The Chateau Diaries #332 So many unfinished projects at Lalande, including the engagement ring.

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Cleo's Asp said:
How long has it taken for them to get authorisation for the windows and the facade? Whenever anyone asks about the apartments, they respond that Natti no longer needs one but they also say they are still waiting for authorisation. It's at least a year, maybe even two years since they sought authorisation. Poor Gerry will never get his retirement apartment. It's the "waiting for the accountants" or "waiting for a survey report", all over again. It's funny how it's only Fanny who has to wait so very long for all these terribly slow French companies; authorities, and contractors. No other chateaux owners seem to endure similar problems. She's probably been waiting nearly 20 years for some of them!
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It’s got to be 3 years at least since those 2 mythical apartments were started and are now like everywhere else a dumping ground for all their crap. If they ever considered seeking authorisation for more windows etc that would have been 3 years ago, but that didn’t happen, like all other projects they were just started for some vlog content then abandoned never to be mentioned directly by Fanny again. NOTHING is ever seen through to completion. Her bedroom, her study, the smaller attic bedrooms, the pink bathroom, the bluebell bathroom, the paintwork in the Marquis’s suite, the china cabinet room, the boiler room, the back passage, the bread oven room, the chicken coop, ye olde shoppe room, the derrière cuisine, the downstairs toilet, in fact every bloody room has something started by those 2 grifters usually just for vlog content, then they are left half finished never to be revisited again. What a shithole.
 
Pyke said:
Not splitting hairs but it is osb board also known as stirling board, mdf is often used to make cupboards etc.osb is used in flooring and roofing.
Amuary is pathetic.
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You’re not splitting hairs as there are several different types of OSB of which Sterling Board is only two.

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C'est moi said:
Ma cher @JackSpratt ... Janky Jiz 🤣🤣🤣 picking myself up off the floor 🤣🤣🤣

This must become the tattler official name of Jarvis Janssen -
Janky Jiz Ye Olde Worlde Internet Shoppe

Still laughing 🤣🤣🤣
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My pleasure, we aim to please.
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C'est moi said:
Could be a health issue. Could be eating too many apero snacks... oh, that's the same as a health issue!

Could be stress. Anyone having to deal with Despicable fanny AND Thrush would be stressed. Is it that the two tonnes can't stay away from them? Or is it that the gruesome twosome won't stay away from the two tonnes? Whatever, they appear to be bound together voluntarily or otherwise!
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I think she's got a knee prob, wonder if that a factor.
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Cleo's Asp said:
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I really wonder what the French think about these weirdos who invade their country and buy all the chateaux. Fanny is probably responsible for a lot of it as these types seem to be inspired by her.
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They think exactly that.....they're weirdos ......un peu speciale, is a favourite description around here.
 
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Lochness Monster said:
No adverts from his Mummy Lingoda, etc to help him study.. he also uses the word catalog. Not English ?

How is the Dutch going Fanny?

You would think Fanny might spell check what he is doing.
The stack of six plates yet he is selling them in twos…. The only thing giving me pleasure is that he is having to do some actual work packing it up but no one can make a profit selling just 67 items in two months? , as driving to the Uk and south of France etc , packaging, label machine no defunct, time to pack , hotels, new clothing etc etc

As mentioned Nattys old office is another space totally taken over by heaps and stacks of china that is such an incredible mess and danger.
Why are they all eating from the chocolate bowl it is repulsive to watch.

When we were taught home economics at a young age, one of the things we learnt is to keep the mixture low in the bowl. FRK has some very unprofessional methods and is becoming less careful and more unhygienic.

Snorty has his own little choccy mousse in a dish . What is he lergic too. Meringue?
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No cook would allow themselves to be filmed, with the apron looking like that, and then licking the chocolate covered spoon disgustingly in front of the camera. No matter if she’s finished the crème or not. If an apron gets to much dirty, every chef automatically changes it to a new one.

I wonder why no health inspector ever sees this. All these snippets we see with the dog poo, nose particles, etc. should be collected and sent to tote authorities.
 
Cleo's Asp said:
How long has it taken for them to get authorisation for the windows and the facade? Whenever anyone asks about the apartments, they respond that Natti no longer needs one but they also say they are still waiting for authorisation. It's at least a year, maybe even two years since they sought authorisation. Poor Gerry will never get his retirement apartment. It's the "waiting for the accountants" or "waiting for a survey report", all over again. It's funny how it's only Fanny who has to wait so very long for all these terribly slow French companies; authorities, and contractors. No other chateaux owners seem to endure similar problems. She's probably been waiting nearly 20 years for some of them!
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I reckon it must be 3 years! When did fanny and armoire do the dirty on Ian the builder and were giving out the "recovering from a hernia" story? Poor Ian was doing the work, then pulled this way and that before being dispensed of. Time flies!
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Madame de Pompanddoodoo said:
It’s got to be 3 years at least since those 2 mythical apartments were started and are now like everywhere else a dumping ground for all their crap. If they ever considered seeking authorisation for more windows etc that would have been 3 years ago, but that didn’t happen, like all other projects they were just started for some vlog content then abandoned never to be mentioned directly by Fanny again. NOTHING is ever seen through to completion. Her bedroom, her study, the smaller attic bedrooms, the pink bathroom, the bluebell bathroom, the paintwork in the Marquis’s suite, the china cabinet room, the boiler room, the back passage, the bread oven room, the chicken coop, ye olde shoppe room, the derrière cuisine, the downstairs toilet, in fact every bloody room has something started by those 2 grifters usually just for vlog content, then they are left half finished never to be revisited again. What a shithole.
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Just seen your comment @Madame de Pompanddoodoo I said the exact thing. Time really does fly...
 
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JackSpratt said:
They think exactly that.....they're weirdos ......un peu speciale, is a favourite description around here.
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Frankly, the French (most of them) think it is weird and mad to buy crumpling old buildings. They much prefer to buy brand new houses/flats and have all the commodities. It's not that they do not like their patrimony, it's the amount of money and efforts that they think is not worth it. (well, that is what my friends tells me);)
 
JackSpratt said:
My pleasure, we aim to please.
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I think she's got a knee prob, wonder if that a factor.
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They think exactly that.....they're weirdos ......un peu speciale, is a favourite description around here.
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I wouldn't be at all surprised if she has knee problems, carrying all that weight around. It is a viscous circle but tante twotonne does like her food and to sit on her arse.
 
JackSpratt said:
Morning, so do we think Omberline has left the building? Seeing as Brian is now hard at work in the walled garden.

I can't be dealing with all the shite on French Drains, chocolate mouse be is vegan or not, hair do's, more exhausting 'work' putting overpriced cards in envelopes and Andrew being cut off mid sentence explaining something interesting (to us).

No, what I want t say is ARE THEY TAKING THE bleeping PISS WITH THE BLUE tit FROM THE KITCHEN!! Have you seen the prices and already sold out on Janky Jiz. Oh and pleeeeeze fools who are buying this crap make sure Trixie has all your details as god forbid he'll have to do some extra work emailing you! Oh the distress!

Can't be bothered to change for dinner or brush out her hair, quel horreur! As for the pompous wanker!

Marie, shut the duck up trying to big up your miniscule over priced food and diarrhea on a plate!!!!!!!!
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Janky Jiz Junk. I do not understand why people are buying this stuff.
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graciemckitten said:
@mireille4751
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It was explained in previous episodes that obviously Nat doesn’t need this apartment any more and that they are waiting for authorization for widening and remodelling the chateau façade windows.
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Hello Fanny. You will not get authorisation until you pay the application fee.
 
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A couple of thoughts on the newly named Janky Jiz Junk website curated by those two grifters.

I love how they have somehow tried to mirror a reputable auction house by calling what they have for sale a "catalog". How pretentious for that load of crap they're selling.

I saw that they sold 10 Spode plates, which the listing calls "luncheon plates". Not only do they not say what the pattern is (I'm assuming Fleur de Lys) but they give the dimension of the plate as "19cm or 7.5 inches". Spode's size of their luncheon plates is 9 inches (American UOM) and when I Google that's 22.86cm. I have a set of Spode, the pattern called Fairy Dell. It's an older pattern, out of production in 1971 and the luncheon plates for this set are 9", salad plates are 7.5" and the bread and butter plates are 6.5" - the same holds true with the pattern Cowslip, also out of production since 1975, which my stepmother has used for 40 years as her everyday dinnerware.

So, what he's calling Spode luncheon plates are NOT luncheon plates, according to Spode. They are salad plates.
 
Cleo's Asp said:
If something is chipped, it's not in good condition! The descriptions are very short and the whole thing looks very unprofessional. On one description, he's split the name Spode, with "Spo" on one line and "de" on the next! With the first Italianate item, he has omitted to say it's Spode. What on earth does "Sold per mean, does it mean he's sold two or that there are only two left? I am a native English speaker but that makes no sense at all! I would never buy anything from a site that looks so badly put together.
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One nutter in the comments was just about thrilled that Fanny would be handwriting the rip off cards as she would then have a piece of the chatelaines own hand ...

As M&MsMom states correctly Janky Jiz is not correct at all about the plates. The twits like to say they don’t do etiquette they just/like to do it their way , means that they can do anything and others mistakenly think they are doing it correctly.
Who eats each course from a low rimmed soup bowl . NO ONE. Then the pretentious twit comes out with ice cream spoons, Did FRK make the ice cream , I don’t think so.

Snorts is lazy, stupid and ignorant. He has no understanding of etiquette or good manners.
His use of napkins , cloths, plates , cutlery, decanters, knife rests etc etc is uncomfortable and wrong.
It is so annoying that just because viewers see these idiots using things like the dump, they think they have class and style.
You never see him offering water, wine or bread to guests. Why does Fanny sit opposite Snorts ? Even the sitting arrangements are poorly thought out with him sitting opposite Fanny. It is no way to treat guests.

His knowledge of hand painted china is zero and he also has no clue how to describe items. It has nothing to do with language. Chipped, cracked , scratched is all poor condition not good. He even calls pitting in the china ‘bumps’! That is not language universally understood…

Basic knowledge. He drives me mad,
They do not know how to care or store china or crystal either.
I would like to offer him an online tutorial to try…and make him understand what an ignorant boy he is.
 

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M&MsMom said:
A couple of thoughts on the newly named Janky Jiz Junk website curated by those two grifters.

I love how they have somehow tried to mirror a reputable auction house by calling what they have for sale a "catalog". How pretentious for that load of crap they're selling.

I saw that they sold 10 Spode plates, which the listing calls "luncheon plates". Not only do they not say what the pattern is (I'm assuming Fleur de Lys) but they give the dimension of the plate as "19cm or 7.5 inches". Spode's size of their luncheon plates is 9 inches (American UOM) and when I Google that's 22.86cm. I have a set of Spode, the pattern called Fairy Dell. It's an older pattern, out of production in 1971 and the luncheon plates for this set are 9", salad plates are 7.5" and the bread and butter plates are 6.5" - the same holds true with the pattern Cowslip, also out of production since 1975, which my stepmother has used for 40 years as her everyday dinnerware.

So, what he's calling Spode luncheon plates are NOT luncheon plates, according to Spode. They are salad plates.
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Since you’ve so helpfully informed Sir Snortsalot his dimensions are wrong🤭, I’ll just drop this here. For his future reference doncherno…

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Lochness Monster said:
One nutter in the comments was just about thrilled that Fanny would be handwriting the rip off cards as she would then have a piece of the chatelaines own hand ...

As M&MsMom states correctly Janky Jiz is not correct at all about the plates. The twits like to say they don’t do etiquette they just/like to do it their way , means that they can do anything and others mistakenly think they are doing it correctly.
Who eats each course from a low rimmed soup bowl . NO ONE. Then the pretentious twit comes out with ice cream spoons, Did FRK make the ice cream , I don’t think so.

Snorts is lazy, stupid and ignorant. He has no understanding of etiquette or good manners.
His use of napkins , cloths, plates , cutlery, decanters, knife rests etc etc is uncomfortable and wrong.
It is so annoying that just because viewers see these idiots using things like the dump, they think they have class and style.
You never see him offering water, wine or bread to guests. Why does Fanny sit opposite Snorts ? Even the sitting arrangements are poorly thought out with him sitting opposite Fanny. It is no way to treat guests.

His knowledge of hand painted china is zero and he also has no clue how to describe items. It has nothing to do with language. Chipped, cracked , scratched is all poor condition not good. He even calls pitting in the china ‘bumps’! That is not language universally understood…

Basic knowledge. He drives me mad,
They do not know how to care or store china or crystal either.
I would like to offer him an online tutorial to try…and make him understand what an ignorant boy he is.
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I know Spode's luncheon plates, as every year I have to go on the hunt for them for my stepmother, who uses them more than anything in her set, and they get broken or crazed and need to be replaced. Her set of Cowslip is precious to her - her aunt took her when she was a very young girl to pick out the pattern and every year for a birthday or Christmas, her aunt would give her pieces of it. By the time she was out of college, she had a full service for 12. I don't know if the luncheon plates are particularly rare, but they are certainly harder to find here (probably because that size plate really isn't used here regularly), so whenever I see one, I pick it up. When push comes to shove, I just get them on Replacements and pay through the nose for them, but that's not too often, so I just justify it by using dollar cost averaging - LOL! Here in the US, the best time to find a lot of this stuff is right about now, as people are dragging out their best china for the upcoming holidays and are looking to replace damaged pieces. I find the majority of the Cowslip pattern on eBay, but every now and then will see it out in the wild. Here, one of the most ubiquitous patterns by Spode is either that Christmas pattern (can't remember the name) or Buttercup. I never find my pattern, Fairy Dell, in antique shops or antique fairs....I always end up buying it via eBay, although Replacements will always have a lot of the standard items in a place setting.
 
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