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What has that got to do with the price of coal......

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Egluntyne Eggsistentialist

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...........to coin a phrase. :D

 

Am in a state of delirium agitatums. :shock:

 

Have just ordered 6 x 50kg bags of our usual "coal". It is called "Room Heat".

 

Last time I ordered this quantity, it cost £85 ish. It has gone up to a massive £115!

 

As Him Indoors likes to have the fires blazing up the chimneys, this will last 5 minutes. His pyromaniac tendencies will have to be curbed.

 

He has already dropped ash all over a carpet because he insisted that there was plenty of life left in one of the ash pans and the bottom fell out of it as he carried it (full) over the new beige dining room carpet. :?

 

Careful digital examination (by me) of the one in the sitting room left a hole in the bottom of that one too, so a second disaster was narrowly averted.

 

Funnily enough, three new ashpans (one as a spare) and a new set of wotsits for tidying the hearth cost £115 too, as I recall.

 

Bloomin' expensive this keeping the home fires burning lark.

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Egluntyne Eggsistentialist

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What is it with men & fire? :roll:

 

I have a nice fire going - not too big, not too hot, not unmanageable.

 

Hubby has a huge behemoth spouting flames up the chimney which makes the room so hot we have to open the windows!

 

Exactly!

 

There is something primeval about it all I reckon. :roll:

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....it's either fire or water they're fascinated by....my brother is the same, whenever he comes down here, I'll have a perfectly respectable fire going and he has to go and poke at it and put a couple of trees on....I've taken to hiding the 4* for the mowers in case that goes in too....I remember when we were ickle, he used to do experiments, and his favourite was to empty the fridge of ice cubes, fill the kettle and then time how long it would take to boil....this was always done in summer of course when you wanted ice cubes :? ......his girlfriend (sounds silly calling her girlfriend as they've lived together about 20 years!) says he still does this from time to time....

 

Hubby's father was the worst, he never bought wood, but would claim it from various places, any old trees going, or s"Ooops, word censored!" wood, old window frames and the like were his favourites, and he'd never chop them up so you'd have an 8ft piece of wood across the room with one end in the fire and we'd have to take it in turns to kick it in from time to time!! They were usually painted things, probably with lead paint, so I dread to think what fumes I've breathed in over the years (explains a lot).... :wink:

 

By the way, I loved your original post, Egluntine, brilliantly written... :lol:

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This "Fire ...Man" thing also explains many men's enthusiasm for barbeques don't you find? The fact that the women usually have to do ALL the preparation; ALL the fetching and carrying and ALL of the cleaning away doesn't stop fellow male homo sapiens clapping the great man on the back for cooking with fire! (Or maybe that is just amongst a lot of my friends - apologies to all the men out there who think that I am geralising a bit too muhch! :anxious: )

 

In fact, my OH doesn't do BBQs so they tend not to get done at all as I cannot do all the above and stand around checking burgers and stuff.

 

When we had some friends around in September and it was getting a little chilly I tried to get the chiminea working. Of course, it wasn't burning nearly well enough for the males in the crowd. They had a working party set up in no time to ensure that the flames were blazing out of the top - with the end result that my clematis was burned to a cinder! :eh:

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Paola Feathery Fanatic

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OH in his wisdom decided to have a bonfire a few weeks ago between my Eglu run, the kids sand table and the garage, which is about 2 meters :roll::x I was livid. So he propped some wood up against the run to stop it from melting and had to constantly hose that and the garage wall :roll: He was there tending to his fire for a good couple of hours until it went out. My poor girls were shut in the eglu :( I was worried they would suffer from smoke inhalation. All because he would not take it to the tip or save it for a skip. It still amazes me that he did it. Our garden is not that big as you can see from the pic :?

 

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:lol: ...I mean :roll::evil: at Paola's OH.

 

Yes, I've noticed the price increase (& love your post too) Egluntine.

 

After the disintegration our 3rd or 4th ash tray, my Firestarter had a good idea! :shock:

 

We abandoned the ashtray altogether & let the ash drop through. The next day he uses a small handshovel to scoop all the ash into a metal bucket which is then kept outside the French windows and needs emptying every 2 or 3 days.

 

Brilliant! We don't need an ashtray at all. I used to hate touching that horrid metal tray, the job is much easier now. :D

Would this work for your fireplace?

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I agree with that, we have a real wood fire, and whenever I go to light it my OH says 'here, let me' and then proceeds to build a huge thing that never burns whilst singing Firestarter out loud :lol::roll::lol:

 

we go through hundreds of matches with his technique, and wood seems to have gone up a lot this year, and we are nearly out of our own supply :(

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Valkyrie Cocka-doodle-loopy

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OH hasn't had a bonfire for ages, but when he does he's out for ages. Once there were so many branches on there and all the leaves caught and blew up in the air and all over to the front garden where they settled in little black lumps on next door's car. :oops: He did wash it off to make amends.

Then the BBQ. At SIL's housewarming party (billions of years ago) he put some igniting fuel on there. Then another lad added more - I think quite a few of them squirted the coals. At last someone decided to light it after adding yet more. Consequence was the BBQ almost blew up and this fellow's eyebrows were completely singed off, along with a little bit of his fringe! Howls of laughter from the men, loads of sympathy from the ladies. :roll:

I agree, when OH has a BBQ why am I always the last to sit down to eat? Then they go before I've finished! :x

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OH hasn't had a bonfire for ages, but when he does he's out for ages. Once there were so many branches on there and all the leaves caught and blew up in the air and all over to the front garden where they settled in little black lumps on next door's car. :oops: He did wash it off to make amends.

 

The hubby once had a bonfire so fierce that it MELTED the BT wires going cross the garden & into my house & my 2 neighbours.

 

It was only a few weeks after we had moved in & boy,was I embarassed! :oops::oops:

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