Rant number 336
After 11 tough bloody months - its time for December. Despite my best efforts - I may add.
Although I'm not terribly given to hating months particularly - there is much that I find contemptible about December.
Point 1) December is bloody cold. Scraping off my car, traffic chaos, dangerous roads, dangerous pavements.
Point 2) December is bloody dark and miserable. You never see the sunlight and even if you do its greyer than an octogenarians hair.
Point 3) Its got Christmas in it. This means that there is endless bloody Christmas adverts, band jobs for me to do - and various other reasons to be miserable.
Its been too short a year so far to be whacking december on anyway. I don't want to start the whole miserable cycle of optimism, realisation and eventual acceptance all over again. Its a pain in the ass.
Why do these things have to come round so soon!
Rant over.
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Friday, 30 November 2012
Tuesday, 9 October 2012
Rant 283 9/10/12 Subject: Feeling the cold
Rant number 283
As part of our holiday - me and the wife decided that at least one day must be spent on a bit of a spring(well autumn/winter) clean of the house. Although we haven't completed everything so far - we've done a pretty damned good job - which is very pleasing.
Obviously, when cleaning the house - you can't spend a lot of time out and about.
My house/apartment is a converted sunday school and was made early this century (I believe.)
Now, when people say 'they don't make em like they used to' they generally mean that modern manufacture is sloppy when compared to how things used to be made.
Sometimes however, it's a bloody good thing they don't make them like they used to.
Windows for instance.
Modern double glazing is a bloody marvel. It cuts down noise and separates the temperature of inside to outside admirably. My building however is listed - and so has old style sash windows.
They do the job better than say - an empty window frame. But that to a certain extent is the best I can say for them. As such - heating our house is a bit of a bitch. You blast the heating for long enough for the room to not feel tepid (about 40 minutes) - and within 20 the room is cold again. The ceiling is also about 15ft off of the ground - so there is plenty of room for the warm air to go to.
Like anybody in this boat - we've tried various different ways of trying to insulate the windows. We have quilts and blankets and we even have thick curtains. All in all though - there isn't much to do except to shiver.
It's at times like this I wished I lived in a brand new super insulated place. I'd probably hate it though.
Bloody cold!
Rant over.
As part of our holiday - me and the wife decided that at least one day must be spent on a bit of a spring(well autumn/winter) clean of the house. Although we haven't completed everything so far - we've done a pretty damned good job - which is very pleasing.
Obviously, when cleaning the house - you can't spend a lot of time out and about.
My house/apartment is a converted sunday school and was made early this century (I believe.)
Now, when people say 'they don't make em like they used to' they generally mean that modern manufacture is sloppy when compared to how things used to be made.
Sometimes however, it's a bloody good thing they don't make them like they used to.
Windows for instance.
Modern double glazing is a bloody marvel. It cuts down noise and separates the temperature of inside to outside admirably. My building however is listed - and so has old style sash windows.
They do the job better than say - an empty window frame. But that to a certain extent is the best I can say for them. As such - heating our house is a bit of a bitch. You blast the heating for long enough for the room to not feel tepid (about 40 minutes) - and within 20 the room is cold again. The ceiling is also about 15ft off of the ground - so there is plenty of room for the warm air to go to.
Like anybody in this boat - we've tried various different ways of trying to insulate the windows. We have quilts and blankets and we even have thick curtains. All in all though - there isn't much to do except to shiver.
It's at times like this I wished I lived in a brand new super insulated place. I'd probably hate it though.
Bloody cold!
Rant over.
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