He has a Waitrose bamboo mug with a screw top lid too, but his dexterity is failing so he takes the lid off and tips to drink and spills some, sometimes he spills a bit more ...
Sometimes he falls asleep while holding it and spills all of it ...
He has a Waitrose bamboo mug with a screw top lid too, but his dexterity is failing so he takes the lid off and tips to drink and spills some, sometimes he spills a bit more ...
Sometimes he falls asleep while holding it and spills all of it ...
i have to watch it when watching telly with a wineglass in my hand, hasn't happened yet..........
Stone56
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No win situation then unless you padlock itI did, he takes the lid off and says he's not a child ...
Stone56
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Quince would be a good tree light pink blossom verry harder and some fruit in the Autumn medler a old fruit lovely large blossom flowers we have both but Hawthorne is the Winner a mass of white with the aroma to match you can also get a red blossom cultivar
WhiskyLassie
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Think that's the rain away. In my happy place watching war documentaries and feet up.
Stone56
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Same as are shadow as a kitten turned up on a winter's night and sleeped in a cardboard boxs out side sutch a corrector even though he gets me up at 4 every morning I love him to bitts he has that independent spirit
DevonGuy
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Us boys seen yer later post aboat ow yer loads it. That makes sense tu us, us avvin a duel-fule stove here. Av yer gorra log-burnin plate on the riddling grate? It du mekka diffrence, yer can eggsperrimint by bashin a bean can flat, wacking half a dozen holes in it wivva punch and layin it ont grate. Shud stop embers vrum droppin straight into ash pan.I seem to have discovered the "secret of fire".
I was wasting lots of wood last year in the log-burner I think.
This year I am loading it differently and I am getting a higher temperature, and for a lot longer duration.
I think this can only be good TBH.
Stone56
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Well the only other thing is the jackdoors nest in year chimney has fallen apart increasing the draft
... I took my BP earlier and it said 75/45 @ 75bpm. Now that's a bit "low" in my estimation.
So I took it again after walking across the house to show my wife these amazingly low figures.
It then came up with 87/53@77 (to be expected after getting up and walking and coming back to sit down).
I have always disagreed with the GP over blanket "post heart-attack-protocol" medication as I have never had a high BP in my life.
I think I am going to drop the meds and see what happens. Yes I know, shouldn't etc. etc. but, I feel like I am over-medicated for no real reason. I mean, if you broke your leg 17 years ago you wouldn't still be wearing a plaster-cast would you?
So I took it again after walking across the house to show my wife these amazingly low figures.
It then came up with 87/53@77 (to be expected after getting up and walking and coming back to sit down).
I have always disagreed with the GP over blanket "post heart-attack-protocol" medication as I have never had a high BP in my life.
I think I am going to drop the meds and see what happens. Yes I know, shouldn't etc. etc. but, I feel like I am over-medicated for no real reason. I mean, if you broke your leg 17 years ago you wouldn't still be wearing a plaster-cast would you?
That is very innerestin DG. We has scored loadsa free wud this year and will be using less coal this accordingly. Will give that a go.
Many thanks matey.
Thanks for this, I will try it with some sheet steel from my workshop. The user manual says "when burning wood, always leave a good layer of ashes in the bottom of the grate. Wood fires like to burn from the top down, so use the "top-down" vent control to control the fire." I have noticed that with this "hotter burn" there is less ash getting deposited in the ashpan so I guess it is a cleaner, more thorough combustion going on.
No, you don't have to sign up or pay anything. I never have. You just scroll around on a map and find a blue dot you're interested in and you can access the records of the corresponding weather station. They only go back a month, so not much good for monitoring long term trends, but it can be instructive nevertheless. For example here's one in Dorchester:
https://app.weathercloud.net/d2972578473#evolution Doesn't look like the much-vaunted storms put on much of a show - wind speeds only got up to about 12 m/s (and that was the gust speed, not the actual steady blow) all month. There was rather a lot of rain on the 25th though. The same is true of most of the stations in southern Britain. I was looking for those 90 mph winds we were supposed to be having but gave up after a while. They must have been very localized!
Yes wood needs a flat bottom to burn on, if it gets air from underneath it'll just burn away.Thanks for this, I will try it with some sheet steel from my workshop. The user manual says "when burning wood, always leave a good layer of ashes in the bottom of the grate. Wood fires like to burn from the top down, so use the "top-down" vent control to control the fire." I have noticed that with this "hotter burn" there is less ash getting deposited in the ashpan so I guess it is a cleaner, more thorough combustion going on.
Light it, open up and get it roaring hot then shut it down, chimney needs to be hot for it to draw nicely.
Yes, I've got some medlars already. They're an interesting fruit as you're supposed to leave them on the tree over the winter so the frost gets at them. The flesh goes dark brown all the way through so it looks like they're rotten. If you can get over the sense that you're eating fruit that's gone off, they taste a bit like chocolate fudge with a hint of citrus, or mine do. I've tried some quince trees (fruiting cultivars rather than ornamental ones) and they don't like it here. Two look like they're dying and two are sulking, so I'm reluctant to try any more. There's the usual white hawthorn in the hedges already, and I've just bought a red flowered one today and stuck it in near the entrance so as to add a little variety. I'll update my smallholding thread in 'Anything Goes' shortly with some pictures of what I've done today .Quince would be a good tree light pink blossom verry harder and some fruit in the Autumn medler a old fruit lovely large blossom flowers we have both but Hawthorne is the Winner a mass of white with the aroma to match you can also get a red blossom cultivar
Stone56
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Could be a bit to wet at yours for quince we are verry dry but had a bumper crop this year have made jelly. Cheese and just bottled some to use like Apple and stored some whole to see how long-lasting thay are but the deer do love them and the bark in winter we also have wild Cornelian cherrys thay make good jam and dried fruits
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DevonGuy
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Thanks for this, I will try it with some sheet steel from my workshop. The user manual says "when burning wood, always leave a good layer of ashes in the bottom of the grate. Wood fires like to burn from the top down, so use the "top-down" vent control to control the fire." I have noticed that with this "hotter burn" there is less ash getting deposited in the ashpan so I guess it is a cleaner, more thorough combustion going on.
Thanks for this, I will try it with some sheet steel from my workshop. The user manual says "when burning wood, always leave a good layer of ashes in the bottom of the grate. Wood fires like to burn from the top down, so use the "top-down" vent control to control the fire." I have noticed that with this "hotter burn" there is less ash getting deposited in the ashpan so I guess it is a cleaner, more thorough combustion going on.
Aha, finally some one has said the speshul word, "embers" that is the whole secret!! It's where the heat comes from.
doriz
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Used to love watching Embers, never won much but a top chap.Aha, finally some one has said the speshul word, "embers" that is the whole secret!! It's where the heat comes from.
Our log burner is very state of the art. so we have control over the shutter thingy that allows air to pass up from below, quite apart from leaving the door partially open! So we can get the fire going like flip. We bought it cos it is one of the ones that are "high performance" and the govt gives subs to buy them. (We didn't get the sub as to do that you have to be paying income tax there!.
).But still, we only light it round about 6/7 o'clock and two or three 9 inch logs, 4" diameter odd, heats a 40 sq metre room easily. We leave the doors open so it raises the temperature in the upstairs bedroom as well.
You never can tell what's going to like it round here. The quince trees are in different places - a couple in an area that could get waterlogged and the other two in a more sheltered spot where the soil gets drier. But none of them seem especially happy. Sea buckthorn is supposed to be exposure tolerant but it doesn't like it round here. Four years after I planted some, most of them have died. The apples seem to do alright here - I'm still working my way through this year's crop, and that's from trees that haven't been in long. The oak trees I put in have mostly had a very good year and are growing faster than I thought was possible for oaks. There's a variety of alder, alnus incana, that likes it here, and grows very well, but its close relative alnus cordata just sulks and stays very small. So it's all an experiment. I've got plenty of space so if things turn out a bit different from what you expect it isn't a problem.
