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I was trying to be sarcastic but its not something I am good at with not very much practice what I was trying to say is that the qualified vet knows a lot more than you and the info I was giving was meant to be a help to people not to be ridiculed Im not going to say anything else on this post and i will try to head my own advice in and keep on smiling and not be put off posting as for the rest of what you were saying Im afraid its all goblegook to me so I can not comment

well Corinne I only put the info to help others and the info was from the qualified vet but it seems that you know more than the vet so who am I to argue and there was I trying to help

Our welsh terrier got a tick found in his mouth by the lady who was grooming him unfortunately she had washed him first so we could not frontline him again for two days (this is because the frontline enters the dog through a layer of fat that covers the dogs body(or cat) and you must wait at least two days after washing dogs ) anyway we had frontlined him three and a half weeks before so we were not worried however he became very ill and did no eat his food for two days plus a few other symptoms relating to his toilet so we took him to the vet (a great English speaking vet in couhe ) who checked him out he said frontline works against fleas for about 4 weeks but for ticks only THREE weeks and dog had contacted some disease that sounded like pericaniteous and it was not good so he gave him antibiotics and cotersone injections and he seems a little better today he also said that ticks are endemic this year He also gave us free some little plastic crowbars that remove ticks the tick screws itself in clockwise so to remove them you place the crowbar under its head and screw anticlockwise and the tick comes out alive to flush down the loo

This post has been going downhill badly, advice has been given wrongly or righly but the fact is people have been giving their time to give advice and then in typical fashion nasty things happen and it all goes out the window what shocks me is that a Forum Guru inflames it all and joins in the argument instead of pacifying it you will not be surprised to here what people on the "other" forum say about this one when you look at all the good advice that has been given over the years this could be a very good and informative way to spend a little time each evening so come on everyone lets be nice and work together

Is preston your surname or are you from preston its just we are from Preston and wondered

On this subject is there any way to get a English version of wanadoo,s homepage as the chap who sold me the package said it was possible but now I cannot even contact him

We had the same problem and it is because all french car insurance companys automatically include breakdown as part of the standard insurance so the only way was to get a service with your English insurance

Does anyone know were we might buy some of these here in France, we used to try to grow them in England and would love to have another bash to go with our fresh eggs for a good omelette

This is a good post for me as I have had a very bad reaction to a bite on my hand and it did swell up and had to go to the doctors for spray tablets for r bite and antibiotics cost 85 euros plus twenty for the doctor I can not afford to be ill in France I have not been here long enough to sort the medical card out yet and this has been my second expensive doctors visit the first included two bloodtests and a Xray I have been using Avon skin so soft after having been recommended by a Canadian friend and separately my English doctor they say that because of some form of licence Avon can not advertise its repellant virtues although the local rep in England says that they all know and indeed tell all who travel to use it   But to add to my defence I am going to buy both "cinq sur cinq" and "pipiol" tomorrow am I to understand that the cinq is for before you get a bite and the pipiol for after  thanks for the advise it may well stop me from going back to the UK as I can not afford to keep getting bitten  cheers

Most fruit of  apples, pears and such like are not grown from seed but are clones the reason is that no seed takes on the quality of the fruit from which it came because you can imagine the different pollen coming from the millions of different flowers even from the same tree   good trees have individual attributes and are cloned and mostly grafted onto either dwarfing rootstocks  or semi dwarfing rootstocks that is not to say that it can not be done  the best to try are mellon pips because they are so easy to get the best result let three leaves develop and then pitch out the leading shoot this causes many laterals to develop we have about twenty Charante melons growing from a tiny fraction of the seeds from a nice melon we ate and it is quite amazing how big the plants have got I have put a piece of fence up next to them and they are climbing it like mad melons have gone dearer because of the water shortage but we have made home made growbags out of thirty litre binbags with some cheap super U(less than 1.50 euros for fifty ltrs) peaty like soil in them with a hand full of "Engrais pottager" (super U cheap fertiliser) with a small nick in the bag and the small pre grown mellon plant placed in and a upside down empty bottle of water with the bottom cut off so that the water never evaporates we have found we use a fraction of the water we would normally use we are trying this method out with cucumbers aubergines and chillis and peppers and so far it seems to work great .there is a book called the after dinner gardener which I bought second hand from amazon and it is amazing I am trying at the moment with Passion fruit , advacado, pomegranate , and kiwi fruits all which have sprouted but wether they bear fruit is another matter

Hosepipe ban is an English expression in our region the same as yours we are allowed to water our veg but not our flowers with or without a hosepipe there are a lot more complicated things included such as cars and vans except those that have a legal obligation to keep clean and you may wash at a commercial washing station, the complications in your garden comes from the word "cultures" but we have asked everyone around here and looked at various websites i.e. the prefecture   Having said this dont take my word as this is France and everyone has a different idea including the nice old lady next door who waters her plants at the front of house every day untill gallons of water oozes right down the road , We were watering our cultures today and the spotter helicopter passed overhead either checking my interpretations or making sure the English neighbour has not filled her pool up

The Agricultural subsidies are a rip off to europe its well known by everyone living near grain stores in France that the grain gets moved about just after the the officials check in order to get extra subsidys its criminal and its theft from all the countrys that put money in and france is the villain

Are these the bafle type plate that is in the entrance to the drain or are they something seperate that we should connect before we put our drains to the main sewer the reason why I ask is that we are digging a channell to the main drain just outside our back gate as the previous owners did not connect even though they paid the extra rates for the privalage of being connected and we are doing the hard graft and then getting a plumber to do the last bit to save some money

If there is a Gam Vert near you they sell large butts for 20 euros with a tap and I think they hold 200 ltrs

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