What have you bought today?

[Notch7]

I went to Lidl and bought:

1 x large Swede
1 x 1kg bag of King Edward potatoes
2 x 1kg bag of English carrots
1 x bag of shallots

Total price for above came to £0.95

They had a special offer of bags of veg for £0.19 each


And I never succumbed to buying from the middle aisle

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

And I never succumbed to buying from the middle aisle

I always make a point of taking a look, just in case I spot anything I might actually need, the thing is to be very selective.

 

[fillyboy]

I went to Lidl and bought:

1 x large Swede
1 x 1kg bag of King Edward potatoes
2 x 1kg bag of English carrots
1 x bag of shallots

Total price for above came to £0.95

They had a special offer of bags of veg for £0.19 each


And I never succumbed to buying from the middle aisle

Ditch the shallots, pick up some skirt beef and you could make some pasties.

 

[Mottie]

When we lived in Sydney our flat had no heating, so we bought a National Panasonic paraffin heater , I used to buy "Kero" from the local petrol station, they had a vending machine that dispensed into your own container. We brought it home with us but could not find replacement wicks.

When I was young, my Nan who lived next door to us in Canning Town used to heat her house with Parrafin fires. Stunk the house out. So did many others down our street and a bloke in a van used to come round selling it at the door. When we got married and moved into our first house in East London, we hadn’t been in there a day when there was a knock on the door. Mrs Mottie opened it and a bloke said "Parrafin, love". She said "pardon"? He repeated it but she didn’t have a fooking clue what he was on about. She'd never heard of it before. The previous owners must have been customers of his. I had to tell him we didn’t use it and when he went, I explained to Mrs Mottie what it was and what it was for. I think she thought I was having her on.

 

[crystal ball]

I spent my early years in a prefab, heated by paraffin & coal fire, I recall mother warming milk on the paraffin heater to save putting the cooker on, a couple of the prefabs burnt down after heaters were knocked over, funny really as they were built from asbestos panels.

 

[Diver Fred]

the wife's chrimble pressies.

 

[Mottie]

Yesterday I bought two cases of Bud that were on a special in Sainsbury’s £20 for two x 20 bottle cases. One for me, one for our bin men and a couple of bottles of wine for my two posties.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I spent my early years in a prefab, heated by paraffin & coal fire, I recall mother warming milk on the paraffin heater to save putting the cooker on, a couple of the prefabs burnt down after heaters were knocked over, funny really as they were built from asbestos panels.

Now you mention it, I remember my parents buying a fancy paraffin heater, to warm the house a bit quicker than a coal range fire. From memory - it had a tank which was filled then inverted, a plunger system in the filler, stopped it leaking out once inverted, until it was fitted. It then maintained a constant paraffin level into a burner system. The burner system, was a circular wick, but it only burnt at the wick initially, after a few minutes, the flame would move up the burner to a heat a metal mesh on top of the burner. It was lit (when it worked) via a small element, batteries, and a push button, once the wick was soaked. When it didn't, it had to be lit by removing the burner head and lighting with a match. There was no heat output control, with tank right way up it burned, invert the tank it went out. Unlike most such heaters, because of the fancy burner, there was almost no smell from it.

I think back then some of the paraffin brands were promoted on their lack of smell?

 

[Stivino]

We had two paraffin heaters and, I remember queueing at the back of the van to get it.
Just the smell of it burning in the hall made me feel warm. But it didn't half cause condensation on the upstairs windows and if it was really cold, there would be ice on the inside in the morning. I used to get ice on the inside of my north facing bedroom wall too.
The good old days, eh!

 

[Mottie]

Now you mention it, I remember my parents buying a fancy paraffin heater, to warm the house a bit quicker than a coal range fire. From memory - it had a tank which was filled then inverted, a plunger system in the filler, stopped it leaking out once inverted, until it was fitted. It then maintained a constant paraffin level into a burner system. The burner system, was a circular wick, but it only burnt at the wick initially, after a few minutes, the flame would move up the burner to a heat a metal mesh on top of the burner. It was lit (when it worked) via a small element, batteries, and a push button, once the wick was soaked. When it didn't, it had to be lit by removing the burner head and lighting with a match. There was no heat output control, with tank right way up it burned, invert the tank it went out. Unlike most such heaters, because of the fancy burner, there was almost no smell from it.

I think back then some of the paraffin brands were promoted on their lack of smell?

Yes, that's the type my Nan had. Her's wasn't a push button start though - you may be thinking of the calor gas types. I doubt if a spark would ignite a wick on those parrafin wicks. Heat control was by the knob on the side which raised or lowered the wick.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

I think back then some of the paraffin brands were promoted on their lack of smell?

You local "Esso Blea Dooler"

This advert stuck in my Mum's head from when she used to see it on tv or poss cinema. The trick of mis-pronouncing 'Esso Blue' must be quite memorable.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Yes, that's the type my Nan had. Her's wasn't a push button start though - you may be thinking of the calor gas types. I doubt if a spark would ignite a wick on those parrafin wicks.

Well, it did - sometimes. It maybe ignited the fumes, rather than the liquid. I distinctly remember the element, and the unreliability of being able to get it to ignite. It had a similar burner to the one in the photo, but the one in the photo looks as if it has a flow control tap on it, to maybe set the temperature.

I still have a gas bottle triple element version, kept as a backup, with a full bottle of gas. That uses a piezo spark ignition, and has flame failure, so probably one of the last ones made.

 

[Odds]

Ditch the shallots, pick up some skirt beef and you could make some pasties.

Had me a Ginsters pasty last night, a couple o' spuds and a handful o' veggies lashed wi' veg' gravy.
Just the job to keep the frosty night at bay.

 

[Mottie]

While I was out on the shoot with the dog today, Mrs Mottie bought the dog a new bed. So that’s one for the kitchen, one for the lounge and a special 'blankey' to go on our bed where she will take herself off to on a sunny day as she gets full sun on the bed in the front bedroom!

She was pretty knackered when she came back and has taken to the new bed straight away.

 

[fillyboy]

While I was out on the shoot with the dog today, Mrs Mottie bought the dog a new bed. So that’s one for the kitchen, one for the lounge and a special 'blankey' to go on our bed where she will take herself off to on a sunny day as she gets full sun on the bed in the front bedroom!

She was pretty knackered when she came back and has taken to the new bed straight away.

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