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1 hour ago, Turnedoutniceagain said:
Wheat harvest spotted this morning in Oxfordshire.
And we're off !!!!
Soon be time for those early mornings out on the stubbles
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21 hours ago, Dangerous55019 said:
@Turnedoutniceagain.But like you I’m still waiting to see anyone starting the barley/wheat harvest.
Winter barley harvest has started here at the foot of the Yorkshire Wolds, last week I was on the top of the Wolds and both winter wheat and barley looked almost ready. Spring barley near home is about 3 to 4 weeks away.
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59 minutes ago, Northernlights said:
Just what we do living in a tenanted farmhouse with mostly single glazed windows . Halls at 7c just now .Have fireplaces that just heat half a room at a time so mostly live in the kitchen diner with rayburn.Wear lots of wool jerseys and thermals in the winter.No heating in bedrooms but extra wool blankets in winter on top of duvet with the latest all night electric blanket.Don"t know how any one can live in 18c in every room.
This would suit me to be perfectly well
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2 hours ago, Snipper said:
Bit difficult to control if no rad or other thermostats.
My heating evolved from a Parkray insert stove heating the room and a few rads, which were installed 40 odd years ago. When we extended it was not capable of heating everything. We had an oil fired boiler installed but got plumber to connect the Parkray in as well.
To be honest a nice fire is a good way to heat if you want to put up with the faff of making the fire up. Maintenance very low. Feels much more cozy.
I installed a wall thermostat and fitted rad thermostats.
Depending on what sort of stove you have a Stove Fan might suit you. Check out on Google. Can’t use one with my stoves.
Stove has a canopy so no room for fan. We have oil fired boiler linked with the stove but my wood is for free so 90% of the heating is from the stove. Probably need rad stats
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5 hours ago, Lauren said:
So does the house just keep heating up and up until you turn it off or does it plateau?
The boiler temp is set on the middle setting so when it reaches that it cuts out. No room stat though.
4 hours ago, Snipper said:You could get an insulated stove pipe.
Obviously I don’t know what your set up is.
Does the fire roar away or gently tick over when turned right down?
Does the stove have a big fire bed? If yes you could always get fire bricks/boards to line back and side so fire burning is smaller.
Other things you might be able to do to get the temperatures right and circulate the heat.
Just some thoughts.
Double wall pipe through the wall but only single wall from stove to wall. The fire is quite manageable with the 2 vents, I can turn it right down. The stove is oversized really for the room but it nneeds to run 10 rads.
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No thermostat in the house so it's on or off, lit the fire for the first time in 10 days tonight as the whole house felt damp and chilly. The stove has an exposed stove pipe so the living room can get a little too hot but the rest of the house is just nicely warmed through.
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The woodstove has been lit on the few cooler evenings, I prefer the more gentle heat that it puts into the radiators to keep the chill off and it's cheaper to run than the oil powered combi boiler.
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On 07/10/2018 at 08:36, vizzy2004 said:
First air frost here after a low of -0.1c, also the 4th ground frost this season.
Everything seems to be around a month ahead of schedule, hopefully not a curse for snow this winter.
Yes, here too. -0.7C recorded just a stones throw away at Yapham.
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12 hours ago, vizzy2004 said:
First ground frost here near Malton too, low of 3.2c. Around 3-4 weeks ahead of normal .
Your nearest station to Pock is Yapham which fell to 2c.
I'm nearer to Yapham than Pock and just lower down so it's possible that we could have dropped a touch lower then.
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We had a ground frost this morning, just outside Pocklington. Don't know what temps got down to but there was a pretty good covering on the surrounding fields.
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Was right under the East Yorkshire storm, just outside Pocklington. It was amazing, did record some footage will try and upload it later when power comes back on. Constant lightning almost strobe like, thunder rumbling like a freight train and intense rain but little hail. Still watching it moving away with still spectacular lightning.
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2 hours ago, nicklon1 said:
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6 hours ago, Severe Siberian icy blast said:
Well I came on Sunday with the family for 4 days we go home tomorrow, arrived later Sunday so just chilled in the cottage, then took the dog on a huge walk in the Forrest in Thornton, which was amazing and really sunny and cold, since then it hasnt stopped sleeting and it's utterly depressing because the Yorkshire culture is very much about getting out and about, so we went whitby yesterday, got utterly soaked to the bone, had lunch in a bistro, whilst we were there they had a power cut and we ate half of our food we ordered(because the Ovans stopped working) in pitch black!
Today we went to robbing hood bay, which was nice, very cold but nice on the beach with the dog, then got soaked once again! Anyway, bit disappointed in the weather I have saw no snow what so ever even 400m asl it was stil sleet!
But other than that had a lovely time, good food and lots of booze!
Should have gone up onto Goathland moor, it was snowing heavily up there when I drove over earlier today
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No where is too remote for me, Alaska might just fit the bill but the wife has family ties that keep her around these parts so I have to go with that.
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Thanks HC, I thought they might have been on the low side. I do like it out there, in fact I started doing the lottery again as I found out the Ledgowan Estate was on the market but it's now sold so I'll keep my money in my pocket. Seems like a place I would like to live though, unfortunately my wife thought it was too remote though.
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This past summer I visited the Ledgowan Hotel at Achnasheen, lovely spot BTW. I've been following the weather forecasts for it on the Met Office app. My question is...is it really that cold??? Whenever I look on the daily forecast it always seems to be in single digits, especially the feels like temp, in fact the last few days and the weekend were showing snow of varying intensities. Do the M.O. over egg the pudding on the forecasts or do they come to fruition? I never did check the obs for that area to compare but I figured one of you guys might know.
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7 minutes ago, vizzy2004 said:
Hutton le Hole is other side to Moors from where the strikes were. No rain here as of yet.
Didn't check the radar. Am usually up over that side at this time of day but work is quiet so am sat here killing time
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26 minutes ago, vizzy2004 said:
Yes a few strikes just to my North at the moment over the North York Moors.
Hopefully just doing a test run before the main event later!
Am sat just outside Hutton le Hole and nothing, has rain recently but nothing more
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Sorry, but I do not believe for one second that anyone finds 26C 'too warm'.
Then I'm afraid that you are wrong. Anything above about 15c is "too warm" and anything above 20c is "too hot" for my personal comfort. I do not tolerate heat well at all and I have experienced temps from sub Arctic to desert and I know which I prefer. We are all different.
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Over winter it makes little difference whether its GMT or BST, but, during summer we would be much better off with double summertime, real waste of daylight at 5.30am.
Not really, I am up at 5am in summertime, out with the dog or at the stables seeing to the horse, a surprising number of folks are out and about early before work.
Staying light until 11.30 would be a waste and an annoyance as I try to get to sleep. I know we can't have it all ways but staying light until 11.30pm would be more conducive to anti social behaviour such as the boorish drunks who live near here who insist on preventing anyone who needs to get a good nights sleep from doing so. The people who start their day early tend to have a little more respect for those who like to stay in bed a little longer and no I'm not a miserable old curmudgeon, I like a drink as much as the next man but I also have respect for my fellow man/neighbour.
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I think it was a red deer as I've seen them around that area in the daytime. It didn't sound too friendly!
I can assure you there are no red deer in or near Dronfield Woodhouse. Roe deer probably but definitely not red. Might have been a badger though they can be noisy.
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even then, you would rather drive to work in miserable rain rather than blue skies?
Into every life a little rain must fall
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Cool for me, I do enjoy night time thunderstorms but my dog has an extreme phobia and wrecks the house so I cannot enjoy them while he is in distress.
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A dusting of snow above the Lion Inn on the North York Moors when I travelled over this lunchtime. It was snowing quite heavily at the time but I don't know how long it lasted.
Personally I don't mind it.
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White over here in Bolton (nr Pocklington) but has stopped snowing now.