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The thing that had me puzzled was that the picture at Schoenbrunn looked as though it were out of doors, not even closed in, like a sheltered promenade or something. No way to judge its intended use. But the name would be appropriate for comfortable living spaces in what would otherwise be a fancy barn.
Imagine what an English castle must have been like in the winter. Heating by fireplaces only, which must have been of the fry your face and freeze you fanny type. And they just did not have the technology to prevent drafts. No wonder those canopied beds were essential.
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Heating by fireplaces only, which must have been of the fry your face and freeze you fanny type.
Only if you were a woman who spent all her time looking over her shoulder with her back to the fire, surely? These were after all English castles rather than USn.
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Dear Bingley: I was attempting to allude to the notorious problems of fireplaces causing very powerful drafts, so that the part of the bodynearest the fire might be overheated, but the other side would lose body heat to the current of air rushing into fireplace and up the chimney. I had a fireplace in three houses, and they were a censored expurgated unprinted disappointments. Now fireplace enclosures of glass radiate heat well,and prevent excessive draft, which no chimney damper can manage to my satisfaction. I am sure the old British castle fireplaces did not even have chimney dampers. A good old German Kachelofen or a modern wood stove is far preferable.There are also fireplaces called heatalaters, made of steel, but with large airspace around the combustion area, which does not let so much heat go up the chimney, but lint can collect in that space and a sudden explosion and flame sends a cloud of burning lint into the room.
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And I was alluding to the fact that a USn fanny and a UK fanny are rather different parts of the anatomy.
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Fanny - here is what my dictionary says:
>fanny n.,
pl. [Slang] the buttocks
I learned it from an old timer, who alternately asked me if I had had a fanning yet today, and was I pulling my pudding. It was a long time before I learned what the second question meant.
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