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The thermometer in the sun was 52 degrees this afternoon before my husband removed it in case it exploded. 35 degrees in the shade and we are only in the loir area 49/72!
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I can see no problem with the 90 degree elbow into the liner, just the visual element if the liner is on view. Peter
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We laid old terre cuite in our kitchen (around 1000) about five years ago. When we took up the concrete floor it had been originally laid with terre cuite but they couldn't be saved so some of the tiles came from the floor above the sous a cochon and some we bought locally. We live 4 kms from Les Rairies where the tiles were originally made and the chap at Yvon Cailleau gave really good advice on both laying them and aftercare. I cleaned them thoroughly first, then I used a polish from this company which seals the tile but is not shiny (just a slight sheen) and is non-slip. I try to do a thorough clean and apply more polish once a year but wash over regularly with savon noir, especially in front of the sink and cooker. 'Regularly' may be a bit of an exaggeration but I do my best! It does get a lot of traffic as we all traipse through with shoes and wellies, especially when it is dry but it is very forgiving! I think the tiles are beautiful,they look as if they had always been there and in winter around the Villager they are really warm to walk on (no central heating).
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Thankyou Jay for the article. One suggestion was to water an area with diluted washing-up liquid, so Pete was able to tread on 3 of them. I had tried to drown them with the hose down the holes but that didn't work, just flooded the lawn, so I think we might resort to the w/up liquid and eliminate as many as we can.
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Naaaah not the Daarzet mole cricket ze méchant scarabée qui a fait des grands trous!
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Thankyou for that I have re-looked at the cricket and identified it as a mole cricket. No wonder our lawns and paths have loads of bare patches as they are root eating insects. Anyone know how to get rid of them please?
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Can anyone please tell me what this insect is. We have holes all over our lawns and grass paths. The holes are between 15mm to 20mm dia. and at least 150mm deep although I haven't tried poking anything longer down them. The insect comes out head first and if startled reverses back down. It has 6 legs, the 2 hind legs are longer than the front and middle ones and its a dark brown colour. We have had them for several years but they now seem to be multiplying.
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Flex account, we have been ripping the ar5e out of it.
DorothyJ replied to Chancer's topic in French Finance
Like Benjamin, we are withdrawing our money out of Nationwide as and when it suits us. We have already moved the instant access savings account from them to another company and when our substantial ISAs come up for re-investment in July we shall look again for another bank or BS. We have pensions paid weekly into Nationwide which I then transfer to another, apart from a few pounds. So I hope they are really fed up with us just as I am with them. We live in England but spend a great deal of time in France where we have a house - plus spending time in Sweden where our daughter and grandchildren live. I am doubly cross with N/wide as we started out as Portman BS members which was local to us and we always found them really competitive but they sold out to Nationwide and that was that. We now use Caxton, adding to it when the rate seems reasonable; not much chance of that at the moment! -
I am so sorry to have troubled you.
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Does the Norwich and Peterborough pay the day's bank rate as Nationwide used to do? Having ditched Nationwide on principle, I would love to find a BS offering the same deal. Thanks
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Now I know! Thankyou.
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I could not find my barclays card reader but I had one from Nationwide. I put in my details for Barclays and I was so pleased to find it worked for both!
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We have an Everhot on order which I hope will be delivered week beginning 22nd Feb. Can't wait! We visited their place in Glos and were really impressed with the cooker - we are having a 100i ( which includes an induction hotplate) and hope that not only will add a little heat to our kitchen in winter but will mean I can get rid of the microwave/conventional small oven I use at the moment . We installed a Villager A flat woodburner about 3 years ago which I use constantly in winter. Fantastic for anything in a saucepan and for keeping food warm but it doesn't have an oven. I love my Villager and hope the Everhot will live up to expectations. We don't have central heating just the A flat and another Villager in the living room. It's plenty warm enough but you do need to be in good health to keep them both fed!
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Serve fig chutney with the foie gras. A chef friend of ours gave us some of his home made foie gras with a small dish of fig chutney as a christmas present one year.
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I will try and take a photo. Actually my girls are really athletic as they perform the same trick on the Himalayan Honeysuckle when the berries arrive. Unfortunately they crush the flags which are growing underneath the shrub as they crash down on to them. Completely spoilt - I mean the chickens!