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Softstuff

Would a chiminea satisfy you VJsmum? My Auntie in law also has a thing about logs and burning, not much essential in our bit of Queensland, but she got herself a chiminea outside and not quite happily sets fire to things.

Me, I like the logs, but not the fire, so I'm out of this particular club.

pollyanna_26

Ivyleaf even when I've been running a high temperature in the past few weeks I 've been using a hot water bottle as when things are flaring I feel cold inside as well as the aches and pains ramping up and I find it helps .


Perskindol is available from Potters who have been around for many years . I used to buy it from the health shop but it became almost impossible to track down over the years as a lot of health shops went out of business due to the rise in online selling . I have been ordering from Homecare Essentials on the amazon site over the last few years . I've just checked and what was a many page site is barely functioning which is quite sad . I bought my ecloth mops and cloths from them , the perskindol and lots of useful things over the years so am sorry to see another one bite the dust .


I think Potters have an online site for their products . I looked at other amazon sellers for the Perskindol and the prices they're charging are ridiculous . Last time I bought it I paid around £12 including free p&p form the seller . I'm glad I bought a couple of tubes then but will probably go for Potters in future if they're selling it .


I know not everyone has Wilkos in their area but can recommend their hot water bottles . They're very cheap and like the old rubber type and have lasted well . I picked a couple up a month or two ago to add to the stash as I do each year . If extreme weather or power cuts come our way we'll survive with them and flannelette bedding!


polly x

pollyanna_26

SS I was raised with first a lovely cast iron range which my mum had ripped out in favour of an open fire . How I mourned the loss of that lovely range with it's bread oven and means to cook . Toasting bread with a toasting fork over the open fire didn't have the same joy . Best I could say we could still see castles and other delights while staring at it .
When I married first husband our first two homes had open fires and I missed them when I moved here . I used to set the nursery fireguard up at bedtime loaded with nappies at a safe distance with a spark guard on the hearth for safety and get up next day to dry and aired laundry .
I'd happily go back to that in a heartbeat . When my eldest daughter lived in Scotland I used to love setting and lighting her fire although she thought I was weird enjoying it . However she has two stoves in her home now and one in the cottage she rents out so maybe the apple didn't fall too far from the tree after all .
polly x

maryb

I am now snuggled up with a hot water bottle made from the kettle stood on top of the wood burner all evening. We’d have to run it a lot hotter to get the kettle to boil quickly but this was quite hot enough for a HWB and saved boiling the electric kettle

VJsmum

pollyanna_26 wrote: »

I often smile and nod at your posts railway related . The flippin' railway magazines , OS Nock and other books took over our old house when my late husband was alive . He not only drove the trains but lived it 24/7 . My son has all his stuff now , books , shed and engine plates the whole lot and the next generation of driver in his teens now .


Apart from trips does your husband do the shed and works open days? They were family days out - oh the joy . The most bizarre thing was he and a couple of friends travelling to the sites of long gone railways and sheds . Often they would find a supermarket or housing development on the site but they would search for evidence of lines and buildings and come home with lots of photographs of random bits of track and the remnants of a few buildings . i suppose they could have been doing worse but you have my sympathy .
polly x

Oh God, don't give him ideas. He calls it 'industrial archaeology', and will vist any (generally live) railway. There are some I've now refused to go to ever again as I've been so much (Severn Valley, Ffestiniog to name but 2). Luckily he has enough enthusiast friends for it to be unnecessary for me to go also. DS was obsessed as a baby - we took him on the Welsh Highland when he was 15 months old and was transfixed - i said to my MiL at the time "he's gone - look!" and he was. Teenage 'coolness' means he has taken a bit of a back seat - but he does still love it.

greenbee

VJ's mum - I'm sitting here with a load of data too. I know it means something, and I'm sure it's relevant to a presentation I'm giving tomorrow, but my brain is too tired (or jet lagged) to work out how.

Softstuff

Hope your jet lag clears quickly Greenbee, or alternatively that you just meet yourself coming back on the next leg...

pollyanna_26

Vj your son unlike mine and his son may look elsewhere for a career . My son was sucked in as a toddler and when my husband suffered the brain injury it was the photos of he and toddler son sitting in cabs together both diesel and preserved steam which we covered the walls with along with those on the preserved railway they volunteered on that started to bring the long term memory back . I used to sit reeling off engine numbers and he would tell me the class , where it was built and if it had a name that too . Sadly short term never came back and he couldn't remember anything of the attack or anything afterwards . We were happy he had the good memories especially when he was working the steam engines in his early years .


You love your music so I think you should compose a boring dirge entitled I need a woodburner and sing it on a daily basis in your OHs hearing . Just as waves erode rocks it might do the trick eventually . If he was a lover of steam engines include the positives of the living flames and reminders of the days of steam and roaring fires .


polly x

greenbee

Softstuff wrote: »

Hope your jet lag clears quickly Greenbee, or alternatively that you just meet yourself coming back on the next leg...

I'm giving up on clearing the jet lag... if I'm awake I'm awake, and if I'm asleep I'm asleep. I have to pack tonight, and present tomorrow and then I'm back on the plane...

Softstuff

greenbee wrote: »

I'm giving up on clearing the jet lag... if I'm awake I'm awake, and if I'm asleep I'm asleep. I have to pack tonight, and present tomorrow and then I'm back on the plane...

At least the weather's still lovely over here!