The real thing

Sujamjen

I have gone back to having a 'real' fire in my sitting room and I just wondered how many OS have open fires? I am so looking forward to the cooler weather so I can light it and make toast :drool: and DD is looking forward to roasting chestnuts!

When I was a kid my mum used to say she could tell who were the busy women and who were the lazy lumps just by looking at their legs! The lazy lumps had 'cornbeef legs' from sitting too long & too close to the fire :rotfl: I don't know if 'cornbeef legs' is a universal saying or just a midlands one, no doubt someone on here will be able to tell me

newfunk

thats what i miss, open fire, I'd love to have a house where I could ahve that again....The smell of the fire, the dog lying in front of the fire...all cosy....pure bliss

Sujamjen

newfunk wrote:

thats what i miss, open fire, I'd love to have a house where I could ahve that again....The smell of the fire, the dog lying in front of the fire...all cosy....pure bliss

I know what you mean Newfunk but you'll get one eventually I'm sure - I've waited 15 years! Hope you don't have to wait so long :eek: We haven't got a dog anymore but I know the cat is going to love it - we used to have a cat that would sit on the hearth with her nose almost touching the metal ash box and would glare at us if she burnt it :rotfl: :rotfl: She wouldn't move though and the smell that different woods give out .. mmm. I used to have a poem about how various timbers burnt, I don't suppose anyone knows it??

Poppy9

newfunk wrote:

thats what i miss, open fire, I'd love to have a house where I could ahve that again....The smell of the fire, the dog lying in front of the fire...all cosy....pure bliss

Don't forget the cleaning out, the black dust, the regular redecorating. Then there is the problem of trying to get chimney sweep. I had to wait 4 weeks to be fitted in. Gone back to gas inset fire. All the heat and flame effect and none of the mess:D

Sujamjen

Poppy9 wrote:

Don't forget the cleaning out, the black dust, the regular redecorating. Then there is the problem of trying to get chimney sweep. I had to wait 4 weeks to be fitted in. Gone back to gas inset fire. All the heat and flame effect and none of the mess:D

I suppose all the above would be right if the fire was on all the time and was burning coal and but I personally found the gas fire (although it looked realistic) just wasn't the same. As for the chimney sweep, I rang one of the local guys yesterday morning and he came out this morning and he charged £24 which as a once a year cost didn't seem too bad We'll have to agree to disagree 'cos I'm just chuffed to bits :j

Jacster_2

Good for you Sujamen:T

Cornedbeef legs was a common saying in Scotland as well - I remember my legs used to go like that in front of my mum's fire when I was growing up. I used to come running in from playing in the freezing cold, run to the fire and plunk myself down, and my legs would go all blotchy.

Mum used to pull me away telling me I'd get chilblains! Never did!;)

Davidboy

Thanks peoples - I am on night shift and guess what.... yes I am eating my corn beef sarnies..... I'll go and get a bag of crisps I think!!!

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littlereddevil

I also have a coal fire and love it but hate the cleaning out next morning!
That is why I don't use it every day.
If I am going somewhere in the morning and know I won't have a lot of time I don't bother with it the day before.
But I wouldn't be without it now.

Nile

The mottled effect was called 'brackets' by my nanna........who used to park herself in front of the fire for hours on end. Brackets is probably a local Yorkshire saying.

Sujamjen

Sorry Davidboy - hope you've got your appetite back now :beer:

Hi Nile, brackets is an interesting term - I wonder how that started? Cornbeef legs is fairly self explanatory I guess

Hi Littleredevil - I will have to get OH to clear it out and set it - he currently empties the DW as he gets up first so I'll offer to do that as a swop! :idea:

Hi Jacster, before we were rehoused when I was 12, we used to have a tin bath in front of the fire. In the winter that mean burning on one side and freezing on the other but the joys of being wrapped/dried in a hot towel and then put in warmed flannelette pjs that had been warming on the huge fire guard. Makes me sleepy to think of it I never got chilblains either :T