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Today we have installed an electric gate to Chateau Faz. This is not keep out wandering GSers but - we hope - to deter wild boar. It has just occurred to me that dogs from the village will do what dogs like to do - cock their legs against something new on their territory to mark it. Is a nasty electric shock going to travel up their pee-line? Are we going to be woken up by howls in the night?

Nothing foodie there so... Geeky didn't invite us for dinner tonight so we didn't eat his marinaded anchovies. As a starter we had avocado with smoked bacon.

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I think the voltage is too low, but you could go and try it, Baz.

I had takeaway curry. How classy am I?

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voltage to low no shock unless the dog touched his member to the gate thae yes i imagine you would hear quite a howl. do you hunt any wild boar its great meat for braising,making sausage or salami or a treffic sauce for pasta

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...slightly related, but we installed an ATM last week (our first, private individuals can operate ATMS/EPOS systems in the US) and a I noticed a puddle down on one corner even tho the machine is in a covered breezeway...took me a few seconds to figure it out...

...even more slightly related, I had tuna on toast for lunch.

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I double dog dare you to pee on that there electric fence.

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gengis, reckons I'm always pissin' all over things so I should come round and test drive it for you.

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Raymond Chandler's agent told me that when he was drunk one day he decided to pee in the fire. Unfortunately it was an electric fire. Gave him quite a shock.

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You only have to pee on an electric fence once to become a believer. Been there, done that -- once.

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The good news is that the local hunt killed five wild boar today. The trouble is that the boar are getting less wild. In the past (even during our six years here) the boar came down from the hills in summer when drought left them little to eat and at the first gunshot in September would retreat back up the hills. Now they have lost all fear, stay in the valleys, wander along the roads and go into the villages. Boar have even been sighted in nearby Beziers - a town of 30,000. Adjacent to our land is a small vineyard and that was stripped of grapes in the course of one night in August. They are incredibly destructive.

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It is true that 2 or 3 people a year get electrocuted in France for peeing off a railroad bridge -- not the same current as for boars, however.

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