Britain set for wintry blast next week :eek:

[norrahe]

we had a coal fire and me dad used to draw it by covering it with sheets of the liverpool echo. every now and then it would catch fire and I still have this image of me dad dancing round the front room stamping on the blazing paper.
we had lots of burn holes in the rug , we did

That's brought back memories for me

[xoggoth]

We use one of those hot air paint strippers to get it going. Crap for stripping paint but Brill for lighting fires.

[d000hg]

we had a coal fire and me dad used to draw it by covering it with sheets of the liverpool echo.

We used that technique to get a good enough draft to send letters to Santa up the chimney.

New build houses don't seem to have fireplaces.

[Incognito]

I'm not that old, well... not really!!

But we still have turf - in fact my family still own acres and acres of bog land that we had to work on in the summer.

Do you's not mean peat you heathens? Turfs the green bit you lay on a golf course.

[suityou01]

Do you's not mean peat you heathens? Turfs the green bit you lay on a golf course.

I went to Bunratty Castle, Co Clare. They burn peat there. Smells lurvely.
The chap loading it onto the fire there I called "Burning Pete", cos I is a bit of a card like.

[cailin maith]

It's not peat, it's Turf - the green stuff is grass... bloody hell, learn the lingo boys!!

[norrahe]

It's not peat, it's Turf - the green stuff is grass... bloody hell, learn the lingo boys!!

Well you do have turf as in grass and turf as in the "peat" that gets burnt in fires in Ireland.

It's all a matter of semantics.

[DimPrawn]

Indonesian Peat Burning Emits 1/7th of Global CO2 : TreeHugger

Indonesian Peat Burning Emits 1/7th of Global CO2


Bloody eco-terrorists!

And I have to pay £500 a year to drive a V8 car that emits 0.00000000000000000000001% of the worlds CO2!

[Bunk]

It's not peat, it's Turf - the green stuff is grass... bloody hell, learn the lingo boys!!

Yeah, but you lot don't call anything by its proper name

[suityou01]

It's not peat, it's Turf - the green stuff is grass... bloody hell, learn the lingo boys!!

Well you do have turf as in grass and turf as in the "peat" that gets burnt in fires in Ireland.

It's all a matter of semantics.

Fight fight fight fight fight fight fight