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Quote from: ranunculus on January 07, 2010, 09:05:57 PMQuote from: Lesley Cox on January 07, 2010, 08:45:37 PMQuote from: Paddy Tobin on January 07, 2010, 08:23:01 PMI sometimes wish I had your restraint, Lesley. With me the latest book to arrive simply jumps to the top of the queue to be read. I do eventually get to the end of the waiting list. No Paddy, I savour each new book for a while, gradually building up to it. I used to keep Ian Rankin's for weeks before diving in, but the first he wrote after Rebus retired wasn't up to much, I thought, and I've got the next one on hold for the moment.I've just discovered Laurie R. King, an American who writes new Sherlock Holmes stories. They're great.I've just started 'The Famous Five go to Kew'! Who wrote that one Cliff? I must look out for it. An order to the local UBS sounds about right.
Quote from: Lesley Cox on January 07, 2010, 08:45:37 PMQuote from: Paddy Tobin on January 07, 2010, 08:23:01 PMI sometimes wish I had your restraint, Lesley. With me the latest book to arrive simply jumps to the top of the queue to be read. I do eventually get to the end of the waiting list. No Paddy, I savour each new book for a while, gradually building up to it. I used to keep Ian Rankin's for weeks before diving in, but the first he wrote after Rebus retired wasn't up to much, I thought, and I've got the next one on hold for the moment.I've just discovered Laurie R. King, an American who writes new Sherlock Holmes stories. They're great.I've just started 'The Famous Five go to Kew'!
Quote from: Paddy Tobin on January 07, 2010, 08:23:01 PMI sometimes wish I had your restraint, Lesley. With me the latest book to arrive simply jumps to the top of the queue to be read. I do eventually get to the end of the waiting list. No Paddy, I savour each new book for a while, gradually building up to it. I used to keep Ian Rankin's for weeks before diving in, but the first he wrote after Rebus retired wasn't up to much, I thought, and I've got the next one on hold for the moment.I've just discovered Laurie R. King, an American who writes new Sherlock Holmes stories. They're great.
I sometimes wish I had your restraint, Lesley. With me the latest book to arrive simply jumps to the top of the queue to be read. I do eventually get to the end of the waiting list.
Quote from: Lesley Cox on January 07, 2010, 10:34:25 PMQuote from: ranunculus on January 07, 2010, 09:05:57 PMQuote from: Lesley Cox on January 07, 2010, 08:45:37 PMQuote from: Paddy Tobin on January 07, 2010, 08:23:01 PMI sometimes wish I had your restraint, Lesley. With me the latest book to arrive simply jumps to the top of the queue to be read. I do eventually get to the end of the waiting list. No Paddy, I savour each new book for a while, gradually building up to it. I used to keep Ian Rankin's for weeks before diving in, but the first he wrote after Rebus retired wasn't up to much, I thought, and I've got the next one on hold for the moment.I've just discovered Laurie R. King, an American who writes new Sherlock Holmes stories. They're great.I've just started 'The Famous Five go to Kew'! Actually, it's "The Famous Five go to Queue", about the time they failed to find empolyment and went on the dole.
Quote from: ranunculus on January 07, 2010, 09:05:57 PMQuote from: Lesley Cox on January 07, 2010, 08:45:37 PMQuote from: Paddy Tobin on January 07, 2010, 08:23:01 PMI sometimes wish I had your restraint, Lesley. With me the latest book to arrive simply jumps to the top of the queue to be read. I do eventually get to the end of the waiting list. No Paddy, I savour each new book for a while, gradually building up to it. I used to keep Ian Rankin's for weeks before diving in, but the first he wrote after Rebus retired wasn't up to much, I thought, and I've got the next one on hold for the moment.I've just discovered Laurie R. King, an American who writes new Sherlock Holmes stories. They're great.I've just started 'The Famous Five go to Kew'!
I had to google unlagged Isn't it nice to learn new things each day!!This forum is so educational I hope unlagged 'does' actually mean uninsulated?
Yes, to lag a pipe is to insulate it. Pretty stupid of the installer to leave the pipe uninsulated given that when it freezes the condensed water from the flue backs up the pipe into the flue, blocking the flue and eventually dripping into the firebox! A fairly important pipe to not have freeze up on you.
I'm so happy that I got my central heating boiler going again after it broke down today - and without having to pay anyone! Result!!! It was gurgling and the gas jets kept cutting out, along with a light indicating an air pressure switch fault. After a couple of hours fiddling around inside it and up on the roof listening to the gurgling flue I deduced that the flue condenser water outlet pipe to the outside drain (totally unlagged by the engineer when it was installed three years ago) was frozen solid and my boiler was slowly drowning itself. Two hours to locate the fault and five minutes with a hot kettle to solve it. Phew!!!!
