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Tonight Harry starting charging around the house, rubbing his face on rugs, floor and generally being more hypo than the puppy that he is.  This immediately registered as a familiar scene from holiday weekend last year when we ended up with an eme

Sat, 04/17/2010 - 17:15
Thu, 03/25/2010 - 05:49

Has anyone found they are unable to access their Alice.it e-mail today?  Tried to log on as normal (using Identify Safe) and was met with the message "Gentile abbonato, il suo abbonamento e' cambiato.  Per accedere ai servizi di Alice clicca su OK

Tue, 06/30/2009 - 11:55

Posting on behalf of a fellow community member who arrived in Italy on the 17th (permanent move) and hired a car for the first few weeks until documents/car purchase finalised.  Unfortunately said Hertz hire car has broken down and ACI have taken

Sat, 06/20/2009 - 14:38

 We have a lemon tree that has suddenly started to loose bark and split along two of the branches.  This is happening in the centre of the tree on older brances.

Sat, 05/23/2009 - 04:14

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Answer to: Malt Vinegar
Wed, 09/29/2010 - 05:23

Badger, thanks for the Lidl link; I will keep an eye on their specials.  Made my first batch yesterday - tomatoe, fig and caramelised onion.  In search of cloves today then I shall also be making the more spicy tomatoe and fruit chutneys - yum.   We had so many tomatoes I have been bottling them for weeks and now have enough to keep us going all winter and some. 

Mon, 09/27/2010 - 11:33

Last year's party was such fun though it would never have been the same without poor Alfie.  Happy birthday to Ralph and Polar Bear too wherever they are.

Answer to: Malt Vinegar
Mon, 09/27/2010 - 04:12

Ram - nothing in Lidl recently but if you hear of another "English" special let me know and I will stock up for next year. Angie - as Fig chutney is on my list of "to do" then Red Wine it will be until I get someone driving over to stock me up.  Might even decide the red wine is nicer and forgo the Malt all together.  Thanks for your replies. Now I just need to find some coriander seed that will grow into plants rather than more seed:-( 

Answer to: Malt Vinegar
Mon, 09/27/2010 - 04:12

Ram - nothing in Lidl recently but if you hear of another "English" special let me know and I will stock up for next year. Angie - as Fig chutney is on my list of "to do" then Red Wine it will be until I get someone driving over to stock me up.  Might even decide the red wine is nicer and forgo the Malt all together.  Thanks for your replies. Now I just need to find some coriander seed that will grow into plants rat her than more seed:-( 

Tue, 07/20/2010 - 09:26

So for those of us living in Italy we need to whizz back to Uk and make English will and then make Italian will to confirm we want English will not just English Law? Don't know about you Mrs D but we'll need to sell the house to pay for all the wills and trip back to UK! 

Answer to: Hot or Wot !!?
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 05:32

Agree totally Sprostini.  The last rain I referred to delivered a nice new built stone wall 200m further down the garden than intended.  Also we have 650m of white road from main road down to us and the usual delivery of heavy rain involves road turning into river, expensive stones from road ending up in woods and husband out with his zapper trying to keep the water running down the side of the road and not creating new gulleys.  If we're really lucky the farmers field behind/above us stays behind/above us!!  Fun heh:-)

Answer to: Hot or Wot !!?
Sat, 07/17/2010 - 05:23

We've had none since beginning of June and temperatures are around 37-38 every day.  Even at midnight it's 30 degrees, with the lowest overnight temperature we have seen in weeks being 27 degrees.   

Fri, 07/16/2010 - 11:40

I am not sure if you have a problem with your computer but both mails you sent to us have come through with some very strange characters.  We have replied to both mail and assuming you have not received them?

Wed, 07/07/2010 - 10:45

We hire man and digger here in Ripatransone on a regular basis for various clients and he charges €50 per hour (him and digger) for levelling, terracing, holes etc.  I suspect you are too far for Gabrielli but hope this helps with idea of cost.

Answer to: creepie-crawly
Tue, 06/22/2010 - 13:43

they move incredibly quickly and live in town and country.  Given the lack of information i.e. "enormous creature" and "oval" it isn't necessarily of the insect world?