Posts by Hebe
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Southerly: Who was George Hildebrand…, in reply to Charles Home,
Yours is no hijack: people around New Zealand were waiting for another story to unfold. Shall we call the Chapmans "Series Two"?
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Speaker: The problem of “horror tenants”…, in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
Otherwise, as Moz points out, the market doesn’t yet value energy-efficiency measures.
It does in Christchurch: no insulation in ceiling and lack of effective heating (heat pumps/woodburner) definitely devalue a house. However double glazing and solar or heat pump hot water are still seen as luxuries for older houses.
Retrofits are where many of us are stuck: it's expensive to double-glaze and insulate the walls of an existing house unless major renovations are being done. Doesn't matter how many energy-efficient lightbulbs are used, if the house has single glazing in the south, it will be damp and cold.
Heatpumps are dreadful in a draughty old house: they distribute dust and create cold currents. Before moving into our present 1920s house, my son had never had asthma. Within 6 weeks of being here -- with a heat pump -- he was choking. Two years later the quakes gave us a woodburner: no more asthma!
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Hard News: The People's Poet is dead!, in reply to Craig Young,
Funny parallel: Twitter feed today shows a pic of John Key with an enormous drill at the Fielddays. Last night I was watching a News Statesman episode that has Alan B'stard pulling out an enormous (very similar drill) to use on Piers. If I had the means I would do a split screen
At 5m55s:
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Alan B’stard captured the Thatcher Tories so painfully well.
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PhotoForum: was Len Wesney part of that?
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Southerly: Who was George Hildebrand…, in reply to SteveH,
Vina Isabella Winter – unusual name. Probably a contraction of her aunt Malvina’s name.
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Southerly: Who was George Hildebrand…, in reply to David Haywood,
That cemetery is freaking amazing. An ex's family has a compound up there: what a gothic place to rest up for eternity: howling summer norwesters, freezing in winter. And always the withering wind.
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Southerly: Who was George Hildebrand…, in reply to David Haywood,
possibly the thing that hid the documents was originally part of another house
My unruly mind keeps returning to this: what could it be? A fire surround? A built-in desk?
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Southerly: Who was George Hildebrand…, in reply to David Haywood,
I’m intrigued about why the documents were at that house.
So am I. But possibly the thing that hid the documents was originally part of another house…
The plot thickens...again.
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Could your house have been owned by one of the “missing” children? I'm intrigued about why the documents were at that house.