Alwah

Thank you all very much for the info.  Links now safely installed in favourites and copies printed off, though I must say that I hope the ink will have well and truly faded by the time the information is required... We have both signed up for the organ donor scheme as well.   Thank you once again. ALWAH

Ok, I know it's not exactly 'health' but there doesn't seem to be a 'death' forum section. Can anyone advise re the possibility of burial at home, in the garden.  Having a few hectares, with a view of the Pyrenees and neither my wife nor myself being religious, we would like (when the time comes of course, not right now) to be buried on our own land in an ecologically friendly coffin and have a tree planted above us. Any (sensible) advice would be gratefully received. ALWAH    

We were advised by a local farmer to use 'chlorate de soudre' (spelling probably somewhat awry).  Comes in a green and yellow tin, in powder form.  Mix it up in a sprayer and choose a calm day to use it.  Spray directly onto the brambles and it kills them off in a couple of weeks.  Mind you, they come back the next year and will kick the c**p out of you when you walk past, but hey, you can always make up some more.  Alternatively try napalm. Regards, Steve.

One of the cameras mentioned by Pat is on the southbound side of the N21 just after the layby at the end of a straight section of road about 2 kms south of MIRANDE.  Anyone know where the others are? Steve.

Mary, also available (at our local Gedimat) is the 'push-fit' type of connector which can be used with ordinary cuivre.  The joints, 'T's and right angles a much more expensive than copper solder joints etc, (by the way they are known as 'Yorkshire fittings' in France, not to be confused with the pre-solder Yorkshire fittings in the UK!!!) but can be undone with a little plastic tool and allow some fiddling around.  I found them very handy when plumbing round the back of some existing/fixed kitchen units. Also in Leroy Merlin in Pau I have seen some plastic plumbing which is a fawn colour and the joints are made by glue welding them together.  Can't remember what it is called, was tempted to use it but a 3 hour round trip to get that last piece which I would have been bound to have forgotten put me off somewhat. Dig out the welding lance and give the traditional method a go... Good luck, Steve.