Bloody snow on its way this week.Any thing but snow please !

sleet and freezing rain coming right up sir!

AndyD 8-)#

Looking on metcheck, it's allegedly going to be minus five, feeling like minus ten next Sunday morning! Oh joy. . . . . . . .

H.

Interesting discussion going on here;

http://www.holidaytruths.co.uk/viewt...?f=60&t=149291


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And jcbrum is very likely to know if the British charter operators are intending to pull the plug in 18 months given the line of business he is in.

Still that won't affect the long term tourists/visitors or the genuine expats.

H.

Just heard from Newcastle - snowing hard !!

[B]Don't know if this is true, I am sure one of you will tell me it is a joke, but if correct could be worth a try to get rid of those ANTS---


THIS SHOULD CHANGE YOUR MIND ABOUT USING ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS.....IF YOU USE THEM.

We live in the woods and carpenter ants are a huge problem. We have spent thousands of dollars with Orkin and on ant poisons trying to keep them under
control but nothing has helped. So when I read somewhere that aspartame *(NutraSweet)* was actually developed as an ant poison and changed to being considered non-poisonous after it was realized that a lot more money could be made on it as a sweetener than as an ant poison, I decided to give it a try.

I opened two packets of aspartame sweetener, and dumped one in a corner of each of our bathrooms . That was about 2 years ago and I have not seen any carpenter ants for about 9 to 12 months. It works better than the most deadly poisons I have tried. Any time they show up again, I simply dump another package of NutraSweet in a corner, and they will be gone for a year or so again. Since posting this information I have had many people tell me of their success solving ant problems with this substance, when nothing else worked. I found later that small black ants would not eat the aspartame. It was determined that if you mixed it with apple juice, they would quickly take it back to the nest, and all would be dead within 24 hours, usually. I have found that sometimes it will kill them, and sometimes it does not. Not sure why, may be slightly different species of ants or something.

Fire Ants: We got our first fire ant hill about 2 weeks ago. Poison did not work. We tried aspartame and the ants ignored it until we got a light rain. It was just a sprinkle, enough t o moisten the NutraSweet and ground, but not enough to wash it away. They went crazy, hundreds of them grabbing it and taking it back into the mound. When I checked the mound 2 days later, there was no sign of the fire ants. I even dug the mound up, and still saw none of them.

How does it Work: *Aspartame is a neuropoison.* It most likely kills the ants by interfering with their nervous system. It could be direct, like stopping their heart, or something more subtle like killing their sense of taste so they can't figure out what is edible, or smell, so they can't follow their trails, or mis-identify their colonies members, so they start fighting each other. Not sure what causes them to end up dying, just know that for many species of ants it will kill them quickly and effectively.

As with any poison I recommend wearing gloves and washing any skin areas that come in contact with this poison, and avoid getting it in your mouth, despite anything the labeling may indicate.

More information on this poison can be found at:
www.dorway.com

*The Truth About Aspartame...

*Aspartame is NOT a natural substance!*

* Aspartame is NOT a Diet Enhancement product!*

*Aspartame is NOT safe - for ANYONE!*

*Aspartame is NOT a food "additive" *

*Aspartame is an UNREGULATED and UNSAFE DRUG!*

*Aspartame in liquids turns to FORMALDEHYDE above freezing!*

*Aspartame is even worse for DIABETICS!*

*Aspartame poisoning is cumulative (it adds up!)*

* Aspartame by products get stored in your FAT!*

*Aspartame has 92 "Official" Side Effects (the worst is DEATH!)*

* Aspartame MIMICS a wide range of problems*

*Aspartame side effects are USUALLY MISDIAGNOSED!*

*People with MS are warned to stay away from Aspartame!







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"aspartame *(NutraSweet)*"

That was top of my shopping list, Noni - having run out. Now I'm thinking more than twice.

Sugar is bad for you, sweeteners are bad for you, Goa f**** your mind up - what is there left in life?

Mind you, I've seen a few ants in the kitchen............. Gotta get at that Bitch Queen somehow..............Newtons, here I come.........

aspartame *(NutraSweet)*
Noni, I have just copied that to a friend who uses nutrasweet and lives just north of Newcastle where you presumably have friends or relatives. It is not snowing here in Surrey yet but the wind is icy and the sky is grey, when it goes a bit yellow looking the snow will have reached us. I am a geordie in exile!

North Surrey had a very light sprinkling last night........


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Used sweeteners for years. - have not lost any weight.
Out here, it is either sweeteners or eat the bloody ants etc. that are in your sugar when you buy it. The decision is yours!!!!!
Of course, the sanctimonious don't use either.

K800 -Newcastle has had a real blanket of snow. Stops my sister from going out and spending, all the time.

North Surrey! We must be in South Surrey then.

I only use sugar in baking, I do not have a sweet tooth, much prefer starters to deserts but I hope I am not sanctimonious about it. At my weight I can not afford to be! The cold has curtailed my shopping.

Sorry noni - it's not true - you should have checked at snopes

AndyD 8-)#

thanks for sharing this noni - i just checked the label of the diet cola from our local supermarket and found it contains Aspartame ! i understand diet coke / pepsi contains the same