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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45465 Location: yes
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Posted: Fri Nov 27, 20 2:03 pm Post subject: |
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I think I said in a long ago post, I have a pair of old ostler's leather gaiters, deposited with my family in the 1800's when they were coal merchants and bakers in south Shropshire; I have worn them on occasions but rarely. Now it is all wellies and boots from my past employ. Definitely the law of sod for you MR, with the contact point of anything falling; it is the same for me!
Regarding drying wooden pallets, I have a drying shed. It is one which half of fell down and the other half tried, but I jacked it up and it was elevated to drying shed status as the roof was in tact. I am wearing wellies for now as it is very muddy and wet. They are with steel toecaps, but not as good as proper boots. Next time I need wellie boots I will do a survey and get what I think will see me through the rest of my needs. I used to get stuck in the mud as a child 'till a farmer said, "Tread in the wet parts as they are solid at the bottom so the water can't get away and stop you getting stuck", the voice of an adopted "Uncle Dick". where we used to go picking cowslips in the spring-all ploughed in now.
Starting to get low on nets for kindling. I need to talk to my customer as he buys them.
I was thinking it would be next week before I could get back into the library, but we are open as usual from now on, just observe the rules of distance, so I could, memory permitting, see you all tomorrow. |
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15578
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Posted: Sat Nov 28, 20 10:20 am Post subject: |
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I have just tried to have a look at the woven baskets on the net and there is one from my local village-Llanrhaeadr, not that they are common round here any more. I have had a row with my female friend so that is off before it has really got going, at least I wasn't smitten. Actually there are a lot of changes going on right now with swimming allowed but only one per lane, when it used to be a free for all. It used to be Tues, Wed, Fri and Sat, but now reduced to Wed and Fri. And the oldies have half the pool and the stars have half, but the bow waves from one lad in the star side are enormous and are reflected in the oldies side. He gets from one end to the other in 6 strokes. It takes me about 14! And today's last gripe is that my neighbour is watching football on the tv when he should be watching England play Wales at rugby so that I can go and gloat or eat humble pie!
I have to look for another new pack of kindling nets, I hope the last company are still going, MR, the ones you put me in touch with-that's a year or so ago now. Not much else to say since yesterday except that I can't find my hot water bottles, so will be spending more money on the way back home to keep the feet warm at night!
It appears that the library will be open as before-something back to normality then! |
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15578
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45465 Location: yes
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15578
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45465 Location: yes
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15578
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Posted: Thu Dec 03, 20 10:26 am Post subject: |
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Peace now reins with the lady I met at swimming, and we are talking well, something to do with we were the only 2 in the pool on Wednesday I guess. All over a glass dish which I couldn't remember where I put it after I had emptied it of a very nice stew. I think I said in the past we lived in the same road when children, but with a couple of miles gap! Hopefully the stews will return on a regular basis. My ability to cook is limited to a micro wave, from which, usually, "things" turn out-sort of-ok!
Inevitably it is raining this am. I will be going back after dropping the kindling in the shop, to more chopping. My wood stocks are well down as my main source of timber is where I used to work. I have been asked to return to go and get what they have anytime, but it is not kept in the dry there since I went, so I have to keep it in my drying shed for a few weeks. I don't remember if I told you of my escape and so got a drying shed! One winter a snow slide off a barn roof falling onto half of my woodstore shed and demolished that half! The other "sound" end fell out so a friend came and we shored the roof up and removed the offending end and out of that came the drying shed with a straight through wind-perfect.
I am in the process of trying to order nets through the bag supplier's web site, but I find that difficult as I am not well computerised. I still have 40 empties in stock and a few full nets at the ready but not enough for a month's supply. I found their web site a bit difficult to sort. I am hoping they will be in touch with me to say they have checked their records and we had so and so. I got onto the web site and an order form, which "snookered" me! 'Fraid I am of the old school and past it with computers. Back to pen and ink. |
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gz
Joined: 23 Jan 2009 Posts: 8603 Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45465 Location: yes
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15578
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Posted: Fri Dec 04, 20 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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I only set up the net ordering, the shop who buys my kindling also buy the nets, saving my capital going out, even though I would charge extra for the bags if I did the dealing. I am primarily chopping to pay my electricity bill rather than making a profit, and to give pensioners cheap sticks. I chop wood for the enjoyment, not for monetary gain; I worked for money in a paid job and as you know I have only just retired. I doubt if the price I charge for the nets covers the transport and the electricity, but correspondingly a lot of little old ladies round here are not on fantastic pensions and so the kindling is cheap enough for them to afford. I am not sure, but one old dear, a WW1 widow who died earlier this year had a pension of £9 a week at one stage-well since I have been up here. My mother's widow's pension for me as a child was £4 a week to keep me in school uniform, fed and clean etc., and run my Hornby Dublo 3 rail electric train set! We were lucky as someone told us about a charity and we got money to buy clothes and uniform for school.
Not a lot going on at home due to the weather and so stick chopping rules, though I walk my ground most days with a friend of many years and his dog. They followed me up to this area about 10 years after I came. I am glad I bought the 4 bedroom holding when I did-5 acres, £109,000-which I thought at the time was extortion.
Still can't find my "hotties", so I have invested in 2 new ones, and will need another soon, it is getting colder at night, I'm getting fatter and so too is my surface area to radiate the heat outwards! Strange that I am putting on weight, because I am doing much more physical work than when I was working. Humping and heaving timber round the place, and up and down stairs a few times to "find it". |
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15578
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