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Old 18-04-2014, 10:37 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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On 18/04/2014 21:15, Martin wrote:
On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 14:31:00 +0100, Spider wrote:

On 18/04/2014 14:17, Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:
On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 12:46:43 +0200, Martin wrote:

On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 16:59:45 +0100, Martin Brown
wrote:

On 17/04/2014 16:51, mogga wrote:
On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 16:45:16 +0100, Martin Brown
wrote:

Do you think the time might be right for a "Watching Paint Dry" series?

I have seen a DVD of a roaring fire.

Now that people have their large flat screen TVs where the fireplace
used to be I guess that sort of makes sense as a room focal point.

At the beginning of the 1980s we had a TV in our fireplace until people laughed
at us.


I suspect you put the fire out first.

Steve



No doubt. There were better flaming programmes then.


The previous owner added an extension to the house which blocked the ventilation
brick that the fire needed. He also tarted up the fireplace. Lighting a fire in
the fire place filled the room with smoke unless you opened the living room,
front and bac,k doors. Never buy a house from, according to the Economist, "a
potential Nobel Prize winner".




Dangerous! I'm surprised he got planning permission.
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