Comments on downshiftme.com: Podcast 37 - the purr is back!

I better get some spares as we have loads of the m...

2006-10-14T17:32:00.000-03:00

I better get some spares as we have loads of the metal boxes.

May get a breaker for the furnace if it goes again.

It was our pleasure to be on your podcast - really enjoyed it. Hope new arrival Harvey is doing well - I think its great you two took him in.

Hey guys, Great show, glad to hear Spencer back.T...

2006-10-14T08:06:00.000-03:00

Hey guys,

Great show, glad to hear Spencer back.

Those big round fuses (looks like a light bulb socket) are all over our house and barns. Anything that's a metal box has one inside. So we have a bunch of spares around. But two things:

1. You can buy breakers that screw in. Very handy, if it trips for no reason just push the button.

2. In a pinch, like say it's -20c out and the furnace fuse blows and you don't have a spare, a nickle (or is it a quarter) screwed down under the blown fuse works. Just don't leave it that way. :) Don't electrocute yourself doing it either.

I suspect stoves are in fahrenheit due to the proximity of the US. That probably plays into a lot of things. Plus the the price of things are "half as much" in pounds. You think I'm kidding, but what if a flyer said "Potatoes $10!" (kg in small print) and the next one say "potatoes 4.55" with lb in small print, which one is the better price? :)

It was a real pleasure having you guys on the show!

Pumpkin pie - sounds yummy. Happy Thanksgiving eve...

2006-10-09T17:22:00.000-03:00

Pumpkin pie - sounds yummy.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

Our stove is new but it has a digital readout which only gives fahrenheit. I looked in the manual to see if it could be switched over but it doesn't seem like it. I found a great chart I printed out which has centigrade, fahrenheit and gas marks on it I stuck inside a cupboard door near the cooker. I only think cooking in gas mark although my cooking is pretty basic anyway.

Luckily the room thermostat is in centigrade (or celsius) as otherwise I wouldn't have a clue what temperature it was.

I like metric as counting in 10's is easy for simple folk like me.

If I were going to be flippant, I'd make some crac...

2006-10-09T17:07:00.000-03:00

If I were going to be flippant, I'd make some crack about since the government has business in neither the bedrooms nor the kitchens of the nation, metric is optional.

But since I'm not being flippant, I'd say it has to do with the age and brand of stove you have. Our 6-or-7- year-old-bottom-of-the-price-range-I-don't-care-if-it's-ugly Kenwood has both labels.

Handy since British cookbooks are commonly available here. Canadian cookbooks will use both systems though none will talk use gas mark as a measure.

(Extra silliness brought to you by the smell of fully-homemade pumpkin pie baking away at 300 degrees for another 30 minutes.)

How olds your stove matt???PS We didn't find out w...

2006-10-09T16:46:00.000-03:00

How olds your stove matt???

PS We didn't find out what hat you liked

PPS Thermals are god too :D

Spencer has a fine pair of lungs on him :)Re: metr...

2006-10-09T11:09:00.000-03:00

Spencer has a fine pair of lungs on him :)

Re: metric - I think the same is true of the UK in terms of height in cm and weight in kg.

I think I am a bit of an exception as I do know both.

The paper standard makes sense. Start with a sheet of A3, fold it in half and its A4, then quarters its A5 etc..

And what's it about the cooker (stove) only telling us the temperature in fahrenheit?

Yours.. confused,

Matt :)

Re Cat: Douglas says "fully audible" and he's 87 5...

2006-10-08T16:05:00.000-03:00

Re Cat: Douglas says "fully audible" and he's 87 5/8" away from the speakers.

Re paper sizes: who knew? There is a standard.

Re metric: I betcha if you make a list you'll discover that Canadians use metric for things that government regulations touch. So, we do highway distances in metric but no one can tell you how many centimeters tall they are. We have a rough sense that we're buying groceries by the kilo but few people could tell you how many kilos they weigh. And Douglas says "In Canada, any stone that weighed fourteen pounds would be called a rock."