There are flies and mosquitoes and cockroaches. But maybe not as pesky as in the American South. No screens on my friend’s windows in East Anglia despite the Fens; cornflakes could be opened and stored in the cupboard without being sealed up in a Ziploc bag.
We have midges like crazy where we are and I’ll definitely be fitting screens for the windows and skylights.
True Story:
We found the stove while looking for a fridge for SIL & his wife.
Lady selling the fridge asked if they needed a stove & showed us this one.
Disconnected, sitting on her back porch, so filthy we couldn’t tell what color it was.
But, at the time, we had a LabX with a bad habit of lifting his leg on the stove.
If you didn’t catch him in the act, you wouldn’t know until you turned on the stove & the aroma of baking pee filled the kitchen 
Meaning turn off stove, pull.out from the wall, wash the floor… 
Seeing the “graceful” legs, I thought “Aha! Pee on that, you bastid! We’ll know right away!” 
@goodhors I dont know what your Gramma’s trick was.
I need an oven thermometer as sometimes the stove gets 100-degrees hotter than set.
But once adjusted, you leave the door cracked open - there’s a little clip at the top meant for that - and it stays set.
I don’t know what your Grandma’s trick was, I burn cookies in it All.The.Time.
But I blame me getting distracted 
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Great story finding your stove and the dog! Ha ha
Gramma never said if her stove had quirks she worked around. She never burned any cookies or food in the oven. Probably “knew” her stove well after MANY years of togetherness!
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Just a tack on about inappropriate horses in films- I was watching a programme about a hospital around 1905, and the ambulance was pulled by a pair of nice Fiord ponies! I doubt very much that they were in common use in London at the time.
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Fjord are not correct horses for the time period. Yet I have to believe they stood perfectly, were unfazed by lights, cameras, peculiar noises you find on movie sets. Did exactly what was needed for the scenes. Perfect horses for the job! Movie folks have different ideas, sources for horses, than horse people expect to see after reading a favorite novel…
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Y’all are reminding me of the Fjord stallion that stood in for a Mongolian stallion on “Heartland” lol.
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