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DanClarke said:

I am abashed to admit that the expensive(?) dashcam I bought myself (from her) for Xmas & B'day still isn't fitted.
I want to fit it soon and on looking at the destructions it says hide it mostly behind your rear-view mirror so it does not obstruct your view of the road ahead. This is complicated by the rear-view/cabin-view camera on the RH side of the unit.
putting it mostly behind the mirror means you can't get at it easily, but I see why they suggest that.
Where'd y'all fit yours?

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So it a single fitment camera that has 2 cameras?
I would image difficult to place to see both.
We now have two cameras 1 front 1 back, so placement not as much of an issue.
You may have to try a few places to find best position.
Try just below the rear view so you get the view out the back/front but it doesn't really intrude on your view.

J

marjon said:

its not fun but its something we have to cope with. Wasn't like this when we first got here.
The really annoying bit is driving into town and the car washes going full blast, we don't get our water that route but the plans have "apparently" been on the table for a few years.

J

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There's Water and then there's "potable water".
If you make your own well (not that hard in many areas, unless you are on a rock-laden terrain) there are loads of How-to's and examples on YouTube.you can create your own cistern full of water and pipe it up for general use but put water you want to drink through a British Berkefeld unit (or similar) to remove pathogens and impurities?

Your own pumped hose for watering or a manual "on-demand" hand pump to fill buckets for loo flushing.

marjon said:

So it a single fitment camera that has 2 cameras?
I would image difficult to place to see both.
We now have two cameras 1 front 1 back, so placement not as much of an issue.
You may have to try a few places to find best position.
Try just below the rear view so you get the view out the back/front but it doesn't really intrude on your view.

J

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It is the Nextbase 622GW and has the option to have either a cabled-away rear-view camera, or, in the same plug on the main body of it a cabin/rear-view camera.

They do suggest this as a placement if you don't have the rear-view camera, but if you do, then it has to go even further over to the left so the plug-in rear-view camera isn't blocked by the rear view mirror.

DanClarke said:

It is the Nextbase 622GW and has the option to have either a cabled-away rear-view camera, or, in the same plug on the main body of it a cabin/rear-view camera.

They do suggest this as a placement if you don't have the rear-view camera, but if you do, then it has to go even further over to the left so the plug-in rear-view camera isn't blocked by the rear view mirror.
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Eye hassa 622 anorl. Eye want to buy the remote camera that's discounted in argos at the moment. When eye were in alfuds last week they had a nextview rear camera that looked smaller than the normal nextbase one. Bracket were smaller anorl. But eye can't find that for sale so not sure iffit's a special display model.

DanClarke said:

There's Water and then there's "potable water".
If you make your own well (not that hard in many areas, unless you are on a rock-laden terrain) there are loads of How-to's and examples on YouTube.you can create your own cistern full of water and pipe it up for general use but put water you want to drink through a British Berkefeld unit (or similar) to remove pathogens and impurities?

Your own pumped hose for watering or a manual "on-demand" hand pump to fill buckets for loo flushing.

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Oh we understand that.
Before we were connected we lived on a tank topped up with water from the local spring.
So we know the effort involved in collecting water for a shower, or the do I flush a number 1 .

J

Eye has updated me Freelander turbo actuator fred. Over ere if yer want to read about a propper oft roader being fixed.

marjon said:

Oh we understand that.
Before we were connected we lived on a tank topped up with water from the local spring.
So we know the effort involved in collecting water for a shower, or the do I flush a number 1 .

J

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"If it's Yellow, let it mellow. If it's Brown, send it down.

Hippo said:

Eye has updated me Freelander turbo actuator fred. Over ere if yer want to read about a propper oft roader being fixed.

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Oft road??? you went over the kerb at sainsberries by mistake??

Wimblowdriver said:

Oft road??? you went over the kerb at sainsberries by mistake??

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Eye has bin propper oft road innit.

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A white cat has bin in me garden. Spotted it in me naybors gardem smornin. Me friends have kept away. Eye has justed scarred it oft.

Last producer's market of the season this evening.
Lots of saying goodbyes to people we won't see again until next season.
Commiserating with the wine producers from Gaillac, which had a very severe hailstorm recently.
3 communes were very badly hit and some vineyards have now lost their entire crops, just before grape-picking is to begin.
Met a bloke and his wife who own 34 hectares about 4 kms from us including a 3 hectare lake. They live in Paris most of the time. Their land is purely grass for hay and forest, inherited from his dad. Nice peeps.
She did her degree in Lille and he did his schooling in the Lycée Henri 4 which used to be the best in France until the Lycée International, (where our grandkids go) took over top slot. He used to be a high-up civil servant, in various ministries but is now a senior member of an association of civil servants trade unions. (He gave us his card, nothing on but name, address, tel number and email address. so of course I Googled his slightly unusual name and there is his fizog and stuff. amazing thing Google!) so quite a few pleasant co-incidences and a lot of common ground. Eerily like our other Parisian friends in career.
So we'll be seeing them next season too.
Bittersweet. Hate to see the end of our time here coming to a close, as it always has to.

On that note. Off to kip.
Sleep tite all!

If gottid zombie knives and sword type fings yer can't take em to the police to be destroyed. Fings like that will become illegal soon.

Stone56 said:

We have also used a lot of H2O will need a delivery next week no rain worth talking about for another month it makes you realize how much you need even if you are economically with it

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Yes its quite shocking how much is used even when careful. I fitted a water meter on the outlet pipe from the tank so we can monitor how much we're getting through without having to keep looking in the tank. We are very careful and recycle a lot of water but it goes too quickly for my liking. There's not a lot of stored rain water left and I noticed today that the well's output time has declined by another minute.

marjon said:

We are now on a regime of (supposedly 1 day on 1 day off) yes they turn it off at 8am then they may turn it on for the next due day but it takes all day to fill all the lines so its not till late afternoon we get pressure. We got pressure at 3pm yesterday (we heard the air being pushed at 11am), so I filled the sink and did some washing up while M had a shower, then I had 1 after I finished doing the manly washing up. It was a dribble again at 11pm when we went to bed, me thinks the guys that turn the valves don't have watches, or don't want to get up early .

We don't waste water, don't have a garden to water or worry that the grass is crunchy yellow. We also spent a good few months (before we were mains connected) collecting water from a spring to fill loos and supply showers, so we understand how much is needed and also how easy it is wasted.

We have a huge choice as to dig a well, lots around here are drying as the water table lowers. Or build a storage of water that if we know the water is off we have enough if we are good.

Need to bend a few welding rods and go divining to see.
Whenever we dug an ole more than 2m +/- there was water from the ground, maybe I should go out and dig an ole.

But..... I only take the wash n go to the hot tub, then rinse in the pool,
When I stink to much.

J

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That sounds a bit dodgy, there was a load of trouble here a couple of years ago when people realised that the air being pushed through, and compressed in the process, was spinning water meters at very high speed. A few people got bills of up to €60,000 on the strength of it and were fighting it.

Stanleysteamer said:

What you say makes perfect sense.
The only thing is that we live in a non-arable part of the country. The land round here is used for growing trees and sheep. So we never see signs of rats.
Mice and "mulots", yes, moles, badgers, wolves, deer and Loirs too.
But that has to be set against the fact that for 6 months of the year no liquid runs down the pipe in the section between the septic tank and the join with the roof run off overflow pipe which itself is dry in dry periods. which basically means "not unless we are here"!

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I thought it might have been a long shot but there was always a possibility.

The thing is, they generally like drains because it's the water they are after, apart from shelter. If there is no source of water and no source of food, there will be no rats. I've also heard it said that if there are cropping trees etc, the worst thing you can do is let any fallen crop stay on the ground - there's your food for the rats.

Almonds are a big problem here because people don't harvest a lot of them and you find nuts on the ground with the end chewed open and the kernel gone quite often, which is evidence of rats. I found a drain pipe completely stuffed with them once.

Stanleysteamer said:

Clattery big storm last night.
It switched the power off so often that we decided it wasn't worth trying to stay up.
Also, after every time I put the power back on the alarm would go off, and for some reason not respond to the remote, despite the little light coming on, so I had to go and turn it off at the keypad thing.

Out to a brocante in a bit. I won't be taking any money!

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Nightmare. We've had 'lightning question mark' in the forecast for a couple of days so the well is disconnected again...

Had three power cuts as well during the day, always a nuisance but worse when it's down to a storm.

Mornin orl,
Be Chewsdi zo us boys goan back wurk. Got hoss pittle turmorro zo gude tu make best uv it. Wishin you orl a gude dai!