Re: [lace-chat] Paraffin and the cat

2006-04-19 Thread Joy Beeson
Jean Nathan wrote: It's not paraffin wax. It's a bit like petrol (gas) but not so volatile. Used to be used here a lot in free standing room heaters I'm pretty sure that your paraffin is our kerosene. There used to be a little kerosene pump at the side of every filling station, but you

[lace-chat] Paraffin and the cat

2006-04-14 Thread Jean Nathan
Didn't occur to me that some people might not know what paraffin is until Jackie asked. It's not paraffin wax. It's a bit like petrol (gas) but not so volatile. Used to be used here a lot in free standing room heaters when we had industrial problems with power workers in the 1960s and 1970s