The best episode ever was milling live oak for the frames in Georgia. The miller’s accent was something else.

A Goretex bivvy bag will improve the insulation massively.

Older drivers dress for the outdoors when driving because cars didn’t have heaters when they learned to drive.

Give it a few days to dry. Can you borrow or hire a dehumidifier?

Oil-filled De Longhi Dragon radiators have good thermostats and very efficient indeed.

Thanks all. Meeting architect tomorrow.

Gotta be a Swatch, surely?

Mind you they’re not cheap any longer. But I bet they all have the same cheap as chips movement.

It needs to be warm and dry. I used to go to a cafe that was popular with walkers and cyclists and most of the time it was chilly and the windows running with condensation. Then the owner fitted a woodburner and the transformation was amazing because of the forced ventilation caused by the stove, along with the warmth.

Oh and it needs rubber covers on the chair legs to stop them scraping on the floor.

Nope.

Ah no of course you wouldn’t but you can edge the mixer slowly round so you’re close to boiling then step out of the shower feeling faint.

I don’t imagine the cabin is heated, must be bloomin cold.

Thanks PP. In my current state of mind everything is a catastrophe.

The water heating is entirely electric. How much is that going to cost? Omigawd.

Catalina is one of the nicest looking aircraft despite its odd shape, alongside the 747 and the Spitfire.

This thread fills me with gloom as I’m about to move into a new build that’s got these fans and so much else that’s wrong with it. This and overheating and the almost certain mouse infestation and all the other things that have gone wrong or are about to go wrong.

Check it’s not floorboards rotting under the floor covering. Guess how I know this?

Today’s news is that the two joiners were injured in a head-on crash on the way to work this morning. Completion by Friday is looking less and less likely. I think we will be staying in temporary until after Christmas.

The effect of this stress on my mind is so great that even making a sandwich is a difficult task because it takes me ten minutes to assemble all the stuff I need and put it together. To be honest I think it won’t be long before the stress kills me.

The plumbers have done a good job installing the heating and water systems. The kitchen supplier was good on product knowledge and CAD but I’m now hearing that he has bad reputation for finishing off and after-sales service. He fitted all the units but there was no liaison between him and the plumbers or the electrician; his fitted arrived, fitted and naffed off. In the end I don’t know who’s to blame, the builder, the architect?

Get the kitchen fitter back?

Oh God…

Nobody is in overall charge of wiring and plumbing the appliances. The kitchen fitter installed everything and naffed off.

I hope so, thanks.

That will drive water into all those bearings, which are fine on a bike designed for California but not for northern Europe.

It’s a locator beacon for the aliens who are waiting until the entire northern hemisphere is locked down and stuck by the fire toasting marshmallows when they plan to invade.

Don’t use Parcel force, I’ve had two wheel boxes “lost” by them. Apparently not scanned when collected from the retailer.

Poorer nations won’t bother buying vaccine for mass innoculation, it will only be for the wealthy top few percent.

My former colleague who lives in Nigeria tells me very few people bother about Covid. The reason? Fifty percent of Nigeria’s population is under 18, only 3 percent make it past 60. Life is already full of things that can kill you so why worry and Christian or Muslim there’s a fair degree of religious fatalism as well – if it’s God’s will, what can I do?

Interesting thanks.

I don’t think anybody has mentioned the effect of all this on people’s mental stability especially medical staff.

We are only in the second lockdown but the effect on many people has been devastating. Once rates come down I foresee legions of nurses and doctors retiring due to ill health and becoming patients themselves. The legacy of Covid will be mental illness lasting as long as those people live, especially diseases like Alzheimer’s which is known to be more common in people over 65 who have suffered prolonged periods of severe stress and depression. I can even see a cruel new term being coined such as “Covid Crazy” or similar to describe those sufferers.

Possibly worse will be the loss of all that accumulated knowledge and wisdom in the medical professions especially freshly-learned knowledge on dealing with pandemics.

There’s going to be a third wave and possibly a fourth and a fifth as with Spanish ‘flu.

Sorry I’ve just looked and it’s a Vivobook.

We went in April 2018 and stayed in Lower Manhattan for a quieter location, right on Battery Park and it was quiet.

Everything was as we expected. The only things that really impressed me were the glacial bedrock in Central Park, Ground Zero, an Italian restaurant chain called Eataly and the Rockefeller building.

I certainly would not risk going there next year.

Oh and Immigration was scary because I had Sudan stamps in my passport, so couldn’t get visa waiver and failed the fingerprint test, spending 20 minutes in a rather tense area of the airport.

It’s an Asus workbook

I’m 64 so didn’t grow up with microchips. Three months ago I retired (a disaster) and lost my company laptop so my son recommended an Asus workbook. What a disaster, it’s a different environment and I can’t open Word or Excel documents, apparently I’ve got to BUY Windows. The mouse pad infuriates me, I’ll be trying to do something and suddenly the effing thing starts doing things I never told it to do. I’ve got Hotmail and Gmail on the same icon on the desktop and neither of them shows me the texts of my emails, I hate it so much that I can’t be bothered to try using it so it was a waste of money. Make sure you get one that only does the things he wants it to do and nothing else.

This is an accurate description of what chronic stress does to your brain:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/heal-your-brain/201107/depression-and-anxiety-disorders-damage-your-brain

In Africa the window ACs are always in a steel rod box.

Paranoia is one of several indicators of poor mental health.

Haflingers or Mahabis are the indoor shoes par excellence. Great value and you can even nip out to the bins.

Some on here will know that I’m in the middle of a mental breakdown while stuck in temporary accommodation following a catastrophically ill-advised move and house build.

Our possessions are arriving from storage on the 18th and there’s going to be a lot of lifting of weights and pushing and shoving. I’ve been completely sedentary for the last 6 months and have lost 8 kilos, over 10 percent of body weight in muscle bulk. I’ve never suffered from serious back trouble apart from occasional sciatica which cycling strength kept at bay.

How worried should I be about causing myself a serious back injury while lifting something heavy and awkward like a mattress ?

Thanks for the reassurance.

An AGA boiler is extremely inefficient and they tend to leak, rusting up the inside of your AGA. Don’t ask me how I know this.

Have you actually bought the house? It sounds like a heap of trouble to me.

Echo the above, ground source is expensive and relies on a big area of floor at a lowish temperature in a well-insulated house. Not suitable for your big badly insulated house then.