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deptfordmarmoset

Full time tea drinker
Location
Armonmy Way
Low cloud this morning. Lower than the jagged top on the Shard.
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Here is a picture of the luxurious coach which took us to Scotland .:whistle:

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oldwheels

Legendary Member
Location
Isle of Mull
How did people cook on an open fire all those years ago

You mostly had a swing out hob or probably two to sit the pans or kettle on and this swung in or out as required. There was also a hook sometimes fastened in the chimney to hang pots from.
My grandparents had that latter device in the croft house which was a modern one and not the old thatched roof type.
My parents lived in a couple of houses with such cooking arrangements which were regarded as normal at the time.
I remember them well.
 

Magpies

Über Member
Grey chilly morning in Cambs ...... this awaits me soon:

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...s-record-heat-asia-highest-april-temperatures

Climate change is seemingly having an increasing impact, globally. I can only hope we will soon work up the collective will to do something about it, globally.
 

tyred

Squire
Location
Ireland
You mostly had a swing out hob or probably two to sit the pans or kettle on and this swung in or out as required. There was also a hook sometimes fastened in the chimney to hang pots from.
My grandparents had that latter device in the croft house which was a modern one and not the old thatched roof type.
My parents lived in a couple of houses with such cooking arrangements which were regarded as normal at the time.
I remember them well.

A friend of my grandmother's lived like that until her death in the late '90s. No electricity, no phone, flagstone floor, open fire, a crook and cast iron pots. Nothing had changed since her parents time.

Her nephew inherited her farm and demolished the house. It should really have been preserved as a museum.
 

mybike

Grumblin at Garmin on the Granny Gear
My kitchen TV runs off the same antenna as the one in the lounge, with a signal that's full scale on the lounge TV signal strength indicator, but the kitchen TV won't reliably receive anything that's not on the same channel as BBC1/2 etc. I ought to find out why, but I'm not up to shifting furniture and floorboards to get to the cable, so it stays as it is.

Trying the same TV in the two locations might reveal whether it is TV or cable.
 
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