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Gala as ever you are such a good source of information, thanks so much. Jan my friend is a much published author so peace and quiet are good for her, partner needs good access to family and friends, we will see how we go.A

Thanks everyone, I have lots of info I can now pass on to her, especially websites, the other stuff I know after 3 years here, its interesting that prices seem cheaper than here, and some very pretty properties at reasonable prices on the websites, but not knowing the area local knowledge is always best.A

Thanks for such a long and thoughtful post John, I am now going to have to read it again, but it certainly gives everyone much food for thought and perhaps a focus for our activities as well.Angie

Sure Moxie need to have positive ideas, as I have always said, not always possible to predict where your thread goes though.!.But would welcome the newbies coming up with some ideas that we or they could use,A

David , calma, we do what we can, because we feel a commintment to Italy our adopted country, which has been good to us so we give back what we can. Thats what we do.But you cannot force people to take part if they dont want to, they may have their reasons, we just get on with this in our way. Perhaps people have donated through just giving and feel this is enough?. Or perhaps some people live in a vacuum and only ever help their immediate family?. Who knows?. But we just need to concentrate on what we do, and do well.A

Hi Claudia, welcome to the community, I use a mixture of soil (mostly clay) and compost, either bought, or from our own compost heap.Seems to work well, but needs waterering once or twice a day. Nip out the tops of your basil plants before they start to flower and they should last longer, but I have various pots of it all at different stages just to keep us going. I just buy the little plugs in the market and keep potting them up.I do the same thing with flat leaved parsley.A

Aperitivi and team meeting!!! for BBQ just for 10mins ...honest.A

Thanks Serge, I cannot get anyone around here to part with their manure, but there is a stables on the road to Amandola so could try there.A

Interesting, we have 80 olive trees and would never use anything chemical on them, neither would our neigbours, so why do you feel the need to do so?, some of our trees are very old and still producing, we have very good olive oil and the use of chemicals to produce this seems that it is no longer organic.? But interested in your reply.A

There is a large factory outlet store for baby/toddler goods on the way to our village , I know some visitors have bought stuff there and and it looked very pretty and they  have seemed happy with it but as for quality I dont know as dont have kids!. Next time we drive past I will pop in if anyone is interested.A