Very OT: Question for the Brits amoungst us

This story has been doing the rounds for decades, there was at least one re-activated mine last time I was there. It was becoming worthwhile to use some poor ores.

But polyphant isn't a metal :-)

Mary

I haven't heard that! I also think it would be a retrograde step.

Mary

You're right, but we should be prepared to pay a fair price for what we buy. An item isn't cheap if it's at the expense of life ...

Mary

Our bath is cast iron but it doesn't seem to take a long time to warm through but I've never measured it. Hot water isn't a problem for us because it's heated by the sun.

Mary

Not at all! Harrogate is a very elegant and desirable place to live mostly, Jennyfields is more modern than most of the buildings.

I live just off the A61 too - but at the Leeds end :-) What they ca;; Leeds Road in Harrogate we call Harrogate Road, but in Leeds that's not the A61 and it's at the bottom of our street :-)

Mary

Mary

There's another pub with that (can't remember which but it's not called The Greyhound) - but under the ivy leaf flap there's just a note saying that a bell has just rung in the bar, the bell doesn't actually ring.

Mary

Most British houses are well insulated now even when there's no ch. It sounds as though you were in a military family, there are still very many in Harrogate and its environs.

Mary

Lead paint wouldn't bother me. It's mandatory to have copper water pipes in our houses now but the rising main in older houses (even ours) is still lead :-)

Mary

Sweet clover here is melilot, not oxalis. I've never eaten oxalis.

It's just that I spend some time in the food preservation ng and there was an obsession about botulism among the members. If we even touch a plant our hands must be washed! I sometimes wonder how I've stayed alive for such a long time :-)

Mary

I'm confused. Are you saying your small appliances come without a plug on the end of the wire, or that you have to install the plug receptacle in your wall?

Thanks Shelagh

What's a "copper"? Is that a hot water tank? ;>)

Shelagh

Well, considering that we use pigeon poop as a fertilizer in our gardens, (it's free - we raise pigeons) I do wash the veggies before eating them, except when I eat peas right off the plant. But carrots pulled from the ground get a wash from the hose before I'll eat them. ;>P

Shelagh

This was the case more than 20 years ago when we lived there, Shelagh, a sort of leftover from the time that the UK started installing heavy-duty wiring in houses, so that some outlets took the old standard plug and some, like ours, took the newer large heavy plugs. I rather miss having

220 volts throughout the house, and so does my husband the woodworker. We bought some appliances locally, and some, like coffee-makers, we bought from the U.S. and used step-up transformers with them.

Back then there weren't circuit-breakers either, and if a fuse blew you had to rewire the fuse yourself (as my husband pointed out, that's why it would be nice to have someone who's "handy mending a fuse" when you're 64, as the Beatles sang).

We loved Harrogate. It was as you say, elegant, and beautiful. We went to the theater in Leeds occasionally, and the music appreciation class I took at the H'gate adult ed center (I've forgotten the name of the college) included performances in Leeds.

Almost. I worked at Menwith Hill Station, and the housing office there rented houses for its employees. There weren't so many military there back then; it was before the military took over the station (although there are still lots of civilians there).

My husband spent his time there in college, earning a second degree, in computer science.

Melilot...what a pretty name.

I know that - if it was then soapstone would be a very peculiar name for it (Lol)

That is a brand name. They make containers in all sizes, from a small one to hold a snack to huge ones to hold clothes, Christmas decorations, and even soapstone. This link may be too long, but a Google on Rubbermaid should do it.

?_requestid=56512Higs, Katherine

Melilot ???? sound like a very HEBREW name to me [ is it from the King James Bible translation ? the singular Melila is a =a ripe ear of corn , and also pounding trampling and treading ,,, Melilot is the Plural of this.

?_requestid=56512>> Higs,

Ah, I see, thanks.

Mary