The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV

[OFSO]

Hi de Hi, Campers ! A clear cold morning. Coupling up the trailer and off to buy firewood today. Then a back-straining unloading and stacking. Get my fitness points before the wrist band chides me for being sedentary...

[Woody]

Pitch black and pissing down, guess who’s off this weekend

[handsfree]

Morning.
What a change from yesterday's +2C and sunshine. Today is 11C and chucking it down at present.

Nice bit of restoration there 4mastacker. I hope you're all proud of yourselves. You certainly should be.

A rest day today. Certainly feel in need of it.
And what an apt day to rest ........IT'S FRIDAY

[Ibbie]

Morning. 10c for Ed walk this morning. Blue sky for this Public holiday here.
Water problems continue.

Mrs IB and I lost a very good and long standing friend to bladder cancer yesterday, after a long fight. He passed away at 05.30 with his only surviving son at his bedside. His other two sons predeceased him and his wife died about a year ago.

[OFSO]

Yeah, another public holiday. What with national, provincial, town, village and street holidays, I can't keep up. Will the woodyard be open ? Will Tom the guard dog assault me for his biscuit ? We shall see.

[Wodrick]

Morning all,
Same as, bit warmer though showing 14c.

*4MA* - Nice

Ceremony of ear lowering completed yesterday, should last awhile.
Have to really Juan Carlos is off home to Bolivia for Navidad.

Still have wood from last year, we are worried about having it out as we have a mad wood chewer now.
Using the A/C for heating.

[Ex-Ascot]

Morning folks. Sorry to hear that news Ibbie. Yes indeed neat work 4M. Wodders isn't A/C for heating expensive? Capt if we could market bat ***** we would be able to pay for your Spit course. Mounds of it shoveled up 30 mins ago and now two more splats. Mrs Ex-Ascot got pissed on earlier. Good rains yesterday now just overcast so genny running to filter pool.

Looks as if the last of the sick cows has now died. Over a week of suffering before it died. I would like to tie down these NR owners in the mud and let them die slowly. Now we have four dead cows in slightly rising water. That will be four rotting animals in water that the locals use to drink. Have given up telling the authorities. Don't want to be seen as an interfering reflective. Dead calf I dragged into the bush will probably be eaten by dogs. We chose to live here. Rough with smooth and all that.

Looks as if HRH PA is barred from going to church Christmas day at Sandringham. I wouldn't object. Empty house, time to play with all the totty he got in black Christmas stockings.

[Slasher]

Going over tonight’s 2h sesh - cadet reinforcement training. Seems to have problems in handling while in Normal Law. No complaints in Alternate or Direct Law. Bit like me when I went onto the damn bloody thing 15 years ago.

Sah my full sympathies to TS. Bat piss...yuck!

[Boac]

Mrs Ex-Ascot got pissed on earlier.

- what you two get up to is strictly your own business

[1DC]

Doesn't bat ***** make a good fertiliser?
Lousy day on the Humber but into double figures on the temperature. Next door for dinner tonight..

[OFSO]

No firewood as closed for yet another public holiday. No wonder nothing gets done. Our English builder was sneered at by a local for bothering to work when he could declare unemployed, get social security, and sit in a bar all-day. He replied to the effect that if he wasn't working and paying taxes, the idle locals would not receive social security. Grins all-round at the stupid foreigner. Still, no dead cows here. Have seen dead foxes in Islington. Surprised the pikeys have not white-vanned them off and eaten them.

[Wodrick]

Wodders isn't A/C for heating expensive?

Modern Digital things don't seem to be any more expensive than wood and they are cleaner and more convenient.
However I feel a burn coming on, the fire is much more cosy, we will see what Henry makes of a supply of chewing material.
A considerable mess probably.

I am tasked with rose pruning.

[Ex-Ascot]

Bomber Harris' finest. This in only B Wing there are more hiding amongst the beams. 1DC just looked up bat fertiliser, you are absolutely correct. However they talk about pellets like mouse droppings. Don't know what ours are eating but it seems as if they all have the shits.

[Magnus]

12C and drizzly this morning. War department going for coffee and cake with 'the ladies', so snooker viewing is planned for the day.

My official job for the day is to order cupboard/drawer locks for the kitchen, as the ankle biter is now exploring. Sole proviso is adhesive fit, not screwed.

[OFSO]

Looking at the consumption of the electrical goblins, our reverse cycle a/c on heating uses half the watts of the sort of two bar electric fire which HRH Prince Charles used to hand out as Christmas presents to his miserable staff. Roughly speaking, it takes half the electricity to move heat from outside to inside, as to use electricity to heat a radiator. Of course a sealed woostove gives an even better quality of heat. Yes the heat does feel different.

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

About to stoke up with corned beef hash, then out to finish more barn work. There's a light dusting of snow everywhere. Today is finishing the last bit of external boarding, then sealing all the eaves with housewrap to keep blowing snow out. It is already a pleasure to have a barn that's dry on the inside. I shall then get the last of this winter's wood in under cover, and start splitting it. Next year all this will be done by September. I go through about 4 cord a winter at present, at a cost of $480, which I consider a bargain for winter space heating in Canada. I will be looking at a heat pump (which sounds like what OFSO has) for next year too. One of those will be better on mild days when a proper wood fire can be too hot, and also good for going away.

[Wodrick]

What is a cord in English (Cubic m)

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

A cord is 4 foot by 8 ft by 4 ft - 128 cubic ft, 3.62 cubic metres. It is typically stacked 4 foot high, 8 foot wide and 4 foot deep. Most often, logs are cut into 16 inch lengths, so a cord is 4 foot high by 8 foot wide, and three ranks deep. In practice air gaps are left between the ranks for drying, so the cord will be more than 4 foot front to back.
A face cord is 4 foot high by 8 foot wide, and one rank deep. The actual amount depends on what length the logs are cut to.

[Boac]

3.62 and some splinters

[Wodrick]

Gracias, quite a lot then. If I am just using the wood burner I use between 4 and 5 cubic meters a winter.
Will be much less this year as we haven't had a fire yet.

I am about to descend the land a bit to investigate the Mandarin Orange tree which we seem to have acquired.