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Old 21-09-2008, 09:15 PM
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Oooooh, i'm gonna buy that - I really want to learn French and it seems a good way to do it, please let me know how you get on with it!
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Old 21-09-2008, 09:17 PM
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When I plant out my bean seedlings I usually put a little grow more in the bottom of the hole but I lightly lime the ground first!
sounds like a cue for a BW master-class in bean planting
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Old 21-09-2008, 09:18 PM
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cheaper (about 20 €'s a stere)
hi scarey what is a stere it is one i have not heard before [/quote]

I Don't know whether this will help?
stere - definition of stere by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
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Old 21-09-2008, 09:19 PM
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I can recommend the Michel Thomas CD if you have time
Thanks....will look into it...my OH has heard it's good!

I get SOOOOOOO bored studying!
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Old 21-09-2008, 09:24 PM
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Are so ican say i spread a stere of compost today and rotovated it in
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Oooooh, i'm gonna buy that - I really want to learn French and it seems a good way to do it, please let me know how you get on with it!
For any grape wanting to learn Greek!!?
Learn Greek in 25 years
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Old 21-09-2008, 09:30 PM
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Want a holiday in France
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Blimey I sit down to eat my dinner (not worth the bother - culinary catastrophe tonight), come back to the vine to find pages of posts. Must be getting dark earlier
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Yes please!!!
...can you arrange someone to finish off our decorating???..I'd prefer to handle a pile of shit any day!!!!!
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Have you got rotovater or do i bring my own
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...can you arrange someone to finish off our decorating???..I'd prefer to handle a pile of shit any day!!!!!
Swap ya, I love decorating
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Learn Greek in 25 years
LOVE it!!!! ( do they do a French version????)
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Have you got rotovater or do i bring my own
Rotovator here and at the ready
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I read that as rotwieler!
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Swap ya, I love decorating
NOW you tell me!!!!!!

Come for your hols in Normandy..I could do with the company!
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Blimey I sit down to eat my dinner (not worth the bother - culinary catastrophe tonight), come back to the vine to find pages of posts. Must be getting dark earlier
Oh Shirley, can't imagine that it was that bad - or did some dark fairy come in and do the cooking for you.
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Evening peeps, just a quick drop in
Weather been glorious here this week too. I have high hopes of another load of ripe tomatoes before I start on the green tomato chutney

We've managed to get our 2 hayfields (front & back garden) chopped down today, thank goodness, I thought it was going to be next spring before they got cut!

Nicos, don't worry about studying the French, just listen to it in the background - it all makes much more sense when you're actually there! I studied Spanish at evening classes for a couple of years and felt like I was making no progress, til I stayed out there for a while and found I could get by with people who had no English, could shop, feed myself, get around on the bus etc. My favourite phrase was "Speak more slowly please" (Hablar mas despacio por favor), as they all speak like machine guns, even in English!
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I read that as rotwieler!
Could have used one of them last week got down plot and found some cretin had nicked half a row of carrots so pulled the rest up and they are now shivering in freezer
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Old 21-09-2008, 09:40 PM
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Hello MOM, how are you?
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Oh Shirley, can't imagine that it was that bad - or did some dark fairy come in and do the cooking for you.
No dark fairy to blame. Just me being totally useless at cooking yorkshire puddings (not sure why but I have never managed it yet) and us having toad in the hole (well toad in the swamp) for dinner!
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Old 21-09-2008, 09:44 PM
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No dark fairy to blame. Just me being totally useless at cooking yorkshire puddings (not sure why but I have never managed it yet) and us having toad in the hole (well toad in the swamp) for dinner!
Oh, thank God Im not the only one who's no good at Yorkshire's. I blame the tins or the oven... or anything else I can think of 'cept meeself.
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