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nichimyo

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    many and various... Outdoorsy things like fishing and walking and cycling .. oh, and boating.<br />
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    health and safety manager / teacher / geologist

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  2. Internal woodwork, we have mostly Danish oil, I don't like it, it gives a very hard-looking finish, and if you accidentally put it on too thick it goes sticky. I prefer a light vegetable oil on the raw wood, then beeswax to buff it up.
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  8. Well it certainly wetted down on us and the river rose and rose and now there's a reasonable flow on it as the sluices downriver have been opened to let it all out to sea. We battened down the hatches so to speak and loosened up the mooring ropes and got the fire going again and had a good laugh at the moorhens trying to paddle upriver against the flow. House? no, not even in last weekend's weather!!
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  12. Back on topic... A cautionary tale: :cheers: My OH had the "bright" idea of chucking a load of salt on the fire to get rid of the build-up of tar in the chimney. He does this every now and again and it seems to work quite well usually. This time I think his hand must have slipped because suddenly the whole boat was filled with choking fumes. I got out quick and went for a walk!!! Even so I was badly affected and it took weeks to stop coughing. What seems to have happened is the vast quantity of salt plus the heat of the fire did its thing a bit too well and cleared out all the little cracks in the thing, plus the salt actually sublimed and we got salt vapour in the air, followed by fumes from the fire which usually go up the chimney but were now escaping through the microcracks. Be warned!
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