Maybe it's time to make sure you have a few candles and some firewood/ coal in. Bring the barbeque into the living room.....?
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Power cuts.
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11 years ago
Now that's sound advice if you want to kill your whole family!
Mike
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11 years ago
Go for it Harry, nice bit of heat, somwhere to cook.
Oh don't worry about the carbon monoxide, it'll only kill you and everyone else once.
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11 years ago
He could invite some more parasites and hold a FIT party.
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And don't forget the kindling as well! We've got loads of firewood, but I was really struggling to light the fire last night as I had to scrabble around the shed for something vaguely useful to start the thing off. And I had no newspaper, and A4 printer paper isn't that good. Oops!
Michael
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11 years ago
if you were quick of the mark you could have got some more from across the road for use next year.
G.Harman
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11 years ago
Don't be silly. Sod's law says that they are bound to be complete the wrong sort of wood....
Michael
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One of my friends takes the fluff out of the tumble dryer's filter and stuffs it into empty toilet roll tubes to make little fire-starting 'logs'. Works incredibly well.
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I bet he didn't learn that from Ray Mears. Never seen a tumble dryer on the tundra...
Michael
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11 years ago
Well that's obviously because they're nocturnal and experts at camouflage...
I suppose it's a good way of making something out of what might be readily available around the house (well, with a bit of planning, anyway). Me, I just save all the small offcuts from the workshop in a couple of 5 gallon buckets and use those. The lady who used to own our house meanwhile seemed to source her kindling from a local sawmill - there was a good stack of strips with two cut sides and bark on the remainder in the basement when we moved in (the house had a monstrous wood-burning furnace, although it's no longer in use)
cheers
Jules
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I grow my own firewood.
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11 years ago
Yup, most men can walk past one in their own kitchen and never notice it for decades ;-)
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Don't bet on it. The production and camera crew only travel in luxury motor homes :)