Jo

Just don't get ripped off, I've bought them in Intermarche and Leclerc for 1 euro, but the newsagent in the same complex was selling them for 6 euros!!!

Try looking on the wines/spirits aisle, that's where I found them!

[quote user="cooperlola"]That is interesting Derf and Sid. I've been reading lots of fora asking about how one does this on Humax boxes since they don't have DVD drives (or at least not the ones I've looked at) and there was very little info. So anyway - you transfer to a USB stick, put it on your computer, then transfer it to disc? I thought there was some sort of memory limit for this making it impossible to make discs of long programmes in HD as the files were too big. Is that right or wrong? I'm more than capable of having got the wrong end of the stick where technology is concerned! [/quote] Leave it on the USB stick and play it through the computer rather than trying to transfer it to a disc? Have no real knowledge, just what I have picked up from my son!! Works for me.

Eparcyl is what I use to maintain a healthy fosse, before we we here full time it was what I used to give it a boost. Works a treat!

Found fleas on one of our two dogs despite being treated with Frontline, can't use Advantix as we have cats and one is her special friend!! Have tried Advantage which doesn't have the same toxic effect on cats, and no fleas at all on her after the first treatment!! Not sure but as far as I know it doesn't treat ticks, so we are being extra vigilant in checking her, and will treat her with Frontline now and then to vary it!

[quote user="woolybanana"]Perhaps we have over-egged this particular pudding![/quote] No! Really??[Www]

[quote user="AnOther"]4 pages on carrying eggs on a plane ! The world truly has gone mad [:D][:D][:D] [/quote] Hey, they made a FILM about snakes on a plane[:-))][:-))]

Can't believe I didn't see this lot coming..........[blink]

If your water from kitchen and showers goes to a soakaway then it isn't a Fosse Toutes Eaux, that's when ALL water exiting the property goes into the fosse. We had the same problem with a patch of grass near the fosse getting waterlogged and a dirty smelly puddle appearing[+o(] dug down to find that it was our filter for our soakaway. the concrete lid covering it had cracked and soil had been washing into it and had finally blocked it. We removed the lid, dug it all out[+o(][+o(][+o(] and re-filled the filter and had a new lid made. Sorted[;-)] Your perforated pipes are the equivalent, I would have thought, of our filter so one of them is probably blocked or damaged.

Now that is really really bad!!!!!!!!!!!![:D]

[quote user="fisherman"]I am travelling down to 86 at the end of the month by car. Maybe I can be of assistance.[/quote] That would be very kind fisherman, whereabouts in the UK are you? I would have to do some homework to see if I could get them to you by the end of the month[geek]Not sure yet of availability. We are right at the bottom of 86 in Availles-Limouzine on the border with the Charente 16, about 15 mins from the town of Confolens, would that still be viable?

[quote user="Pierre ZFP"]Jo, how are you going to keep them warm in transit? Are you planning to sit on them like a mother hen or slip them into your underwear perhaps? [:$]   [/quote] Now that could be incredibly messy[:-))][:-))] Actually, they don't need to be kept warm in transit, normal ambient temperature is fine it's only after you start incubating them that they need a constant temperature[geek]

Neither can I which is why I am reluctant to try and get them brought over if they are going to end up in the bin!! Even if someone is there to take them back in UK if they are not allowed on the flight, as there is no-one else nearby with an incubator they would still be 'wasted' :-( Seems a shame, which is why I'm trying to find out beforehand.

I know the restrictions as I fly quite frequently, I just wondered if it applied to eggs?? Each egg is probably less than 100ml but does the shell count as a container???????? If I ask a friend to bring me out some fertilised eggs, would they insist on opening each one?????? I just wondered, given the amount of people who keep particular strains of chickens/ducks here, if anyone had tried it before?

Does anyone know if you can bring fresh eggs in your hand luggage with Ryanair? And before anyone points out that you can buy fresh eggs in France, these are fertilised ones of a certain breed that we can't get here, and are intended for the incubator, not the frying pan!!!!!!!

My son was booked to fly out to see us on the day after the french air traffic controllers strike, the strike over-ran and he managed to re-book outward bound, but as he had already printed off the boarding pass for the return flight, couldn't change the details on that! What was supposed to be a week with us was beginning to look like a long week-end :-( Anyway he phoned Ryanair and no problem! They changed his return flight at no extra charge as it wasn't his fault he'd had to change!!!!!!!!! I was well impressed!!!!

[quote user="Pads"]We looked and found the price in the UK was the rip off ... google them amazon sell them. In france I picked one up to keep in the car for 4e[/quote] 4 euros is a bit of a rip off[:(] most supermarkets are selling them at 1 euro. ( Intermarche )

Where do you buy the pouzzalane? Currently cleaning out and re-filling the grey water drain[+o(] asked at Bricomarche and was met with a VERY blank look[8-)]

They have recently put in mains drains to the edge of our village, those who can connect to it have been given 2 years to do so, but have been advised to talk to the mayor who can authorise an "Eco loan",  which I understand is a very low interest loan to get the work done. There is also a no interest loan available which is means tested, but only for this purpose. We are in the Vienne department.

All now sorted[:D] the wet patch was the drain water seeping from a blocked grey water filter, man! you should have seen how much water came out[+o(][+o(] It seems since our system is old the grey water goes into this filter and then out to the drainage ditch in the road, as we didn't know it was there[8-)] we hadn't cleaned it, and over time the lid had cracked and soil had been washing in thus clogging it up[geek] All we have to do now it clean it out[+o(][+o(][+o(] refill the filter, and make a new lid! But at least the smell has gone[:D]

The one outside our house was removed and the cables put underground, but as it was the seller who paid for it all I don't know how much it was.[:D]

You must be so proud of yourself!!!! The result is fantastic, really stunning!

Had ours done in "sable" a lovely soft colour. That was 2010 and still looking good!

Thanks pachapapa, that looks like it's for treating toilet waste, but I have the miniflo as well as a fosse septic? The miniflo appears to take the water from the kitchen?

We have had a wet patch appear on the lawn 2 months ago, and despite very dry warm weather it has persisted. Smells slightly unpleasant but more in a drain rather than Fosse sort of way. The inspection that was done in 2010,( unfortunately I wasn't here for it,) left us a plan of the system and the leak would appear to be where the 'miniflo' is, on the route of the kitchen drain to the ditch by the side of the road. Does anyone know what a miniflo is or if it can get blocked and overflow? We are awaiting a visit from the plumber, but unfortunately he is a good one, so therefore in great demand!! He has yet to be able to fit us in!!!!