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Looks like a caterpillar PRETENDING to have attitude[:P]Those "jaws" look fake to me[;-)]
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[quote]When the pair were allegedly found having sex by a policeman, he issaid to have let them off with a caution. However, later, after thecouple were discovered in the same position, they were arrested, andMiss Palmer is said to have become aggressive.[/quote]Jeez, and I thought it was only dogs that couldn't be separated once they started.
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While we were over at Whit, I paid someone to knock through a metre thick wall for a 120mm flue pipe.The amount of stone that came out, and the muck that was produced, was amazing. It took him most of an afternoon, and he only charged €50.Get a builder in.
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[quote user="DZ"][quote user="Lilly"]
I am for my sins a Londoner and I have a thought that the point is being missed a little, it is the type of crime that is indicative of a sick culteral shift in London and probably a few other big cities in the UK, it appears to me that it is the Gang, Rap, knife/Gun culture that if not serverly delt with will result in more tragic young deaths and become even more like the American gang culture that they are so desperately trying to emulate.
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I couldn't agree more, Lilly, about the specific and sickening nature of the current problems in London and other big UK cities. Every time I hear the words "knife culture" mentioned in the media, though, I get very cross. It is such a misnomer - how can you put those two words together? What cultural is there about going around armed with a knife?
Living in my part of London is really unpleasant right now. It is not just the media blowing it out of all proportions. The reality does affect people a lot. Last week it took me ages to get to work and back for two consecutive days because some poor person was knifed to death on the bus route I use (this murder wasn't in the media). The next day a woman was knifed and died about 20 min's walk from my house. The following day a boy was knifed to death in the area I work in. The day after that the two poor French students were murdered (in an area my daughter waits for one of her buses). The following day yet another boy was killed, this time very near my sons' school.
My sons go out, I can't stop them and I live in total fear. Just 3 more weeks before we can move to France...
[/quote]And this morning, we have Labour minister Tony McNulty, stating that carrying a knife is in the collective DNA of Britains teenagers.What hope have we when a supposedly responsible person gives out excuses like that?FOURTEEN knifings this last weekend.[:'(] -
I USED to visit this forum many times a day, and was quite happy to join in with a few of the more "lively" threads.No more[:(]I now visit once, if that, and steer well clear of posting on "those" sort of threads.Why? Because of two things: firstly, other posters DO attack the poster, not the message, then get upset when it comes back, refer it to a moderator, and you get told off, and YOUR response is removed, but often, not the original that caused the offence. Double standards? There was on poster who has cooled off a bit who was a master at it.Secondly, FAR too many people are running to mods with complaints about totally trivial stuff, getting posts and threads deleted right, left and centre. In short, the forum is now over-moderated.Now, I wonder how long THAT post will last?T2.
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Am I right in thinking that a British person with a full license, aged UNDER 18, would not be able to drive in France, though?
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[quote user="LisaJ"]
It faces due west Chris. What I find interesting is why the owls keep wanting to nest in the house despite numerous empty and semi-derilict barns around.
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Lisa
[/quote]Some warmth from the house? -
Just off the A13, from Rouen, direction Paris, is a large shopping centre with cheap(er) fuel.
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My book says they do live/breed in that area, so you may be lucky. I doubt you could INSTALL a pair though.IMHO, they'll come if they want and if there is:Good food supply, being near a farm helps,entrance and exit routes for the barn, with roosting/nesting areas avilable. My pair have roosted on the cross beams, which delivers libearl coating of pellets and droppings to everything beneath. the caravan and tools like the chainsaw have to be covered with tarps etc.They nest on the tops of the walls, in the angle between the wall top and the roof.They like as little disturbance as possible, so leaving barn doors open, using the barn a lot etc are no-no's.
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Sounds like a grass snake.
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Three months ago, I rang P&O to convert a season ticket into a booking, only to be told that there was "no space avaialble on that sailing for season ticket holders".[:(]I searched the website, but no mention was made of this, so I rang back, to be told that it was in my T&C sent to me AFTER I paid, (my bold).I sent an e-mail to the head of their customer services stating my dissatisfaction and that I felt that to sell tickets, then place restrictions on them was sharp practise at the least.[:@]Within half an hour he had rung me back and agreed, then got me a booking on the ferry I originally asked for.All well and good. BUT:After the debacle at Dover on the Friday before Whit, I again wrote to him asking why:1. there were only three checkins open at such a peak time, resuklting in a 45 minute wait to check in,2. the queues for checkins are un-"policed" allowing lorry drivers to gridlock the whole system at the point where the lorry/car/P&O/Seafrance/Norfolk queues form.3. their check-in stafff repeatedly tell lies like, "Your ferry will begin loading at 2200", when said ferry deosn't even arrivwe at Dover until 2235.4. I had still had to argue with a booking supervisor about the self same problem the next time I wanted a booking.Mr Webb's response was to call me a liar for the first point, insisting that there were 5 checkins open, to state that it's "not our fault gov" about the queue problem, and made no comment about the lies told at checkin, other than to state that most of their ferries sail on time........yeah, right!He then went on to trot out the specious rubbish that "it's in your T&C's", in answer to my last point.I now have two more season tickets with the Channel Pirates, and needless to say, will not use them again once these are gone.
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Could you not fit a double prise, then replace one of the prises with a switch, preferably with a neon to tell-tale when the fountain is "on"? Bring the supply to the prise via the switch. I'm sure it would be OK for a fountain, the switches are rated at 10A.It's dead easy to do with Legrand stuff, the prises/switches just clip in and out.
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[quote user="Jonzjob"]18 milli amps is all it takes to stop the heart. Lethal voltages are 150V AC and 50 V DC...[:D][/quote]If that, above, is correct, why are RCD's set to trip at 30mA?I had always had it drummed into me that a killing current was of the order of 250mA.
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Where do your figures come from, Dick? I'm not disputing, just interested.[;-)] The "killed" figure doesn't surprise me, given that every tiny village has a memorial often with 10-20 names on it. The really telling bit is that number of people from the same family.Maybe the "casualties" figure given at Tyne Cot takes in killed and injured?Could the 10 million refer to combatants? it seems a little high, if so, but who knows?To go back to the original post, I wonder if the memorial was built, started, then someone turned up who had been presumed dead?
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The short answer is yes, the water could be being dawn up by both Dick's capillary action and the temperature in the room above. The warmer the air in that room, the more moisture it can hold.
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Just to take this back to it's original direction, my wife and I visited Oradour for the first time in the early 70's.There was no museum, and entry was via a gate at the end of the road where entry is now gained from the museum.A leaflet we had at the time, in French, from a little hut at the etrance, explained about the massacre, and further stated that many artifacts were PLACED so as to be seen, in their damaged condition, hung up, stood on alcoves etc. Buildings had been tidied to reveal interiors and to make them safe.There was little or no security, at that time, and this may explain the French decision to build secure entrances, and to limit entry to daylight hours. They also fenced off many of the houses and businesses, and the main reason for so doing, according to locals, is that souvenir hunters had begun systematically stripping the place.I think you will find that this is why smaller items are dispalyed in the museum and underground bunker, while bicycles frames, bedsteads and sewing machines were left where they were.I asked the old gent we bought our house from if he remembered Oradour. He said not, as he had been taken to Germany by that time as forced labour.I asked him if he hated the Germans for what they did to him and others like him, and for what they did at Oradour, and other places.His answer was, "How can you hate after so long? They were fighting for what they believed in, the same as we were, and our own countrymen carried out a few despicable acts too."He went on to say that when he spoke to German people around Berlin during his forced labour time, they all bemoaned the fact that their sons, brothers fathers etc were away fighting and they had no news of them. When asked how they thought HIS family felt, they had not really considered it...............but agreed that it would be the same for them.
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OK, I'll bite. WHY would any self-respecting intelligent person EVER watch Richard and Judy? Personally, I'd rather be boiled alive.Methinks you got what you deserved, Gluey, old lad.[;-)]
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Thanks for all the replies.I shan't be using this route all that often looking at the tolls, but just fancied something a bit different this summer, since we've had the house 6 years now, I must have done Calais-Rouen Chartres etc etc nearly 40 times and am a bit bored with it.Hence my wanting a change.I did once try Paris, after coming across via Zeebrugge, (a nightmare in itself, since our cabin was in a corridor FULL of English teenaged schoolkids, who would NOT go to bed, and their teacher's cabins were miles away.) I'll not do Paris again in a hurry[:(]Rouen I've never had problems with except once when it took half an hour to get through since I hit it at evening rush hour in a rainstorm.This all stems from me remembering when we used to tow the caravan down every summer, before we had the money black hole.......sorry, house, and I used to choose a different route every year, taking 3-4 days to arrrive at our campsite when it could have been done in 1-2. Crest from Zeebrugge via the Rhine valley anyone? With a side trip into the Black Forest? I just loved finding Routes Bis and following them on empty roads for miles.
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Very interesting. I can, however, see two drawbacks:1. People who push hydrogen as a clean fuel are forgetting that it produces water vapour, lots of it. And those self same scientists who insist that "global warming/climate change" is down to us, also insist that water vapour is as bad as carbon dioxide.[:(]2. It'll be cheap to start with, a bit like LPG was. Just wait until Gordon and his Darling get the idea that people are using it.....tax, tax, tax, tax escalators and more tax.[:@] And I wouldn't put it past them to start talking about a "hydrogen footprint" and how we all need taxing so as to get our own down.And all that if the oil companies don't kill it.[6]
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After getting fed up of the A13/A154?N154?A20 route to SW of Limoges, I fancy a change this summer.What are the pros and cons of going south via the A28 from Rouen , then joining the A10 at Le Mans, as far as Poitiers and short hop cross country towards Rochechouart?It would appear to be within 10km of my other route.Last summer we tried recreating the route of my boyhood, Chartres, Chateaudun, Blois, Chatillon s. Indre, Le Blanc, Le Dorat, Bellac, St Junien, Rochechouart, but it took so long on all the N roads..........it did bring back some amazing memories of traveling that way towards the Somport Pass with my parents.TIA.
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[quote user="water rat"]
Yes, it was definitely one of our resident pair of buzzards which take snakes ,of which we have quite a lot in the area judging by the amount I see squished on the road.
W Rat
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[quote]One day last summer I saw seven buzzards in a group for a period of about 10 minutes before they dispersed, normally there are only two or three together at most. Was the large group unusual?[/quote]I've often seen kite in large groups, but buzzards seem to top out at 3 or 4, except on rare occasions.
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[quote user="Keith CHANNING"][quote user="water rat"]
I've also seen them flying off with quite large snakes in their talons.
W Rat
[/quote]Unlikely to be a buzzard, more likely a Short-Toed Snake eagle - Circaëte Jean Le-Blanc. Similar looking to a buzzard and as variable in colour, although slightly larger[/quote]Was going to post the same, but you beat me to it. -
Don't tell me: they got him leaving the Tunnel de Hardelot, where the limit is lowered from 130 to 110, and the flics stand at the exit, backlit so you can't see 'em, with laser goggles?Seen loads of folk get done there. It's handy as there is a peage within a couple of miles, so they don't need to stop you[:@]
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