Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

rhiwfield

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Hubby and youngest went to biker party tonight, I didn't go, and I am gutted now, as flipping Adam Bomb was there,,, very retro, marc bolan looking guy, with flames shooting out the top of his guitar,flipping gutted now:(:(:(,that will teach me to be a party pooper:rotfl:

DD1 and Hubby were at Wembley Arena last night to see QOTSA (thats why we have the GDs). Guess they're having an ill deserved lie in followed by relaxed hotel brekkers

Cool in the house even after CH on for an hour. Burning larch on the woodburner at night, resinous stuff thats needs white spirit to remove from hands and seems more inclined to leave tar deposits on the glass of the burner. Wont be my first choice of wood in the future.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

hope they had a good time Rhiwie..

Rhiwie omg you have loads on the bay at the mo!!!

I just about to make myself another cuppa, and see if I can set myself up to take good pics of the jewellery

We bought coal yesterday, so we could keep the fire going, all night and during the day... as even though we have had the fire going in the evenings, I think the whole house needed a good blast of heat..

its been nice and warm all night:T

Rummer

Where is the sleepy icon when you need one??

Well I have guests coming this morning so I have been up since the crack of dawn cleaning the house :eek: Now the kitchen, living room and hall way are immaculate Fingers crossed neither look in the dining room or bedrooms :rotfl:

Why is it the more you tidy and clean the more mess and dust you find? Starting to regret this new leaf I have turned over, maybe I should have stayed really messy!

Today is a bit dull and damp however I am keen to get out in the fresh air so we are going to go to some local park for a wee walk and if hubby is amenable we may head into town to the festive market

lostinrates

Cringing and you warm and clean and tidy people.


We're neither. We just cam back in and while out I was wearing a faux fur hat an an (old ) fur scarf/collar. The scarf is now being worn as a head band in the house to keep my ears and head somewhat warm. Rofl. Well, maybe not the floor....its cold and grubby down there.


In case heating can go head as tentatively planned we are trying to find the masonry paint to paint the wall that would be better pained before things go against it. Yes...I know.....not ideal weather.....but what does one do?

alfie_1

morning all.......

i am also shrinking into my chair at the "tidiness" germ that is seemingly spreading amongst you all !! :eek:

i know what needs doing but i just cant muster my strength

im working for others purely for the dosh but then i expire....

LIR... im wondering if some of these wooly jumpers/cardi's [from friend] would help to keep you warm ??? they are all real wool.

i have to go to get my frozen chicks [for owl/foxes] from shop [10miles away]and im struggling to get out the door !

i think all this water/landlord business has ground me down..i need jump starting..:rotfl:

keep well peeps..:D

Itismehonest

Couldn't you run some sort of portable heating, LIR?

I must admit I'm finding it chillier (for the time of year) than normal.
Trying to sleep propped up isn't fun when it's cold. The ruddy covers keep admitting defeat & bowing to the force of gravity :rotfl:

Itismehonest

alfie_1 wrote: »

morning all.......

i am also shrinking into my chair at the "tidiness" germ that is seemingly spreading amongst you all !! :eek:

i know what needs doing but i just cant muster my strength

im working for others purely for the dosh but then i expire....

LIR... im wondering if some of these wooly jumpers/cardi's [from friend] would help to keep you warm ??? they are all real wool.

i have to go to get my frozen chicks [for owl/foxes] from shop [10miles away]and im struggling to get out the door !

i think all this water/landlord business has ground me down..i need jump starting..:rotfl:

keep well peeps..:D

There's nothing as tiring as stress/hassle/anxiety, alfie.
Hope it all gets sorted soon.

lostinrates

We ARE running portable heating. More this year than have tried before. Last year the side effects from medication were not good and I just don't want that again.


The main difficulty is combining livin in a house with mucky grounds and no paths etc, living with the dogs and the lack of heat. The 'dogs room' is the 'garden room' which is a room which is inhabitable in a human sense ATM. Its the easiest room to keep warm because it has a low ceiling and is west facing, so gets lots of sun. They are fine now with a heater running on low twenty four seven. BUT, we have had first one, now the other girl in season, so are running a second heater in the back lobby (that broke this morning grrr, changed fuse, no responce).

We have a heater in the kitchen which is also ok, enough to keep it 'ok' enough, but it takes a long while to heat up. I have an additional problem which I don't want to talk about in detail , but resident parent is having trouble remembering things like closing doors and what settings to leave heaters on. If parent turns the kitchen one off over night it takes a good few hours to warm it up again, where as I just think we should accept its going to cost a bomb and leave it on low twenty four seven now, so its never 'warm' but never cold.

In the sitting room, we have the woodburner, which is toasty. (DH just finishing off the flue cleaning now, it was really clean infact, didn't need doing really) but between that and the kitchen is a cold bridge of two freezing rooms which suck heat out.

Upstairs there is a portable heater in both bedrooms.


Its like trying to keep a terrace warm with one of those out door heaters.......its ok if you are near the heat,...but the breeze blows through, and the heat drifts off.......


We won't die.


The new issues with electricity should , truthfully, have been picked up by one of us earlier. (did I mention them here or in the other thread?) are just the last straw. We're hoping we have a short term solution for hot water before Christmas but it depends on the electricity people saying they can upgrade our power supply early in the new year to support the bigger system. Otherwise we are struggling.

Itismehonest

I don't think you've mentioned the new electricity problems here. At least, if you did, I missed them
It sounds like you need 3 phase? They toyed with that here before the conversions but eventually decided we'd be OK to stay single.

I know exactly what you mean about the problems of warming up old places undergoing work. Ours was built to have inglenooks going 24/365 for cooking as much as anything else. They're great when the heat has built up but it takes a while to do.
Not that we're masochists but we haven't had any heating on yet apart from a couple of mornings when we were up at 5am.

lostinrates

Three phase is put of the question ATM, We know that, it was clear some time ago. Two phase should be a possibility though, they MUST have two phase next door I think because of the size of the dairy. We are now at the potential of running pretty much at capacity for single phase (despite my stinginess about using it the capacity is what the capacity is)