Alchemausterity II

Watty1

Just popped in for a catch up.  Glad dh is doing ok.   I have had a couple of good buys off everything £5 and a couple of rubbish ones that didn't get worn.   Am now much more organised about wardrobe and only keep stuff I know I will wear.  Sent much to charity shop and miss very little of it.

greenbee

The problem with wearing your clothes to death is that you tend to need to buy a lot of new stuff at once when you realise there's not enough left that's fit to leave the house in...

Where I live, most people buy seasoned or even kiln-dried logs and kindling. (How well seasoned it is is debatable, and most of them wouldn't have a clue), whereas I've either been burning bits of the house, or trees I've had to take down (because they are too big/dead/have honey fungus) since I've moved in. Everyone else has the wood taken away and then buys logs... they're also very worried by the pallet/fence post/bits of house/softwood burning - luckily my chimney sweep is a realist and burns the same stuff as me and says the chimney suggests it's all burning well. And she leaves the soot for me to put on the garden too!

edinburgher

Glad to hear that DH might be getting out soon

@greenbee - I thought the problem with burning fences was that the wood was pressure treated with strong chemicals to prevent rot? Mrs E's dad burns all kinds of crap in his chiminea - the fumes that come off MDF scraps are enough to send me inside!

greenbee

I wouldn't burn MDF as it has solvents in it. Most of my fence panels are pretty old, so probably the preservatives have leached out. However, as I have a stove, there's not so much of an issue with fumes (I burn painted wood too, but only as kindling and only in small quantities - curtain poles and rings have been in the mix recently.

redofromstart

Scuse me, but Mr Redo checks the damp percentage while I die of shame fetch the cash.  

greenbee

Very sensible of Mr Redo. How many loads has he rejected so far?

redofromstart

oh he makes me tell them he will check, they either refuse to deliver or they are bone dry

Alchemilla

I've just had a load of logs delivered too. I fondly hoped he might shove them in the garage, but. No.

redofromstart

The consensus here is that I should stack them, or I just moan for days about how poorly everyone else did it.  They are right, but it is still annoying.

Karmacat

I hope your DH does get out on Tues, Alchemilla - I had a client one time who had an operation and managed to get out when her wound still had a drain in (very unusually, I agreed to visit her at home, only done that one other time in 30 years).