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🦍CURMUDGEONS' CORNER XVIII🦍

B3B3 Posts: 27,505
edited November 2021 in The potting shed
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In London. Keen but lazy.
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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I thought you'd like it.
    I had a really angry looking one last year. All fiery colours. But I didn't get around to taking a photo. @pansyface
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Did you have a moustache at the age of ten @pansyface?  :D

    It reminds me of one of the old guys in the Muppets.
    Or Groucho Marx. Appropriate  ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    I could use up a whole thread today, so curmudgeonly am I right now. But it would not be very interesting as this topic makes everyone curmudgeonly. In short: 
    Call centres, companies holding on to your money and making it nigh on impossible to get a refund / contact them, etc etc 
    AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH.
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    If you’ve never turned the wrong gas hob on, so that it heats the handle of saucepan on the next hob … and then grabbed hold of the pan handle, don’t bother … I can tell you what it feels like ♨️ 🥵🤬

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





  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I've lost count of the times I've burned all the hair off my hand lighting our gas hob. Terrible design. Does anyone recommend induction hobs? If I can get a cheap enough quote for a heat pump under the new grant system I might go completely gas free and finally regain my luxurious hand hair.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    There was a thread about induction hobs a while ago, @wild edges - largely positive, if I remember right...
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I've had two induction hobs in two different houses @wild edges.   Excellent. 

    ...but do you have luxurious foot hair....
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    wild edges said:
    Does anyone recommend induction hobs? 
    They are standard in passivhaus homes because they use so much less energy. I don't have one (I've got halogen hobs) but the people I've spoken to who do all seem very happy with them. I'll get one in the next iteration of our kitchen (when OH has finished building it)
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/1048454/induction-hob-sorry-not-at-all-garden-related/
    Here it is, @wild edges
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Hi @Liriodendron, nice to hear from you. How are you getting on in your Irish adventure? Hope you've settled in well and that your new garden's taking shape.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
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