I can explain in very simple terms. In England we say garden because a yard is made purely of concrete. Anyone who has ever built a house will tell you that concrete is measured by the yard when it's ordered. So, you see, a yard whether in the front or the back is a strip of concrete. A good example is "Scotland Yard" or at a school "play yard'. Do you hire a 'gardener" in the US? Doesn't he mow your lawn? You don't have to grow veggies to have a garden. JackieBrit

Keep a pizza box handy - pop it on top of the pan: need one larger than the size of the pan. Newspaper'd do ... in a pinch (making sure it lies flat - no room for air to enter). Do not try to carry pan to balcony of apt. - boiling oil and synthetic carpets aren't compatible. Neither are hands, if not covered by leather/neoprene gloves. ole joyful

It is funny you bring up the seams ptreckel because I was just talking about this with the guy at the store yesterday! He showed me the plan that was prepared after the estimator came to measure. Our rec room is sorta rectangular, 24 feet wide by roughly 40 feet at the longest. The original plan showed the seams (and the line of the carpet weave) going crosswise, evidently created by some software that generates the most efficient layout in terms of material needed. I thought it would look better if the carpet line went the long way of the room, so we talked about that and if it would require more material. This carpet is Masland's Woven Road, a very low & smallish loop, and to my eye there is a line to it, tho more subtle than many. But now that you say the seams will show and maybe fray, I am wondering if there is anything we can do about this, and if the lengthwise/crosswise layout has any bearing on the seam thing..... And yes, I have now learned that NO wool carpets should be vacuumed with the rotary power brush!!! Somehow we went from the manual carpet sweepers back in the day when before synthetics dominated to the Hoovers to today's vacuums that are super powered. I realize now the damage probably done to some of our oriental carpets with overenthusiastic vacuuming. No more! And then about the dog....we have a 22 pound guy who still has the zoomies at age 8. He has to deal with lots of sliding indoors since our house has mostly hardwoods, although I have strategically located a few throw rugs at his turn around spots. With new carpet in the rec room, I was looking forward to letting him race around inside without any slipping. Do I need to worry that his claws will tear up this kind of carpet as he's flying around? Sadly, scottie mom, I have no friends who are interior decorators or who have even used a decorator, so I am not sure who I would engage to inspect the carpet with me. While the sample has the overcast edges, our proposal is for WTW installation, which is what people typically expect here. For my own use, I might go with the bound or overcast edges with a custom fit, if the store could even do that, but we are going with carpet largely for resale since we need to "encapsulate" the old vinyl tile. I did chat about this bargain carpet option with a guy at a competing carpet store, the one with the most outstanding reputation in the area, that I probably would have used OTBE. He was pretty candid with me -- when he heard the price for this Masland Woven Road, he was amazed an commented it's below cost. He said at that price he would do it in his own basement, and he has a sump pump with all the attendant issues. But after years of selling carpet, he has special appreciation for the wool products. Our basement doesn't have a sump pump; it's walk out with good site drainage, no moldy smells, etc., but we have always kept a dehumidifier going down there anyway. He told me that because we already have a vapor barrier with the original tough vinyl tiles which are in perfect condition, there is little risk of moisture coming through to create mold, as long as the space has good air movement. Our HVAC system has two outlets there. The main thing is that we have to cover the old tile to sell the house. Reputable dealers here will not use an adhered product on the kind of floor we have, so our options are WTW carpet or LVT, which is way too much investment just for resale. The typical realtor thing in our area is to use a cheap cream pile carpet in the basement rec room to brighten it for resale, make it seem cosy, and encapsulate that old vinyl asbestos tile that Dad installed back in the day. So now, I have before me a lovely product that due to this weird fluke will get us where we need to be for the resale market, complement the existing paneling, and would cost us about the same as the junky thing I hate!

The characters in Versailles are mostly French and are supposed to be speaking to each other in French. Thus they would have no ‘ foreign‘ accent. I think it would sound ridiculous to have them all putting on Inspector Cluseau voices. Some of the cast are English. Others are Welsh, Scottish, French, Canadian or Swiss. I don’t recall any Americans. Presumably a generic English accent suited them all. I haven't seen Reign.