Deeming Workshop of Leather and Motorcycle Maintenance, Faculty of Mech. Eng. at the UMN

[SupermassiveLBD]

Who's first, me or Small?

Brainy? Is your predictive text acting up or is there some weird heating thing which I don't know about?! Like heating which actually bloody goes on when you ask it to, despite your heating engineeer having visited THREE TIMES in the past month... and

We do have central heating but the Priory is Victorian Georgian and has NO insulation AT ALL. The heating is also oil fired which requires the sale of a small child whenever the tank needs filling so the woodburner is our only way of being warm and not bankrupt .

Exactly, LadyD. The woodburner comes in very useful when the draughts are blowing through the decrepit artfully-distressed Victorian floorboards.

I thought Small meant that her brain was so active that the heat generated would warm the whole house.

The artfully distressed floorboards in the Priory drawing room are hidden beneath a fine CarpetRight Axminster carpet in a vain attempt to reduce the gailforce draughts.

gailforce? My brain appears to be AWOL.

gale force, clearly .

The dilemma we face is that when Mr Inigo Jones finally attends Maud Mansions to attend to the renovations, we intend to rip out the hideous carpet slightly-worn Aubusson, but this will (I fear) render us all the more vulnerable to the depredations of the weather. I am thinking that I will need a large and fluffy rug on which to cavort with Mr Thornton sit gazing into the fire.

We tried it for two days last winter between the old carpet being removed and Axminster completing the hand-tufting of the new one.

Chilly does not come close.

Brrrr.

One of our breakthroughs was the installation of a new front door. It made a huge difference as it actually fit properly. I'm thinking the next step may be the novelty sausage dog draught-excluder.

Aha, I see about the log burner. They are now sylish too, as opposed to old-fashioned.

Yup, in the same way that Agas are now chic, although probably not as chic as the industrial post-apocalypse look.

New front door is on the Renovations Masterplan. I'd need to staple dogs all the way around to alleviate the wind whistling through this one.

We are tres stylish, naturellement, Massive. It is a requirement of Academy membership, is it not.

I posted a link yesterday to show how stylish and a la mode I am.

Of course we are stylish, witness our taste in chaRActers, after all!

I am a bit too lazy though for anything involving manual insertion of fuel, and extraction of ashy bits.

I'm LOVING your hair, Maud. Do you spend a lot of time on it in the morning?

I am a bit too lazy though for anything involving manual insertion of fuel, and extraction of ashy bits.

That's what LordD the housemaid is for .

Yes, the log-burner takes over in winter the role performed by the barbecue in summer, in giving The Bloke a legitimate reason to set fire to things.

As for my look, it does (it is true) require a certain amount of time and effort, but I don't mind because I'm worth it.

You forgot the L'Oreal poster boy to illustrate your last post, Maud.

Drat! So I did.

Oh yum, he is certainly worth it, LadyD.

worth quite what, I am not prepared to reveal

::applies emergency brakes to runaway imagination::

Far too much space in my brain, for a start!

Oh, yum!

We too have log burner which was lit for the first time this autumn last Saturday. I then found myself wearing a vest top on Sunday because of the ridiculous change in the bloomin' weather. Nice to know LB's are 'on trend' as I really didn't want one when we got it last year - unusual for Mr S to be riding the crest of the zeitgeist but I guess there's a first time for everything! We had an open fire previously which I loved but on a practical level the LB is much cleaner and heats the bedroom above the sitting room too.

Tuesdays are such a long day! Off for a cuppa and some telly - BBL!

Ah, Massive. I was just thinking of you. The lovely Mr Stephen Fry has this very minute taught me a new word. Hybristophilia.

Messire Hybristophilia.

Brainy? I have no idea how that got in instead of heating .

And look at you Maud with your fancy pants Artichoke, you could have come to me you know, I would have charged you double giving you mates rates.