Winter 2014's acoming so batten down the hatches......

[hexah]

I'm happy to see the kerosene prices fall. I have a wood burning stove it's essential because when the electricity goes off it is during is a big storm or blizzard. It stops us from freezing to death.

I keep all the internal doors shut and curtains closed when the central heating is on and this allows me to have the heating on for an hour or two less than if all the curtains and doors were open. Try it for yourself it is shocking how much heat is lost through the windows and internal doors.

I switch off all electrical things when they are not being used including the oven, microwave, washing machine, etc etc.

It all adds up over the year to big money savings.

 

[hexah]

There is a series of three programmes about the weather 'starring' Richard Hammond coming up on BBC 1.

Monday, 01/12/2014, 21:00 - 22:00 (01:00)
BBC 1

Wild Weather with Richard Hammond
(news/currant affairs)

Wind - The Invisible Force: Richard Hammond investigates how wind actually starts. He walks into the centre of a man-made tornado and visits one of the windiest people on earth - himself.


Then next week.

Monday, 08/12/2014, 21:00 - 22:00 (01:00)
BBC 1

Wild Weather with Richard Hammond
(news/currant affairs)

2/3. Water - The Shape Shifter: Richard Hammond investigates the role water plays in the weather. He tries to weigh a cloud, finds out how rain could crush a car and starts an avalanche before being arrested for criminal damage.


And the final episode a week later.

Monday, 15/12/2014, 21:00 - 22:00 (01:00)
BBC 1

Wild Weather with Richard Hammond
(news/currant affairs)

3/3. Temperature - Who cares? No one will be watching with Ham-mond presenting. Bring back Helen Czerski!

 

[Archived-1]

Probably worth looking around for a second hand one Martin, as long as the boiler's sound it should be ok. You can replace the firebricks, firedogs etc reasonably easily. Mine does four radiators upstairs and a towel rail in the bathroom and that's gravity fed - no pump, which is handy if the leccy goes off.

Yes that's what I will do Pete, they was one on eBay a fair few months back local to me that needed a revamp it did not go for that much £700 ish, I just did not have the money and anywhere to store it at the time,

 

[sonnetpete]

Wild Weather with Richard Hammond (news/currant affairs)

Now there's a raisin to watch....

 

[hexah]

There was an item in the local news yesterday about a council competition for skool children to name Borders council gritters.

One got called Gritter Spitter 3000.




I think Gritter Shitter would be better because that is what they do to my windscreen.




You may wonder why they are doing this odd and slightly paedo thing. It's because the council has stopped gritting hundreds of miles of roads over the last few year to save money but wants to make it look like they are still providing the full service despite obviously being a few shillings short and thinking no one will notice they are lying . . .



That's not even a proper gritter its a piece of crap. A salt tank attached to an ancient council truck from last century. It doesn't have tanks for pre-wetting the salt they probably have to pee-pee in it before it leaves the depot.

 

[hexah]

Now there's a raisin to watch....

Don't mention the buns! I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it all right.

 

[hexah]

Just realized she's not actually in it I was hoping too much.


It's just the old Ham.

 

[PaulR]

Richard Hammond? That's a sure reason to avoid ANY programme.

 

[Lazarus]

Apart from Top Gear ...................... He's a one-trick pony who is quite good as a foil to Genghis Clarkson and Shirley May, but nothing else!

 

[skomedal]

Shirley May,

Should ditch the other 2 and go alone, has made some very good tv programs always with an ironic sense of humour.

Regards

 

[PaulR]

Apart from Top Gear ///

ESPECIALLY Top Gear. I put it in the same class as Eastenders as a programme to be avoided at all costs. It's just vile. A complete travesty of the proper motoring programme it used to be.

 

[pgh13]

ESPECIALLY Top Gear. I put it in the same class as Eastenders as a programme to be avoided at all costs. It's just vile. A complete travesty of the proper motoring programme it used to be.

Last of the Summer Wine with cars! Not original, and if I've stolen that from anyone here, I apologise.

 

[PaulR]

Should ditch the other 2 and go alone, has made some very good tv programs always with an ironic sense of humour.

Not any of them.

They're all terminally tainted by Top Gear and I won't give house room to any programme featuring any of them (exceptionally, watching with gritted teeth Clarkson on QI), they are all totally bereft of any authority or believability.

 

[Lazarus]

Possibly the best programme "in the World"

 

[PaulR]

Shouldn't that be in the joke section?

 

[Captain Jack]

....I like them all! Though they are definitely a divisive troop...

 

[dan rose]

Last winter here was very bad didn't know that my apartment can crack on the inside sounds like a shotgun blast -45 f wind chills -15 f temp. You guys need better salt trucks over there you need to what we have here. They had on top gear about turning a combine into a snow plow nice idea I think.

 

[Captain Jack]

They had on top gear about turning a combine into a snow plow nice idea I think.

Yes, they also set half of Norway on fire! But they were onto something...

 

[2cvbloke]

Yes, they also set half of Norway on fire!

Nah, Clarkson did that (though it was staged, of course, everything's staged on there, it's a scripted comedy show now), but the snowbine harvestplow was a rather good one, which is unusual for the top gear lot, so, they can't have thought of it themselves...

 

[skomedal]

New snow clearing equipment ( maybe ) to prevent winter traffic chaos on E 39 between Kristiansand and Stavanger in southern norway.



The blade on the front of the truck is called Odin and the rotating brush at the rear is called Balder his son, so a family affair.

http://www.overaasen.no/road_equipment/black_without_salt/

Baldr (also Balder, Baldur) is a god of light and purity in Norse mythology, and a son of the god Odin and the goddess Frigg.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldr


Just hope it works

Regards