The Chateau Diaries #17 Royally-flushed: tales and tattles from the skeptic tank

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How Scrounging, Lying, Thieving, Exploiting Covid, and Tax Evasion Saved my Heap in the Middle of Nowhere. The latest vlog for snobs from Scrounger Jarvis, who's had everything handed to her on a plate and has never done a day's work in her life. Handicapped Scrounger Jarvis - the only person in the world to have gone into retirement on the day of her birth - will do anything to avoid selling her shato or doing anything that could remotely be described as work.
 
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I wonder just how many gifts Tattlers have sent
 
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Indeed, she hasn't mentioned the bee keeper, whom I'm sure pays for that field, and others locally must rent fields from her!
The beekeeper pays in honey. they don't own fields to rent, just a small batch where they keep the sheep/designated for parking in the future, the rest is woodland for firewood.
 
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heaps about that show pony are just plain wrong
in the land of SSB
she’s found a job !!!she loves ... cannot believe her luck .. her JOB brings in 40 k a month

but she’s tired - and is working
During her holiday -
advent took it out of her - back in December
when she was off for 10 days as she was tired

madame tart boudoir
nurses and doctors and carers - the police
are tired

You don’t even do cooking and cleaning
you have a cook
a cleaner
a butler
a driver
a gardener
a maintenance man

do you even wash yourself

you have NEVER held a job full time
all year for a Callander year in your life

guess you need training
working a full month no holidays
( oh wait .. in a pandemic you were away on a break - )
after all your advent work in January-
or have you forgotten already

charlatan - Petherick n Jarvis family
worked this out together - this was planned
too many people were calling them out
 
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I watched it and couldn't believe how she was basically answering all of the things that have been brought up on here. I thought she came across as genuine and enjoyed it. Having lost both of my parents at a young age I could relate to her becoming emotional about the loss of her father. This is the Stephanie I prefer, when she's surrounded by people she just becomes too silly and behaves like an attention seeking, little girl, not a 45 year old woman. What I don't understand is that damp proof course was not mentioned. Do they not do this in France? Surely you need something to stop the damp coming up through the floors and into the walls otherwise all the new plasterboard is a waste of money. Also, can you not get insulation that can be injected for the bedrooms where she didn't want to remove the wallpaper? I, personally, before worrying about the lake etc., would be replacing as many windows as possible with the 100K.

I wouldn't want any of Marie's food. The concoctions always seem so strange and to my mind don't really go together. Her cooking, for me, is a bit like her flower arranging - overrated by herself and other lalanders.
 
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Rental of fields has a very low return in the region. Plenty of land to rent cheaply.
Every euro counts. And a used field is better than being left fallow. Even the Pethericks get value for the hay cut from their land.
 
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on the bar .... epic prose
 
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Meanwhile - while Scrounger Jarvis is making silly pronouncements about how her shato has been 'saved', in a desparate attempt to cover up her lying and scrounging - , 'Château Rescue', which should be called 'Saving Monster Munch Phil of Shato Strife', seems to have been a complete flop.
The owners of Château de Lalacelle are making their own vlogs and 'treating' the dry rot (mérule in French: https://pierreredoutey.fr/2019/02/0...n-chateau-en-normandie-infeste-par-la-merule/). They don't seem to realise that you have to strip out the building and actually burn it to remove it - serious contenders for the Plonker of the Year Awards?
 
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Sixty acres should be generating some income.
No, not really. Some of it is constitued of all the land and forest around the shatoo, the meadow in front of the shatoo and the small meadow with the beehives (under barter land for free honey). So no income there. We do not know if the rest is forest or cultivable land. In France the rent for cultivable land is decided by the French authorities and is different in each "département" (+/-county) and it is not much.
 
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One of the owners (Ash) is a local councillor in the UK (now working from home in France!) - no doubt his constituency is delighted. Therefore, there could be a regional connection, town twinned with etc, so the cash cow will continue to flow for them as well.
Will it be one or more coffees for the councillor.
 
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Quote="LadyoftheEast, post: 3932147, member: 185010"

I watched it and couldn't believe how she was basically answering all of the things that have been brought up on here. I thought she came across as genuine and enjoyed it. Having lost both of my parents at a young age I could relate to her becoming emotional about the loss of her father. This is the Stephanie I prefer, when she's surrounded by people she just becomes too silly and behaves like an attention seeking, little girl, not a 45 year old woman. What I don't understand is that damp proof course was not mentioned. Do they not do this in France? Surely you need something to stop the damp coming up through the floors and into the walls otherwise all the new plasterboard is a waste of money. Also, can you not get insulation that can be injected for the bedrooms where she didn't want to remove the wallpaper? I, personally, before worrying about the lake etc., would be replacing as many windows as possible with the 100K.

Injection insulation requires a cavity in the wall to be put into. Cavity walls (inner and outer brick walls) are a much more recent method of construction. La la is built of stone and rubble so no cavity. I agree DPC (damp proof course) is essential. I'd love to see more photos of the work on the salons to see if the put in a plastic dpc membrane under the new flooring.

I agree that she has priorities wrong.. every job she considers she should calculate if it adds value to the property and tackle the list that way (a collapsing terrace higher up list than a lake).
 
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I have only just recovered from the paroxysms of laughter caused by SJ managing to shoehorn an itty-bitty, historically unimportant, architecturally of no consequence decrepit heap in the rural backwaters of rural France into references to Blenheim and Longleat. I'm surprised she didn't throw in Downton Abbey for good measure.

i really can't be bothered to air other thoughts vis-a-vis the Financial Confessional Of Inheritance Bled Dry & How My Patreon/YouTube Good Fortune Will Be Spent For The Restoration, Preservation And Conservation Of My Magic Kingdom.
Other than to say 2 things re the B&B:

  1. From what I've read about an Association Loi 1905, one of the things that stood out was the requirement that those you donate/support the entity must not receive anything in return, either a tangible "thing" or a benefit in kind. I'm not sure how that rides with the discounted B&B stays at Chateau Jarvis. Payment for the stay would go into the B&B business account but the reduced rate offered is purely because of supporting de La Lande/de Lalande/whatever it's called this week. I'm probably barking up a soon to be felled tree that threatens the chapel, but it sounded a klaxon.
  2. the very jolly (?) B&B long weekends are clearly aimed to make patrons feel special and valued. And exclusive. She made it sound as if dining with the chateau family (give me strength) would be such a treat, all sitting around the same table, blah-di-blah. The criteria within which a chambre d'hote may operate is maximum of five letting bedrooms (no problem there) with the provision of breakfast. It doesn't actually mention full board but the rules say that if an evening meal is offered for an additional charge there are guidelines to be adhered to: no choice (a menu would be deemed to be a restaurant), sale of alcohol is prohibited (not a licensed premises) although wine/drinks may be offered at no extra cost and that the guests should eat with the host/s and household. Stephanie is making it sound as if staying for a long weekend all inclusive package, using.ones Patreon ticket, will be an exclusive experience. When what she's proposing is simply following the rules,
On a side note, I realise it's an emotive subject but there is world of difference between tax evasion and tax avoidance. The former is illegal, the latter is not. It might be seen as deeply dodgy and morally reprehensible, and of course tax planning could be open to financial improperliiy, but a reputable tax planning specialist would advise their client on ways way to minimise tax liability. Having successfully registered the AL1905, it will be subject to audit and scrutimy, both by the tax inspectorate and the government department responsible for overseeing these associations and whether they are fulfilling their brief. How restoration of Ch de la Lande qualifies for Ai 1905 is a quite different matter! It can be rescinded.
 
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This really does highlight her illusions of grandeur if she can use Blenheim Palace in the same sentence as her decaying heap. She really does think she’s now part of the aristocracy because she’s got a big house and land. *shakes head in disbelief *
 
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charlatan - Petherick n Jarvis family
worked this out together - this was planned
too many people were calling them out
She needed to adjust and reinforce her narrative.
a) That her patrons pay for extra content and some want to participate in her restoration efforts (no grifting.)
b) How she's spent all her inheritance and income and so sacrificed her life towards saving the house (and forgetting Nick's contribution and the fact that IJ is sitting on millions.)
c) Her new full time job (that was emphasized ad nauseum, 70hrs/week REAL job!) as a vlogger now pays the running costs. She's working hard, not grifting.
d) Gift grab is purely for charitable reasons, keep the tat coming (she could donate anonymously, but her vain need to climb socially and to be recognized as a philanthropist, makes her attach her brand 'Lalande' into the scholarships, donations etc.)
e) Change of B&B concept and admitting she lives in the middle of nowhere with no prospects to make the B&B profitable if a person is hired instead of her doing the work.

Mini Apron is still pulling the strings in the shadows.
a) She probably promised the scholarship, Percy&she had the contact in ZA, not SSB.
b) Renovations start at her apartment. SSB better be a good daughter and pay back all the handouts she's given to bail her out financially over the years, so she's entitled to get her apartment insulated, heated, windows double glazed and a new parquet floor installed FIRST.
 
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Oh yes. She’s wearing a dress over a drindle skirt. She loves them both so much she wears them together with her ever expanding waist cinched in with a brown leather belt that would look better on Dan in the garden holding his pants up and other myriad uses about the chateau. A fine pierce of useful sturdy leather. Back to the ensemble... she wears it often. I remember seeing her styling that look last year. Clearly she still thinks it’s a good look as she keep wearing them. Together. She has not got a clue when it comes to styling either herself or her ShatOfTat... she still has that god awful yellow cushion on the awful BJJ upholstered piece of junk in The Pissy Putrid Salon. When she loaded that seat up with mismatched cushions after BJJ (the only work he’s ever done) upholstered it and she did the big reveal even her rapid devotees pleaded with her to take the cushions off. Especially the yellow one “because they did not work with the sofa” (which is not the sort of seat you would use cushions on anyway) - but no - hideous yellow cushion still there. She hasn’t got a notion about interior design, decoration or styling. Every room especially the bedrooms look like Hyacinth Bucket vomited in every one and the interiors are the result.

No that weird shit going on at the side of her eye is always there regardless of whether she has her face Filled with Botox or not. It wears off. I’ve had it done many times and know a lot about it. Getting it done by a reputable professional is very very costly. But that eye skin thing is always there. I really think she owes us and her disciples a vlog to explain “weird eye skin thing” it kinda fascinates me.
 
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It seems that the new moderators for Lalande YouTube channel are copying the Pethericks method : any remotely "negative" comments (or comments which ask simple questions) are either blocked or deleted.
No surprise if Tattle numbers are growing here !
 
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I heard her slightly differently... The BnB will only operate Thur to Mon, didn't say that guests had to stay for a specific period. I only recall her saying that guests and staff would gather around a table - no mention of food.
 
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The most amusing thing is that none of the options she considered involved getting a job.
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no she covered that with owners of country houses were never allowed to get a job , join the trades - no thank you . You could see her cringe at the idea
 
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to Laurent & FrenchGirl123
re: ugly wall.
As promised and as I'm not the smartest one (what I understand)
in 2017 they (Dutch) bought a property in Indre département; so a deed of sale for the property (land + limits + building) was registered by a notary (= solicitor/lawyer) - compulsory by the French law- between them and the previous owner. The boundaries are based on either the cadastral plan (Land Registery) -cadastre in French- or a boundary marking (by a chartered land surveyor (expert-géomètre). The cadastral plan is only an indication of the land size (used for council and property taxes calculation). Legally ur only the marking.

For the cadastral plan (if not in possession), check :

If there's no boundary marking, you can call on a land surveyor (they will check and calculate precisely -centimeter !!) > it's now an official record (but you have to pay the cost of the demarcation).

The neighbour erected a wall (the ugly one) : you can refer to the local urban masterplan (PLU) ; there are some rules in rural municipalities regarding the height ...

art 653 to 673.

To sum up :
> the building is on the neighbor land = bad news for you (unless against local regulation)
> it's on your property (official record) > you send them a registered letter with acknowlegment of receipt (lettre recommandée avec accusé de réception) asking for destruction of the wall within ... days - weeks with return of the initial state (copy of marking).
If they don't move, you have to ask the mediator help
(http://www.metiers.justice.gouv.fr/...ique-12684/conciliateur-de-justice-26863.html)

Hope it helps
 
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