Home Fires

We've (my flatmate and I) finally got the fire going properly, thanks to the ever helpful neighbour below us who came and sorted us out. It goes like a flamethrower, which bodes well for winter when it comes. We were doing all kinds of things wrong it seems, but now the living room is resembling if not a sauna at least the room next to one.
Still, it's so mild here at the moment I was hoping we'd get through winter just with the electric underfloor heating..

False Friends - Seth's Blog

According to my big brother, quoting 'Dunbar', I assume this is a person's name and not the town near Edinburgh or a life insurance company, it's not possible to have more than 150 friends. I mean it is, to have 'friends' (see the blog of unnecessary quotation marks below) on facebook and the like. But there's a critical number beyond which they're not really friends but just people you vacuously toss a few platitudes towards, or, like someone said, give the Duke of Edinburgh handshake (the one where it's both saying hello and goodbye at the same time)..so all those people with 300..400..500 friends on facebook are just deluding themselves.
Still, that leaves me with room for about another 147 anyway!!