I would just like to say

Ok, this isn't the Joke thread but I'll put you out of your misery.
Cowboy comes off the trail at the railhead, loads a dosh and a huge itch under his gunbelt.
Goes into a bar and gets a beer.
Sez to the barkeep, "Hey, where are the women in this town?"
Barkeep says, "There ain't no women in this town!"
Cowboy thinks about this a bit, orders another beer and asks, "Well, if there ain't no women, what do you do?"
"We use Fred."
Cowboy looks hard at him, says "But I ain't like that." and keeps on drinking.

After a while his itch gets so bad cowboy says to him "I am pretty in with the ladies back East and I would not like anyone to get to hear about this so...
"If I was to use this Fred, how many people would know?"
"Six"
"SIX?????"
"Yep, there's you, there's me and there's the four guys it takes to hold Fred down,............... as he ain't like that neither!"


Now, how many of you remember it?

right that's me off to kip!
Nite all!

marjon said:

Nice to see @derwendolly is still popping in and keeping an eye on us

Hope you are ok DD

J

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I'm plodding along, although after 40 odd years of happy marriage, it does seem strange, very strange. Having the two canines is certainly a great help, at least I'm not talking to myself!!

Wimblowdriver said:

Double lick lick. I LURRVV smoked salmon

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It tastes amazing smoked for 3 days with oak

Found some stuff today.....

Stanleysteamer said:

I could and it would be the most enormous pain to do so as 300 litres takes a shed load of draining off. A plumber and I did it once to check one of the sacrificial anodes and cos he was there to do a repair on the solar water heating due to a bird having pulled a wire out of a sensor on a panel on the roof! He must have thought it would make good nesting material! but he found it didn't come free so just left it hanging.
I leave the solar water heating on about 10 degrees all the time we are away and I would have thought that would have been OK, but of course there would be days with no sun and the rest of the house is only heated in a few places and at night, to save dosh on the electric under floor heating.
I am hoping that all the holes I have drilled in the housing will cause any condensation to evaporate and/or drain. Tis the first time the problem has occurred since 2008.
What is annoying is that the solar is so good we only need to use this about twice a year!
We wouldn't switch the heating off during the winter as that would have a deleterious effect on furnishings, mildew, etc, etc, and also some liquids we store, if it got stupidly cold, could freeze and cause damage. Believe me we have thought hard about this and tried to come up with the least annoying and expensive solution.

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Does yer leave anyfink else on as a backup ter keep the house at 16 degrees when yer away and the sun us hiding? Yer can calculate due point when condensation occurs int room from temp and humidity. Yer hafter keeper yer cassul ut 16 degrees ter stoppit gerrin damp with condensation normully.

Nite

Tis early... my brain says wake up but my eyes say different.

As for the Twot Who has squeezed infront of me with his music full on.....love having emails on vans to send pictures in stupid places

Mornin' all ... still rainin' ... I'm sure it stopped at some point, then started again ...

Morning, I've not looked outside but I expect it's cold and wet!

Mornin all.
Lookin pretty good here, least so far

@kevstar .
Had to have a feckin boat dint ya?

Good Morning.
Many showers this morning but set to clear up later.

Turktowner said:

@kevstar .
Had to have a feckin boat dint ya?

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Thas wot eye fort. Bo*ts isser bit like turds. They float

Eye as not had me interst fine ont me morgig. Me un steven be waytin. It be not rite. Bastids.

Am garn wuk now.

Morning All
A dry spell for the paper-run this morning.
I overslept (2nd sleeps) after switching off the alarm.
All my morning chores are done.
Coffee is tasting really good I must say!
The 50Kg pull-downs at the gym yesterday have left me with sore shoulders it seems. But it will pass.
Trying to get to un-assisted (no helping resistance band) pull-ups (NOT chin-ups, I can already do those).
A challenge to get me a bit fitter.
Have a great day everyone.

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Goodness! @kevstar
Who owns that lot?
Is that a Ford Pilot with the trunk on the back?
Love the e-type.

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With all those tool chests around etc it looks like a pro garage. Has someone just given up or summat? How much is for sale? Loads of lovely old vehicles, one under a dustsheet, red with wire wheels, what is it?
Well you've got the dosh from your Landy burning a hole in your pocket!

Hippo said:

Does yer leave anyfink else on as a backup ter keep the house at 16 degrees when yer away and the sun us hiding? Yer can calculate due point when condensation occurs int room from temp and humidity. Yer hafter keeper yer cassul ut 16 degrees ter stoppit gerrin damp with condensation normully.

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To keep the house at 16 degrees when we are not in it would cost a fortune, (electric underfloor heating) so no we keep it at a temp to avoid freezing the pipes.
So far we have had no problems with damp and humidity, for instance leather shoes and clothes do not go green, nothing rots, unlike the first house I rented in Dorset where even when we were living in it boots and coats in a wardrobe in the hall went green! Tins in my toolstore/workroom also don't go rusty, so I think we are doing ok. Maybe the dew point is avoided cos it is so dry although we have a lot of springs etc under the grounds.

According to this, and no I cannot do the more complex maths, https://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/dochelp/QA/Basic/dewpoint.html
the simper equation is summat I could work with. I think the reason we do not suffer so much is that the house is extremely dry inside, being new (2008) and well insulated. I am supposing that the dryer it is the less the humidity will be, which must be helping.
Until now I have left the house on frost stat, i.e.6 degrees but recently we were able to make the situation such that the heating could come on and go off with the old fashioned white electricity meter thing (heures creuses as the French tantaslisingly call it, "hollow hours") so with this I put it on at a higher temp during the night and it switches off during the days. The heavy amount of concrete in the floors and the insulation act as a kind of huge nightstore heater and gently give it off during the day. This place, i.e. the inside of the thermostat box, is the only place anything like this has occurred and we only found it out when I switched it on the other day to find it not working. I am seriously hoping the holes I drilled all over the box bottom half will allow the condensation or whatever it is to escape. I suppose there is a tiny possibility there is a weep that has gone unnoticed, where the elements go into the tank, but I looked it over carefully and all the rust marks seem to indicate not. There are never any drips, in either cold or hot weather. Also thinking about it, there is very little condensation on any windows even with both of us, three dogs and cooking going on.
I have a relative humidity gauge in a clock which we normally leave outside when we are here, I'll bring it in and see if it tells me anything useful.
My memory seems to say something to me about a wet and dry bulb thermometer, but I cannot remember exactly what!
But whatever, thanks for pointing me in this direction, and sorry for the long post!