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Rhubarb mutter whine snivel gripe bellyache

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« on: July 19, 2009, 01:37:18 am »


Back in the mid-1980s I had some friends from Gisborne who went down to Southland for three years shearing. They had a rented house just out of Wairio and I headed down there a couple of times to catch up with them. The house had a coal range and a coal-fired hot-water boiler (with the range also heating the hot water). The coal mine just down the road at Nightcaps used to sell slack coal (seconds) for $5 per trailer-load, with the trailer heaped right up until it was virtually overflowing. As a result, their household energy costs were bugger-all, although it did mean stoking up the stove (and at times the hot-water boiler) all the time. But the entire house was certainly toasty-warm with no shortage of hot water both times I visited for a few days, with each visit being during winter. Being shearers, they knew how to party real hard too!
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