h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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By the way, is that link bringing up just the image, or the whole page on my account?

It's bringing up the one image but we can scroll left and right through other images.

This reminds me of something we had when I was a kid, a wiener dog draft excluder. It looked vaguely like this one.

http://s2.photobucket.com/user/synzephyr/media/dsc00662.jpg.html

But I remember the one we had was red cloth and I think it actually had strings pinching off sections like a string of sausages. It may have been homemade, possibly by my great grandmother.

I know she also used to make sock monkeys.

In that case I'll yikes the post and start the journal again, because once the post has gone, being the first post, the journal will be subject-less, I think.

I wouldn't bother.
Your Photobucket account appears to be public anyway.

I have bothered, and I'll do something about that.

"We're from the interwebs and we're looking through your pictures."

Begone Foulenough!

(That's a gratuitous Beachcomber/JB Morton reference, for those not familiar)

pic 69!

Sounds like you place there, is as drafty as here was, before I spent millions making it not so it also made this place so noisey.... the windws let in every drop of breeze, or wind, and every phonecall conversation taking place in the street, outside the shops beflow mind, even with replacement double-glazed sealed unit thinggies, I still hear the door-alarm thinggy on the shop, two doors up, every time it opens or closes Mind, £7K on the windows, £3+K on the roof, plus insulation in loft, plus cavity wall, plus the two new combi boilers I've had put in since I've been here.... and the amazing reductions in my energy usage, have been to go from £60 PM, to £1540 PM of course... the fact the energy per whattage unit/KWH or whatever it is, thesedays has shot up, over the period the house has ended up using far less energy but getting rid of the drafts is good, I guess and at least its possible to be warm inside the house, now

Last time I was in the UK (and you were there also, 2legs), I stayed for a day or two with a friend in Exeter who lived in a place that was so well insulated, she claimed that in the winter, once it was warmed up, she could turn off the heating and the place would remain comfortable for three days. In other words, her heating bills were as tiny as a very tiny thing.

no idea what insulation that is! at teh end of the day... this place was built in the late 60s.... and any kinda additional add on changes to it, I guess are within whatever limits a building of that age has, both in terms of the very odd layout/shape of this building, and in matterials used in initial build etc Mind, there is a huge improvement now, in the cold weather, with how much of the time the heating needs to be running to keep it warm; when I was first here, soon as it neared zero for any length of tiem, that was it, teh heating was on 25 hours a day, basically, and it still wasn't that* warm now it just lcicks on and off on the thermostat, and often can be off most of the day, after an initial hour or so to warm it up, first thing in the morninng but, still more than a doubling of the fuel/energy bill fot the hourse after more than £10 K of stuff, that should improve insulation and effectiveness effeciency etc., put in that is just teh huge price rises in fuel I guess Mind, I've noticed an odd draft, since they did the roof, at teh back, in the bit of loft sort of in the eeves... I'm still not convinced they put any roof back on there... and I kinda don't dare go into it, to check