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languedoc



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And then when you do find a french website that has the info, there is no way to actually just buy it online so you need to call them anyway
Post #573746 27th Oct 2016 10:25am
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Laurie



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Buy British Rolling Eyes
Should be cheaper now. 
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languedoc



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yes, my wife's excuse currently to be rampaging through Amazon UK because its 'cheap' despite my argument that if we don't need it anyway then its not cheap
Post #573751 27th Oct 2016 10:48am
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Riverboy



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Laurie wrote:
Buy British Rolling Eyes
Should be cheaper now.


Yes, apart from delivery costs to the south of France Sad

I called them to ask about the wood. Its Pine. Rolling Eyes No thanks.
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Riverboy wrote:
Websites that give zero information about their products. Evil or Very Mad That's most French websites Evil or Very Mad

I want to buy some wooden five bar gates. Basic info I need is dimensions, type of wood, thickness of wood, treated or untreated? Do I get that? No Evil or Very Mad Nothing, nada. I get a tiny picture of a gate which when clicked on to zoom, is the same tiny size. Rolling Eyes


The French are ten years behind the U.K. when it comes to websites. The only 'Bricolage' that has a website anything like you'll find in Blighty is, in my opinion, Leroy Merlin. Thumbs Up. PS, they use pine for everything.... Monsieur Le Grenadier

I've not been everywhere, but it's on my list.....

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Spent an hour or so re-waxing my Barbour yesterday, a perfect bank holiday task; (little bit of modern folk music, and a good claret as accompaniment and it is positively cathartic Thumbs Up ). On inspection this morning after letting it dry for 24hrs I noticed I missed a patch, just a couple of cms square Big Cry Monsieur Le Grenadier

I've not been everywhere, but it's on my list.....

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had a visit onto the hard shoulder today.

if anyone knows the A38(M) into Birmingham you might know it's had a 30mph restriction for the last few months?

well as I'm heading to work this morning the dash board thinks it's become a pin ball machine flashing flicking etc. then just as I drift off the Tyburn Rd to join the A38M it drops into limp mode. No big deal it's a 30mph speed limit.......wrong !
they obviously removed that last night ! Evil or Very Mad Censored . they couldn't have done that 24hrs later could?

so I pulls onto the hard shoulder realising my mistake to do a re-start on the engine........all good and I'm now looking for an opportunity / gap to re-join. The perfect big gap comes along bar a single car in the left lane of two. so I'm picking up speed indicating just waiting for this single car to move over to the right.......does he heck !!!!! FFfffin
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Bono from U2 has been awarded, Women of the year by Glamour magazine what is that all about. I tell you the world has gone mad.
If I was on a desert island with Bono and that ugly bint Theresa-may, would I choose her to cuddle up, to, no I wouldn't i would kill myself rather than have to listen to the sh*t they give out. For those who like Welsh Mountains and narrow boats have a look at my videos and photos at..

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^^^ The more discomforting question is which one of the two would you eat first when the food ran out?

Not a nice thought, is it!

Actually you wouldn't have that problem becuase you'd have already killed yourself to get away from the two of them! Rolling with laughter
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To put that in context, I think Caitlyn Jenner (aka Bruce Jenner) won last year... Running Restoration Thread http://www.defender2.net/forum/post323197.html#323197

Self confessed mileage hunter Very Happy
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gilarion



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I would like to have a real grumpy grumble about the Oxford English Dictionary. Shocked

We all know every year it publishes new words, nothing wrong with that but this year it has added some American colloquialisms, I ask you American words in an English dictionary. One of the latest’s of these horrors is the word ‘Fuhgeddaboudit’ meaning ‘forget about it’.
When the hell is anyone going to use that in a sentence?

I thought Trump as president was bad enough but adding these poxy yank words to our dictionaries, the world has gone mad,

Still I suppose I will just have to Fuhgeddaboudit . Rolling Eyes

And the word of the year 'Post Truth' do not the people at OED know that's two words no wonder our country is slipping down the drain Whistle For those who like Welsh Mountains and narrow boats have a look at my videos and photos at..

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Laurie



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I hate the modern trend with computers and laptops that have no hard drive activity indicator light.
When it appears to be doing nothing you can't tell whether the thing's working or frozen Banging Head 
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^ May be because most of them nowadays have no hard drive anymore, but SSD's - so no hard drive activity indicator needed? Whistle Rolling with laughter Thumbs Up Cheers, Vincent
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Laughing
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Laurie



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VeeTee wrote:
^ May be because most of them nowadays have no hard drive anymore, but SSD's - so no hard drive activity indicator needed? Whistle Rolling with laughter Thumbs Up

Mine have HDs with no activity indicators. 
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