Yup; managed to dig my way onto the road and dig my way back home this evening. I've been out in North-West Norfolk all day, slithering over the back roads and I think I can safely say "Bugger that! Roll on Spring!"
Oh, and Robert just came back from a skiing holiday in the French Alps where they've had about the same amount of snow as we have here. His friend broke several ribs … falling over in the bathroom. Ha!
Savannah, you don't HAVE any cold weather down South! xoxoxox
Someone should meet you in the evening with a nice hot meal, Dive. This shows that a man who wears a suit to work (excluding bankers, lawyers, accountants, politicians and lobbyists) doesn't necessarily have it easier than a man who wears jeans and a flannel shirt to his job. Your office is cold, you dig yourself out of the drive in the morning to spend your days sitting huddled in a hat and gloves or in a metal work shack. Then you dig your way out of the parking lot to slip and slide your way home.
Speaking of which, shouldn't efforts be made to revise the rules for "listed buildings" to make them habitable? Your company's heating bills must be astronomical, which may even have saved the wages of one employee, if not two. Given the cost of heat/AC couldn't the "listed" category eventually cause many structures to stand vacant, thus defeating its purpose? Surely, heating systems and double-glazed windows can be had that will both preserve the integrity of the design and make it tolerable for habitation?
Or is there a provision for pneumonia shots in the law?
Ah, Speedway; I'm the best cook I know so the only person meeting me with a hot meal will be me. Hee hee. As for listed buildings, I'm a great believer in them. What would the Tower of London look like with replacement double-glazed windows, solar panels and ugly AC units hanging off it? Our office may be a Brutalist icon but it's a masterpiece of design and worthy of protection, even if it means I freeze my ass off in the winter and collapse from the heat in the summer. I'm English; I need to moan about the weather and the office helps me to achieve my fix of national stereotyping.
I wouldn't dream of putting HVAC units on the Tower of London, Dive, but surely, there are ways to preserve the integrity of the design w/o making it ugly? I mean, isn't that a part of the task say, at the UK Supreme Court building? Here, the changes are made from the inside. A friend has an 1861 farmhouse that still has its ols windows, but storm windows are installed on the inside to make it habitable and keep down costs for heating.
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Bet he was cold…
Hope you managed to dig yourself out and get to work?
I will never complain about the cold weather in the Dirty South again, sugar!! xoxoxox
Maybe he thinks winter is the season for frozen fish fillets?
Yup; managed to dig my way onto the road and dig my way back home this evening. I've been out in North-West Norfolk all day, slithering over the back roads and I think I can safely say "Bugger that! Roll on Spring!"
Oh, and Robert just came back from a skiing holiday in the French Alps where they've had about the same amount of snow as we have here. His friend broke several ribs … falling over in the bathroom. Ha!
Savannah, you don't HAVE any cold weather down South! xoxoxox
Hahahahaha! Excellent, Speedway!
Someone should meet you in the evening with a nice hot meal, Dive. This shows that a man who wears a suit to work (excluding bankers, lawyers, accountants, politicians and lobbyists) doesn't necessarily have it easier than a man who wears jeans and a flannel shirt to his job. Your office is cold, you dig yourself out of the drive in the morning to spend your days sitting huddled in a hat and gloves or in a metal work shack. Then you dig your way out of the parking lot to slip and slide your way home.
Speaking of which, shouldn't efforts be made to revise the rules for "listed buildings" to make them habitable? Your company's heating bills must be astronomical, which may even have saved the wages of one employee, if not two. Given the cost of heat/AC couldn't the "listed" category eventually cause many structures to stand vacant, thus defeating its purpose? Surely, heating systems and double-glazed windows can be had that will both preserve the integrity of the design and make it tolerable for habitation?
Or is there a provision for pneumonia shots in the law?
Ah, Speedway; I'm the best cook I know so the only person meeting me with a hot meal will be me. Hee hee.
As for listed buildings, I'm a great believer in them. What would the Tower of London look like with replacement double-glazed windows, solar panels and ugly AC units hanging off it? Our office may be a Brutalist icon but it's a masterpiece of design and worthy of protection, even if it means I freeze my ass off in the winter and collapse from the heat in the summer. I'm English; I need to moan about the weather and the office helps me to achieve my fix of national stereotyping.
I wouldn't dream of putting HVAC units on the Tower of London, Dive, but surely, there are ways to preserve the integrity of the design w/o making it ugly? I mean, isn't that a part of the task say, at the UK Supreme Court building? Here, the changes are made from the inside. A friend has an 1861 farmhouse that still has its ols windows, but storm windows are installed on the inside to make it habitable and keep down costs for heating.
Then, there's always this:
http://www.duckbrand.com/Products/weatherization/window-kits/shrink-film-window-kits.aspx
My friend said to send you enough to do the whole building. >:-D
Did he catch anything? (besides pneumonia) ;-)
Dolor Hic Tibi Proderit Olim...or maybe not.
Speedway, I think we need to bubble-wrap the entire building, or even better: pick the whole thing up and relocate it in the south of France.
Hee hee, Ms.M. His keep net was empty when I walked past, so probably pneumonia was all he ended up with.
Ha! Nice one, Petrea. Some folk will never learn.
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