'Fess up . Who has relit their fires this evening.
 

'Fess up. Who has relit their woodburners this evening.

Flipping well chilly so we've done just that. The past few days were so warm and Spring like I had Mr BEVS take the wood logs to store under the house. He then found himself back under the house this evening to fetch the same logs back up . Oopsies.

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+1 brrrrrrrrrrr.

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Still warm just north of Auckland though having the occasional squally shower. Got my wine to keep me warm!!!!:)

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well must admit I did go to start googling "how to make a fire" as MrF says I do not do it correctly, apparently needs to be a triangle or something. anyway looked around a bit thought "this is the kids area, they can put jumpers on. :rofl:

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Erm, although don't have an actual real live fire to light, our 'heating' hasn't been off yet.

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Me but then I live in Tokoroa so no surprises there. Just moved from Taupo where last year I even had a fire in December! My old neighbour told me had to light a fire on Christmas Day one year!

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25C to 3C in two days. Seriously.

https://twitter.com/MetService/statu...638144/photo/1

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[Mini-Rant]
How can you make a fire wrong? If it burns it is successful, if it burns the house down its just very successful. Can you imagine scout camp "I liked your fire but thought the arrangement of pine logs really let you down I'm afraid little Johnny, now you have to share a sleeping bag with catholic camp master Bruno."

This relentless pursuit of a pointless and futile perfection in mundane tasks just really annoys me, just so others can feel superior in their time wasting ability. It's like listening to middle class women wittering on about their extremely petty medical problems diagnosed by their "specialist" in a game of one upmanship. Ebola is a disease, feeling down on a rainy day is not.

So you enjoy your wonky, misfit, mutant fire MrsFrychan. As Francis Bacon once noted "There is no excellent beauty, that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."
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aawww thanks Charismatic, I shall do as you say and will indeed make a wonky fire in future if I so desire. :thumbsup:

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Relit the fire !!!!
Yeah yeah Nah, i just switched on the central heating for half an hour :thumbsup:

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Couldn't take the pathetic (puss n boots) look from the doggie any longer & gave in. Only for her .... really.

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I so totally believe you. :nod:

We only did this for our pusscat , age 15 , who could not put on an extra layer but settled himself down beside our halogen heater hoping it would be switched on.

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We did. Poor hubby had to traipse to woodpile in far away corner in the pouring rain to collect some firewood. And just last weekend I was thinking of clearing out the ashes and making the log burner look like a decorative piece of furniture for the summer.:o

Well, it was 25 degrees on Sunday :rofl:

Jan

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LOL, same here.

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Erm. From what I can see the entire village has relit their woodburners.
There be snow on them there hills again. :ohmy:

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second wonky fire made today and me and the kids toasted marsh mellows :thumbsup:

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Awesome, the cornerstone of any nutritious meal! :rofl:

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You tried to make kids eat cornerstones?

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Ok. This thread is back. :eek:


'Fess up !

Who has lit their fire or given that old heat pump a bit of a blast.

Not that it ever gets a bit nippy here :tape:

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Typical NZ ......just sorted out my Stockman thick fleece top and bottoms from Warehouse and the temperature goes back up to 16C outside tonight...strip back down to shorts :lol:

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I confess that we lobbed a load of rimu in the burner last night.

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Yup.... heat pump is on and next time I change the bed, the electric blanket is going back on and in-service !!!

Gill

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Honestly? :rofl: Southern Softies.

It was only two weeks ago it was summer. And it's still shorts and t-shirts weather here. Still sleeping in pyjama shorts with two windows wide open all night.

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Photo or it's not happening. :sneaky:

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I wondered what everyone was on about. Still in my summer jammies here but I did put a cardi on to walk the dog last night so winter is on its way.

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Over your 'jamas ? :eek:

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Winter is coming. The night is dark and full of terrors.

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I'm led to believe that Mrs Bearskin has lots (used her wide angle lens). It's her insurance policy, so to speak. I know. You still got her details from before?

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She's posted here then :eek:

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I have been known to walk the dog in my jammies, but not last night. I'm usually fully clothed when I leave the house!

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The firewood did arrive today though. The delivery bloke did an excellent job of wodging it onto the patch of earth to the side of the driveway. Meant I didn't for once have to dash out and barrow it all away instantly - but can do at my leisure. I rather unnecessarily put a large tarpaulin over it all (i mean, it's only wood), but there you go.

Hilariously, the neighbour popped round to tell me that somewhere amongst it there is a cellphone. Seems today was a special 'cellphone with every delivery day' lol.

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I went to countdown today and felt very under dressed in shorts and t.shirt, everyone had coats and boots on! What's that all about? It was 20 degrees!

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Well, it was about 28 degrees a few days ago, so the temperature has dropped. And there was this weird water falling from the sky at some point.

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It's only 14 in the uk and they are all putting their shorts on and talking about having bbq's and going to the beer garden! Ha!

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Sounds alright to me. In fact, i quite miss that.

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Yes sounds nice but in reality the beer garden is usually full of drunks who over do it drinking in the afternoon and poor kids waiting for their parents to take them home and it's freezing but everyone pretends it's not!

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It's almost ten degrees where I live today and we've had 48hrs without any rain, totally shocking, although the usual biting wind is here.

I went out this morning to do some gardening and only had to wear knee length thermal socks, winter weight trousers, a thermal polo top, sweatshirt, fleece lined wind proof coat and thermal bunnet. It's definitely Spring as the thermal longjohns that I wear under this lot in winter were left in the drawer :thumbsup:

You could definitely tell we were foreigners in some parts of NZ as we were in t-shirts and commenting how warm it was when everyone else was in jumpers.

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Eh? I thought you were in Auckland .

Easy answer on the beer garden issue. Find another.

Nice glass of crisp cider or half a lager with a ploughmans tea. Somewhere in the New Forest or over The Purbecks ,as the long twilight falls. After a late afternoon walk. Loverley.

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If it's the New Forest Bev's then leave the dog at home :eek:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-25820926

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Never mind the evening, I'll be putting it on during the day soon here in Rotorua.