On 2014-08-15 10:21:38 +0000, Martin said:

On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 09:53:18 +0100, Sacha wrote:

On 2014-08-14 22:15:11 +0000, Nick Maclaren said:

In article ,
Martin 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 I want back a few years later and the garden had been
replaced by yet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.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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

In Singapore it was saturating the area with DDT that did it. The same is true
in parts of The Netherlands.

5 or 6 years ago we stayed at a hotel in Turkey in Dalyan. We were
having pre-dinner drinks one evening when we saw the groundsman going
round, spraying the banks of the river where it bounded the hotel
garden. Ray recognised it as DDT and we moved hastily. The hotel owner
assured us it was 'nothing to worry about' No thanks!
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Sacha
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South Devon
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