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Old 15-08-2014, 11:48 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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On 15/08/2014 11:23, Martin wrote:
On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 10:01:35 +0100 (BST), (Nick
Maclaren) wrote:

In article ,
Sacha wrote:

In the 1970s before Singapore was totally modernised. I ate in an open air
restaurant set in a garden of fan palms illuminated by tiny paraffin lights. It
was magic. I want back a few years later and the garden had been
replaced by yet
another hotel.

When I were a lad, the sole illumination at night was either hurricane
or Tilley lamps - both using paraffin, of course.

That helped keep mosquitoes away - the paraffin, I mean.

No way - tropical mosquitoes aren't the wimpish things that we
get in the far north! We used netting and DMP.

We still use netting here.


Paraffin was used against white ants - table and chair legs stood
in tin cans with an inch of it in the bottom.

Cured piles too? :-)

Did you have Aladdin lamps with mantles too?

I still have, and you can still get new mantles.
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