"Bronwyn" wrote
Cover dish with foil tightly and oven bake mod oven for say, 1 hr max.
The aroma will send sane people mad and keen to be your very best
friend!

Saved in my Recipe file, thank you! Very creative, looks delish.

"bob" wrote in message
My wife and I planned to take a similar trip (also taking in Venice
and Rome), and renting a villa near enough to Florence that we could
spend a week to ten days enjoying Florence's art & culinary treasures.


Sorry to hear of your problem. If you do go, this is the place we rented.
It was a great location, reasonable price, outstanding facilities.

http://www.villeinitalia.com/houses/...tHouseNumber=8

The agent was good also. This is just outside of Florence so you can drive
in in 20 minutes or take the train nearby.

The drive from here to Venice is about 3 hours.

bob wrote in
news

Unfortunately, our septic system decided to choose that time to have a
nervous breakdown and we ended up spending our holiday money on
engineer's reports, council permits and the installation of an
expensive, new system that recycles wastewater so we can use it to
irrigate our trees.


http://www.biolytix.com/index.php


????



--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

"People sleep safely in their beds because rough men stand ready in
the night to do violence to those who would do them harm"
-- George Orwell

On Wed, 09 May 2007 01:52:22 GMT, "Edwin Pawlowski"
magnanimously proffered:


"bob" wrote in message
My wife and I planned to take a similar trip (also taking in Venice
and Rome), and renting a villa near enough to Florence that we could
spend a week to ten days enjoying Florence's art & culinary treasures.


Sorry to hear of your problem. If you do go, this is the place we rented.
It was a great location, reasonable price, outstanding facilities.

http://www.villeinitalia.com/houses/...tHouseNumber=8

The agent was good also. This is just outside of Florence so you can drive
in in 20 minutes or take the train nearby.

The drive from here to Venice is about 3 hours.

Many thanks for the link. That place looks perfect ... and very
reasonably priced. Being able to train into Florence is a HUGE
advantage. I'd better get back to my Italian lessons. Cheers, b


--

una cerveza mas por favor ...

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On Wed, 9 May 2007 04:10:23 +0200 (CEST), PeterL
magnanimously proffered:

bob wrote in
news

Unfortunately, our septic system decided to choose that time to have a
nervous breakdown and we ended up spending our holiday money on
engineer's reports, council permits and the installation of an
expensive, new system that recycles wastewater so we can use it to
irrigate our trees.


http://www.biolytix.com/index.php


????

A similar idea and in the neighbourhood, but different technology from
across the ditch. This is the system we settled on:
http://www.oasisclearwater.co.nz/

Biolytix continues to work if there's a power outage and the Oasis
Clearwater system doesn't. However, the OCS will still continue to
accept wastewater for several days and then process it when the power
is restored.

In heavy soil like we have (clay), the self-contained Oasis Clearwater
system works better because the soil really isn't porous and drainage
is bad - which is one of the reasons why our conventional septic
system failed in the first place, even though it was less than eight
years old! The other was that two of our three ten metre deep sink
holes (drainage bores) were put over springs and filled up with water,
and only one sink hole was operable.

According to the engineer's report, there were no guarantees that we
wouldn't encounter the same kind of failure a few years down the line
even with five or six new sink holes.

Our postponed holiday in Italy aside, the new system has been worth
the expense. We live right on the northeast coast of New Zealand's
North Island in an area known for its dry summers and exposure to
wind. Since Florence was installed, the trees along our boundary
(planted as windbreaks) have flourished like never before and our
olive trees have benefited from the wind protection. To bring it back
on-topic, the next things on our agenda are fruit trees and a vege
garden like we left behind at our last property. Who says a septic
tank ain 't worth shit?


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una cerveza mas por favor ...

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Wax-up and drop-in of Surfing's Golden Years: http://www.surfwriter.net
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~

Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
"bob" wrote in message
My wife and I planned to take a similar trip (also taking in Venice
and Rome), and renting a villa near enough to Florence that we could
spend a week to ten days enjoying Florence's art & culinary treasures.


Sorry to hear of your problem. If you do go, this is the place we rented.
It was a great location, reasonable price, outstanding facilities.

http://www.villeinitalia.com/houses/...tHouseNumber=8

The agent was good also. This is just outside of Florence so you can drive
in in 20 minutes or take the train nearby.

The drive from here to Venice is about 3 hours.

Even for a small place without pool, that's really cheap. Good for you
for finding it.

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"Giusi" wrote in message

http://www.villeinitalia.com/houses/...tHouseNumber=8


Even for a small place without pool, that's really cheap. Good for you
for finding it.

The owner figures he is priced 20% less without a pool. That is fine with me
as we don't care about a pool and would not be using it. He won't put a
pool in because it would not be fitting with the character of the existing
house and land use. They have many fruit trees and over 100 varieties of
plants.

One reason we chose that place was the first floor had only two steps inside
as my wife cannot take steps well. It was like living in a castle!
--
Ed
http://pages.cthome.net/edhome/

bob wrote in
:

On Wed, 9 May 2007 04:10:23 +0200 (CEST), PeterL
magnanimously proffered:

bob wrote in
news

Unfortunately, our septic system decided to choose that time to have
a
nervous breakdown and we ended up spending our holiday money on
engineer's reports, council permits and the installation of an
expensive, new system that recycles wastewater so we can use it to
irrigate our trees.


http://www.biolytix.com/index.php


????

A similar idea and in the neighbourhood, but different technology from
across the ditch. This is the system we settled on:
http://www.oasisclearwater.co.nz/


Seems quite simple.



Biolytix continues to work if there's a power outage and the Oasis
Clearwater system doesn't. However, the OCS will still continue to
accept wastewater for several days and then process it when the power
is restored.


What they haven't nutted out yet is how to stop the phone alarm from
screwing with the landline connections. I've been having problems for
quite some time with the phones/ADSL connections and have been getting
quite irrate with the phone company. Today, a new technician came out
as, once again, we had lost our landline.

He spent 5 mins looking over the layout of the wiring, then cut the line
to the crapper tank. Problem solvered!!

No static, stable ADSL, clear phone lines.

So now Biolytic is going to have to send someone out to look at why
there's a short in the tank.



garden like we left behind at our last property. Who says a septic
tank ain 't worth shit?



LOL!! I definitely won't be using the worms in mine to go fishing with!!


--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

ACHTUNG! ALLES LOOKENSPEEPERS! Das computermachine ist nicht fuer
gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Ist easy schnappen der springenwerk,
blowenfusen und poppencorken mit spitzensparken. Ist nicht fuer gewerken
bei das dumpkopfen. Das rubbernecken sichtseeren keepen das cotten-
pickenen hans in das pockets muss; relaxen und watchen das
blinkenlichten