A car hit a power pole a couple of hrs ago. So it's a Tilley night tonight. T106 and EX 100. Dinner sausages, Fettuccine and salad washed down with a glass of or 2 of mead
Great photo's Marten thanks, it looks so milky and wonderful warm light. Only a guess but is the stove a Monitor?
G'day @Masha if you haven't caught on by now the stoves were made in Australia by Companion under licence to Sievert.
That looks thoroughly civilised to me, and cooked on a cast iron pan! The charity shops where I live throw away anything cast iron because in their words "Nobody wants them anymore". I told them to save anything cast iron for me and now they do. I now have a very nice collection of heavy pans that will last me the rest of my cooking life and which can be passed down to my children when the time comes!
Thanks @ColinG . My house was the only one in the street with lights on, mind you there are only 8 houses. I also have a good assortment of cast iron frying pans a griddles. None of them purchased new and most picked up off the side of the road in cleanup piles.
I was away from home Saturday night and got home on Sunday afternoon expecting a warm house. Instead, I got an Arctic blast because the central heating boiler had failed sometime on Saturday. Good-oh, I thought, that's a great excuse to get out the Bialaddin bowlfires. Unfortunately, I'd I quickly found I'd run out of paraffin - bugger! British Gas couldn't send out an engineer until this morning - and it was the coldest night of the winter so far...
Thanks Martin, your stove resembled a monitor of my own and it looked to me a little similar. Thank you for the update mate.
@David Shouksmith Tut tut, I thought that you of all people would be prepared for all eventualities. Henry (down to his underwear basking in the rosy glow of a Tilley R1 and still with another 40 litres of paraffin in the shed).
I know Henry, I'm not even sure where to buy it these days - at least at a price I'm prepared to pay, anyway. As you know, I'm just a poor pensioner struggling to make ends meet. Shall I heat or eat today?
I know what you mean David, those 4 or 5 litre containers are relatively expensive. I consider myself fortunate that there's a fuel depot no more than 16 miles away from where I live, where I can fill my containers from a pump for the princely sum of 85 pence per litre. Well worth the journey. Henry.
@WimVe Life's O.K. thank you. Retirement is good ! Put it this way, "The Management" has never complained, so I guess it burns cleanly enough. If it's good enough for her then it's good enough for me. Henry.
