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Hi Chadspad, Just thought I'd add my tuppence worth... I was diagnosed with IBS many years ago, and after some investigating alternative remedies came up with peppermint oil as a natural anti-spasmodic. I saw my then GP who agreed and made out a prescription for peppermint oil capsules,Safer and mor...

Hi all, We've eaten roadkill many's a time. Pheasants, rabbits and deer when we lived in Scotland. The pheasants and rabbits we hit (accidentally) with the car. The deer were hit by others in front or coming the other way and just left by th side of the road, these wre promptly hoisted into the boot...

Hi Thanks to all for your replies. :thumbright: I'd started to look at the shemes for tax back on some eco installations and came to the same conclusion, as we wil be installing ourselves we can't claim back the tax other than on the purchase of stoves and the like. I didn't know about the ban on ba...

Thanks Zaza, the new place is not far from Aigurande, near Tercillat , very near the border but still just in 23, it's really beautiful around there. How long have you been there? I'm trying to find out about solar generated electric and French grants etc...have you come across any info? Don't know ...

Lol Ohare! Non, la photo est un capture d'ecran de le webcam, avec les effets speciaux 'old B&W movies'!!! Tres 'arty-farty' n'est pas!

Thanks for all the great welcomes and meetings-up ( is that a word....it is now!!) with folks from back home.

Hi all, After travelling around Europe...France, Spain,Portugal and Italy in our ancient motorhome we have finally settled in rural france, La Creuse bang slap in the middle. We sold our place in Scotland in December last year , freecycled most of our stuff to downsize and have been in motorhome sin...