Good Morning Early Birds!

[waterboatman]

Monday. A bank holiday. It's been raining for most of the night, it looks like it's happy and has no intention of stopping. I'm glad I've got a tumble dryer! The barometer is reading 29.53, down from 30.18. Quite a drop in a few hours. I won't be out for long this morning! I was planning to down to the canal, I think I'll give it a miss!

Have a happy day everyone.

[seekeerz]

Hiya boaty xxx ..see you've been spreading yourself around !! Curse of being here when most are still asleep ....typical Monday here, steady rain....glad I've already done the washing !

You're doing ok on the mad game, too !

[dannyk13]

Good morning all.Have a good Bank Holiday.

[waterboatman]

Afternoon seekz xxx There's usually about 50/60 posts by now. I think hibernation has taken over the nation! :o}

Thanks. I like the mad game. :o}

[waterboatman]

Morning danny. All well mate?

[Islay]

Good morning all, day off here too, will take pups out later, then go and get some coal and logs to top up the bunkers for the month. Get lunch and bags pack for back to work and just take it easy for the rest of the day.

[waterboatman]

Morning islay xxx By the time you've done all that you will need a rest!

[Islay]

Lol I know but if I don't do it today - I won't go swimming before work tomorrow and I need to keep in the routine!

[waterboatman]

Sounds like a good plan to me islay!

[murraymints]

morning Boaty xx seek xx Danny XX Islay xx

still have a coal fire Islay ? lot of work but soooo nice

[waterboatman]

Morning minty xxx How are you this morning? :o}

[Islay]

Yeah its a multistove in the snug, we also have open fires in the good lounge and the dining room.
Our house is old and very cold so more often or not we have a fire going most days all year.

[murraymints]

fine ta boaty..

Islay I am booking in. ! sounds lovely ! we always had an open fire as children, dad was a miner...lots of toast by the fire ..very very happy memories !

[waterboatman]

The price you pay for having a lovely old house islay, worth it I would think.

[waterboatman]

All the married quarters we lived in as sprogs had coal fires, toast, crumpets, chestnuts, to name a few.

[Baldric]

'morning, raining last night when we went to bed 02:00ish, everything looks nice and fresh this morning in the sunshine, still cool though. The sky is 50/50 blue and grey so difficult to work out what we'll end up with.
Hope all is well.

[waterboatman]

Morning balders. The sky is a uniform grey here. It's stopped raining, but just to get it's breath back methinks.

[murraymints]

morning Balders xx you need to get to bed at a proper time ! tut !

[Islay]

Yes WBM ours did, huge black things with individual long glass that kept breaking meaning we had to do the foil fix and the go to the families office for new glass!!
Oh and cleaning daily and polishing weekly so that when it came to marchout it was easier!!

[Baldric]

That is a proper time ;o)

[waterboatman]

Sounds about right islay. But we never had the glass. In one we had a 'proper' kitchen range, fir box in the middle, two ovens on the left and water tank on the right. The whole of the top was for cooking on. Most of the household waste went into the firebox.