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Good evening, Rusty!
I am glad that you like Katie!
I thought that you would.
If you get the chance, listen to her "Ketevan" CD - I think the songs on that are even better "Nine Million Bicycles".
It is my favourite CD.
And "Ketevan" is Katie's "proper" name!
Yes, Callum did well!
He took the Individual Bronze, but the GB Men's team took Gold in that event.
The two Andys - Butchart and Vernon - did well to come in fourth and fifth.
It seems a bit of a "con" that the Kenyans can run under the Turkish flag?
Steph Twell came sixth in the Women's race, but the Team took the Silver medal.
And we have some very good up and coming youngsters too!
I HATE Marmite - no , it isn't in the least like Bovril ( I like Bovril!)
Bovril is a meat extract, Marmite is "yeasty"!
Ugh!

Rusty
Sorry to intrude but so pleased to find another Bovril liker.
I have beaker of it made with 50/50 milk and water everyday,
quite sustaining.

Hello, Elle!
I think it is a "con" that Chris Froome, a Kenyan international, can ride for Britain, and never comes near the country.
He lives in Monaco, with the other tax dodgers.
The British runners did well, though.
And, yes, there are good youngsters on the way up.
I will stay away from Marmite, so.
Remember to phone your cousin?

Hi, Rusty!
Yes, I remembered!
I have just come off the phone from talking to her.
All is well up there!
She has finished all her Christmas shopping!
Mind you, I am not doing too badly with mine.....one more shopping trip should see me done!
The Christmas tree is still standing, and looks very pretty with its coloured lights and the baubles.
I am beginning to feel "festive"!
Have you put yours up?
Oh, I meant to ask...what happened about the electric fire?

Hello, Elle!
Good to hear your cousin is fine!
You are doing very well with your Christmas shopping....and tree!
I have not mine displayed yet.
The fire!
i have sent two emails to Glen-Dimplex and have had not the courtesy of a reply.
(They aim to reply within 3 days. Havers!)
I left a message on their answer machine, too.
Dimplex are useless!
I took the the fire to bits and there is no bulb in it.
Some kind of LED thingy instead.
I do not know what has failed in it, but something has.
The LED thingy is meant to last the lifetime of the fire.
It has not.
I am thinking of getting a sparky to test it and see what will make it work.
Will have a think about it!

Hi, Rusty!
Oh dear!
Dimplex's failure to respond to your emails and phone message must be very frustrating and annoying!
( I fully expect one day when I have ploughed through numerous digital options for responses to come across one saying "And Press No 99 to speak to a human"!)
But I thought an LED was a sort of "bulb"?
I think the lights for my standard lamps in the lounge are "LED"s? but maybe not!
All I know is that LED stands for light emitting diode - and that a diode has an anode and a cathode......
Not a lot of help, I'm afraid!
Maybe you are right and the answer may be to consult a sparky?
But it goes against the grain to pay someone for what surely is a fault with the fire and should be sorted free of charge by the manufacturer.
And you haven't had the fire for very long.

Good morning, Elle.
Fine day, so far!
Problem I have is,- no receipt or proof of purchase.
And it will be out of guarantee, anyway.
But Dimplex claim the "flame effect" will not need attention as it will last the "lifetime of the fire".
Untrue!
There is a thingy inside with several "diodes" on it.
At least, that is what I think they are.
But they do not light up.
I see Screwfix are still selling the fire. B&Q don't, anymore!
I think a sparky is a good idea, but I'll give the Dimplex folk another couple of days.
Off out for my paper, now!

Good morning, Rusty!
Dank here!
And the day hasn't got off to a very good start.
We have had some bad news.
Our immediate neighbour, who is a close personal friend of ours, suffered a stroke yesterday afternoon whilst he was visiting his daughter.
We have only just heard about this as she has just been round here to tell us.
It was indeed lucky that someone was with him when it occurred , as she was able to summon immediate medical aid.
He was taken by ambulance to hospital, kept in till 3am this morning and then sent home - or in this case, he will be staying with his daughter.
He will be referred to a special clinic.
I shall hopefully go to see him tomorrow.
Oh dear, always trouble for someone..........
We are still feeling shocked and upset.
Now........your fire!
I don't really know about these things, Rusty, but it would seem to me that as the "fault" looks as though it lies with the manufacturer, you shouldn't need proof of purchase?
It is not as though you asking the shop from which it was bought to deal with the matter?
And also, if the "light" to the fire is supposed to last the lifetime of the fire, then being out of guarantee isn't necessarily relevant either?
I may be way off beam here....but those are my thoughts!
I think I need a strong coffee......

Hello, Elle.
Bad news about your neighbour.
Strokes can be life changing.
Lucky indeed that help was summoned immediately.
I think my fire is a lost cause, Elle, regarding Dimplex.
Seems to be part of their business plan to ignore customers.
But...I'll leave it for a day or two and it is not important anyway.
Nobody has lost a leg or anything.
But, I would like to hear what they have to say on "flame effect will last the lifetime of the fire", when it certainly does not!
Chancers!
Anyway, it is a great day here but not as mild as it has been.

Sorry, Ninian,
I have just spotted your post! My apologies!
You are certainly not intruding!
I must admit I do not have Bovril every day, but do have it often. I like it a lot!
In the old days there was "beef tea", wonder if it was the same as Bovril?