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No idea, but I am impressed by his talents, complex guitar with foot and hand tapping rhythm, great lyrics which apart from being touching observations must be hard to remember. Great vocal range.

Lot of words to remember in this song! All in the tangles you're trying to untie by telling But you tie yourself up with the one who's told Grandma's hands are stiff, when I hold them they're freezing She's still refusing to get old Her fingers hurt bad, can't close her handbag Can't do the buttons of her jumper up Her body's gone wrong, but stubborn and strong She argues with the doctor Call me the nurse I don't want a hearse The police are getting younger The stairs are getting longer, your voice is getting quieter The wind is getting stronger She emigrated from Russia at nine months old She's still got all her teeth, some are filled with gold But they hurt her now when she drinks something cold She won't stand her false teeth a-rattling her gobhole Her fingers hurt bad, can't close her handbag Can't do the buttons of her jumper up Her body's gone wrong, but stubborn and strong She argues with the doctor Call me the nurse I don't want a hearse The cops are getting younger The stairs are getting longer, your voice is getting quieter The wind is getting stronger Grandma was raised near Stepney Green Between Aldgate East and Petticoat Lane Her mother always made sure there was food to eat But as a girl she ran around without shoes on her feet Her dad spoke Russian, not much English My Gran translated for him, Cockney to Yiddish She mothered her brothers and daughtered her mother The blind fool tried to stop her daughter seeing my father 'Cause he was an atheist, he wasn't kosher My mum and dad eloped so they could get closer But my great gran told my mum you love him that's enough 'Cause my great gran was forced to wed a man she didn't love Grandma said we didn't know it but times were very hard then But then at least there was the dancing But then at least we could go dancing I was the oldest sister so I never had a childhood When I was six years old, she talks I had to spoon feed and carry my brothers 'Till they were old enough to walk As a girl she worked as a seamstress That's how her nine brothers and her sister were fed She has a little hole in her front tooth From the constant biting of the cotton and thread Her fingers hurt bad, can't close her handbag Can't do the buttons of her jumper up Her body's gone wrong, but stubborn and strong She argues with the doctor Call me the nurse I don't want a hearse The cops are getting younger The stairs are getting longer, your voice is getting quieter The wind is getting stronger When she was seventy years I saw her throw a spinning top And catch it spinning on a piece of string She could touch her toes and shoot a netball And spin around the ballroom dancing Waltzes, Fandangos, Charlestons and Tangos She and my grandpa would foxtrot They won prizes but illness sacrifices youth So now they have both stopped Call me the nurse I don't want a hearse The cops are getting younger The stairs are getting longer, your voice is getting quieter The wind is getting stronger Well call me the nurse I don't want a hearse The police are getting younger The stairs are getting longer, your voice is getting quieter The wind is getting stronger The wind is getting stronger The wind is getting stronger

My only vice, ( but it is only once a year.) https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/porter-foods-marrons-glaces/645154-229193-229194 apart from the one in the workshop !

It seems that many modern stoves have wood storage in or very near the stove so I am not sure if this is covered by the regulations. Aduro 9.6 wood stove WWW.ADUROFIRE.COM A lot depends on the type of stove and flue I would have thought The Aarrow Stratford in our conservatory has an insulated flue and when the fire is full blast ,I can place my hand on both the side of the stove, as the water jacket is the shield, and the insulated flue.

Sounds like time for a wood burning cooker, prepare for no gas net zero!

Yes but, if UV is the main cause of plastic degradation, where is the logic of throwing away my helmet, still in its box kept away from light and cold in a dark cupboard I do have issues with this kind of unnecessary waste of completely ok products just because of some middle management policy because nobody can be bothered to check whether the products are still fine to use. Here is another example in the NHS where millions of pounds worth of useful drugs are disposed because of a lazy regulation. Pads, wipes, inco sheets, gloves, drainage bags etc, as long as you have sealed unopened packs, places like Drs practices, District nurses services will make use of them, though they will reject any opened packs. Meds though are a real pain, as soon as they are handed to you over the pharmacy counter, opened or nay, they have to be destroyed. I couldn't fine anywhere, legal, where you could hand them over to a charity to be used in developing countries I used to work for MSF, even going through back channels it's 'dodgy'

I think that some more research needs to be done on the origins of this rule

Should have spent a bit more time reading the book! This page is the one I used to build the Rumfords, one 36 inches square and the other 24 inches square with the internal proportions as in the diagram

Just found my old copy and here are a couple of photos which may help Building the Rumford should keep you busy on Boxing Day!

Does that apply to one bought as a spare that has been sitting in its original box in a dark cupboard, unused for five years?

Just wondered what became of Taylor Wilson and his ideas. Might be a solution for a village or small town

Perhaps it caught fire!

Have you found a copy of Wood Heat yet?

IMG_2158.MOV IMG_2158.MOV IMG_2158.MOV IMG_2158.MOV IMG_2158.MOV IMG_2158.MOV Came back from work today at 2.00pm and found the remains of one of the original logs still glowing turned it over and it struck up and the brickwork at the back was 33 degrees and all the brickwork in the room was 24 degrees

The millstone works quite well when the fire has died down, which it did after four hours and no extra wood, as it is a good height to sit on with your back to the glowing coals. The gun showed that the temperature of every wall in the room was an even 19 degrees when it was about 2 degrees outside.

is there a big age difference between you? There was eight years between my brother and I so we never really were on the same level until I reached my twenties. Also it depends if you are too similar or too different to each other I thought that the interesting point was the difference in temperature between the Aarrow which was full on with full air, and the Rumford

I will set about making a video on youtube tomorrow

Maths was never my strong point, but like Boris Can you see the videos and if so can you explain why Stubby cannot see them? Here is the Rumford after two hours with nothing added IMG_2215.MOV

Just been on the roof and the temperature of the chimney pot is 7 degrees, so the efficiency of the Rumford is 500/7 x 100 or about 7000%. I am only following the science just like Boris and I am sure it is just as accurate!

I have had this problem before putting a video directly on a thread. Some can see it and some cannot i usually have to put them on YouTube Anyway this is the Rumford after an hour an a half with no wood added IMG_2213.MOV

Well , last still photo! Here are the videos The moon is bright and it has turned very cold outside, not in here though The temperature on the Rumford is about 500 degrees and it has only been lit for about ten minutes and the Aarrow Stratford is about half that and has been lit all day but it is heating the water, on the other hand I would have expected the glass on the door to be a bit hotter IMG_2208.MOV IMG_2209.MOV IMG_2210.MOV

I see that they still are making Bosky stoves. Does anybody here run one? Bosky F25-F30 THERMOROSSI.CO.UK Thermorossi Bosky F25-F30

I rather fell on my feet, as I discovered that the main North Sea gas line passes 100 yards from my remote house along the lane going from the main sub station to the local town. My initial enquiries were fruitless but later they relented and offered a connection for £90 but I would have to supply, bury and be responsible for the 2 inch metal pipe going to the house. Or I could have the high pressure pipe brought to the house for £200 as long as I dug the trench, so the latter was a no brainer! For electric I managed to buy some second hand armoured cable for not a lot and trenched it half a mile to the farm but because of the diameter and length of the cable I was limited to about 6 kw. This did not matter as I had the gas for heating. The gas was so cheap for years but as it became more expensive I bought the Aarrow Stratford and linked it to the gas via a Dunsley Neutraliser. I do not use the gas at all now for heat, just cooking. The final part of the story happened about five years ago when Western Power decided to renew their main 33,000 Kw line that runs over the farm, but they wanted to also change the route which meant putting poles in different fields which was a pain to farm around and the whole project was very disruptive. What would I like in compensation? Three phase line trenched to my house please! Grumble grumble grumble, but they caved in at the finish. So I am not threatened with divorce (over the electric supply anyway!)