londoneye
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thank you - i will try to wrap them to make them look like M&S packets for christmas also!
much appreciated
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ah and i thought i was special !
thanks for that - thankfully no other near strangers have felt the need to lurch towards me! Not that i am particularly averse but just not really used to it.
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ok -phew been down the field and all nuts seem to be intact, therefore deduce no large squirrel population here (probably scared off by neighbours - heh heh). Not sure what kind of hazelnut it is - being very naive (again!) leaves are green and hazelnuts are green at moment. I had a hazy idea i should be stuffing them in the oven (perhaps i am thinking conkers here!) but gather this is not the case. so i just pick up off floor what squirrels dont want and go for it ? Is that right? Or beat them down alternatively (!)
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I am not trying to subvert the drift of this, but i wondered, if kissing was related to 'tu' usage. My new french neighbour lurched towards me with kisses after SECOND meeting. I confessed to being a little bit horrified ! He speaks excellent english and likes to practice his english so we tend to speak in that language. however, on the rare occasions that i do speak to him in french, or try to clarify wht he is trying to say in english (which is weird cos his english is actually much better than my french i think), then i do use 'vous'; but that seems a bit ridiculous when you then kiss someone! Having said that for some reason he spoke to me in german the other day and i automatically replied and used 'du' so perhaps he thinks i am a little confused. any idea if kissing stage is reached if tu could safely be used ?
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Sounds about the same - under window cill. Didnt like me staining the window much, flew around very anxiously squealing away at me - very little round things but quite cute. However, may not be quite so cute if there are hundreds of them - we shall have to see - dont like to kill anything really unless its necessary, so hopefully they will have one nice boy and one nice girl and be happy with that !
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oh no - i am about to race down the field now to see how mine are doing as i havent looked for a couple of weeks!
ideas still welcome in case i save any!
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oh dear - i am being naive aren't i imaging those two bees on their own - am i to expect lots more at some point ?
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I am informed that i have a hazel nut tree in my garden (anyone who has read my previous postings about trees in my garden will know that i am woefully ignorant about them, so am trusting my 'source' on this one!). Does anyone know anything i can do with them at all ? I have visions of hazelnuts at christmas - looking something similar to those wonderful packs i used to buy from M&S (in the days when i could a. find one, and b. afford them!)
would be grateful for any thoughts - assume they won't be 'ready' (not sure if ripe is right word for nuts?) until september or so ?
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Kitten lost
in Pets
oh i hate reading things like this. If i don't see my cat for a couple of hours I am running around like a mad-woman looking (generally he doesnt stray too far so couple of hours is a long time for him not to come and pop his head around the door). Kittens though, you can't watch them all the time and sometimes things do happen to them unfortunately and is this weather they will look for somewhere cool to hide out, so sadly the well could be that place. I do feel for you. -
Bingo ! You are a genuis it has worked.
Many thanks, now won't have to watch OH sulking tonight again cos he can't eye up the beauties on 'Love Island'!!
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Can't find chillis at all in my area, but i did bring some seeds from uk - planted just one (how optimistic am I!) and its growing very well - currently have beginnings of chillis,but whether they will actually grow and ripen yet, I can't say. If my experience is anything to go by (and this is first time i have tried) they are not hard to grow, so could be worth sticking a couple of seeds in a pot next year if you are still having to trek around looking for them.
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Dear alllast night we suddenly lost all of our brit tv channels - beeb and itv's. message says there is a technical fault with this channel please try later. a friend set up the satellite dish and found our signal for us originally and it has been working fantastically now for several months - i am afraid we are woefully ignorant of all things satellite as we didnt have a dish in the uk. sorry to be so ignorant but does anyone know what likely cause is? have checked all cables in house etc but havent yet been on roof as not so good with heights myself and OH currently busy building a large dividing wall, so not so keen to get up there right now. he may be later when he realises he will miss the scintillating 'love island' though.we have had loads of rain and thunder storms lately, not sure if that makes a difference?ta
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your place sounds very similar to ours but worse which makes me feel better in a certain unkind way! we keep finding what's left of stone walls or old buildings under the brambles/fallen trees etc etc so havent even bothered spending money on lawn-mower or rotivator yet, as it would just be sitting there all shiny (or rusty probably). Good idea about the farmer, probably cheaper than getting digger driver to level the whole lot when dug out for pool which is what we were also consideringthanks
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WASP STINGS
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I agree but i just have to get the courage to not race to the vets for every little thing - i am sure the cat's paw would have healed just as quickly as it did with that injection from vet and the spray on stuff which i couldnt anyway get near enough to him to administer after first spray! Oh yes, and the time he was sick and off his food for a few days - ditto injection (its ALWAYS the same injection isnt it ?) - convinced really that he would have been ok.
my french neighbour who has 7 cats and a newly acquired dog and clearly loves his animals to bits, said the cats only go to vets for serious things; other than that he has a cupboard full of 'home cures' for them! seems to work.
you are right about flying insects too - i think she just got lucky (or unlucky!) as she hasnt actually got very near one since, and not through want of trying either !
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i know that now !!! At the time we were VERY concerned that the mayor would think we were shoddy english people trying to escape our local taxes ...!
still never mind, got it paid just in time anyway ..
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we just bought this spray stuff from m. bricolage (a bit pricey) which claims to be effective from 6 metres. other half went half way up ladder to roof and let loose with spray at very sensible distance. I was very sceptical that it would work, but that was two days ago and we havent seen a wasp since... i have two little bees which i do however permit to live in a hole in my cottage wall, and they often come out and talk to me, very non-aggressive, no idea which kind, but the wasps were coming in through windows upstairs and causing a total nuisance.
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thank you - i sometimes suspect cat is, if not herbivorous then at least vegetarian - he has a particular penchant for all things green, but olives are his favourite.
will tie them up for a day when i do it.
thanks again
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ha ha - exactly the same happened to us as to Cassis, same panic scenario as we jumped in car and drove like the devil to the mairie to explain that this was first bill we had got and we werent just trying to avoid taxes - they looked totally disinterested ! reminded them yet again that we now live in france, and asked about habitation - shrug of the shoulders - no sign yet - expecting final demand and another threatening letter any day now ! As you say, it's a great system for making sure you check all your bills the day you receive them, cos chances are you will only receive final warning anyway !
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glyphosate sounds good to me. However, i have a dog and a cat who are both deaf (or give impression of being so) and most definitely disobedient. Do you know please how long i would have to keep them away from any area sprayed if i use glyphosate? Both of them are inordinately fond of munching anything green (not that there will be much green left when i have finished i hope!)
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thanks for this - is jif the same as cif please ?
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I can also fully empathise; our neighbour has (we think) 6 'normal' dogs, although sometimes we think we see more but that could be paranoia! He also has around 15 hunting dogs; these are only actually let out of their 'kennel' for a few minutes a day but the noise is unbelievable when they do come out. We had no idea about the hunting dogs when we bought, and although the bigger dogs are a pain and bark a lot, the hot weather seems to have calmed them down a bit. Nonetheless whenever someone enters/leaves the environs of their / our / our other neighbours' property, the barking is unbelievable. Dont get me wrong, i have a dog also, but my dog although very young has been taught not to bark at anything that moves. It's unnecessary and annoying. currently we are also musing on what if anything we can do, but being quite new clearly we a. dont want to upset people and b. no-one is likely to be particularly interested anyway. Its true that in fairness our neighbours try to stop dogs barking if they see us around, but sometimes they make as much noise as the dogs anyway yelling at them ! Does anyone know when the hunting season is, and what i can expect from the dogs then by chance ?
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sounds like what i need is Roundup or your wife then - she sounds very handy to have around my place!
Will try Roundup but was reeling at cost of it when i saw it - thought i might be getting really tight here but then remembered that i looked at it once in UK (for my very average sized garden) and was equally horrified - thereby proving i suppose that i have always been tight !
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thanks will try vinegar - i actually stood in intermarche and read back of every single cleaning product (boy did i look a sad cow!) but not one of them, with the exception of toilet cleaners, which i knew about anyway, said it was suitable - hence resorting to asking supermarket employee, who said they didnt stock any of them.
its all very strange, because i dont live in paris after all, i live in extremely rural limousin; all my neighbours have fosses (most of which dont work too well from smell); i think they all have soakaways - no thats not true - they all have a pipe which comes out of house into a gulley and probably into my garden at some point, but hey ho !
i will have to try another supermarket, clearly my local intermarche is just a bit strange on this one, and believes all its customers actually live in paris !
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i believe you are correct that raspberries certainly prefer a cold period for a good crop. i had never grown them before coming to france, and technicall speaking havent grown them here so much as 'found' a patch of the, which i mostly inadvertently cut down while slashing at 6 foot high nettles. Having realised that some of them weren't nettles i left a gap around them to see what they turned out to be. can't say i have the biggest crop in world (15 raspberries a day on average! - enough to slip in with the ice cream) but they certainly seem to be quite hardy. i am in limousin area and as everyone knows its been pretty hot, followed by very heavy rain/storms. I can't see any reason why you wouldnt successfully grow them to be honest, but i am a bit of a novice at gardening so not sure my opinion should be counted on too much! either way a friend purchased a new raspberry bush for me as a small gift (before i realised what others were) and it was very cheap so i guess you dont have much to lose to buy one on a trial basis !
Fosse or not?
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