brrrr...I thought it was cold
Oh what a wonderful nights sleep...not ! Been up 4 times with LMB plus it's been rather chilly.
wel LMB being up 4 times is not unusual, but the cold?
Came downstairs at 0730 with the intention of leaving Mrs.A to sleep, only to discover our Gas Boiler has died, we have no hot water or Central Heating, luckily we can keep one room warm because we reinstated a coal fireplace in the lounge a couple of years ago...
Anyway (it's that word again), I've called British Gas, and they can have an engineer out to us this evening because we have young children and we pay for their home care breakdown service, we get a priority call out...thankfully the breakdown cover includes the coast of all parts and Labour and has paid for itself many times over over the last few years. Now we just have to hope the problem with the boiler isn't termnal cos replacement of the boiler isn't covered.
UPDATE: The Main Board has blown in the boiler, a replacement will be available Tuesday, so it'll be coal fires and oil filled radiators for a couple of days. Plus boiled Kettles for hot water, at least our shower is cold water fed and self heating...
Aginoth's Advent Calendar spot ... December 4th
By request of Aginoth Junior today we are going to have a snowman theme...and this is my favourite snowman the star of the Pixar short Knick Knack :o)
TM & © 1986-2005 Pixar.
posted by Aginoth at 8:18 am
14 Comments:
what a bummer! hope you get your heat back up. :)
love the snowman, by the way. which movie is the short attached to? i don't believe i've seen it yet. :)
It's with Finding Nemo, but the version on the DVD has been toned down, with a less busty Mermaid for example, from the Cinema and online available version.
Morning A!
Sorry you had a bad night with LMB - perhaps she was missing her CQ :-)
cq
MSM :-)
As soon as it gets a tiny bit cold my boiler also quits its job and shuts down - but like you I have a coal fire, which is ace.
So, I take it that snowman has been in a punch up. Bloody 24 boozing probably!
This will make you laugh...I actually work for British Gas. Not as an engineer, but in the office.
Michele sent me here.
It IS getting cold here! I'm sorry your heater isn't working . . . that's no good this time of year.
Here by way of Kat (kitty can scratch), and I'm an American friend of hers living in the UK. Now I know who to ask when something has me baffled (like the DVLA! who created that monster?)!
I have a huge pile of firewood in my yard ( pictures available) that keeps me from ever having to lose my heat to the power failure or the furnace breaking down - its how we live in the mountains.
And That is My Fireplace not a Library shot...took the piccie at 8am this morning :o)
Yes I can confirm that this is indeed the Aginoth's actual fireplace :-)
And Jean-Luc works for British Gas???? Bit of a comedown from the Enterprise, First Contact and all that! [shrieks with laughter]
[coughs]
cq
But the fireplace is only in one room & our house has three floors.
brrrr
Argh heating failure and at almost the worst time of the year as well. Glad to see that you are still blogging. Thanks for letting me know of your new URL
Jane
Those Pixar shorts were v popular in my house too, but haven't been seen lately. I'm gonna get them out again - they always guaranteed me an extra 30 mins in bed of a morning ...
oh, that sucks. we only have lost our furnace when the power has been out and that was bad enough. It was -30 and the middle of the night. Luckily it lasted for only an hour.
Good luck staying warm.
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