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HELLO FORKERS ☔️ Feb ‘21

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited February 2021
    How much oil would that buy?  Simpler just to get a delivery contract and let them do the calculations based on tank size and consumption patterns or, assuming you keep some records of spending, go thru the invoices for the last 5 years and work out how long your tankful can be expected to last then order ahead?
    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)."
    Plato
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    a tank is £400 and we use about 4 a year
    Devon.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I suggest you invest in some insulation then.  That's a huge amount.
    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)."
    Plato
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Obelixx said:
    I suggest you invest in some insulation then.  That's a huge amount.
    You're telling me it is. 
    According to the guys who built our place we have masses of insulation.
    The house is a weird cruciform shape so it rambles a bit. 
    eg our bedroom has 3 external walls
    Devon.
  • Lovely photos @WonkyWomble ... similar here except we have few birds ... they’re sulking since the tree was pollarded 🙄 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hosta ... just an idea ... move into the guest room for the winter ... it only has one outside wall, and it’s a very comfy room 😉... and shut the master bedroom off until things warm up. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    Not good news from @Yviestevie - I hope they persuade him to stay, and start looking after him properly.

    Just about to join in with the latest Kew zoom lecture- all about community gardening in Bristol (incredible edible). A silver lining of the lockdown is the wealth of gardening talks available for anyone to join.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Hosta's oil bill sounds cheap to me, my last place cost 4000-5000€ a year to heat and most of the bedroom rads were turned off. French oil is much more expensive than English oil, loaded with taxes.

    I hadn't seen @Yviestevie's post when I last posted. That hospital sounds appalling, would never have happened when I was nursing in the 70s. There don't seem to be enough nurses nowadays, they are so badly paid for what they do and the years they study.

    I went to a different SM this afternoon, Intermarché, smaller than Leclerc, about 8 mins drive away. I went there because close by is a brand new medical centre and I want to find a new GP. They told me that a doctor who is on holiday at the moment should be able to put me on his/her list but is on holiday at the moment, I must ring for an appointment after the 15th. I liked the SM. There was hardly anyone there.

    We are having an aperitif before dinner, port for me and vodka tonic for him, he's run out of gin. I hate tonic and I hate gin barfing
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066
    @WonkyWomble Wow that's a lot of snow.  We have had a few light showers here and it's been really, really cold.
    I've basically spent the day in front of the fire.
    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
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