I am a litle concerned for our Norwich friends - they too have a massive game next Saturday - beat AV and they will be fine - but lose at home is worrying
We're in dire form atm, hopefully we can crawl over the line in the next two games, we don't want to go to Man Citeh on the last day needing a result! At least my Watford friends are keeping me entertained!
Understatement of the year Leonardo. I am bricking it - to put it politely Sad to say, I don't think Chris Hughton is the manager for us. However, as with some of you regarding Zola, if Hughton gets some of his 'own' players, and our form and style improve, then I will hold my hands up, but I really can't see it. It seems to me that he if he thinks a player isn't good enough, then instead of trying to get the best out of him, he will leave him alone to ' struggle' and then say, "See? I knew he wasn't good enough." I could be way off the mark there, but that's just the way it comes across to me sometime.
Perhaps you shouldn't have unblocked the septic tank! Deer - well the Aussie variety anyway - hate the smell of human urine, so a regular 'sprinkle' around the hedge where the holes are would probably stop them. As an added bonus, your good lady wife wouldn't be able to complain about excessive alcohol consumption - crack open your bottles with the accompanying statement "Just keeping the deer away, dear". I know a few farmers in Queensland who have devised their own remedies which may be worth trying - both work on the same principle. One puts stakes in the ground where the deer are getting access and puts plastic bottles on top (upside down of course), the other ties on plastic bags instead of bottles. Both methods rely on wind I suppose, but the resultant noise does frighten the deer away. Another farmer swears by milk powder - deer apparently hate the stuff - but I guess that could be a tad expensive. Far easier to have a pee around the hedge IMO.
Morning all from a brightening bandit country...interesting programme on 5-Live at the moment regarding the demise of FL academies due to the set-up of EPPP (Elite Player Performance Programme) and clubs such as ours having to downgrade them and the risk of losing our best players to Prem clubs for a pittance. It's good to see the BBC keeping up with the times. OFH - I think It told you about my ex-boss's trick for keeping the deer away from his truffel saplings (no the roots have been impregnated with truffel fungus - not a truffel bearing tree!). He gets bags of hair from the hairdressers and stuffs them into old tights and hangs them around the samplings. The smell of humans helps to keep them away - a bit like BB's trick, but not so fun! Did you see that gimp Colin on the FL show? he thinks Leeds have a good chance on our terrible pitch
Anyone know if the Cardiff match is being televised? Not being as far-sighted as some, I only tried yesterday to get a ticket for it - way too late. Looks like my next match may have to be a summer friendly in Udinese - if I can persuade the wife.......
There were quite a few streams yesterday of different games BB. I am hoping that it will be the same Saturday. 12.45 BST kick off. Bit early in the day to get the Bordeaux on the go, especially if there is to be champagne in the evening.
We had a septic tank until about 2 years ago until the idiots on the local council (Engelskirchen not Cologne) decided to interpret a E.C. law quite rigidly and forced us to be attached to a central canalization system - which involved a lot of money and work - have you been affected by this law in France ? I had to plant Sloe hedges around the entire garden to keep deer out - and we also have a plague of wild boar in our area which is even worse if they get into the garden - fortunately there are feeding stations for them down in the forest which lessens the problem (Really the only reliable solution).
We use our tank only for rain water now. The state government of Nordrheinwestfalen decided to interpret European law quite literally that all houses, farms as well, that came within municipalities or villages of more than 2,000 population had to be attached to a central system - difficult in our town because there is about 300 metres altitude difference between some areas. In Austria this must have been a nightmare ! I thought this was the case in most European countries or is Germany interpreting European laws more rigidly as usual ?
We use our tank only for rain water now. The state government of NordrheinWestfalen decided to interpret European law quite literally that all houses, farms as well, that came within municipalities or villages of more than 2,000 population had to be attached to a central system - difficult in our town because there is about 300 metres altitude difference between some areas. In Austria this must have been a nightmare ! I thought this was the case in most European countries or is Germany interpreting European laws too rigidly as usual ?
We use our tank only for rain water now. The state government of NordrheinWestfalen decided to interpret European law quite literally that all houses, farms as well, that came within municipalities or villages of more than 2,000 population had to be attached to a central system - difficult in our town because there is about 300 metres altitude difference between some areas. In Austria this must have been a nightmare ! I thought this was the case in most European countries or is Germany interpreting European laws too rigidly as usual ?
We are miles away like Leo from any main drainage system. One of the small hamlets in the commune was looked at to see if it would be possible to create a central system. Twelve houses would have been connected, but the lowest quote was for €11.5m, so that idea was scrapped. Last year we all had to be inspected to see what our systems were and if they were up to date. Because the hamlet drainage does not comply with E.C. rules there was no way individual homes could pass, but we had to pay €48 to be told what we knew already. If you had a composting system then it cost twice as much. The whole country was inspected over several years and it is likely to be ten years before they repeat the exercise. In the meantime we can either install some very expensive piece of kit if you have the space to drain it off into the ground. No one has here because of the number of wells, or if you want to sell the house you must draw the attention of a possible buyer to it. The result is until the commune sort out their drainage no one is going to do anything.
Sorry to say Andy, but that was obvious a long time ago! What did you make of Bosingwa laughing his way off the pitch?
