Hosted by
Dave Morriss
on 2022-04-15 00:00:00
Introduction
Hosts:
We recorded this on Sunday March 6th 2022. The last time we set up a chat like this was back in March 2021, almost exactly a year ago surprisingly!
Note on the title: we spoke a little on the subject of the Scots language in the show - when speaking of the current census - so the title uses a Scots term.
Topics discussed
- Christmas:
- A quiet time for both of the hosts, with some family time
- Dave’s family matters:
- Son graduated after doing an MSc and got a job quite quickly last year
- Daughter had graduated from an MSc the year before and also got a job this year.
- Dave had a bout of shingles in early January, which lasted about 6-7 weeks overall. If you can get a shingles vaccination as you age, get one!
- UK heating, boilers, etc.
- MrX’s in-laws had a boiler failure during the cold weather, and a gas leak!
- Dave had a leak in his cold water tank in the attic which flooded the room below. He decided to completely upgrade the heating system, remove all tanks and put in a new pressurised condensing gas boiler. See the Wikipedia page for an overview of central heating systems.
- Old-style plumbing; coal fires, back boilers and dampers.
- The era of coal:
- Gas poker used for starting domestic (usually coal) fires
- Coal gas made from coal, superseded by natural gas
- Gasometer storage device for coal gas
- Internet connectivity:
- Dave has transitioned from ADSL to fibre since the last show
- Fibre to the Premises, with up to 1 Gbit/s if desired
- New router using Wireless 6
- MrX has Fibre to the Cabinet
- Dave’s new router doesn’t allow the Pi-hole to work at the moment
- Chromebook:
- MrX has acquired a Chromebook since our last show
- It is convenient to use. Made answering the online Scottish Census quite straightforward.
- Census and Scots Language:
- The Census asks about the Scots Language, whether the person can speak and understand it.
- Dave follows
@lenniesaurus
on Twitter who introduces a daily Scots word.
- According to Wikipedia:
Scots is recognised as an indigenous language of Scotland, a regional or minority language of Europe, and a vulnerable language by UNESCO. In the 2011 Scottish Census, over 1.5 million people in Scotland reported being able to speak Scots.
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