General Chat

do you remember standing in front of them warming the cockles of your heart, everyone would go cold as you stood there

I have one.......

I remember the smoke pouring into the room when the wind changed and the smuts all over the furniture.

Happy days! lol

xx

We have an open fire


We use modern day coal - shredded paper made into logs !!

yeah I remember singeing my skirt more than once.lol

As I child singed my bum more than once........lol

I also remember sitting in front of it first thing in the morning trying to light it before I got the children up! ;-0(

No thank you, I would not like a coal fire back.

I have to say too that we had 'frost on the inside of the windows'.... draughts all over the house, no heating in the bathroom....... such luxury I could do without now.
Deanna X

I remember Mum and I toasting bread by the fire....and it was my job when Mum and Dad were at work to clear the ashes and relight the fire for them coming home.....blackleading the grate and red cardinal on the hearthstone....

I have to make do with a gas flame one now....

oh yes just remembering the cold bits now, we lived up north too, so when we moved to shrewsbury and even now really i cant have the radiators on in the bedroom.
specky even turns the downstairs toilet one on lol, he will be wanting a cushioned seat next

Yes Sally we have an electric log effect one now.

Not used to heat us, just to enjoy the warm look.

Deanna X

And I remember sitting toasting bread with my girls too, they loved it.

hi puss i have one it's beautiful at christmas:)))))))))


jetxx

Yes Deanna, remember the lovely thick slices of bread and butter......I have brown wholemeal now with Flora pro-activ.....not the same at all.....

Just put on the gas fire and the cat is sitting in front of it watching the flames....she is funny....

My son and DiL have a real fire and light it up and toast mallows - I only thought they did that in films....

They are lovely aren't they? So cosy, and comforting. But I have been cursed with two of my own... and I was the one who had to clean, light, collect coal from bunker etc, and the kids would sit huddled in front of the full glory of it!! Along with German Shepherd Labrador and any cats that had made their home with us at the time, lol.

I never got a look-in!!

Love

Daff xxx

all sounds lovely, i have a arifical one too but its not the same is it,
i remember my nam had corn beef legs from siting with her legs in front of the fire she never seemed to burn
and one time my mum through her heated rollers in the fire , there was something in them that made them spark like made and it looked like firework night in there living room, they were hiding behind the settee could of been nasty lol.

Oh yes Puss the bread was lovely and thick....
we have multi grain now, a beautiful bread but not the same as white toasted!!

Still, the central heating in the house is just how I like it..... and how OH hates it!!

Deanna X

it seemed to be a really different kind of heat to, until you opened the door then you shiver again for a bitx
i once cooed some meat and veg over ours once when i lived in the sticks and we had a power cut cause a blob of snow fell on the power cable

Oh yes and they were great for getting rid of veg peelings and anything else which would fill the dust bin.

I've had to boil the kettle and make toast and boil eggs on it.... lucky to have it then!

Deanna X

and bills lol.

yes lol.

I love them Puss, Ive only lived in one house with one prob was the house filled with smoke as flue was faulty lol!

Caz xxx