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Listed below are comments made by 3valleespowderjunkie between Friday, 21st November 2008 and Sunday, 15th February 2009.

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Your News 12:27pm on 15 Feb 2009 Snow still lingering in the driveway prevented me from biking to the woods, as I careered over the handlebars in a moment of lapsed concentration, grazing the whole of my left shin, and perhaps spraining my wrist. Miffed.
Your ideas 10:17pm on 21 Nov 2008 I have economy heating which is so useless I'd like to shoot the person who thought it up. I have to know about 48hrs in advance what the weather's going to be like in order to plan for it. eg if it's going to be colder, I'll turn up the knob that tells the heater to store more heat overnight, and the next day it should start spewing it out, except it doesn't seem to do anything until the night AFTER that, and on the 2nd day I realise it's way too hot and have to turn it down. Which it takes another 48 hours to do.
The second knob is supposed to give you control over how quickly it spews out the heat. Except you can't choose what time it starts. If you set it high, it spews out heat quickly until it's all used up by mid-morning and you freeze the rest of the day. If you turn it the other way it spews it out slowly but constantly, but still has nothing left by 10pm anyway.
It's of no use whatsoever to a person who goes out to work and therefore needs it to be warm in the morning for a short while when they get up and then again in the evening until quite late when they go to bed. It's heating my house in my absence and I end up spending my evenings swaddled under jumpers and blankets, putting off the inevitable moment when I'll have to put on the booster switch. Does anyone actually have any good experiences with this kind of heating? Or have any tips how to get round its silly timing and spewing systems? It's unfathomable!

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