yeah i though so too, cheers for the confirmations, if i have my living room radiator on, my living room is reasonably insulated. If it was right next to a freezing hallway though then every time i opened the living room door, a lot of the warmth would be lost. Having the hallway radiator on provides some kind of buffer between the cold outside air, and the warmth in my living room i reckon. So Im gonna try that, plus i like making and watching fires in my bedroom upstairs beforei go to bed, i find it relaxing, i literally have a shed full of bits of wood that im never gonna use, so might as well get some use of them now.
I go out forraging for a rucksackfull of twigs and stuff as kindling every week or so and let it dry out inside. Eventually all the wood in my shed will be burnt, so in the meantime i can also be on the look out for more substantial chucks of fallen wood too. I love the idea of being more self sufficient and fucking off these wankers making billions of pounds out of us. Fires are a great way of getting rid of confidential stuff too, and instead of filling bins full of cardboard packaging they make the ideal step between paper and kindling to get the kindling blazing.
Different topic: The bike test that shows what we're really like at work.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25366998
This woman is a bit of a lightweight, "on a bike you are close to death and so become a more intense version of your true self." 8) Yeah right Ok if you say so, you bleedin Southern pansy. Though i dare say London cycling is a lot more more manic and cut throat than it is in manchester. Those cycle couriers down there are absolute fuckin lunatics. It is true that on a bike you are very vulnerable, its not good enough just to watch what you are doing, you have to try and beware of what is coming at from all directions.
One of the most frequent hazards is pedestrians stepping into the road without looking, this really winds me up. I dont see the problem with red lights if theres no oncoming traffic and no police cars around why not go through it. If you just sit there like a dummy about ten cyclists just go whizzing past you anyway leaving you feeling like a prize mug. Obviously im not gonna go through a red light at a crossroads if theres a stream of traffick flowing past inbetween me and the other side of the junction, but if the road is dead its just stupid to sit there waiting for a light to change colour. Particularly at traffic lights that allow traffic to enter your road from the right, it makes no difference if a cyclist goes through that light, as the car should be a foot or 2 away from the kerb anyway.
As a cyclist i think i err on the wary side of confidence. As a driver i tend to be "assertive" lets say, the moment you get over confident or arrogant you become dangerous. It didnt take me too long to learn that, though i did learn in the hard way.
