Hows is your weather today? Or anything else for that matter

[Heno]

ray, snowflakes are one of the most beautiful things ever.

then you need to remember that if you leave a fire to burn it will burn itself away- pay attention man 

p.s. there's usually a few embers left though and generally they only need a gentle breath to blaze away again

i never head that phrase before. i'll probably use it until the day i burn out myself now

so it nearly went out yesterday. we collect all the sticks from big tree all year round and use them to start the fire. i just grab a handful and its is back even from the tiniest glow

[Master Ray]

ray, snowflakes are one of the most beautiful things ever.

then you need to remember that if you leave a fire to burn it will burn itself away- pay attention man 

p.s. there's usually a few embers left though and generally they only need a gentle breath to blaze away again

i never head that phrase before. i'll probably use it until the day i burn out myself now

so it nearly went out yesterday. we collect all the sticks from big tree all year round and use them to start the fire. i just grab a handful and its is back even from the tiniest glow

Snow is a cold bastard and it hates you and wants to hurt you.  Fact. 

 

[Heno]

hey ray, chill out, cool down, brrrrrrrro. there is no need for that flippin snowism

[Heno]

so this chinese project has been going very well except for one or two little hiccups. i've been working over 20 hours a day this week with only getting rest from about 7am to 10am or so each day. the great firewall of china is interesting. sometimes things work perfectly and mysteriously without warning they start to fail. that happened last night when our download service stopped working in the middle of the conference. luckily around 85% of attendees had already downloaded it. getting angry calls from clients who don't under the risk of computing across the gfw of china is not easy at the best of times, getting them at 4am when you think all is going well, is terrible. if i have learned anything from this week it is you can never plan for the unknown unknowns. add that little chinese gfw ingredient and it goes to a totally other level.

dark cold and damp here. sure whats new.

[Heno]

did you ever get the impression that this space fella is here to drive traffic



clear skies and cold. knackered and didn't realise it


have stayed up too late and not taking time to catch

the world is good. i love the world

[Heno]

cold

very cold

windy

makes it colder

so its very very cold

[Heno]

calm, cloudy, cold

typical grey winters day

no rain, no snow

still burning my logs and blocks

biggest problem is that now that i have got well into the first load it appears that the bloke who supplied them is more than capable of throwing in a load of rubbish. like, some are like damp pulp in places and will never burn, rotting a little.

next year we're going to burn our own since we'll have to get the tree people in and trim everything. that, and the council sent me a letter to say that i have to cut the perimeter hedge. i've purposely let it grow as i want to get it shaped that it grows straight out about 1.5ft at the top of the wall and then straight up with a gentle apex on the top. i'll wait until they threaten me and then sort. has to be done before march when the ban on trimming hedges comes in

[Rusco]

You have a period of ban for trimming hedges in Ireland?

Sorry I don't mean to be rude but just reminding if you'll burn your own wood they should be kept outside for one year drying. Some of the leaf trees like birch here should dry even for 2 years before burning them to get the best result with heating the house.

But what you said about the traitor selling rotten wood, that sucks. Once we had some bastard too who said he was selling logs in cubic metres. Well this guy brought the wood inside a normal car and wanted money for one cubic metres. Ffs, happy we didn't continue it.

Today I felled 2 spruces which were hundred years old giants. There's a storm coming again next night. Winds from north blowing up to 21-30 meters/sec. At first I had to fell down a birch from their way. Well, everything didn't go like I decided in the start: they fell were they had to but another of them had so long branches that they knocked down one pine too, + another pine which maintained its place but became a tree called "konkelo" in Finnish. That means a tree which is leaning strongly to some direction and has strong tensions inside it... So now we've got suddenly 5 trees which will give us wood for 6,5 cubic metres.

[Heno]

so, i didn't know that but i reckon after trying to burn the first one i'd probably come on here and ask you and anna about what the **** is going on 


and sure. we have some rule that says that we should cut hedgerow in urban areas starting in march each year. its understandable since housing densities here are like large housing estates so keeping some green in the concrete jungle is a must. and garden wildlife starting humping at that time

we need to start a commune

[Rusco]

so, i didn't know that but i reckon after trying to burn the first one i'd probably come on here and ask you and anna about what the **** is going on

No no please don't get me wrong good ol' Heno. I realised I answered too fast. What do I know about Irish customs and traditions or wood types(?), nothing is the answer.

We here have laws too about how to treat wildlife in urban territories. I know there are some cities where you couldn't fell a single tree without a permission for that, even though the tree would threaten your house. I don't know the exact word to describe this in English. Hehe.

Let's start a Family commune!

[Heno]

i know that ya dope


are you on high ground where you are?

[Master Ray]

I live in a top floor flat.  No greenery.  Can't be arsed with it, quite frankly.

Best of luck, though, with the commune thing.

 

[Heno]

i lived on the 26th floor of a tower squat in north london for about three months. i understand how alien greenery. except of course if its bud

[Rusco]

i know that ya dope

Eeh, have to admit I'm not quite sure what you mean.

you on high ground where you are?

It's located in west southern coast, or 10 km's near to it. This isn't highlands, but farming areas, straight ground here.Winds come here from many directions.

[Heno]

thats like saying "i know that" and giving you a rub on the head.....dopey

sounds isolated and bleak

where precisely is it?