Good morning. Sparkling sunshine and a frost this morning. The local birds have now cottoned on to having regular food and definitely prefer the fat and insect blocks to the fat and fruit. Peanuts and fat balls and sunflower seeds go down well too.
I'm having a general tidy and clean (robot, not me) whilst making lentil soup for lunch then sewing while I wait for my Black Friday bulbs and asparagus to arrive. Veering back to curtains again after deciding Roman blinds will end up catching on the top of the window which is open 7 or 8 months of the year.
Dove - hope that part does the job. Our boiler in Belgium was a huge, German monster but still firing at 94% efficiency at its last service before we left. 23 years old and expected to go a lot longer. Works a lot harder than this one whose age can only be guessed at but is smaller and works a lot less hard. Don't think it's very efficient but it has certainly improved since we had it serviced last year. It hadn't been loved.
Clari and FG - hope thumb and hands are behaving today. Kind of essential so be nice to them.
Pdoc - good luck with the insurance company. Just what you need. Subject covered several time on BBC Rip Off Britain series so maybe check out their website for any helpful tips.
Hope you get your sun Joyce - and everyone else too.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
My heating allowance is in the bank already. Maybe they go out in alphabetical order.
Our boiler’s roughly the same age as Doves, we moved around the same time, I have it serviced yearly, it always runs at 98% efficiency, it’s extremely cheap to run, it’s oil, runs 11 radiators, quite often through the summer months as it’s often cold and damp here, in the holiday flat next door it’s on at 19c constantly. It’s not always a good idea to turn it down or off as when you turn it back on again it has to go full bore to get up to temp, where as it you leave it ticking over it’s just a quick on/off to keep the required temperature. Maybe gas works differently from oil, I’ve never wanted gas heating.
Thats bad on the AA they used to be so good. I use the RAC only because I don’t pay anything for it, I have a Tesco credit card and make enough in vouchers through the year to pay for the full package. They’ve never charged or refused anything,
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Hosta - have you got a Kindle so you can at least read when you're not sleeping. I trust OH is better now so you can have a proper celebration tomorrow. Happy birthday fellow Sag.
No idea what your bird is but love that blue.
Lyn - have only visited Devon a few times and not for nearly 30 years no but it was always damp! Gorgeous, but damp.
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Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
My heating allowance is in the bank already. Maybe they go out in alphabetical order.
Only if they start at the tail end of the alphabet Lyn ... Pa always complained about getting the blunt needle in vaccination queues in the RAF ... those were the days of one needle per squadron
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Our French oil boiler dates from the 70's, it's a huge German monster, must be the same sort of thing as Obelixx's boiler in Belgium. But it doesn't too hot water any more, only the heating. The water bit is too full of limescale.
Going out to look round Dereham soon and to sort out something about Council Tax.
Rain and sun at the moment, snow forecast for tomorrow.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
This is our old boiler and water tank after we installed the PV panels and yellow control box and before we re-did the pipe lagging.. Makes me think of Red Dwarf for some reason.
The one here is upright and has the burner and hot water tank inside and some very strange controls. Might have to think about getting a leaner, cleaner model but it can wait till the next service in November 18.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Hosta - have you got a Kindle so you can at least read when you're not sleeping. I trust OH is better now so you can have a proper celebration tomorrow. Happy birthday fellow Sag.
No idea what your bird is but love that blue.
Lyn - have only visited Devon a few times and not for nearly 30 years no but it was always damp! Gorgeous, but damp.
Hosta hasnt got a kindle for reading, I love mine, iPad, I can change to black background with white writing, then tone it down a bit more so it doesn’t affect OH when he’s sleeping. No rustling of pages turning. Brilliant invention. ?
yes always damp, we border Dartmoor and very rarely get washing dry outside, but that’s what keeps it green, we have lovely well fed cows and make the best clotted cream?
i think the climate is better on the south coast, Torquay way probably, but I don’t like it down that way, wouldn’t swap mine for anywhere else.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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Good morning. Sparkling sunshine and a frost this morning. The local birds have now cottoned on to having regular food and definitely prefer the fat and insect blocks to the fat and fruit. Peanuts and fat balls and sunflower seeds go down well too.
I'm having a general tidy and clean (robot, not me) whilst making lentil soup for lunch then sewing while I wait for my Black Friday bulbs and asparagus to arrive. Veering back to curtains again after deciding Roman blinds will end up catching on the top of the window which is open 7 or 8 months of the year.
Dove - hope that part does the job. Our boiler in Belgium was a huge, German monster but still firing at 94% efficiency at its last service before we left. 23 years old and expected to go a lot longer. Works a lot harder than this one whose age can only be guessed at but is smaller and works a lot less hard. Don't think it's very efficient but it has certainly improved since we had it serviced last year. It hadn't been loved.
Clari and FG - hope thumb and hands are behaving today. Kind of essential so be nice to them.
Pdoc - good luck with the insurance company. Just what you need. Subject covered several time on BBC Rip Off Britain series so maybe check out their website for any helpful tips.
Hope you get your sun Joyce - and everyone else too.
Oh that's a bu$$er Hosta ((hugs)) .... but at least you're warm and resting ... that's so important
That bird is gorgeous! Have a lovely birthday
xx
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My heating allowance is in the bank already. Maybe they go out in alphabetical order.
Our boiler’s roughly the same age as Doves, we moved around the same time, I have it serviced yearly, it always runs at 98% efficiency, it’s extremely cheap to run, it’s oil, runs 11 radiators, quite often through the summer months as it’s often cold and damp here, in the holiday flat next door it’s on at 19c constantly. It’s not always a good idea to turn it down or off as when you turn it back on again it has to go full bore to get up to temp, where as it you leave it ticking over it’s just a quick on/off to keep the required temperature. Maybe gas works differently from oil, I’ve never wanted gas heating.
Thats bad on the AA they used to be so good. I use the RAC only because I don’t pay anything for it, I have a Tesco credit card and make enough in vouchers through the year to pay for the full package. They’ve never charged or refused anything,
Hosta - have you got a Kindle so you can at least read when you're not sleeping. I trust OH is better now so you can have a proper celebration tomorrow. Happy birthday fellow Sag.
No idea what your bird is but love that blue.
Lyn - have only visited Devon a few times and not for nearly 30 years no but it was always damp! Gorgeous, but damp.
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Only if they start at the tail end of the alphabet Lyn ... Pa always complained about getting the blunt needle in vaccination queues in the RAF ... those were the days of one needle per squadron
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The bird looks like a Glossy Starling, or certainly very similar to those I have seen elsewhere in Africa.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
It does Pdoc - and there was me thinking it was more like an anorexic pheasant.
Hello all.
Our French oil boiler dates from the 70's, it's a huge German monster, must be the same sort of thing as Obelixx's boiler in Belgium. But it doesn't too hot water any more, only the heating. The water bit is too full of limescale.
Going out to look round Dereham soon and to sort out something about Council Tax.
Rain and sun at the moment, snow forecast for tomorrow.
This is our old boiler and water tank after we installed the PV panels and yellow control box and before we re-did the pipe lagging.. Makes me think of Red Dwarf for some reason.
The one here is upright and has the burner and hot water tank inside and some very strange controls. Might have to think about getting a leaner, cleaner model but it can wait till the next service in November 18.
Hosta hasnt got a kindle for reading, I love mine, iPad, I can change to black background with white writing, then tone it down a bit more so it doesn’t affect OH when he’s sleeping. No rustling of pages turning. Brilliant invention. ?
yes always damp, we border Dartmoor and very rarely get washing dry outside, but that’s what keeps it green, we have lovely well fed cows and make the best clotted cream?
i think the climate is better on the south coast, Torquay way probably, but I don’t like it down that way, wouldn’t swap mine for anywhere else.