How to get a front-yard a good place to stay ?

Hi Maksim, Here are a couple of links that you may find useful to help solve your problems and allow you to enjoy your outside space all summer. Hope this helps!!
http://www.bigfogg.com/patio-misting.html
http://www.thegardenersguild.co.uk/insect%20repellent%20plants.html

 

Thats a nice offer Shiney

 

Here I am !
We certainly should do.
In these days of catastrophic nuclear events in Japan, renewable energies are of topical interest.
Sure enough, sunshine as well as wind and other nature's forces should be look at as sources of energy.
Let's put it this way: in Italy there's no any renewable energies oriented mentality...
And we, the citizens, have not the will and any idea to do something on our own...
We lack a leadership.
I can hardly look after myself, just imagine if I can care about solar panels or stuff like that. :-)
Sure enough, I should, I must confess. But, but...
I can hardly look after energy bills, gas bills, costs, waste sorting, etc. :-)
We should have a "ruling class" leading we the citizens...
As it occurs in Germany, scandinavian countries, the Netherland and, I would say - in many respects - in Uk and France too...
But every country people have the ruling class they deserve, I must confess...
That's the way it is... (this talk that I am making sounds like those talks that people do when sitting one in front of the other during a train ride... hehehehe. Think about those talks, maybe during a two hours train ride, to get the time pass by.... hehehehehe :-) )

Bye !

 

I miss the "scompartimenti" of old fashion Italian trains...it was a bit like a cruise.

 

I know what you mean Maksim, had many a long train jouney.

The UK gouvernement pretends to promote green energy, by way of grants if you install renewables. But when you look into it you find that you will spend more paying a "registered installer" than you would get back from the grant:DOH:

I installed my solar hot water system myself, it cost me £1,200.

The quotes I had to install it were £5,500 to £8,000 and I would have got 50% back in the form of grant money.

 

Interesting. expecially, the repellent plants.

I wonder I they really work. Do they ?
I must think so, since you use it in Brazil (do you see ? I well know that many of british people are travellers or holiday makers. That's why I knew they could suggest me something although they live in a such a cool place as England is. Because, as it were, many of them spend their holidays in such a warm places as the Canary Island, Costa del Sol, Algavre, Brazil, Virgin Islands, etc.
Not to mention that in the last century thay ruled over such a hot humid place as India is... )

 

The "scompartimenti" were nice but - probably - not the "most cleaned"...

 

I think you'll find that the ordinary classes just endured the heat. The officers and upper class hired punkawallas. A punkawalla was, I believe, a poor person (usually just a child) who would waft a large leaf for hours on end to create a breeze to cool the officers. Often they would do this in return for nothing more than a bowl of rice and a drink of tea.

 

Mamma mia ! (as we say in Italy. In Spain they say "Madre mia !" It means something like "blimey"...).
£ 1,200 , £5,500 , £8,000 (let's say 1,500 Euro, 6,500 Euro, 10,000 Euros) would be defenetely too much for me... I should work for 20 years to pay back for that amount of money... :-)

 

As it occurred in ancient Egypt with Pharaons and slaves... :-)

 

Hard to believe !
It's so hot over here !
Today: +28 C recorded in Milan (T-W-E-N-T-Y-E-I-G-H-T).
+26 C Recorded in Milan Malpensa (that's the outskirts of Milan. Is for Milan the same as Hounslow is for London Charing Cross).
...and also over Europe: +24 C in Frankfurt, +23 C in Paris and + 21 C in London...
+21 in London is OUTSTANDING too...
What's the point ?
The point is that, as far as I am concerned, I already have to cope with the hot dry climate !
Do you know what ?
Not before than one month ago, I woke up in the morning with frost on the fields and I wore an anorak.
One month later (it's only April 7) my lawn is starting to get yellow due to the high insolation and the hot dry weather. Today, over here, not a single cloud in the sky, temperature as high as +26, +28 and humidity at 25% (dew point as low as +6 C ).
Right now, it is Eleven in the night and I have all the windows open to get a bit of cool air...
One month ago my lawn was yellow-brown due to the early morning frost.
Today - one month later - my lawn is yellow due to the ferocious insolation and the hot temperature...
Tomorrow is my birthday.
I've never realized that I was born in "summer".... hehehehehe :-)
Today I was thinking in my mind: "in 41 years of age is the first time that I celebrate my birthday in the open-air in T-Shirt and Shorts".
Maybe, tomorrow I will celebrate my birthday with a party by an open-air swiming-pool... :-)
Umbelievable...

 

Are we all invited?

Happy birthday for tomorrow.

 

Yes. Just get the airplane, one and a half hour flight and here you are.
The swiming-pool is just close to Milan Malpensa Airport.
Close to Terminal 2.... hehehehehe.
The only thing is that while you stay by the pool, you may have a Boeing 747 taking off over your heads... hehehehe. :-)
If you bring also a bottle and a cake you are even more welcome !

Thanks ;-)