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Subject Topic: Citronella candles ??
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25/6/2011 at 5:14pm
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Just curious are they any good ????,we are going to France in August and the last thing i want to be doing is swatting flying things every 2 seconds !!!!!can anyone recomend any that are good and work please ,many thanks xxlouise xx


25/6/2011 at 7:07pm
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Yes. I buy them all the time. Great for BBQ eating in garden. I live in the Scottish outback where the midges flourish. Big candles are a must in the summer.
I have some smaller jar type to take camping along with some Tlights. Not tested them yet but I'm sure they will be fine.

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25/6/2011 at 7:49pm
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We use them in the garden and they seem to do the trick!

My friend uses the coils held in the metal dish/cage thing (she gets them from Towsure)



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25/6/2011 at 8:17pm
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not had a problem as yet with the flying foe, since we got the caravan, but we used to use a quite large citronella candle from towsure, when we used to go camping under canvas, the one we opted for comes in a little tin bucket and used to last us 2 or 3 trips, worked really well too

the little bucket used to come in handy in it's own right when we'd used the candle, i used to use the bucket as a paint kettle when decorating



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26/6/2011 at 12:09am
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When I camped in France I bought some concentrated citronella oil and put a good splash around the tent door - it smells very strong of lemon but never had a problem and we were camped among trees.


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26/6/2011 at 8:53am
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We use the UCO ones in a clone of one of their lanterns, work fine

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26/6/2011 at 1:01pm
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I have always found them useful and fairly effective.  Thank you for the reminder, I must get some for when we are away.

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