Paphos Life

The reference to "letter" was related to the cost. I did not say that they couldn't do the same for a small parcel.

A document (5 pages) recently sent to UK via DHL cost €29.88 and was received 2 days later. Registered mail (for a letter) from the PO near Paphos Homemarket costs €2.54 and usually takes about 7-10 days and can be tracked. You don't need to fill a form but the cashier prints a barcoded sticker and ...

Sunspot almost has it right. The problem is caused by having square manholes and small pipes. Make sure that your waste pipes are 100mm diameter. Get a builder to put "benching" which forms a channel to direct the flow. This can be plastic, which are usually preformed, or concrete with a c...

If you divide the number of positives by the number of tests each day you will find that the positived per thousand tests has rocketed up. Obviously a lot of tests are from contact tracing so you would expect a higher than average positive at the moment. I believe that they woudl be satisfied with 5...

To change the subject slightly:

I took a package to their Paphos office at 09.20 on Monday and it was delivered to a UK address at 12.00 the next day.

Fantastic service from DHL!

Presumably the above "moaners" also don't do self check-in and labelling of luggage at airports either.

Cartridge World.

Their own inks work well also, although they never have the right size for my black cartiridge so I have to get the HP one. I have also ordered from them on-line and they deliver to your local (ACS?) courier point

Various Ikea Bathroom Fittings as below: Grundtal 80cm Glass Shelf Grundtal 80cm Towel Rail Grundtal Toilet Roll Holder x2 Kolja 55cm Circular Mirror (but no fixings) Lillholmen Towel Hanger Unused and surplus to requirements. All but the last still in their original packaging. Only €20 for the lot....

Costas Tyres on the Polis Road. Almost opposite Sports Direct.

They have changed the ones on my street as well but because they are directional and my house is above the lamp the sky is now brilliant. Nebulas and fainter stars are much clearer and some visible with the naked eye.

Really great change so well done to the local council.

To get back to the original subject, I see on track and trace that a package for me left the UK on 4 June and arrived at Larnaca on 26 June.

0.37% is not "about a quarter" it is more like a three-hundreth.

The brown line that you can see in front of the road is the reinforcement for a pile cap. This will join all of the lowere piles together and form a slab that will probably then be buried under the new road, so still a lot of shuttering and concreting to be done yet. At the top of the slope you can ...

You don't have to close roads to widen them. Anybody who has driven along a motorway in the UK knows that.

However, it does take thought and planning and probably some delays if one-way traffic is needed.

I guess if you normally pay 19.99 for a seat then 30 is still not bad!

Surely the important thing is how many other people are there. If you live in a district, using whichever definition you like, and the place you go to walk has lots of people who are not socially distancing then the thing to do is go somewhere else. The same goes for shops. Just because we are on th...

Free access except for those records they have already sold to people like Find My Past. For those records there is a link to the pay site.

When I used to compost back in the UK soil was a definite no-no in compost. All it does is cool the compost down, which is not good for the composting process. Although I guess the temperature here in the summer may add to the process!

Regarding home-made masks I was intrigued by how effective they might be as most are made, or the designs are put out, by amateurs, probably without any medical training. Anyway, I have some dust masks of the DIY type that you do see being worn so I went looking for particle sizes. The dust monitori...

I think restricting the distance travelled is to reduce the spread geographically. Should you be a carrier then it is better to travel locally and infect locally because that is one outbreak. If you travel further then there will be a second location which could also be the centre of an outbreak. Th...