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gz
Joined: 23 Jan 2009 Posts: 8577 Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15539
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 19 8:27 am Post subject: |
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Cassandra has been posting on FB and assures me that she is all right and no fires near her. The lead to charge her computer has broken, and she posts on here using it, so hopefully we will hear from her when she gets a new lead towards the end of the week.
Gregotyn, sounds as if you need to sort out a new shed with some of the stuff falling out of the old one. Pity about the dinner; we can usually get quite good roasts in this area, but they do vary a lot.
Think we may have had the tiniest hint of snow last night. It was raining yesterday evening, but was supposed to turn to snow then freeze. We have a very little on the Velux window, but none showing on the lawn, so it must have been very little, and the ground too warm for it to settle there, but has now frozen.
Wasn't feeling very well yesterday, so had a quiet day doing a few odd jobs at home. Thought I was going down with the current lurge, but a bit better today, so will carry on and assume I beat it off (Hopefully).
For some reason our outlets keep ordering log sacks, so lots more to make. At least the cold weather should keep the sap down, so I might get a bit longer to get my birch in as well. |
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gz
Joined: 23 Jan 2009 Posts: 8577 Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2501 Location: New Jersey, USA
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45377 Location: yes
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2501 Location: New Jersey, USA
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45377 Location: yes
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2501 Location: New Jersey, USA
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15539
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Posted: Thu Jan 31, 19 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, gz, I realise the situation is bad in Australia, and that comment of mine was not meant to be flippant. I am concerned for all people wherever they are, when there are circumstances that could put them in peril, so I apologise.
Yes I am going to sort a new shed asap, MR. I had just gone past through the gate to take a box of firewood, and when I came back the shed was resting on the gate. so I added another prop and climb the gate hoping it won't collapse! The timber stored in that shed was really dry and that was my next port of call for cutting kindling. I have a lot of "H" frames in heavy steel and they will make a temporary shelter. I could just do without the weather as it is-cold and frosty. I am thinking of buying a welder to join steel together to make a roof frame for the "H" frame base. Just need the time now.
Sorry to hear you aren't so well MR. Do take care; in this cold weather, we are subject to trying to do too much when we should be inside in the warm. I am fairly lucky in that I don't mind the cold weather, and prefer it to the summer heat, when I am always squinting and in the shade when I can be-in reality I just suffer from old age!
Lots of snow yesterday morning, but gone today. The council boys had ploughed and gritted, and passed me as I was coming out of my drive, going back to their base. This a.m. just ice, and the boys were doing their job again as I went out at around 5am. |
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15539
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 19 8:36 am Post subject: |
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Your council men sound really good Gregotyn. Ours must have been out gritting too as although we had a reasonable covering of snow overnight, the road outside stayed pretty clear although snow everywhere else. Haven't looked out there yet this morning, but when the cars mix it up, it should clear quickly.
Worked on log sacks again yesterday as all our outlets running out. Managed to do 24 and husband and son delivered a total of 50 yesterday. It was flipping freezing; I was wearing thick winter trousers, 3 layers at top and a hat, which is unusual for me, and I was still cold. It was just above freezing, but there was a cold wind blowing through the log store. I had to work without gloves as I can't handle the sacks and labels with gloves on. Didn't thaw out properly until I had dinner and a hot bath.
Must make you laugh Jam Lady and Slim, as you are so much colder where you are, but probably manage cold weather better than we do as you are more used to it. |
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 19 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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I expected snow to some depth, but we had none over night and only a light ground frost, nothing on the windscreen and I sailed to work. The gritting lorries had been, but all that could have been frosted were clear by the time I went out. It appears their start time in the gritting season is 4am! Actually they are very good, our council workforce is very down to earth, but they earn a lot of money in this season. And with how they do this time of year and during the rest of the time can only be complimented. Not so the councillors. They are over paid and all they can think of is how to reduce the costs-well for a start they have huge salaries if they are in the 'inner circle' and about 1/3 of that if you are an ordinary councillor. I thought that councillors were volunteers and got expenses! My brother was a county councillor once in East Staffs and he didn't claim any expenses or get a salary. But there is to be a meeting with councillors here in the library at which they are looking to reduce or close the library to cut down costs. There is an influx of children who come in here to do homework at 3.30pm. as well as a lot of folks like me whose skill with computers is one fingered typing, and the librarians are so helpful with that and in many other ways-I pay my rates and road tax here too. Simple it may be, but I wouldn't attempt it if I was at home on my computer(if I had one!).
We were much warmer today at 5am than yesterday, my foreman informing me it was -9c yesterday but "only"-4c today. You are right about the cold, MR, I am wearing 2 layers below and 5 layers on top at work, but in my defence I am sitting right by the outside roller shutter door, and I am old! It is no excuse to be aging, but I am lucky in that I don't feel the cold as much as I used to do about 20 years ago, must have got used to it-or working harder. I am finding that my hands don't get as cold if I wear wrist bands across the point where the wrist meets the hand, at that point the blood supply is close to the surface and so it cools down rapidly. I also wear fingerless gloves and that has reduced the heat loss considerably in my hands and fingers. The gloves don't interfere with my handling of the early morning paper work for deliveries at work and the fingers are free to operate and write down easily what is needed.
Glad that the wood is selling well MR, all that hard work and in the cold! |
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15539
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2501 Location: New Jersey, USA
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45377 Location: yes
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