We HAVE a phone line, we HAVE a dialling tone….we don’t yet
HAVE a modem (that’s on its way) and at the moment or phone calls are provided
by France Telecom (ouch) and not the UK based provider we have chosen for our
“Anglo” package but otherwise C’est bon. The very nice gentleman arrived with a
cherry picker, well I use the term “arrived” loosely. For those of you that
don’t know, in France you don’t have a house number,you simply have a road name
and an area code. OUR area code 16230 takes in many many villages and our Road
“Rue des Loges” extends throughout Luxe itself,serving multiple houses, so any deliveries or house
calls are achieved by literally reading letterboxes (where you provide details
of your title and Surname). If this were applied in England can you imagine the
chaos !! So I “found” my workman at the other end of the village and caught him
bang on 8am only by the sheer chance I was walking the dogs in the lane.
Conjure if you will the thought of Kif,Phee and myself walking back towards our house being followed by a umpteen ton lorry, which by the way blocks the entire
lane once it is “in situ” at our house,and the accompanying workman walks away
from it as though causing a complete blockage isn’t a “biggy” Ok so it’s only one car or two in a whole day
but you’d think he’d at least pop a cone or two out !!.
Couldn’t fault his work, the speed of the installation, and
he seemed pretty happy about the DIY cable entry and thank god my French stood
up pretty well – job done. Phone,
dialling tone. Mission 1a accomplished.
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