Re: Friday Night Vittles? 7/11/2025

In article <104vv4o$2mtn7$5@dont-email.me>, chamilton5280
@invalid.com says...

 
On 2025-07-13, Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On Sat, 12 Jul 2025 20:51:15 -0400, Ed P <esp@snet.n> wrote:
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On 7/12/2025 3:03 PM, Janet wrote:
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    I like a north-facing kitchen, this kitchen is north
facing and so were the two previous ones.
 
  
 
   Janet UK

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Never thought about it.

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So you don't bring a compass when you buy a house? :)

 
I never have.  Of course, most of the roads here are laid out
on a grid, so the road is likely to run either east-west or
north-south.  The directions in which the rooms face can be
derived from that information.
 
We have the occasional road that follows an old Indian trail,
river, or cowpath.  And modern subdivisions have winding roads
to slow traffic and give the illusion of natural growth.

   This far north it's important to know which way the
property faces, how high it is above sea level,  where the
prevailing wind comes from  (and how fast.)

   Winter daylight is short here. I'd never buy property
in a shadow valley that gets no sun all winter. Or
property at flood risk from a combination of high wind and
high tide.

   I use a compass, Ordnance Survey maps, and binoculars
when  house hunting.

 We routinely take a compass on walks. The kind of walks
where there is no road or building or other person in view
and quite often, no phone signal. Knowing how to use a
compass and a map and read landscape are basic survival
skills here.
 
   
   Janet UK