How to Get Through The Tough Times The Old Style Way.

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Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

That'll be PVA glue

Thanks was not even close

Penelope_Penguin

brandeberryj wrote: »

Thanks was not even close

........... apart from the PV in both standing for poly-vinyl

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Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

That sounds ideal for me :j Can you give me a link please - how much would a top-range bike, that will go 25 miles, cost?

TIA

Just had quick look at the A to B site. Now this is the page to go to on the A to B.
http://www.atob.org.uk/Electric_Buyers'_Guide.html#h21

Very up to date now and excellent info on all the bikes that worth looking and few that arent.

GreyQueen

jumblejack wrote: »

Grey queen, I have the smallest kitchen in the world. I have no access to the back door as that is where the fridge freezer lives. I dint have room (nor the money) for any luxuries other than a washing machine in there. I can't even have a door to the kitchen as it would mean not having the room for wall units.

I recently discovered those metal bars that you can hang butcher hooks on from ikea. I have them under my 3 wall units and now all my cooking utensils and cups are rehomed which has freed up a bit of drawer and cupboard space.

I would also like to utilise the bit of space above my cooker but the gap is too narrow for those metal racks that pans go on from ikea, ggrr. Will keep my peeps open though as this would free a lot of space under my sink!

Hope it helps!

That's a great idea; one of my friends has some of those. I'm a helluva long way from the nearest I*EA but maybe can piggyback if someone I knows goes there......Could put some more cupbooks under the wall cabinets and thus free up a few inches of cupboard. Thanks for having an even tinier kitchen than me.......

maryb

We had some wood delivered last winter because I was running low which was supposed to be seasoned oak but it was impossible to light the fire with it. However we had a fair bit left at the end of the winter so it has had another year to season. This winter - WOW. It burns really hot - so hot that we have to mix it with something else to keep the temperature down on the woodburner. We also have a whole scots pine which our neighbour had cut down - he got the tree surgeon to cut it into lengths for us and we bought a log splitter. That doesn't burn very hot at all even though the tree was dead for some time before being cut down (which usually means you can burn it straight away) So I mix the two types of wood and that works well. I don't know if it burns less hot because it was killed by an attack of pine beetle. Some of the bits are quite crumbly. I don't think the tree surgeon realised quite how badly affected it was before he climbed it!!. I only bring those logs into the house when I can put them straight on the fire - the beetles were revolting.

Since then we've also scrounged a whole elm tree that was killed by Dutch Elm disease and that burns beautifully hot as well. So I'll try and keep a good mix of hardwood in any logs I buy in future. We've got a good relationship with a local tree surgeon and I don't mind buying relatively unseasoned wood now that we've got a proper log store where we can leave it to season

mardatha

LIR is it solely a woodburner ? Much better to get a multifuel burner if at all poss as it gives you a lot more scope.

GreyQueen

It's been a bit of a day up at the Council. I walk into the call centre this morning and the power cuts out. Down go the servers, the PCs, the phones, the software program that runs the phones, at the busiest time on the busiest day of the week. I SWEAR I didn't do it.

Grafted away for 5 hours at the wicket and then notice some anxious-looking superintendants staring up at the ceiling in the public part of the hall where an extremely large lightfitting, about the size and weight of a small car, is starting to crack the ceiling and come away.

I scarpered off home feeling a little bit jinxed. Is is still classifiable as new moon? Got kept up most of the night by Idiot Boy and ended up eating chocolate for breakfast as a result. He should be evicted as he's ruining my figure.....:rotfl:


I try very hard not be a hoarder but I struggle with my hobbies. There are the jam jars awaiting my newbie attempts at jam making, the fabric bits, the sewing gear etc etc.

I also keep my few CDs in a folder and only have about 24 books in stock, plus only 2 sets of bedlinen, but there are plenty of other things on the premises. I did a bit on the delcutter thread but I ran out of stuff as what is left is acutally used. Am operating strictly one-in-one-out on most categories and haven't purchased tomatoes in nearly a fortnight (although I have eaten some of them;))

:eek: Today, the Council came and took our recycling bags, boxes and food waste caddies away from us. We'd been prepped since before Xmas that in the New Year we were going to be on alternate weekly collections like the rest of the city. We'd had the calenders and loads of mail outs but the contractor has c*cked it up. Last week we go a totally lame letter from the Council saying that we'd had all this stuff delivered to us "by mistake" and could we have it all outside our flats by 7am today and they'd come and collect it. We are now going back to black sacks weekly (or in my case 6 weekly as that's how long it takes me to fill one.)

So I put my stuff outside. And it's gone. Except the darling little kitchen food waste caddy which you were supposed to use to take your stuff to the big outer caddy in. I've kept it because it's sooooo useful to take the rotables up to my lottie. Of course, guv'nor, if asked, I never saw it, don't know nufink abaht it. :whistle:

lostinrates

mardatha wrote: »

LIR is it solely a woodburner ? Much better to get a multifuel burner if at all poss as it gives you a lot more scope.

Yes, just a woodburner.

we are about ready to start choosing something for DH's study (the now dead boiler stood in the space where a burner can go in there)and we're going to get advice as to what's best. I know a fair few small holders like the ones that can also take woodpellets, because they then also use them for animal bedding (but I think that is a tax evasion and I'm not interested in breaking the law).

The think about wood ash, is at least we can re cycle it here and provide for ourselves. TBH I want to rely more on the sun and probably ground source heat pump for day to day, supplemented with other stuff. we're making heating decisions soon.

born_blonde

Just to say don't forget Machine Mart for wood burning stoves. I've got one of these and it's highly effective http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/product/details/barrel-cast-iron-stove/path/cast-iron-stoves-2
It's multi fuel and I use a mix of seasoned hardwood and hose trebbles coal, Its in the kitchen, heats the house and there is enough room on the top for 3 saucepans.
It won't last forever but at that price I'm thinking of buying a spare and keeping it in the garage for future use.

kitschy

Great ideas on the shoeboxes, Greyqueen, thank you