I sure like making things

BUT

AGA stoves were never meant to be what rich people use them for now. They're originally from small houses in very cold weather climates where it being on all the time also warmed your whole home. Similar to woodburning stoves in the northern US and Canada but just a bit bigger so it serves the triple purpose of also being able to use it as an oven and not just a stovetop and house heater like a woodburning stove.

You go in really old homes in a lot of cold climate European countries and many of them, if they still have original interiors, are gonna have an AGA style stove. And they're not only houses occupied by rich people.

It's not really wasteful if it's also your house's heating system, it tends to be about the same amount as using a regular stove plus standard modern heating at the same time.

Buying a new one and putting it in your big US farm house that also has normal central heating? Yeah that IS fucking wasteful but this style of stove in general isn't if it's used for it's actual intended triple purpose of stove/oven/ heat the whole house.

the idea of a gas aga feels offensive, because gas central heating is so much more efficient - but where we lived there was no gas line

(gas here means as in stove not petrol)

1. God’s Specialist Little Boy

2. Hot Breasted Milf

3. Grey Bird With Brown Head

Some notes before I say this: I am Disabled. I can't bend down or stand for long periods of time.

Okay, here we go: I have had Ally (Alfalfa Louise, F11 Tortoiseshell Tabby.) since she was born in one of my cupboards when I was 10, in 2012. Up until a few years ago, she would get pissy and aggressive towards most people in my household, but was really affectionate towards me. I have minimal muscle movement in my face, so I have a kind of "RBF" look, which she started doing as well.

fast forward to this past year; She tolerates most of our household, and lets people pet her. She is still practically glued to my ass.

I will admit it, I have a really nasty habit of pushing myself too hard. I'm used to living in nearly full solitude in my home, having to do everything myself, even if it hurts me. I have a caretaker now, so they help me with meals and cleaning, bending down to get stuff off the floor, etc. I still have this bad habit.

Ally has started jumping onto higher places than she usually does, hopping up and moving from foot to foot while looking at me expectantly. This is the language she exhibits normally when she wants pets.

When I end up standing too long, she will stand with her body over my feet, stationary, while leaning onto my shins, pushing me to go sit. When I start to move towards sitting, she will move swiftly behind me, alternating between trotting on my right and left side, oddly like how a shepherd dog would herd a sheep.

When I'm in the shower, sometimes I forget I should use my shower chair, much to my own detriment. If no one is home and actively awake, she will sit on the toilet lid, next to the shower, and scream at me if I have been standing for a longer period of time.

Alden is believed to be much younger and inexperienced than Grinnell and Annie and... it shows.

..He is trying so hard to Dad.