Essential Jobs for Christmas

[eighthobstruction]

We-e-ell, I can't guarantee that if we have a cold winter. Kindling round here now costs £2.95 a bag...

....shame I don't live near you ff....I love to chop kindling....at the above £2.95 rate a piece of 9"x9"x1" pine chopped chung chung chung chung into 14 pieces would be worth approx 30p....jeez....

....I love the music noise the cut makes and the marimba sound of the kindling falling....small things.....

[Padraig]

......if we have a cold winter. Kindling round here now costs £2.95 a bag...

Well, now you know why I encouraged you all to keep warm by clapping hands. Are you practising?

Ó bualadh bos, bualadh bos, bualadh bos go léir

If you get tired you might find a stool to sit down on if it's not burnt.

Ha Ha Ha

[french frank]

....I love the music noise the cut makes and the marimba sound of the kindling falling....small things.....

I know just what you mean, 8thO. I have a big chopping block - I just can't get the timber at this time of year. It's when people are having work done, and they have skips in the road...

P - don't you Ha Ha Ha over my burnt elm. Just wait until you see it!

[eighthobstruction]

Christmas cards NOT done or posted.... NOT going to pay for First Class....may have to make some NEW Year cards....to placate aging Aunties....

Another banal querie....Why do 10 decent Xmas cards cost £5 -6....but to buy the same quality birthday card : it's £2.95ea....bazzarrrs

[eighthobstruction]

I know just what you mean, 8thO. I have a big chopping block - I just can't get the timber at this time of year. It's when people are having work done, and they have skips in the road...

P - don't you Ha Ha Ha over my burnt elm. Just wait until you see it!

Oh yes ff, the wire wool and the smell of the bees wax, and sheen and texture when finished.....oooooooo lovely....

....Yes ref kindling/firewood....yes driving through an area being gentrified always helps....where might that be these days [when I left Bris' they were just re-gentrifying Royal Crescent....]

....Pssst....and if Tony and Sir Velo say this thread is not about music ....say it's a music stool for a miniature piano....

[hedgehog]

Ah, kindling! I have an allotment upon which grows a coppiced willow. It provides my kindling each year - this is indeed a job for Christmas. Not for this year's kindling, but for next year's.

I thin a third out each year, this provides kindling and smallish logs to burn beside other gleaned wood.

[gradus]

Coffins, water pipes(early), chair seats, excellent fuel (when seasoned) - Elm.

[hedgehog]

Coffins, water pipes(early), chair seats, excellent fuel (when seasoned) - Elm.

I think I'll pass on the seasoned coffins gradus

[amateur51]

Christmas cards NOT done or posted.... NOT going to pay for First Class....may have to make some NEW Year cards....to placate aging Aunties....

Another banal querie....Why do 10 decent Xmas cards cost £5 -6....but to buy the same quality birthday card : it's £2.95ea....bazzarrrs

I always send 'Season's Greeting & Happy New Year' cards

I got mine direct from Amnesty International this year, nice designs, message in a myriad languages, a good cause, job done @£3.95 for ten plus postage which I don't recall.

One year I sent a link to a Simon's Cat toon with an e-message to friends and sent £25 to local homelessness charity. Then someone suggested that I might be breaching copyright so I haven't done this since.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5FUH3eoizc

[french frank]

Ah, kindling! I have an allotment upon which grows a coppiced willow.

Meh, allotment, coppiced willow - you have to put your name down years in advance round here if you want to get an allotment. Worse than getting your boy into Eton ...

[amateur51]

Meh, allotment, coppiced willow - you have to put your name down years in advance round here if you want to get an allotment. Worse than getting your boy into Eton ...

[teamsaint]

Meh, allotment, coppiced willow - you have to put your name down years in advance round here if you want to get an allotment. Worse than getting your boy into Eton ...

you mean it costs more to bribe the council officer than the head beak of the college?!

[MrGongGong]

One solution to the kindling problem ?

[french frank]

Do you know where I can get an old harpsichord for under £2.95?

[MrGongGong]

Do you know where I can get an old harpsichord for under £2.95?

UEA ?