Hi there Got a bit of field which needs cutting about twice a year. The cost and hassle of getting someone locally to do this means that we are considering getting a 2nd hand quad bike and flail mower and doing it ourselves.
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Many of you will already know this via the Facebook site "Preserve and Promote a Peaceful Marche" https://www.facebook.com/groups/504764649541531/For those that don't an
Mon, 01/21/2013 - 12:31
My Burgon and Ball spade and fork have arrived in Italy having been sent by Capital Gardens http://www.capitalgardens.co.uk/ who were happy to ship them out for about £20.
Fri, 12/14/2012 - 14:49
I've just received several emails from andrea@istos.it telling me my membership of several groups on this site has been accepted. Has a mod woken up or am I being spammed/phished/f**ked???
Wed, 12/12/2012 - 12:55
Came across this:http://www.wildboaradventures.co.uk/Pages/DonaldJonesWW2Escapestory.aspxFor those who need a fix of the Abruzzo high places when
Wed, 11/14/2012 - 09:23
having just looked at some fab photos of Rifugio Franchetti in Abruzzo, I'm formulating a plan to visit some/all of the refuges in my area of S Marche/Abruzzo. There are several problems with this:1. I'm about as fit as Bernard Manning was2.
Tue, 09/25/2012 - 07:38
Thanks to whoever it was who recommended this book. A beautiful and elegiac account of old ways of life in the Ligurian mountains. Without being at all sentimental
Fri, 09/07/2012 - 18:51
Trying to set myself up with XE currency exchange.
Thu, 08/23/2012 - 14:19
I advertise with a well-known website specialising in owner-led rentals all over the world. I’ll call it X I had an email on 7th July from a prospective customer (Y) asking for dates which were already booked.
Thu, 08/02/2012 - 09:55
I need to get some wood in when I'm over in September.
Mon, 07/30/2012 - 12:13
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I signed up to the Internazionale online without any probs - so it's certainly worth a try. And saves a fortune in calls all over Europe. I don't think there are any limitations ......
let's hope this is at least the end of the beginning
Would that be before or after the grenades had blown it up???!
I second Terry's recommendation of "Italy's Sorrow". Harrowing reading though, since it is mostly personal testimony of a bloody carnage that has always unfairly played second fiddle to D-Day. Not your region, but there is a lot of information about PoWs camps in Marche here: http://camp59survivors.wordpress.com/
Logged on to BBC website???? Do tell - if it can be used for web access as well that makes it even better!!
Bought mine in UK, took it out to Italy and downloaded newspapers daily. Came back to UK and Kindle still registered in UK. I haven't used it since my return. But I do have the 3G version.
WE don't have wi-fi in our house in S Marche but having bourght the more expensive 3G Kindle that worked fine. Halfway up a mountain last week we saw Obama on the telly in the bar and I was able on returning to the house to download The Times on a free trial to find out what was going on. Pretty cool - though the Thunderer isn't my newspaper of choice....
I'm with you Casa. Immigration is used as a political football and cheap vote-mongering. There's a case in UK this week where a woman trafficked from Moldova was sent back,despite her applying for asylum, because the authorities did not consider her at risk. Guess what? She was kidnapped again, tortured, gang-raped and re-trafficked. She's in the news because she had the gumption to sue the UK Government who have just paid her damages. It's worth remembering the human plight behind so many of these cases. And to take the long view. Remember the panic about Poles flooding the UK a few years back? Now we're complaining we can't find any more plumbers because they've gone home again! The UK is a mongrel nation and has been ever since the Normans invaded. And all the better for it...
The rules about registering even if staying in a hotel go way back beyond 2001 and I've always thought they were just unrepealed bits of fascist law - though given the Red Brigade, the "years of Lead" and the neo-fascist bombing of Bologna station I can see how they may be old anti-terrorist laws.
Quote"Almost all the heat from a radiant source is converted to warmth that humans can perceive only when it strikes a solid object" I.e. my legs sited as close as possible to it!