Texts To The Editor: 02/11/11

Cleaning fire door

You can clean a fire glass door with wet newspaper, ash from the fire and elbow grease.

Re cleaning fire doors. Use steel mesh, it does not scratch, with a little Jif. Helen

You can clean glass door on fire with damp newspaper dipped in ash then a clean damp piece of newspaper.

To clean your fireplace glass ,just burn some willow at the end of the night, works wonders. JHW

A wet handy towel dipped in fire's ashes cleans glass door amazingly. Kl

Cleaning fire glass tip: Use wet screwed up newspaper dipped in the cold ashes. Rub with vigour over the cold glass. Refresh paper and ash if stubborn. Wipe with cloth and cold water. AC

Re glass fire door, use Jif/Ajax with a green scotch brite kitchen scrubber works well. Good luck.

Just replying to "better way to clean a fire glass door". Wet newspaper then dip into the cooled ashes from the fireplace and wipe glass. It works!

Re clean fire door. Mitre 10 Fire View. Little needed wipe with paper put on fire.

To clean glass door of log fire: I use a Steelo Soap Pad. Ammonia is good but hard to get hold of.

Re fire glass door: Buy knotty pine blocks from Supersplit and the dirt comes off with damp cloth. Our fire glass still like new.

Get wet paper towels, dip in the ash and rub. Repeat until clean. Wipe with clean cloth.

Re cleaning the fire. Jif and a goldilocks works wonders.

Clean fire glass door with non scratch soap pad on cold door. Wipe clean. Damp wood or wood touching door leaves marks.

Try a used wet teabag to clean a fire door. Dry off with a handy towel. Works wonders for me.

I clean my fire door with a blade scraper and steelo soap pad then give it a good wash and buff up withe clean rag. Perfecto!

Glass cleaner for fire. Wet a paper towel and get some of the ash from firebox. Scrub it around blackened area, wipe off with clean wet paper towel. Wollah!

Cleaning fire place glass. I use straight white vinegar and newspaper. Works great. Hope this helps!

Note: Thank you to all our wonderful readers who text about cleaning fire glass doors. We don't have room to print them all but the above is a selection of ideas.

Retirement age

Re text about people working over 65: They are far more conscientious in my work place. The younger ones are the ones always off out the door at 4.30 even when the phone is going. Give me older staff any day.

So you don't like working with over 65 year olds. Are you never going to get to 65? Hope your workmates then are kinder than you.JN

Gadaffi

Good riddance to Gadaffi. He got what he deserved and as for being human well l don't think so. How much humanity did he show the people of Libya. He was a despotic madman who utterly deserved what he got and so did Hussien and Bin Laden and anybody else who oppresses people in such ways should get the same. Mugabe should get the same for all the crimes against humanity he's committed.

To the person who asks who is next after Hussein, Bin Laden and Gadaffi - hopefully Mugabe. VT Napier

Other thoughts

Westshore cycle path awesome but council needs to do something about lack of picnic tables along beach. What is there is a disgrace.

I agree with Earl Stevens. The carpark beside the old Marineland should be used for the depot for the bus going in an out of Napier. Marineland could become the booking office for the bus depot with some toilets and a public phone for the people on the buses to ring a taxi or friends etc to come and pick them up. Would be a lot warmer and drier in winter, especially for the elderly people an mums an dads with babies and young children.

Well done Earl Stevens, what a great idea you have come up with regards to the new bus depot based at Marineland. At least the old Marineland building would be getting some use and even generating some extra income from the cafe, shop sales. The current bus stop is awful and definitely not a good first impression of Napier. Come on everyone let's back Earl and let Barbara and her fellow councillors know they need to sit up and listen to Earl for the future of Napier and our future tourism. Vl

Re T: Marijuana smoke doesn't contain the dozens, perhaps hundreds of poisonous chemicals that cigarettes do. Marijuana takes less than a second to be absorbed so it is not necessary to hold it in as long or as deep as you think. And I don't know anyone who smokes 20 or more joints a day, unlike a lot of cigarette smokers I know. JHW

We've tried a lot of places but still agree that the Serendipity Cafe at the Garden Depot does the best breakfast.

Who knows what's going to become of the empty buildings vacated by the old Mitre 10, Warehouse and soon to be Farmers?

Re cyclists pay: I suppose you would have pedestrians pay to use their feet next? C'mon, cycling is eco friendly and healthy and you want to charge for this?