, including moving country twice, I'll be reluctant to ever do it again...!!
 
:D Happily exiled in Niedersachsen, Northern Germany. Not far from Hameln, town of the Rat Catcher, and about 2 hours by road from Celle.

Moved up here from Baden-Württemberg (SW Germany) last October, but have lived in Germany since 2004. :D
 
jokadoka said:
We're not sure yet, but our daughter lives in Pocklington ( just East of York ) and we used to live on a farm not far from there, so probably that sort of area. We like the Yorkshire Wolds, there are some lovely villages there, with beautiful riding, so that's a possibility too. Got to make sure it's right tho, as after 14 moves, including moving country twice, I'll be reluctant to ever do it again...!!
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That's an awful lot of moves:eek: You must have it down to a fine art by now. I quite see that you would want to get it absolutely right this time.

The thing about Yorkshire is that there are so many beautiful places to choose from. If you are not tied by having to be somewhere specific it is almost too difficult to decide. Wherever you end up I wish you all the best..
 
Native Speaker said:
:D Happily exiled in Niedersachsen, Northern Germany. Not far from Hameln, town of the Rat Catcher, and about 2 hours by road from Celle.

Moved up here from Baden-Württemberg (SW Germany) last October, but have lived in Germany since 2004. :D
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Baden-Wurttemberg is just the other side of the border for us( Alsace ), my OH works in Karlsruhe and we use Baden Airpark non-stop to fly back to UK. Mr Ryanair is doing very well out of us...!
 
rosy said:
That's an awful lot of moves:eek: You must have it down to a fine art by now. I quite see that you would want to get it absolutely right this time.

The thing about Yorkshire is that there are so many beautiful places to choose from. If you are not tied by having to be somewhere specific it is almost too difficult to decide. Wherever you end up I wish you all the best..
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Thanks for that Rosie, I shall be very happy to get back to Blighty when the time is right!
 
Normandy, France. I've been working here since the start of the year.

Before France, I was in the Algarve (Portugal) for 18 months and before that, Reggio Emilia in northern Italy for 2 years.

I'm from Cornwall originally.
 
I spend my time equally between work in Qatar and home in France. I will never move back to the the UK. Too crowded and crap weather
 
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