"Mike Tullett" wrote in message
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with all the cold weather. It was great in 62/63 in my first year at Uni.
(courting at that time), but a re-run would go down like a lead balloon
with me. I'm fed up with having to watch I don't slip, or that the cars
don't, or having to leave the boiler on at night to stop freezing in one
of
the feed pipes. 9 days of frost and snow on the ground is enough for me
now.

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Mike Tullett - Coleraine 55.13°N 6.69°W posted 28/12/2009 16:37:34 GMT

I'll have it, till the end of the winter!

Only 6 days with 50% snow cover here and max. depth just 4cm. 9 days with
sleet/snow falling. Actually that's not bad for upland Devon at my altitude
in December, February is usually our main month for snow.
My turn for *genuine* blizzards Weds/Thu possibly.

Will (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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So John your one of the people unnecessarily adding to the global
warming buy not investing in a time clock for your CH, it's 2009, not
1969 !.
Also don't you think 19 C is too warm for a bedroom ?

Michael in coldish NE FL.

In article
,
MahFL writes:
So John your one of the people unnecessarily adding to the global
warming buy not investing in a time clock for your CH, it's 2009, not
1969 !.

I'm afraid that I don't like getting new things much, and the older I
get the less I like them. So I'm generally among the last to acquire any
new gadget (though I did make an exception in the case of the Internet).

Also don't you think 19 C is too warm for a bedroom ?

The thermostat is in the sitting room. My bedroom is probably several
degrees cooler.
--
John Hall "[It was] so steep that at intervals the street broke into steps,
like a person breaking into giggles or hiccups, and then resumed
its sober climb, until it had another fit of steps."
Ursula K Le Guin "The Beginning Place"

In message , Mike Tullett
writes
with all the cold weather. It was great in 62/63

I remember that! The snow came over my wellies, we had to walk down to
the Express Dairy depot and all the milk bottles had stalks of cream
sticking out of the top with the foil neatly balanced on top. It had
started snowing around New Year (we were driving home to Chorleywood
from Preston Road), and apparently it hung on where we lived. We also
had a black cat that was trying to hunt birds by jumping out of 10" of
white snow at them!

in my first year at Uni.
(courting at that time), but a re-run would go down like a lead balloon
with me.

A re-run of courting?

I'm fed up with having to watch I don't slip, or that the cars
don't, or having to leave the boiler on at night to stop freezing in one of
the feed pipes. 9 days of frost and snow on the ground is enough for me
now.


--
Surfer!

On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:47:13 -0800 (PST), Ken Cook wrote:

Gets to be a bit boring and tedious after a while, doesn't it!

At least it's bright out, lots of lovely light, even the hill fog
that visited briefly today was bright!

Far, far, better than cold, damp, overcast, dim, depressing, murk.

--
Cheers Dave.
Nr Garrigill, Cumbria. 421m ASL.

On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:36:41 +0000, John Hall wrote:

As for the boiler, I leave it on - and the central heating at about 19C
overnight - not to prevent freezing of the pipes but the freezing of me!
I like it not to be too perishing when I get up.


I suppose I really ought to invest in a time-clock that I could use to
switch it on an hour or so before I get up.

Much better new fangled things than simple time clocks available now
called "programmable room stats". They enable you to set specfic
temperatures for programable periods of the day and/or day of week.
Decent ones allow 6 periods/day and different programs every day of
the week. You don't *have* to have different settings each day, ours
doesn't and it has a "copy" function so set up one day then copy it
to all the others. And some will start the heating cycle the correct
amount of time before the first set point such that that set points
temperature is reached at that time.

If your heating really is on 24/7 I suspect you would see a noticable
drop in your fuel bill after fitting a programable stat and setting a
night temperature of say 15C. 61 maybe still working, heating the
house to 19C during the day, if there is no one there, is wasteful as
well.

--
Cheers Dave.
Nr Garrigill, Cumbria. 421m ASL.

"Mike Tullett" wrote in message
...
with all the cold weather. It was great in 62/63 in my first year at Uni.
(courting at that time), but a re-run would go down like a lead balloon
with me. I'm fed up with having to watch I don't slip, or that the cars
don't, or having to leave the boiler on at night to stop freezing in one
of
the feed pipes. 9 days of frost and snow on the ground is enough for me
now.

--
Mike Tullett - Coleraine 55.13°N 6.69°W posted 28/12/2009 16:37:34 GMT

My sentiments entirely, thank you. Don't get me started again.

jim, Northampton



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"John Hall" wrote in message
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In article
,
MahFL writes:
So John your one of the people unnecessarily adding to the global
warming buy not investing in a time clock for your CH, it's 2009, not
1969 !.

I'm afraid that I don't like getting new things much, and the older I
get the less I like them. So I'm generally among the last to acquire any
new gadget (though I did make an exception in the case of the Internet).

Also don't you think 19 C is too warm for a bedroom ?

The thermostat is in the sitting room. My bedroom is probably several
degrees cooler.
--

I keep mine at 20C in the daytime, controlled by the thermostat in the
living room. Blown warm air, so the vents upstairs are kept closed, which
keeps it around 17C up there. Bedtime, and the thermostat gets knocked back
to 15C, with all the doors left open.. I can't sleep in anything hotter.

jim, Northampton



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"Surfer!" wrote in message
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In message , Mike Tullett
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with all the cold weather. It was great in 62/63

I remember that! The snow came over my wellies,

Oh, you poor dear. It came (drifted) up to the top of the roof of our
bungalow in the middle of Hampshire. Generally, the roads were under about 8
feet, but open fields only had about a foot. Drifting covered houses, cars,
hedges, even buses. If you stood on the top of it, all you could see was
white, white, more white and even more white behind that white.

Look, I'm trying very, very hard not to get started. ..... :-)

jim, Northampton



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On 28 Dec, 17:11, Mike Tullett wrote:
On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:54:53 -0800 (PST), Graham Easterling wrote in


Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavour -
William Cowper

Gets to be a bit boring and tedious after a while, doesn't it!
May I suggest you have a break in the mild & sunny far SW.

And when the blizzards hit Devon and Cornwall? :-) *I'm safer up here where
snow is now less likely - just a continuation of the cold.

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Mike Tullett - Coleraine 55.13 N 6.69 W *posted 28/12/2009 17:11:07 *GMT

Blizzard? - last one here was in the 80's. Currently (09:00) 11.2C in
Penzance Mike! 15.6mm of rain overnight.

Graham
Penzance