Baby it's cold inside
Jan. 4th, 2009 10:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ailbheWoke up this morning and our boiler was broken, oo-ee, gonna be expensive...
It won't light, and the people who usually service it say that it's probably not broken but just a couple of months overdue a service. But they can't come until Wednesday, and it's freezing outside. It's still 18C in most of the house but only 10C in the bathroom.
We've all recently been ill with headcolds and chest infections.
So we've called all the emergency plumbers in the Yellow Pages until someone answered and went with the first one to pick up the phone without immediately putting us on hold. It's a bit alarming to see how fast the house loses heat, to be honest, though we've done all the grown-up things we don't usually do like closing doors and so on.
I need to go out and get the clothespegs off the line; letting them freeze to it isn't good for the plastic, which is wasteful. But first I have to go into town and buy things.
I hope it's not too busy.
It won't light, and the people who usually service it say that it's probably not broken but just a couple of months overdue a service. But they can't come until Wednesday, and it's freezing outside. It's still 18C in most of the house but only 10C in the bathroom.
We've all recently been ill with headcolds and chest infections.
So we've called all the emergency plumbers in the Yellow Pages until someone answered and went with the first one to pick up the phone without immediately putting us on hold. It's a bit alarming to see how fast the house loses heat, to be honest, though we've done all the grown-up things we don't usually do like closing doors and so on.
I need to go out and get the clothespegs off the line; letting them freeze to it isn't good for the plastic, which is wasteful. But first I have to go into town and buy things.
I hope it's not too busy.