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  1. Does anyone use SOSH as provider for their mobile phone? They are an online only company that is owned by Orange and use their network and they are cheaper than Orange.

  2. The last photo of the Tadpole; it was his last walk and he had slipped in a pile of mud. And he was looking less than happy at the thought of a shower.  I had to take him to the vet on a one way trip last week.He was one month short of 17.

    The hole in my life is deep. RIP Tadpole, I hope that you are chasing them all in Hedgehogland!

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  3. La boite is a slang word for workplace. Cayenne was a very distant colony in South America where there were some penal institutions that were particularly brutal, see the book and film Papillion. So, it could simply refer to a distance place as in other cases and/or refer to the factory as a prison or bagne.

  4. The prevailing wind has been southerly, south easterly or south westerly for a long time which the grues do not like flying against but it seems now to be moving northerlyish which will push them on their journey. So, folks, maybe expect them this week.

  5. Yes, minteroonie, maybe I did go a bit far but some of the meat was in the bottom of the freezer and had been there a very long time. And there were a lot of fairly anonymous leftovers that certainly should have been drawing an OAP. However, I am stewing up large volumes of gooseberries and other soft fruit which will nearly all return to the freezer within a few hours. And I am finding other ways of storing the food so that I can get a proper rotation.

    Plus better labelling of leftovers.

    Oiseau took a freezer box of the remaining red fruits and as you have seen had a wonderful jam making session, so some good had already come out of it.

    The freezer is much too big for me really but I so hate to see garden fruit go to waste.

  6. Freezer SAVED, thanks to patience and a hairdryer and some good tips. Phew, didnt want to fork out for a new one.

    Some summer fruits now being cooked up before returning to freezer but meat all slung as it was just getting a bit too soft. Pity.

    It is what  hides in the bottom of a freezer, forgotten, unloved, bitterly cold!

  7. Stream has fallen quite a bit thus far and is almost back in its bed, but the road is still impassable. We went to the annual 11 Novembre memorial yesterday, through a small raging torrent. But realised to extent that the rest of the village  has been flooded with about 15 homes sinistrés and the main street bad. Amazing response from the village folk and the mairie; one big group were cleaning out houses, another offering all sorts of other help.

    I have several inches of mud to remove from the front but am waiting for the next lot of rain on Tuesday to pass first. Oiseau did an amazing job cleaning the bouandrie after the water level fell for which I thank her most deeply

    If anyone is interested you can look on the village facebook page; just type in Aix en Issart where there are photos of the flooding. My house is not shown but the beginning of my road is.

    The freezer remains silent but the washing machine is working OK, luckily as it is flamband neuf.

    Oiseau is going home tomorrow and will have to go over the hills and détour via St. Omer to Calais as our nearest access to the motorway will still likely be inaccessible. Route chosen because there are no valleys and blocked bridges.

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