If things get tougher?

mardatha

Carriebradshaw, that sounds the same as ours , and I found it awkward to heat water on it as its so deep, its a big stove . How are you doing that ? The one time I tried it the handle of the pot got too hot and it was a bit of a guddle. But its the last thing I would ever get rid of, I love my coal fire. We are currently using a "bright park bistro" camping gas ring, to make tea on. With the money saved (hahaha) the plan was to buy extra coal .

carriebradshaw

mardatha wrote: »

Carriebradshaw, that sounds the same as ours , and I found it awkward to heat water on it as its so deep, its a big stove . How are you doing that ? The one time I tried it the handle of the pot got too hot and it was a bit of a guddle. But its the last thing I would ever get rid of, I love my coal fire. We are currently using a "bright park bistro" camping gas ring, to make tea on. With the money saved (hahaha) the plan was to buy extra coal .

we just shove the pot in the hot embers at the front and wedge it in between the grate bit,ours is an open fire not a stove though hard to explain really, sorry when we start lighting fire again I'll take a pic and show you what I mean the handle does get hot,we just use a oven glove to pick it up

mardatha

oh ok I see. I used to do that with the old fire but now we have a stove with doors , its not so easy. Drat ! LOL

carriebradshaw

mardatha wrote: »

oh ok I see. I used to do that with the old fire but now we have a stove with doors , its not so easy. Drat ! LOL

council wanted us to have one of those but we said no thanks

does the top of the stove get hot ?

mardatha

NO Carrie, it just sticks out about 3-4" , too narrow to cook on, and doesnt get too hot as there's vents below it for hot air to come out. Its fabulously warm all over the house though, apart from the back of the house that faces north and has huge windows. I live high and on open moorland .Only have to clean and fill it once every 24 hours then leave it be..

sammy_kaye18

I so wish i lived in my old hosue that had my old coal fire still - would have saved mea small fortune!

BilberryCharlotte

katieowl wrote: »

We don't have central heating. My kids have survived I remember it being cold enough to have frost inside the windows up until my early twenties....but since then it doesn't ever seem to get that cold?

My Daughters hate it when they stays at their centrally heated friends houses and they don't sleep because it's so hot. My eldest daughter, the first time she went to Russia (in the Winter), experienced the suffocating heat the Ruskies keep their houses at - all subsidised of course -while they pad about in bare feet and t-shirts, managed to get the window open, but couldn't SHUT it again, and it was about -20 outside, LOL she thought she was going to freeze to death!



I can heartily recommend the use of one of those Victorian Stone hot water bottles, if you can find one in good working order (with a tight fitting lid!) they stay roasting hot ALL night. You need to wrap it thoroughly so you don't burn your toes. And of course be careful you don't push it out of the bed. We keep ours on the back of the AGA during the day, and don't change the water, it just keeps reheating day after day. TOASTY :T

Regards

Kate

An Aga is a wonderful thing to have. Do ever get frozen/burst pipes?
they aren`t something you see now, due to so many people having central heating I guess. Perhaps global warming will mean that they are still a thing of the past, I hope so.

BilberryCharlotte

kittie wrote: »

I absolutely 100% agree with you ceridwen. Lets get used to the cold and our bodies will adapt.

The library used to be full of wrinklies reading the papers in there for warmth and I can see that happening again. Tea rooms in community halls may start up again and just think of all the oldies who can start making new friends. Every cloud has a silver lining

That`s great kittie, if you are young or healthy enough to cope. I used to love the snow and ice, going out to get essentials and fighting my way back up the hill in blizzards etc, feeling a real sense of achievement when I got back in and had some soup or a hot chocolate.

Unfortunately, I am now quite a bit older and crippled with arthritis. I don`t want to put a damper on some of these great ideas people are having, but I am afraid I absolutely dread not being able to keep warm enough to move about my house freely. I think I will just seize up (perhaps it will stop me moaning though - too stiff to move my jaws)

mary43

Bilberycharlotte - you're not alone. I have problems with joints -not arthritus but just general aches, particularly if its damp and/or cold. I don't like it too hot, not do I like it too cold (no pleasing me is there.......lol) and winter sees me with at least three layers on, and covered in a blanket on the sofa at night watching tele...........and thats with the heating on !!
Oh well, somehow we'll cope I expect but I'm not looking forward to it.
I hate cooking but get the feeling I just might volunteer to slave over a hot stove in order to keep warm....................lol

BilberryCharlotte

sammy_kaye18 wrote: »

a 'fug' ??????? whats that mean?

From my dictionary " A very hot, close, often smokey state of atmosphere"

From From The Free Dictionary by Farlex

A heavy, stale atmosphere, especially the musty air of an overcrowded or poorly ventilated room: "In spite of the open windows the stench had become a reeking fug" Colleen McCullough.

and

NounChiefly Brit & NZ a hot stale atmosphere [origin unknown] fuggy adj