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  1. [quote user="Benjamin"]Whatever you do, DO NOT, repeat DO NOT Google centipedes. Benjamin ps just look at the Wikipedia site!!!!!!!!!! [/quote] And don't Google "Camel Spider" either[:D] Spongebob
  2. And don't they all take "etre" in the past tense too? Spongebob
  3. Lori, these don't sound at ALL like Wolf spiders, which aren't common, and live outdoors, and near water. What you describe sounds more like a house spider, giant house spider, or even a mouse spider. (Now THERE'S a name to engender fear in a woman, if I ever heard one[blink] ) Thankfully, Mrs Spongebob isn't at all afraid of spiders, and caught the one I had on me last week in bed, before throwing it out of the window. I'd have done it myself, but couldn't reach the stupid thing. Yesterday, here in the UK, I walked through no fewer than THREE webs with large spiders on them, TWO of these fell on me!!! : http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/life/insects-spiders/spiderbites/cross-or-garden-spider-araneus-diadematus.html Have a look here: http://www.kendall-bioresearch.co.uk/spider.htm#bites Might help you recognise your attacker[;-)] Spongebob.
  4. AFAIK, the wolf spider is the only one living in the UK that CAN bite, and it's bite, although painful, isn't dangerous. You'll have to wait for Chris to come on here to tell you more, but I BELIEVE that the only DANGEROUS spiders in france are a few Black Widows on the Med coast? I got bitten by a quite large one, green and yellow, about three years ago. It left tiny bloody pinpricks, but no reaction whatsoever. Strange. Oh, and it didn't survive biting me.[;-)] Why has yours survived biting your hubby? Spongebob Just found this. Good job you aren't a dog!!! http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/life/insects-spiders/spiderbites/rustic-wolf-spider-trochosa-ruricola.html
  5. [quote user="andyh4"]And bear in mind that as well as creosote, the sleepers will have had the benefit of having the weedkilling train run over at least once per year.[/quote] Really? In the UK? When did you last see a weedkilling train? Weeds, yes, but no weedkilling train. Some of the tracks around here are disgraceful. Spongebob.  
  6. It'll depend on local regs, as always in France. Worst case scenario is that it won't be large enough, as modern ones have to be pretty big since ALL waste water goes into them now, not just black water from toilets. You're also supposed to have a grease trap between kitchen and fosse. In which case it COULD be a whole new fosse....... Spongebob
  7. [quote user="SaligoBay"][quote user="Spongebob"][quote user="SaligoBay"] [quote user="Patf"] as it dries out so quickly, [/quote] Just like real French ones, then!  [:)] [/quote] But SURELY better than the additive stuffed "keeps fresh for a week" loaves we get here? Spongebob [/quote] But you waste less!   Leave half a baguette out overnight and it's a job for Chris and his chainsaw.   [/quote] Ah........but upend one in it's supermarket plastic cover, and place it hung up in the bread bag, and it can last three days! AND I'd still rather eat a chainsaw carved one than week-old additive-stuffed bread. Spongebob
  8. [quote user="mike151"]hi, what's the best method of introducing antifreeze into the system, there is a red painted tank located above the oil boiler which looks like it could be filled if some of the water was drained 1st or is it best via a radiator, if so how? thanks.[/quote] If your red-painted tank is like mine, it's an expansion tank/pressure vessel. Apart from that, sorry, I can't help at present, but MAY be able to after our next visit, which is towards the back end of October, when I hope to collar our plumber for a chat[Www] Spongebob
  9. [quote user="SaligoBay"] [quote user="Patf"] as it dries out so quickly, [/quote] Just like real French ones, then!  [:)] [/quote] But SURELY better than the additive stuffed "keeps fresh for a week" loaves we get here? Spongebob
  10. To get this back on topic, (where's Russethouse when you need her?), the situation in France sounds EXACTLY like what's happening in the UK primary sector. HMG decided that since it couldn't staff the secondary sector with Foreign Language teachers, (Why? That's another post[;-)] ), it would make FL teaching compulsary in the primary sector , but no longer in the secondary. If there was a smiley for rolling eyes now, it'd be here! Result: Well at least in the less populated North of the UK, there aren't any priamry qualified teachers of FL either. In a school I know well, one of the lasses teaching it goes on an evening course to learn it, and is one lesson beyond her class! If she's ill one evening, and can't go, then what? Oh, and in 2002, FL teachers were like gold dust in UK secondary classes too. I know of THREE local schools who had awful probs: one had TWO German classes running for a year, one of them approaching GCSE, the other year 10, without a teacher at all, except supply, and most of those were the "where's me work?" variety. Spongebob
  11. [quote user="Russethouse"] I know Tresco is away at present and it may be for an extended period, but I was wondering the same about Katie. [/quote] Funny that..........even the mod who banned Alcazar doesn't know where he is?[;-)] Spongebob
  12. Yep, check in, over to car-hire, back to check-in and through gates to security area. Spongebob
  13. I'd STILL rather do it by the book. You can always change the disjoncteur for a differentt spec, but the cable, if too thin, can't easily be changed, should you buy a more powerful, current hungry oven. Spongebob
  14. For peace of mind, taking into account the extra cost, (minimal), I'd go for 6 mm sq and 32A disjoncteur, through the Type A RCD. I've also NOT used a socket, but a proper French cooker connection. It's what I've done, taken straight from "L'Electricite, Pas a Pas". Spongebob
  15. [quote user="Mark"][quote user="Spongebob"] We have sown the wind, so shall we reap the whirlwind. We have allowed ethnic minorities to rewrite the rules over the last few years, and will now pay the price. Spongebob. [/quote] Tiny proportions of ethnic minorities (and indeed of the WASP majority, if you'll forgive the lazy catch-all) are made up of idiots.  It is those idiots, and only those idiots, who I think have been given too much leeway to preach and practice hate.  The vast majority of people of all cultures just want to live in peace don't they?   [/quote] Unfortunately, at this moment in time, the answer appears to be "no". We have reached a situation, at least in the UK where young Asians think they can do, and say, as they please, since no-one will dare to gainsay them, due to being afraid of being labelled "racist". Meanwhile, the Asians can say as they please, the whites shut up for fear of being arrested on "race hate" charges.[:@] The PC brigade have done this to us. The Asians have " got the bit between their teeth", and NO-ONE will stop them now, short of civil war. Ask ANYONE who lives in a town with a largish Asian percentage population.[:(] And before anyone on here even THINKS of starting, NO, I'm NOT advocating civil war. Personally, I can't WAIT to get myself, and my kids out of the UK, before it dies a horrid death. Spongebob
  16. We have sown the wind, so shall we reap the whirlwind. We have allowed ethnic minorities to rewrite the rules over the last few years, and will now pay the price. Spongebob.
  17. Yep, been there, done most of those, and others! Spongebob
  18. Is it not true that OE Xenon lights don't need an adjuster? I'm sure I've read somewhere that because they are SO much brighter, (they only draw 35W, but produce up to 300W of halogen equivalent light), and produce SO much light where it should be, they don't have the "finger" of light up the left hand side of the road that halogen lights have, and it's THAT which causes the problem when in France. I'm sure a phone call to Peugeot customer care will ellicit a response..... Spongebob.  
  19. My lads never SAY anything.........they "go". As in: "He goes, ' I don't know' , and so SHE goes ' well you ought to' " etc. Spongebob
  20. It's a bit like reading "Sid the Sexist", or "The Bacons", from Viz magazine[:-))] Spongebob
  21. [quote user="Cassis"][quote user="Spongebob"] HOWEVER, a VERY old dictionary that belonged to my grandad, gives the meaning of presume" as to take unto oneself something of which one is not worthy, to be presumptious". Since Stanley misued "presume" it seems to have entered common usage as meaning JUST what he wanted it to. [/quote] Now you're confusing me, Spongebob - I think you mean this is the definition of "assume", don't you?  I have to confess that I use "assume" in both the old and modern senses.  [:)] [/quote] Nope. Stanley was supposed to have said, "Dr Livingstone, I PRESUME?", (sorry for any miss-spelling of his name). In those days, according to my grandad's dictionary, he ought to have used "assume", ........unless he WAS being presumptious, and taking on himself something of which he was not worthy. Not, I ASSUME what HE meant, at all[;-)] Spongebob.
  22. [quote user="Will "]Why settle for rubber ones? I'd like to see repeated misuse of language become a hanging offence, or at least the reintroduction of the stocks.[/quote] "Repeated misuse" seems to lead to a change in language. As an example, look at the words "assume" and "presume". NOW,  the Concise Oxford gives "assume" as meaning " to take as being true, for purposes of argument, or action". It gives "presume" as meaning " to suppose to be undoubtedly true, take for granted". Very similar? HOWEVER, a VERY old dictionary that belonged to my grandad, gives the meaning of presume" as to take unto oneself something of which one is not worthy, to be presumptious". Since Stanley misued "presume" it seems to have entered common usage as meaning JUST what he wanted it to. Spongebob.
  23. About twenty years ago, I made wine from fresh pomegranates, and it was SUPERB, it retained a slight fizz like a flattish Lambrusco, and was amazing for drinking on a summer evening. I also made rose-petal wine, and that tasted exactly as rose petals smell! Spongebob
  24. [8-)] Wot on earth is this all about? [8-)] Spongebob
  25. Ho ho. Love this thread. What about Stand in a queue at the ONLY open guichet at a mainline station, behind an old couple who need to know EVERYTHING about the trainn they intend to take TOMORROW, while folk with trains to catch in ten minutes fume noisily behind you. Spongebob
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