While I can't match the stability shown by others here, I have lived in just two properties since 1981. My parents had just one house from 1955 to 1999.
I think these habits are bred into us, either staying put or peripatetic.
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- Sun Dec 11, 2022 11:01 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Baggage survey from Kyiv at last!
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- Sun Dec 11, 2022 10:55 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Electricity prices
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Re: Electricity prices
Of course!overhead contraption with a pully which was in the kitchen.
- Sun Dec 11, 2022 10:53 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: I'm surprised shops haven't done this before
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Re: I'm surprised shops haven't done this before
:lol: I don't take that many layers off! I was thinking of winter when the air curtains by the front doors seem to be on at gale force 8 and 25 degrees C. Of course an airlock style entrance (i.e. a hallway or vestibule) with doors seems more logical to me. In fact our local Waitrose lost its hallwa...
- Sun Dec 11, 2022 10:47 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Amazing kindness!
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Re: Amazing kindness!
Ah yes, a little "thank you" goes a long way. Well done.
- Sun Dec 11, 2022 10:36 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Early Winter Bits and Bobs.
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Re: Early Winter Bits and Bobs.
video works for me. I'm using Chrome on an Android tablet at the moment.
- Sun Dec 11, 2022 9:54 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Electricity prices
- Replies: 38
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Re: Electricity prices
.. I remember using a mangle, if fact there is a local car wash that still uses one for ringing out their leather. I remember my mother's washing machine had a mangle powered off the machine so that, with wooden tongs, the washing could be lifted out of the vertical tub, fed into the mangle and the...
- Sun Dec 04, 2022 1:12 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Electricity prices
- Replies: 38
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Re: Electricity prices
Tumble dryers are big energy consumers, far more so than a traditional spin dryer that a previous generation used. I'm surprised no one has devised a spin dryer which can fit into an integrated system. The big problem is the way the price of electricity is calculated here. The government define pric...
- Sun Dec 04, 2022 1:10 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Electricity prices
- Replies: 38
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Re: Electricity prices
Tumble dryers are big energy consumers, far more so than a traditional spin dryer that a previous generation used. I'm surprised no one has devised a spin dryer which can fit into an integrated system. The big problem is the way the price of electricity is calculated here. The government define pric...
- Sun Dec 04, 2022 12:53 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Amazing kindness!
- Replies: 9
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Re: Amazing kindness!
Good for them. It can be difficult to screw up the courage to ask these sort of questions so well done for doing so.
- Sun Dec 04, 2022 12:47 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Early Winter Bits and Bobs.
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- Sun Dec 04, 2022 12:44 pm
- Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
- Topic: Is this a mineral deficiency?
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Re: Is this a mineral deficiency?
I think these brassicas were in one of the KG giveaways (but can't remember for sure). The soil is clay over chalk, so likely to be alkaline. I find it odd that in two sowings in two locations (one here in Berkhamsted, the other in Hemel Hempstead), with all the seed from the same packet, there is o...
- Fri Dec 02, 2022 5:37 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: CATCH UP
- Replies: 21
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Re: CATCH UP
Sofas do put our folding chairs to shame but at least we can sit in the sun (when it is shining)
- Fri Dec 02, 2022 5:34 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Early Winter Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 157
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Re: Early Winter Bits and Bobs.
I wish I had some to hand OH, but fortunately I do have some well insulated gardening gloves. This cold weather is painful to my hands.
- Fri Dec 02, 2022 5:30 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Forum upgrade
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Re: Forum upgrade
Ahh, I found dark mode - that's nice.
- Fri Dec 02, 2022 5:27 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: I'm surprised shops haven't done this before
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1190
I'm surprised shops haven't done this before
Reducing temperature in store. [url]https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/dec/02/john-lewis-and-waitrose-to-dim-lights-and-cut-temperatures-to-save-energy[/url] I find most shops are overheated, after all you walk in off the street and I don't want to be taking layers off just to do a bit of sho...