Sadly we leave the E U today

Time for the book swap again

The book swap will be  10.30 on Monday 3rd February at the Gazpacho at St. Antonin

Helen Graham

I remain European

No longer eligible to vote

British citizens resident in France,  unless they already have dial dual citizenship,  will not be eligible to vote- Je suis ressortissant britannique, "pourrai-je voter aux prochaines élections européennes et municipales ?

A compter du retrait effectif du Royaume-Uni hors de l'Union européenne, les ressortissants britanniques résidant en France ne pourront plus participer à l'élection des représentants de la France au Parlement européen ni, non plus, aux élections municipales. La condition de nationalité (être ressortissant d’un Etat membre de l’Union européenne) prévue par l’article 2-1 de la loi du 7 juillet 1977 relative à l’élection des représentants au Parlement européen et l’article L.O. 227-1 pour les élections municipales ne sera en effet plus remplie et les ressortissants britanniques perdront donc leur droit de vote pour ces scrutins. 

Les ressortissants britanniques disposant également de la nationalité française ne sont de ce fait pas concernés par ce qui précède. Ils pourront voter aux élections européennes à condition d'être inscrits sur la liste électorale d'une commune en tant que citoyen français'

Cancer Support in our area

Dear CSF Members, Friends and Volunteers,

"HELLO" and welcome to our February "What's On" Newsletter.  

With New Year celebrations behind us we hope 2020 is going to be a busy year for CSF Tarn. 

February is normally a dismal and grey month but here in South West France we are enjoying some bright sunny days.  Of course, this month is the time for those Truffle Festivals/Markets, where we can watch ingenious displays of culinary 'know how' from the experts. Nice to look forward to!!

It is also the 20th World Cancer Day on the 4th February.

It highlights the need for access to quality care, cancer research funding and greater understanding, respect and dignity.

This health awareness day is led by the Union for International Cancer Control, a global consortium of more than 470 cancer fighting organisations in over 120 countries.  The day is the one singular initiative under which the entire world can unite together in the fight against cancer.  It takes place annually on the 4th February and targets the public through global communications and encourages policy makers and UICC member organisations to make cancer a political priority.  

Cancer Support France well understands the deep emotional effects.  This is why we ask you to give your support and time to help us promote awareness of our association. 

There are many ways to do this. 

You can:-

- spread the word and let all your friends know whenever we have a fund raising event.

- share this Newsletter with your friends.

- place one of our posters and brochures in as many pharmacies, dentists, hospitals, doctors and medical centres as possible. These are always supplies available from Denise Copley and Peter Waldekker, our CSF Co-ordinators, at our regular Coffee Mornings. 

- alert us to events/activitiesthroughout the year, involving English speakers, where we could promote CSF.

Thankyou!!

The next  Monthly Drop-In Coffee Morning Support Groups in Gaillac and Saint Antonin Noble Val will take place on the following dates:-

Wednesday 12th February, 10.00 - 11.30am

Cafe des Sports Brasserie, Gaillac.

(held every second Wednesday of the month).

Wednesday 19th February 10.00 - 11.30am

Le Gazpacho Bar Brasserie, Saint Antonin Noble Val.

(held every third Wednesday of the month).  

Why not come along and join us?  We enjoy an informal setting and everyone is welcome.  Please ask your friends to come along  too!

A Trained Listener is always on hand.

Now available to download - January "TOUCHLINES" -  (the Cancer Support France Regular Quarterly Newsletter).  

www.cancersupportfrance.org.

CYCLE FOR LIFE 2020 - Wednesday 3rd June/Sunday 7th June

New route this year!   It will be following a dedicated cycle route, "La Flow Velo", through the Charente to Perigord, beginning in Rochefort at lunchtime on the 3rd June, ending lunchtime on the 7th in Thiviers.

If you are interested in taking part please contact Sasha on admin@cancersupportfrance.org.  She will ensure you are kept up to date and answer any queries.

In the meantime, A BIG THANKYOU for all your continued support.   It is always so very much appreciated!!

See you very soon!!

Warmest wishes.

Sheila Barcroft

for CSF Tarn, Tarn et Garonne Regions

"Our Mission" to support English speaking people living in France who are affected by Cancer.

Hazards en Résonances

Three hours long but worth watching when you can

Une vie cachée, a hidden life , shown in version originale which was English

Won the Palme D’Or this year.

A true story presented by Terence Malick, the cinematography  was wonderful. A slow paced film with wonderful views of the Austrian alps.

Has a very sad ending but a film worth making the effort to see. Sadly tonight was the last night at the Querlys.

taglines82@gmail.com

Vide Grenier at Verfeil sur Seye

The bar des sports now open in Varen

With a new owner Laure, the wife of the local plumber and electrician Jerome Rodriques the Bar Des Sports in Varen opened this week.

It starts serving food tonight and then next week

I will update on opening hours when I know exactly

The tel number for bookings is 0563021024

taglines82@gmail.com

In Varen tomorrow morning

Jo Hickson is in Varen Sat. Morning, old mairie

Bit late but Happy New Year everyone! I’m at the Frip in Varen on Saturday morning 10-12 with some cakes and jams and marmalade. Plus a new batch of beeswax wraps!! 

Excellent to use as an alternative to cling film and reusable. Made with beeswax from our local honey farm at Puylaroque and 2€ is donated to Mains Tendues (Val’s charity) from every pack of 3 wraps sold! 

Cakes:

Mini apple crumble tarts

Apple crumble tarts 

Lemon meringue tarts 

Almond thins (biscuits)

Mini Victoria Sandwich cakes 

orange and cranberry Florentine’s 

Marmalade 

Mini variety jam packs

Fête de l’Osier

A meeting for animal lovers in St.Antonin

A meeting open to all local animal lovers, of all ages.

  This project is supported by the association Oasis.

                           Together we can do more!

For everyone who already does a lot of positive action for animal welfare and for those who would like to do more. 

The aim is to share, inform, organise and inspire. And then to put into action whatever is possible. 

You may want to share what you, or your association already does and explain what extra help is needed.

You may want to share projects or ideas.

You may just want to be able to do more.

Place: The meeting is in the Salle Chorale next to the Post Office in Saint Antonin.

Date: Sunday the 19^th of January, at 14h00 or again at 15h00 or 16h00. We’ll be there all afternoon. Come when you can or contact Rachel if you can’t come but would like to be informed about actions decided. 

rachel.shamash@orange.fr   05 63 24 07 34

some possibilities would be supporting existing associations, helping/walking abandoned animals, transport share for demonstrations, vegan tasting for the public, interaction in schools, in our villages …. etc

Festival des lanternes at Gaillac

Du 1er Décembre 2019 au 31 Janvier 2020.
Grand événement du Sud-Ouest, le Festival des Lanternes de Gaillac dans le Tarn a conquis plus de 370 000 visiteurs en 2018.
Pour cette 3eme édition dans un parc 100% renouvelé, venez vivre un majestueux voyage à la découvertes des 5 provinces chinoises : coutumes, traditions et coup de projecteur au patrimoine mondial.

Val saysyou have till the end of January to go

Thank you for your replies

Martin Pittaway thanks you for your replies. He now has adopted a young cat, so thank you.

Cancer Support in France

Dear Cancer Support France Members, Friends and Volunteers!

"Meilleurs Voeux" pour cette nouvelle annee 2020!!   We hope everyone is looking forward to this New Year - it's going to be busy with lots of activities and we will keep you all informed along the way of dates for your diaries!!

We are happy to announce that the Christmas Fayre in Monesties Village raised 135 Euros from the sales of Christmas cards, mince pies, cakes and other CSF merchandise!  A big thankyou to everyone for your wonderful contributions.  It was very much appreciated.

We will be holding out regular Monthly Drop In Coffee Morning Support Groups in Gaillac and Saint Antonin Noble Val on the following dates:-

Wednesday 8th January, 10.00 - 11.30am

Drop-In Coffee Morning at Cafe des Sports Brasserie, Gaillac.

Wednesday 15th January,10.00 - 11.30am

Drop-In Coffee Morning at Le Gazpacho Bar Brasserie, Saint Antonin Noble Val.

We really hope you will be able to join us on some of these dates - it's such a lovely opportunity to get together for a drink and a chat.  Come and meet some of our other volunteers.  Active listeners will be available.  

For anyone interested, the CSF Sud de France Annual General Meeting will be held on Wednesday 29th January 2020 from 09.45am at.-

L'Oliveraie, 850 Boulevard Denis Papin, 11000 Carcassonne.  Website www.loliveraie.fr

It is being held at the same venue that has been used for the past few years and is very conveniently situated near the Carcassonne Ouest Autoroute Exit.

The speaker will be Dr Martin Christleib, from the Department of Oncology at Oxford University.  The subject of his talk will be on clinical trials of new treatments and how to measure their effectiveness.

Following the AGM everyone is invited to stay for lunch.  The cost of the lunch will be 20 Euros.  Please reserve in advance.  Details of the menu can be found on the website.  Your choices need to be made by Monday 20th January.

Car sharing can be arranged from Albi.

And to you dear Melissa,

CSF Tarn and Tarn et Garonne would like to express sincere condolences to you and your family on your sad loss.  Our thoughts are with you all at this difficult time.

With warmest wishesl.

Sheila Barcroft

for CSF Tarn, Tarn et Garonne Regions

"Our Mission" to support English speaking people living in France who are affected by Cancer.

Martin can rehome a cat

Hi Val.

can you help with an announcement please.

If anyone around the Gaillac area knows of or is wishing to home a kitten or a cat, we would be very interested to hear from them.

Our dog, Lucky (a rescue dog from Toulouse), made friends with a wild cat living in our rear garden.  Sadly the cat passed away on New Years Day and our little dog hasn’t been the same since.

He wanders around the garden looking for his friend: and of course without success. He’s sad and miserable even off his food.

So we are looking to home a unwanted cat or kitten.

I can be contacted by email.

Many thanks

Martin Pittaway.       martinpittaway@mac.com

Are you eligible to vote ?

Elections Municipales et Régionales 

 

As probably most of us have heard of, in 2020 we will have elections for both the local councils and the representatives in the regions (Communité de Communes) on the 15^th and 20^th of March.

If you want to participate and want to vote, you have to be sure that you are on the election list of your town.

The rules: First of all you have to be 18 years of age or more. You must be French or a member of the European Union (UK at this moment included, but depending on Brexit results) living in France. You must have voting rights. And you must be on the list for the local elections in the town where you live. 

Once you are on the list you also may vote for the European Elections (you have to indicate that you want to vote for this also), but you may only vote in one country.

To get on the election list you have to subscribe. But for EU members there are additional rules. You can subscribe in:

• The town where your house is
• The town where you live for at least 6 months
• The town where you pay local taxes (taxe foncière, taxe d’habitation, cotisation d’entreprise) for at least 2 years
• The town where you have a company as a (co-)owner for at least 2 years and pay local taxes for

When you subscribe you must indicate if you only subscribe for the local elections, only for the European elections, or both.

The subscription can be done on the website of the Service Public via the link https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F1937

You have to send in a copy of your Passport or ID or Titre de Séjours. Plus, a justificatif de domicile, not older than 3 months. 

You can do everything online, but you also can go to the Mairie of your town to subscribe. On the website you also can find the forms to fill in when you want to do everything per mail.

 

The subscription needs to be done before the 7th of February 2020. Did you subscribe before? Then it is good to check at the Mairie if you are still on the list. Because of the changes in the recent past some people are not on the list anymore.

 

It is good to participate in the local elections and to let hear your opinion. It is good to be represented.

 

Hans Buijserd

Book swap at St. Antonin

The next book swap will be on Monday 6 th January  at 10.30

The Gazpacho. St. Antonin

A new start doing what she does so well

New Year – new Start

After having worked for 20 years with Agence L’Union in Saint Antonin I had to reorientate myself after the office closed last year. Since I enjoy working in the property market, meeting people and making the process of buying and selling houses as smooth as possible for them, I will be continuing with this line of work, using my good knowledge of the local market to help my future clients. 

I will be working as an independent agent with Laforêt in Caussade. Laforêt has 700 offices in France and I will have a strong and well established company with a large base of potential buyers behind me. Our motto is Clarity – Conviviality – Efficiency meaning that it is important for vendors and buyers to have all necessary information to make clear decisions, that we are serious in our approach to work without taking ourselves too seriously and that customer satisfaction is very important to us.

I am based in Saint Antonin and will be covering the area of approximately25km around it. So if you have a property for sale or know of someone who might not be getting the service or viewings they need, please contact me for any help or advice.

Angelika Schmenkel
(Fluent in French, English, German)
06 30 40 98 58 or aschmenkel@laforet.com

Val says , many of us over the years have got to know Angelica, many of us bought a house from her whilst she was with Agence L’Union. I am sure we all wish her well, I certainly do.

Good luck Angelica