Friday: Fear! Terror! Gut-wrenching Horror! Arg Arg. Please.
Mornooning all
Cold. Dark. Dry. No frost. At least for now.
Shoot sleep. Up at crack o Dawn.
Easy day of rest on wife's orders. She said I over did it yesterday. Apparently I need a day of listening to more records. Loudly.
Coffee. Laters
Sometimes. Maybe. Possibly.
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Great stuff that Methyl Prednisolone(?).
seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Morning
Double brr. We had thunder and lightening last night. Fantastic it was. Then wind hail and sleet and frozen rain and rain and snow. Today, diddley squat.
Tomorrow: deluge and mild damp swamp conditions.
...and Beans is a tw@t (with cabin fever).
Chores, admin., porker stuff, shopping, Bistro in the sticks. No idea how to fit it all in. Perhaps I won't.
Laters
seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
My last full day of detention.
Will be released into the deluge tomorrow, bro driving up this evening, hopefully get to my house subject to Friday M6itis midnight / early hours, then collect me sometime in the day.
Hospital beds are not comfy.
New world order to get set up: medically I'm mending well. Physically I'm fucked, so weak. So we'll have to reorganise the house to fit. Then the exercise regime begins...
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Some of these pharmaceuticals sound quite good...
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Morning folks,
Chilly down in the cave, my electric bill is going to be quite 'healthy'. Call with Tokyo out the way; now to sort out the Euro mob. Unfortunately weekend activities are looking a bit dicey due to Storm Bert incoming, even if it is going to be slightly less brass monkeys in the next few days.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
'ning
started really rather raw, some rain on radar, decided against early ride in case of iciness
coffee, wfh, laze
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Heatwave, up to -1c, OH off to Edinburgh for various errands, decide on activity to enjoy the sun and cold. Wind and slush predicted tomorrow....
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Good luck loon
nice walk with hounds and now work snizzle, hopefully budget is nearly agreed
later is undecided but ale is involved
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WFH today as it's a quiet overstaffed day in the office. Played a blinder really due to the ice causing chaos around here.
Most definately not riding today as most of it will be spent in front of the fire playing tug of war with a hyper dog who refuses to walk in the snow.
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Ooh, who’s Dawn??
Pinno, מלך אידיוט וחרא מכונאי0 -
Don’t be alarmed but I might have a sneaky smoke or two on your doorstep in your absence.
Pinno, מלך אידיוט וחרא מכונאי1 -
Cue Rocky training montage
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Decent day, mild and fairly sunny. Finished installing first light fitting out on retaining wall, looks nice. Five to go...
Had joinery bloke round to discuss a few jobs I CBA to do. Probably expensive but whatever. Did a turbo ride late arvo.
Open One+ BMC TE29 Seven 622SL On One Scandal Cervelo RS0 -
Afternoon
Drain man arrived and cleared drain, then informed us that as it was a shared one. It was Yorkshire waters responsibly and we should get then out to do a camera survey on all the drains. So Yorkshire water called and apparently they will come out within the next 3 days.
Stove man arrived with the new larger wood burner only to find that the chimney is only partially lined. So fitting the new stove will have to wait till next week when the liner man can come out.
I knew we should have bought a modern house.
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A liner is not hard to fit.
seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
They sound good.
seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
I’m sure it isn’t if you know what you are doing. However on chimney that is at least 130 years old but could be 300 years old and one that bends through the house. Which happens to be 3 storeys high, I won’t be attempting it.
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When we were renovating our 'forever home' with my now ex-, building is 400 years old and had had chimney flue routing changes various over years. Took us with the builders / installers quite a bit of dropping lines down, see where or if appeared, jiggle, try again. Once route sorted then getting in the flexi liner was pretty straightforward.
Aside. Where we installed a nice Clearview stove in living room area, the attractive old fireplace had a gas fire in it with a sheet of summat, prob asbestos closing off the chimney. When removed discovered there was no flue liner behind the gas fire. Guess they just assumed fumes would disappear up the chimney.
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Well, so long as there is enough draw, it will. So long as the section between the fire and the asbestos was sealed and there was no gaps.
Besides, people fit liners and seal it all off indefinitely thinking they will go on forever and those flue liners don't. My chimneys were concrete lined - done when the house was turned into 2 story's in1972. I would have much preferred to not use a liner but building regs and all that.
Anyhoo - you're a climber Webboo, what's 3 stories?
seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Twin wall is the way forward.
Our front room stove is currently slow cooking a cat and the kitchen burner has suffered from a collapsed fire brick. I thought I'd save money and buy my own sheet of vermicolite off amazon prime... Which is usually next day... but isn't being delivered for another week. FFS.
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3 stories? Is that like 4 candles.😉
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Vermicolite: dead easy to break. That stuff is a PITA to work with.
seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
We lived in house with replica cast iron fireplace that Mrs W decided to get ride of. She took out a few screws, pulled it out and suddenly we had a room full of Vermicolite. Fortunately it’s good for the garden
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That must have been one helluva clean up.
seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
We had so many bags of the stuff we were giving it away. Also given the chimney had a liner in it, there was no need for the stuff.
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