Brrrrrrrrrrrr!
(Blogger keeps having trouble showing this photo but if you click on its square it'll come up big for you)
-This was the laurel in our garden, Sunday morning. It has finally gone cold here! We have no heating and we've chased up the heating guy again, hoping for a 'diagnostic visit'. It is hard to get a plumber to actually diagnose and fix a heating system these days; most of the ones we've tried look at it for all of 2 minutes, then 'prescibe' a whole new heating system for thousands of pounds.We have bought a new cylinder, a new thermastat, washed the system through and bled radiators. We have hot water ("OH THANK GOD!!!!") but no heat.
So! we have a couple of plug-in heaters which I am carrying from room to room. We do have a fire as well, though what it has in ornament it lacks in throwing-out-heat ability, it being quite big room.
Brrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am wearing 2 jumpers, 2 pairs of socks and a scarf. The cold has woken up my arthritis. I envy hedgehogs their hibernation instinct.
Hope you are keeping warm!
13 comments:
That photo's almost monochrome! We're cosy here. Elder son fitted a small woodstove earlier this year, and it warms the room as well as cutting draught. Bliss!
Feel for you - my heatings not great & can't run it too long so know about the double jumper thing - lol!
Take care
Blue
Dragonstar,
Ooooooo a woodstove! Yum! I'm envious. And I want to move in.
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Poopsie Blue!
Yup! Double jumpers, double socks, and always leave your dressing gown so near to the bed that you don't have to quite get up to put it on :)
Brrrr! I don't envy you Helena. I wonder if Bob's jokes have warmed you up? lol
Oh no! I hope you get it sorted out soon. It sounds like a good excuse to retreat to bed with a pile of books, a hot water bottle and a cuddly friend! (Oh, the bliss of being old!)
It was chilly yesterday...
i love that frostyness. I live up north (its grim, you know) and we aint had any yet.
Hugs xx
brrrr helena! i hope you stay warm, get your heat fixed and don't get sick from the cold!
love the snow, tho, huh?
Julie,
I need a hat like yours!!!
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Lynda,
I am torn between staying in bed for as long as possible these days, for the warmth, or getting up early to get as much daylight as I can! So far, I must admit, the bed is winning.... :)
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Ms Creek,
Too late! I have what my mum would call "A cold in the tummy". Translated into Bear, this means I am an odd colour and am pooing for England.
Being cold builds chara-no, forget that, just start a fire and warm yourself asap!
brother.... here we are in Canada and it is positively sunny and balmy.... some fool must have sent our cold weather to you .....
I would suggest jumping jacks except for the tummy stuff... no, on second thought...definitely don't jump....
close off a few rooms and spent more time in the one with a fire... thank goodness you have electricity for a kettle full of water for tea.....
Great photo! I'm keeping warm but stopped up my kitchen sink. My husband got a bit upset but actually took it well considering we had to pay $145.00 to have it snaked out. We've never had to hire someone to do any of that kind of work in our 36 years of marriage! I was cleaning out the freezers of old food and trying not to let my husband see how much I was throwing out but that didn't work out too well! We went without a kitchen sink for two days as we weren't going to pay a weekend rate!
Oh Helena,
I do hope someone can help you! We've been a week without heating but luckily it's working again now (although the plumber tried to convince me I wouldn't get through this winter with such an old heating system and I'd better invest in a new one too).
Take care!
Els
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