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  1. gembo
    Member

    Our tea caddy is selling for sixteen dollars on Amazon

    Lot of info for breakfast reading

    marquess of Queensberry’s selected Blend of China tea, also on another face of the tin, his boxing rules, also next face a Tea Clipper and fourthly instructions on how to make good tea (do not store in paper as will absorb the scent of soap, dry the tea pot after scalding it etc)

    Beneath that in tiny writing is this encouragement

    Good Tea When taken neither too warm, too weak, nor too sweet, is an excellent tonic bitter, mainly does good and never harm. If hungry it is food, if sick it is medicine, it warms in winter and cools in summer. If you are weary it refreshes, if drowsy it enlivens. If you are poor it is not expensive and if rich it is very genteel.

    Radge Raj.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  2. gembo
    Member

    In another Coinkydinky, the tea caddy has just turfed up on The repair Shop. Not getting fixed, just as a prop to the side of the barn

    Posted 3 years ago #

  3. Frenchy
    Member

    Snow and ice in Gilmerton

    Posted 3 years ago #

  4. gembo
    Member

    Same in Balerno. Fell over night and was good covering. But the motors are getting through.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  5. wingpig
    Member

    Icy windscreens and bin lids in EH6. Doesn't seem to have stuck to the road.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  6. bill
    Member

    Snow outside and forecast for a cold evening so I bailed out on cycling and went for a run in Harrison Park on snow instead (so that I can still eat my treats). Roads slushy around there. But lots of cyclists about. Towpath quite busy with bikes (at least one bike per lap) and I could hear it was slushy there as well. Well done to all of them and hope everyone stays safe.

    Got a car lift to work as I was a bit scared to drive. One car (BMW) freshly crashed on the motorway slip road (overtaking lane was slushy).

    Posted 3 years ago #

  7. edinburgh87
    Member

    Snow on car roofs (rooves?) at the Gyle - which bodes ominously for places of higher altitude. Heading out at lunchtime so hopefully melts off a bit..

    Posted 3 years ago #

  8. fimm
    Member

    Mr fimm is turboing rather than going outside on his bike. This is suboptimal for me as he needs all the windows open so he doesn't melt. I'm wishing for fingerless gloves...

    Posted 3 years ago #

  9. chdot
    Admin

    “

    #BlackIce warning to #cyclists this morning from neighbours, re the cycle path.

    “A heads up to any cyclists, the cycle path is covered in black ice. Particularly at the sea wall. We saw 2 go down on our way to school this am. Even walking impossible”.

    “

    https://twitter.com/wardiebay/status/1334424531210014721

    Posted 3 years ago #

  10. Arellcat
    Moderator

    Light snow overnight in That Midlothian, now very crackly underfoot. There is much scraping of car windscreens going on and my neighbour has just driven 0.5km to the shop.

    I might break out the Yaktrax at lunchtime.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  11. SRD
    Moderator

    I meant to report that MMW and NMW showed no evidence of preventative gritting last night. Maybe out early this morning?

    Posted 3 years ago #

  12. wingpig
    Member

    A parent slipped on Leith Links this morning and has been ambulanced away for checking-up. No gritting anywhere in evidence. My washing is still out on the line from yesterday but it'll have to wait for a free slot on one of the three clothes horses inside.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  13. gembo
    Member

    Gritters were out on the lang whang last night full to the rooftops

    Three clothes horses, good. Any pulleys?

    Posted 3 years ago #

  14. minus six
    Member

    i'm no stranger to the multi clothes horse winter queuing system, but can't say i regret investing in an A++ Eco (ahem) tumble drier last winter

    everything still goes out on the line but gets finished off quickly in the tumble drier as darkfall hits

    when everything is dry, which doesn't take long, the delicates then get put in and absorb the remaining heat recirculating in the now switched off drier

    Posted 3 years ago #

  15. wingpig
    Member

    Still in planning discussions about the pulley's placement. Might re-suggest above the bath once we get an extractor put in.
    The tumble dryer makes everything smell so I don't use it. Currently trialling an electric clothes horse for ensuring school costumes are dried in time. Also currently looking at getting a free air source heat pump and banishing combustible gases from our water-heating equipment.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  16. fimm
    Member

    There was some grit on part of the NEPN last night. To be fair, it pissed it down with rain last night so any grit put down too early would have been washed away.

    (I assume "pissed it down" doesn't infringe Rule Two...)

    Posted 3 years ago #

  17. paulmilne
    Member

    A dehumidifier in the drying room helps, I've found.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  18. jdanielp
    Member

    Do Tumble Dryers Bet on Electric Clothes Horses?

    Posted 3 years ago #

  19. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    @fimm

    Bit startled I'll be honest.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  20. crowriver
    Member

    I saw the snow falling last night, around 2am. It was a veritable blizzard, but perhaps due to the heavy rain earlier it didn't really stick to much round Abbeyhill way: cars, and the occasional roof have a light dusting of white. Arthur's Seat and the Crags looking suitably wintry.

    I imagine it will be more like proper snow in the Borders...

    Posted 3 years ago #

  21. amir
    Member

    From Eskbank, the Pentlands looked proper pretty with a nice white coat. The Moorfoots look green.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  22. minus six
    Member

    The tumble dryer makes everything smell so I don't use it

    you can get lavender sheets, or scent impregnated organic wool balls, they work quite well

    if you don't mind smelling like a turkish bordello

    Posted 3 years ago #

  23. neddie
    Member

    Also currently looking at getting a free air source heat pump

    @wingpig

    Can you let me know where you get the grants for the heat pumps? Thanks

    Posted 3 years ago #

  24. ejstubbs
    Member

    There's an adequately wintry-looking covering of snow on our back lawn still. Outside air temperature here at 600ft altitude is ~3-4° C so thawing, but slowly. Pavements look a tad slippy but I have yet to venture out.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  25. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    @ejstubbs

    If the altitude is in feet then the temperature is in Farenheit, surely?

    Standard CCE practice would be altitude expressed as depth from the top of the troposphere and temperature expressed using the Boltzmann constant and some handy approximations for the composition of the air.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  26. chdot
    Admin

    “Standard CCE practice”

    Fake news.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  27. Arellcat
    Moderator

    Shouldn't a bucket of mercury be an integral part of said expression?

    Posted 3 years ago #

  28. LaidBack
    Member

    EST do loans for anyone considering ways of improving energy use / cutting out heat loss.
    (Also do bike loans if resident here).

    Posted 3 years ago #

  29. Arellcat
    Moderator

    Can you let me know where you get the grants for the heat pumps?

    You can get interest-free loans and a degree of cashback through Home Energy Scotland/Energy Saving Trust, for a variety of approved energy efficiency interventions ranging from LB's secondary glazing to different kinds of insulation, to central heating upgrades and microgeneration. The days of fully funded loft or cavity wall insulation are unfortunately gone, but HES has hinted at a greater investment than the 10 to 20% cashback of recent years. This may have something to do with detailed analyses of existing housing stock with respect to net zero ambitions. Heat pumps are a valid microgeneration technology but funding is also contingent on (last time I checked) an EPC C rating or better. Otherwise your electricity bills would be enormous.

    Warmworks is delivering the Electrification of Heat Demonstration Project for south-east Scotland, with funding from BEIS. They were looking for 250 qualifying homes, generally those with a gas connection and relatively high levels of insulation already, who would benefit from a fully funded ASHP or GSHP (and an occasional WSHP for those lucky enough to have water rights). I understand that the scheme has all the applicants it needs now. I applied early on, but was rejected because although my house is off-gas it's also not well insulated. I picked a bone or two with Warmworks because it was essentially helping not the people with the poorly performing housing but those who already had warm houses.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  30. chdot
    Admin

    Posted 3 years ago #

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