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It was snowing in Bristol Tuesday night, I saw it outside my Window or rain that can move up.
It was clear the next morning...
modified 10-Jan-18 10:54am.
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It gets cold in the desert at night.
But he'll do JUST fine in any temperatures you have in the UK as long as he's well fed and has some kind of shelter
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You need to understand that half the housing stock in the UK was built in the Victorian era.
It is sh*t. Cold, damp, f***ing dreadful. Should have been torn down and replaced with something modern.
It can be 10 C outside. It feels the same inside.
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In my experience the Victorian stock can be a lot better than relatively new builds.
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You must have experience some really sh*tty new builds. Surprised they are even legal if they are that poorly insulated.
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Wasn't talking about just insulation, more in general, some new builds just have a cheap feel about them.
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yeah, some of the new stiff is cheaply put up (like American houses), but it should be well insulated.
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Sunday, water line under the house froze; used a forced air propane heater to get it thawed.
And, heating unit stopped working; heating the house using firewood and a wood burning insert in the fireplace. We adapt as needed and make sure we have 'low technology' options.
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So, you're saying it's as devoid of thermal excitation as the dextro-mammary of a female necromancer?
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In a feminine supportive undergarment made from a copper/zinc alloy, no less.
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Do witches wear such things?
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Have you ever watched a geek comic book movie with a female character? 
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I couldn't say. 
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It's no longer intermittent: I went to make a lunchtime sandwich and the bulb doesn't work any more.
Turns out it only works when it's warm - when it gets as cold as the inside of the fridge it stops working. Presumably, the tiny wires shrink and no longer make contact. Take it out, it doesn't work in a different light socket. Let it warm up, it works.
That's a relief - I hate it when I don't know why a problem happened - so I don't need a new fridge, and get Brownie Points after all!
Why does this remind me of computing? 
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OriginalGriff wrote: I went to make a lunchtime sandwich
Ticking?
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or you could put a candle in the fridge under the bulb
- but then the bulb would be superfluous.
so just the candle then.
(to save time go ahead with 2 holes, one with a small fan sucking in air so the candle doesn't go out.)
Signature ready for installation. Please Reboot now.
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JUST BUY A NEW @#$% BULB!
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Ordered a pair from FleaBay last night ... already dispatched. 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Ordered a pair from FleaBay
Good grief, don't you folks in the mother country have hardware stores?
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Not any more - there is one about ten miles away, which is good for kitchen equipment and screws, but I think it pretty much survives because the upper floor is all fishing related stuff.
"Real" hardware stores where you could buy fork 'andles and two pound o' 2 inch nails died out decades ago, destroyed by a combination of supermarkets and B&Q / HomeBase.
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I was curious, as here in 'Merica we've got several chains of large hardware stores: Lowe's, Home Depot, and so on. They stock that sort of thing routinely.
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We do: B&Q, HomeBase, couple of others. But ... they are all about 15 miles away, and it'll cost an hour or two to go there, find what I want, and get back. From experience, They won't be anywhere obvious in a big store, and the staff will have no idea what a fridge is, much less a bulb for one... 
I (and Herself) can live with a dark fridge for a couple of days.
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Sounds like a good excvuse to buy one of thjose super indestructible Navy Seal flashlights. Be sure to tell us about it!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Doesn't look an AI-powered fridge.
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OriginalGriff wrote: I hate it when I don't know why a problem happened
You are obviously not management material.
You should've bought a new refrigerator first. Then just as the delivery person plugs in the new one and you check the light bulb in the new one you would've thought of changing the bulb in the old one and had the delivery person take the new refrigerator back.
If you're ever going to get that big promotion you are going to have to start thinking differently. 
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