Yes be warned I am about to have a rant, but if you don't live here and you have never had to deal with it. Honestly it's enough to drive you totally mad. There are days when you think, how dose this country still run. there are days you wonder why you live here, honestly.........................and I love Le Chataigner.
Before we moved over full time some years ago. We set up house in one of the cottages, bought a satellite and tv and were very happy that we could still see UK news and Christmas shows. Until it went BANG on boxing day.
So we put it back in the box. Thank God we did and took it back to the shop.
By the way my loft is FULL of boxes from things we have bought. The reason why is that the French will not take anything back, unless it is returned in the box. WITH the receipt. We tape ALL ours to the inside of each box and yes that can be 2 years and three months later. If you have a three year guaranty. Oh and don't have a thunderstorm. They will tell you. Ahhhhh well you had an electrical storm in your area, when the microwave went. I had to laugh when John walked into the store with the serge protector on the end of the plug. Yes we have learnt that one the hard way.
So back with the Tv well they took that off us. Yes took it away and fixed it. We went back to the UK and collected it at the Easter and that's the normal thing here. Two years ago and John was working hard on building a staircase in one of the cottages. The chuck on his cordless drill got stuck. He took it back to the store and yes they took it away to fix. This was right in the middle of the job and we had a deadline. We know have two cordless drills. Why because we needed to get the job done and no they wont give you a lone or exchange on most things. This lol is why we have just about two of everything, this includs lawn mowers.
So the reason for my rant is our phone line.
So we have come to the conclusion we need the second phone line put back in, for the rental cottages. Before we bought the house or should I say houses. There were two phone lines. We had one reconnected all those years ago. But since we have restored and with letting things out well we need the second one put back in.
So I call Orange.fr and say can I have the line reinstated. The chap asked for the number. I explained I am sorry I don't have it as the previous owner did not give me it, when they sold me the house. He hung up on me................. What the bleeeep. OK so I call back and get this nice woman tell her the hole thing so she calls the engineer. He hangs up on her as well. She was in fits and had to go find a supervisor to sort it out. Can you believe this anyway after quite a long chat some one is going to come on the 18th of February and re connect it. So we hang around ALL day and no one arrives. So I call them and say what's happened and they say YOU did not pick up. This has gone on for days and they can not seem to understand that we get no real mobile signal ware we live. Because as such we live in a valley. After telling them over and over again. In the end we get through to them and they take the land line number and after days and days of calling the engineer showed up last Wednesday. He then had a go that we did not pick up. After a long chat discovered that THEY had the wrong phone number. This is our phone company, good grief. So he gets to work and can not get it working and says THEY have not turned the line on. Dose not have a ladder with him to reach to the top of what is a bungalow as such, to sort the line and we have to get one of ours for him. In the end, he says I have run out of time. I will come back to you tomorrow and yes you guessed it he left with the line STILL not working. As he drove off Alister and I looked at each other and said that's not going to happen. Thursday came he did not show and so at 5.40 pm we called to say ware is he. They say, he will be with you tomorrow you will definitely have the phone up and running for Saturday hahahahaha. We are still waiting and oh lines shops and everything is closed until Monday. Monday to Friday working hours only.
The problem is, is if you start to loose it on the phone and I am not that sort there likely to be even worse. You can truly understand why I am not holding me breath. So tomorrow morning at 9.05 am. I will be sat on the phone yet again asking IF and it is IF they are going to sort me phone line out.
However there twitter page says this ......................
It’s all about what matters to you ... and about what you tweet to us. We will connect what’s essential in your life.
Connect my phone line is all I can say.
Have I great week I will keep you posted, love a blessings Karen.