ahebron Posted January 15, 2022 Report Share Posted January 15, 2022 Dont have that problem here. I use the heatpump to cool the house at night so we can sleep but thats only about 5 days a year when it gets uncomfortable in the 20s. The other 20 days it gets used as a heat source in winter. When the big quake happens keeping cool or warm will be the least of our worries if we survive I always thought they should put the vaccine in the toilet paper. Still ok this side of the ditch but we are not eagerly awaiting its arrival. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Lewis Posted January 15, 2022 Report Share Posted January 15, 2022 3 hours ago, ahebron said: Peter Lewis mentions a Parrot House a while back we had 65 cockatiels 2 senegals a patagonian conure, a myers, african grey and Umbrella cockatoo the cockatoo would sleep in the bird house but squawked till you let her in to demolish the home by day more a sort of flying bolt cutter ,anything was targets for destruction great character but a nightmare in feathers in the end the brolly ,grey went to a rehoming centre and all we have now is 16 cockatiels less hassle all getting a bit old now and the 15mtr lord snowdon aviary is getting tired so am I Ha Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahebron Posted January 15, 2022 Report Share Posted January 15, 2022 Crikey they probably need a suburb rather than a house For many years we had Sulphur Crested Cockatoos living in the bush on the hills behind but they have died out or been culled. Someone on one of the farms let some pets go when they got too much and they bred. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteH Posted January 16, 2022 Report Share Posted January 16, 2022 Out of (Dis) interest.The Caravan Site by the Thamnes at Chertsey, has a large contingent of "parrots", who live in the trees on the site. Noisy Bu**ers too, especially when you need a kip after a 4+ hour drive from Yorkshire!!. On 08/12/2021 at 11:58, Wagger said: That's right Pete. I cranked the wall stat up as soon as that landed in the bank. Smart meter suggests that I have spent a quarter of it in two weeks. My wife received this as well. I thought that only one received it it you live together. I await the reclaim with 'No interest' hopefully. The "system" works One occupant = Full "benefit". 2 occupants = !/2 a "benefit" each. Thereby needing twice the paperwork, time and Tea and biscuits for those administering the same. Keeps extra shiny bums on seats I suppose? Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badwolf Posted January 16, 2022 Report Share Posted January 16, 2022 When one half of the partnership wants to spent her allowance for warmth in the house and the other half of the partnership wants to spend his half of the allowance on heating the garage, it gets interesting. Not that I would know about that sort of thing you understand (back working in the kitchen!!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Lindsay Posted January 16, 2022 Report Share Posted January 16, 2022 3 hours ago, Badwolf said: When one half of the partnership wants to spent her allowance for warmth in the house and the other half of the partnership wants to spend his half of the allowance on heating the garage, it gets interesting. Not that I would know about that sort of thing you understand (back working in the kitchen!!) When my other half enquires why the house is cold and the garage warm, I usually reply it's because I know how to close doors and windows. I can also guarantee you that if I time an open window, or door, for maybe three or four hours of lying open and unattended while I'm outside, as soon as I come in and close it, the comment is: "I"m going back in there" or "I've just opened that." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daverclasper Posted January 16, 2022 Report Share Posted January 16, 2022 On 11/12/2021 at 07:51, PeteH said: AND they know their countries history, albeit not as far back as the UK goes. I don't know loads about history of USA, though I assume the land/country had one before then?. I feel, how history is taught anyway, is generally, is very one sided? Just a few thoughts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Lindsay Posted January 16, 2022 Report Share Posted January 16, 2022 1 hour ago, daverclasper said: I don't know loads about history of USA, though I assume the land/country had one before then?. I feel, how history is taught anyway, is generally, is very one sided? Just a few thoughts. 'History is only propaganda written by the victors'. Allegedly. I know the history of my region has changed dramatically over the last 40 years or so, if you read books written in the 1970s the views and accounts are totally different to those being written today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wagger Posted February 18, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2022 Eunice has arrived, Walked dogs early to avoid the worst. Power line insulators are more than 60 degrees from the vertical at the apex across the Lake. My 85 year old brother has just remembered dancing with Eunice in 1955 before being posted to Cyprus in the RAF. He forgot about her until now and reckons she has come to give him a beating. It's his birthday today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Lindsay Posted February 18, 2022 Report Share Posted February 18, 2022 It's snowing here! All battened down, fire lit, log pile restocked, and enough coffee to last a week. If the house loses the roof we'll move to the garage. According to the morning news Northern Ireland was, for the first time ever, 100% powered by wind power with an actual surplus. All we need is a never-ending storm and we're as green as can be. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve P Posted February 18, 2022 Report Share Posted February 18, 2022 20 minutes ago, Colin Lindsay said: All we need is a never-ending storm and we're as green as can be. Apart from Wales,where a 300ft turbine fell over yesterday. S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Lewis Posted February 18, 2022 Report Share Posted February 18, 2022 well in not so sunny Luton its just started to build , one quick power outage and virgin internet is up and running but landline is now just Dead where's me mobile ?? i did charge it last night two picnic stoves at the ready , great for bacon,bangers and beans ha ! wheellie bins up and down the road they are empty now ..wheres the rubbish gone ...airbourne i guess Parrots are shut inside ,there are some serious gusts that come with a crack , hopefully it leaves us soon and we are all damage free Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Lindsay Posted February 18, 2022 Report Share Posted February 18, 2022 48 minutes ago, Pete Lewis said: two picnic stoves at the ready , great for bacon,bangers and beans Let's get into the spirit of things. If the power goes out, so what - cook on the wood stove, read by candlelight... make it an adventure. None of my spanners need electricity anyway. One of my best memories of Covid, when the cafes and restaurants were all shut and we were all socially distant, was of getting a carryout from a garage deli and sitting in the car, on the coast, looking out at the grey sky over the sea and reading the paper to the accompaniment of a five-piece fry. When was the last time you sat in a room, by candle or firelight, with no TV on, and just watched the shadows move about? Sometimes the smell of paraffin, or candlewax, can be incredibly nostalgic. Of course if it lasts for days that's a different matter... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Lewis Posted February 18, 2022 Report Share Posted February 18, 2022 yes , the cloaks has a mains powered macerator try explaing that to 'er indoors' 3 minutes ago, Colin Lindsay said: Sometimes the smell pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougbgt6 Posted February 18, 2022 Report Share Posted February 18, 2022 Daughter’s car port IMG_5091.MOV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Lindsay Posted February 18, 2022 Report Share Posted February 18, 2022 14 minutes ago, Pete Lewis said: yes , the cloaks has a mains powered macerator try explaing that to 'er indoors' pete I could close my eyes and be back in Rhodes, or even Chester... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogerguzzi Posted February 18, 2022 Report Share Posted February 18, 2022 21 minutes ago, dougbgt6 said: Daughter’s car port Hello Doug I am no Expert but I would say that is Buggered!!!!!!!!!!!! Roger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wagger Posted February 18, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2022 Would not want to be a Pilot today, having seen videos the aborted landings at Gatwick. Guy wires are holding my fence. My semi-detached is the East one, luckily. Wind is due West now hitting my neighbours gable end where the tiles are clipped down. The 1987 storm was during the dark hours. Sussex lost about a third of its mature trees. In 1990, we had one during the day at Frimley in Surrey where I was working. Sheets of corrigated roofing galvanised steel were passing by horizontally. That one closed the Weymouth to Portland causeway where the sister company was and moved the Chesil Beach. Barbeque is at the ready, as is the Inverter. So far no need although the local freeview transmitter is having 'Wobblys'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted February 18, 2022 Report Share Posted February 18, 2022 1 hour ago, rogerguzzi said: Hello Doug I am no Expert but I would say that is Buggered!!!!!!!!!!!! Roger I think the technical term is 'in need of adjustment' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Cooper Posted February 18, 2022 Report Share Posted February 18, 2022 Just had next door's chimney pot come through our conservatory roof. The actual pot missed me by about 2 feet but I got showered with glass. Feeling a bit mortal now. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Lewis Posted February 18, 2022 Report Share Posted February 18, 2022 my aiviary roof is on the move . not like Dougs daughters car port but just old timber etc held the end down with some aldi nylon rope but i need some boy scout or captain Dick to show me some knots as the silly stuf just wont self grip , the more you knot the more it decides to slide undone Grr. its calming then a severe whooosh Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Lewis Posted February 18, 2022 Report Share Posted February 18, 2022 2 minutes ago, Adrian Cooper said: Feeling a bit mortal now. you jumped so quick you keft your slippers behind heck that was lucky will you do the lottery now ??? Pete 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NonMember Posted February 18, 2022 Report Share Posted February 18, 2022 2 minutes ago, Pete Lewis said: the silly stuf just wont self grip That is a significant problem with nylon rope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Lindsay Posted February 18, 2022 Report Share Posted February 18, 2022 19 minutes ago, Adrian Cooper said: Just had next door's chimney pot come through our conservatory roof. The actual pot missed me by about 2 feet but I got showered with glass. Feeling a bit mortal now. Bad luck, glad you're okay. Good job they hadn't a fire going at the time, tho. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wagger Posted February 18, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2022 This was, and still is, a nasty storm. You all have my sympathy. If only some 'Divine intervention' would accelerate it and the jetstream towards Putin when he attends manoevres. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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