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Ex-Elise now, sadly. Not the first time that house has been submerged. The neighbours had about 5 tonnes of flint in their drive as well as the water. Some of the local roads have disappeared altogether, together with all the newly filled potholes!
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Crumbs, Colin, whereabouts in Somalia do you live?
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Colin I got trapped in the flooding fiasco on Tuesday, I had to go to Canterbury to pick up a sofa and it took me 7hrs to get home via Frittenden and Headcorn. I got stuck on the M2 for ages and then found that the Detling turnoff was flooded. I do that route frequently and it normally takes me 1hr from my house I saw a lot of damage to peoples properties and have not seen rain like that since the floods that affected our village in 1968.
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Luckily we're high on the Downs so flooding not normally an issue although a mystery puddle in the middle of the kitchen meant the dog was prime suspect until we traced it to a small gap round a window frame. The rain somehow contrived to squirt about 4ft from the window onto the floor hardly touching anything else. On the Tuesday it all happened we had done a circuit via Faversham and Canterbury without encountering a drop of rain but on our return roads were washed out, cesspits overflowing into lanes (had to thoroughly pressure wash the car's nether regions) homes were underwater, unbelievable. A neighbour had cycled to Sissinghurst and rode back home through the worst of it, dodging the thunderbolts. Sodding Brexit, I said this would happen.
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Jean des Hauts de France I guess you have a close relationship with your french neighbors. I just had a talk with an ex neighbor in Brittany, he told me many Britts have bought houses in this area which I know. But I was surprised when he told me that may bring with painting, coatings, carpets and all the needed stuff to live and maintain their houses. Is it that cheaper in GB?
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Gerard, when I ran my trucking business we did a lot of work for ex-pats living in France who would order all their building supplies from the UK. Oddly, plaster (presumably not 'of Paris') was the one commodity that was most in demand.
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Does anyone have any real world experience of bringatrailer.com?
I just tried to register to bid, and the need to put up credit card details made me a little nervous! |
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Never used it Ian, but it does seem a well established auction site. My understanding is that credit card info is required so that BaT can take their buyers fee direct?
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Hi Colin! I could not imagine a big difference in prices and quality, not mentioning money rate. I use to work for Tollens group in France but should confess never took care of this kind of thing!
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On another forum someone was whingeing about BaT, and many people leapt to its defence. I guess that's a pretty good review, the fact that the internet isn't moaning about it!
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Paint is very expensive in France compared with UK, but I think Belgium is even more expensive than France, but then Belgium is generally expensive for everything - it's even 70 centimes to pee now!! So yes, it is generally better to buy paint etc in GB, especially if you live close to the Channel. You have to be a bit careful how much you bring though: I know someone who brought quite a lot in a van & when checked at Dover was warned he should have registered it as a hazardous load, or whatever. |
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Plastering as we know it is virtually unknown in France, as plasterboard is the norm. You will search in vain for a plasterer.
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You have to pay for a weewee in Belgium but they offer clean places… hence the joke they make: in Belgium they say toilet and in France we say toiletS because you have to visit several to find a decent one!
Many building repair supplies are hazardous, even what we call "peinture Ã* l'eau" meaning water is the solvent. The very much appreciated in historic racing CVL products can't be safely brought back now. Those were the days! |
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Water is deadly. Considering the number of times it is identified as a cause of death and how many ways it can kill, I'm surprised it has not been banned yet. |
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I don't know about deadly but water has certainly been a danger to life (as they like to say nowadays) around here lately, the volume of it that has fallen from the skies in a very short space of time - see Mike's picture of the Spa tunnel. We've certainly experienced some very strange weather with very very heavy, but very localised, storms popping up all over the place. |
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On a more cheery note, Tim Falce tipped me off that a classic car rally was passing through my village in the UK, so I popped down and made a quick video
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That looks like a pretty large event with a great selection of classics. I assume the 2 soft top Mk1 Cortinas have, in some way, a local connection to Crayford or similar. I don't think I've ever seen one around here. Mk2s once in a while, but not Mk1s. |
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Great video Gordon. Thanks for sharing.
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