If they ban gas boilers what will all those now unused flames do?

Dying Flame

Happiness is fleeting,

It comes, it goes.

The light in your eyes,

Once, so brightly shone

Has dimmed to but a glow.

The remnants of an ember,

Nearly burned away to ash,

Of the fire I remember.

Our hearth has grown so cold,

The fire is nearly dead.

Yet, the flames still dance

And rage inside my head.

I still see them, though they've cooled.

I still feel your gentle warmth,

On these cold, winter nights

The fire still burns, deep inside my heart.

Happiness is fleeting,

It comes, it goes.

Yet the ember of our love

Still dimly glows.

It hasn't died, completely,

It just needs a little tending.

The fire can be re-lit.

This doesn't have to be an ending.

Our hearth has grown so cold,

But the warmth may still remain.

Our love can be reborn,

If we allow the flame to win.

Because the flame is still alive,

And thought it may be dim,

We just need to stoke the flames

And let our love begin, again.

-Daniel Kinnunen, 2018

When I was a kid we had a gas fridge, it provided hours of fun as it was always lit and never extinguished.

I know it will wind @WillyWombat up there was a set of divining rods in a kitchen cupboard and they used to come out for people to try divining the location of the steel gas pipe that ran through the concrete floor screed to the fridge.  You would be surprised how many people could do it if they just relaxed and tried.

The best bit was launching paper bags as hot air balloons using the fumes from its little chimney.

When we moved the new house did not have a gas supply, but my brother and his wife did buy a gas fridge for their first house.

So when I was a kid we had a flame burning in an unvented gas appliance in our kitchen for over ten years that did throw a gentle pool of light onto the wall behind it that could be seen quite clearly at night.

I cannot imagine any of the kids of today reminiscing about a fridge after fifty years, but as daft as it sounds that flame that was never extinguished gave it a life and personality.   

We didn’t have a carbon monoxide alarm! 

I lived in a house with an old 1970s warm air gas boiler. It had a constant pilot flame to ignite the main gas burners when called for when the room thermostat called for heat. It was a little friend and could be seen through a small port hole in the main boiler casing. For safety it played onto a bi-metallic strip so that if it was blown out gas did not escape and build up. The pilot light valve would close if the bi-metallic strip got cold.

That warm air gas boiler was great. It also heated the water in the copper cylinder. The warm air system was very quick in warming the house when you first returned home in the cold weather.

I miss it.

Z.

Try talking to people in Malvern about their gas street lighting, they are really protective of it.

It has been updated with timers and ignition switches, but it’s hardly the most efficient or effective way of lighting the streets, but it does create an ambience you don’t get with LED lighting columns. 

My Grandma`s Gaslamps and when they Electric the became “Electric Gas-lamps” and Electric Gas-ovens" ?

Grandma (born circa 1890) used to refer to “lamps burning” even when they had been electric for decades. She also has a gas fridge. My parents tried to convince us that the television was gas too, but we weren't that stupid.

Turning the gas boiler pilot light on  at this time of the year was a drama after we had been on holiday for a fortnight in the summer, would it strike and hold on or not.

Everything had to be turned off when we went on holiday, apart from the gas fridge, with the electric being turned off at the main switch.

Gas power for radio certainly was a thing in the pre-war era.

The vibrator power supply alluded to would be an all-mechanical switch mode supply where a vibrating reed did the DC to AC conversion by alternately biassing either side of a push pull primary winding on a transformer.

Mike.

Backwards Gas.

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