A friend went out there to work for a few weeks a year or so ago. He found it very hard to get used to the culture and the food. They mostly ate in the factory canteen and he had no idea what most of it was. He didn't want to either. He's not an adventurous eater.
It's a fight to keep my 91 year old mum safe. She has to be told to wear a mask, like a child. And her face is so small and narrow they don't fit and slide everywhere.
I wear one in crowded places still. But I feel very self-conscious. Which is ridiculous.
You have a later print run. There's a first edition on Ebay published in 1938. Several copies of the 1950 edition at reasonable prices. So I've bought one to add to my collection. Thanks for alerting me to the book's existence.
cold. Same on the open dining room fire. I love a real fire. The warmth often overwhelms me, but it is such a nice warmth. So much nicer than just a warm room from radiators somehow. I find central heating stuffy and airless.
😆 There were several coal merchants in our part of the city. No one delivering logs. We had a coal house & a bunker. Now I burn mostly logs in the stove but can burn coal in it. However house coal is no longer available so we have around 3 bags of smokeless on hand for when it's very ...
I've never worried about it. We have plenty of natural ventilation in the cottage and when we moved in there was Jim across the lane from us. Born in the village, only left it once for a week's holiday, he was in his 90's then and still digging and tending his garden. He grew veg, ...
Always newspapers. You sound like you might have lived more rurally, as I do now. When I was a child we were in a city. It was the norm to burn house coal.
What a pointless senseless waste of beautiful life this war is. All she wanted to do was care for abandoned animals and to live at home. Now her family is bereft and the animals are abandoned again.
Ah in my parents house we just burned house coal. Slack and a squirt of water from an old Fairy Liquid bottle tamped it all down so we could go shopping, or visit relatives, then come home and give it a poke and off it went again. We never burned wood at home. Lit it with a gas poker.
Gosh that sounds bad. I'm not sure we have such issues. We have radon gas to deal with. It's not a problem if you don't live in a sealed box, but the powers that be panic about it.
builds too. Creating homes that are damp and mouldy from lack of ventilation and plastic based sealants and foams. I could cry every time someone new moves into the village and within weeks inappropriate builders are ripping the cottages apart and doing all sorts of ...
I used to like to get down around Christmas and go to Covent Garden because I thought that always looked very festive. The big tree and lights and big hanging balls inside the market building. And always performers. I guess CG is twee Victoriana, but I have a soft spot for it.
It's possible. But I don't want or need central heating. I had to abandon the sitting room last night and come and sit in my office for the last hour before bed because I was too hot. We had lit the stove. Only needed a few logs to make me abandon ship. I may be unusual.
Do it! I have been down to Mike Wye in Devon a few times & then did a proper course on working with lime near home. I remember going into Travis Perkins in heels, a shortish skirt, carrying a pink handbag & asking for a lime mixing bath & a few other tools. No one said anything but they looked.
Yes, that's almost like a barn raising in the US back in the day. I have several books that sound similar to yours, but apart from a few pictures of cob cottages and a diagram of how to make cob blocks, I don't have much about it. It's not a thing in this area. We are all stone built.
That will have cost an arm and a leg! The cost of the slate we needed for mum's little barn roof, where over half of the original slates were reused was horrible.
