The general consensus with me is that winter is extremely overrated, and furthermore the sooner artificial hibernation can be worked out (possibly as a weight loss treatment for rich Americans with more money than sense), the better.
To add insult to injury my central heating system has chosen last week to pack up and resolutely refuse to work, and this in a house designed around the assumption that the central heating will always more or less function. I am therefore swelling the profit margins of my electricity supplier by using a 3KW electric heater to stave off freezing pipes, and two entirely inadequate gas fires to further heat the house. On the plus side, I know a man who can fix it, and who furthermore is highly skilled in the art of retro-fitting modern gas central heating boilers into older houses. I live in hope that sometime soon his busy schedule will find a space for a rather cold man with a few hundred pounds of cash burning a hole in his pocket...
The general consensus with me is that winter is extremely overrated, and furthermore the sooner artificial hibernation can be worked out (possibly as a weight loss treatment for rich Americans with more money than sense), the better.
ReplyDeleteTo add insult to injury my central heating system has chosen last week to pack up and resolutely refuse to work, and this in a house designed around the assumption that the central heating will always more or less function. I am therefore swelling the profit margins of my electricity supplier by using a 3KW electric heater to stave off freezing pipes, and two entirely inadequate gas fires to further heat the house. On the plus side, I know a man who can fix it, and who furthermore is highly skilled in the art of retro-fitting modern gas central heating boilers into older houses. I live in hope that sometime soon his busy schedule will find a space for a rather cold man with a few hundred pounds of cash burning a hole in his pocket...