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"Aiee! me make bump, Yaya!"
Jan. 4th, 2009
"NO! A ZHUMADDY ZHAY! DON'T HURT MY SISTA! EEEEEMAA!"
I'm a little freaked out now.
I'm a little freaked out now.
Baby it's cold inside
Jan. 4th, 2009 10:35 amWoke 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.
Steam heat
Jan. 4th, 2009 02:49 pmThe condensing boiler has a drain pipe to deal with the condensation. That was fruz up. The boiler had filled with water and very sensibly refused to light under those circumstances. It took one half-hour unit of labour to clear up and this afternoon Rob will pop down to Wickes to buy pipe lagging and then it won't happen again. The boiler man said he COULD do it but would be charging Corgi-registered plumbing-god type rates for what is really a handyman DIYer type job, so it wasn't worth it. I like that in a tradesperson.
In other news, I have been unable to buy Linnea a bright, warm winter coat which will also cover her bum, because I don't want a pink one with snotcatching funfur around the hood. I'll keep looking. I wish I'd ordered one of those children who doesn't grow during winter. She doesn't LOOK any taller but her clothes keep getting shorter. Neat trick.
In other news, I have been unable to buy Linnea a bright, warm winter coat which will also cover her bum, because I don't want a pink one with snotcatching funfur around the hood. I'll keep looking. I wish I'd ordered one of those children who doesn't grow during winter. She doesn't LOOK any taller but her clothes keep getting shorter. Neat trick.
Day 4: Good things
Jan. 4th, 2009 10:29 pmToday was freezing cold, so I put on my (28) 1x lovely warm stripey coat and headed in to town. On the way I popped into Moondogs because we owed them £2 and (29) Craig stood me a coffee. Well, I sat down for it, and read a bit of a newspaper, but I found it very frustrating. I don't like newspapers. So I headed on into town and had a look for Rob's Christmas present, which I've been trying to buy online from persistently broken websites, and succeeded in buying (30) a great birthday present for Linnea's friend Louis, whom she intends to marry when she's a grown-up firefighter. I also scored (31) two pairs of warm black mostly-cotton tights, to wear under my trousers. I'll stick with thermal long johns and kneesocks under skirts, I think. Then I tried to buy a coat for Linnea, failed, but managed some warm trousers for Emer, so that's ok. On the way home I popped in to the Polish deli and bought (32) 2 kinds of bread, one fresh, one factory. When I got home the plumber had arrived to fix the boiler, and was just filling in his paperwork and taking payment, so we had (33) fault diagnosis, boiler repair and later fault prevention which included free bonus Good Emergency Plumber Discovery. I ate half a pack of TUC crackers and the children and I headed to the (34) birthday party bang on time, where the kids played and I was plied with tea and wine. There was also a lot of food, every single bit of it checked by the hosts for milk content, so I could say to Linnea "You can eat anything from the table." That doesn't happen very much.
We left the birthday party slightly earlier than everyone else because (35) my friend Ellie, with whom I used to work, was coming! She came home from the US for Christmas and was in Reading today driving her brother to his flat. Rob had made (36) a delicious spaghetti bolognese, and we had the fresh bread, and were too full for dessert but did have tea. After she left the children had a bath and I (37) ordered Rob's Christmas gift, because the website I most wanted to use was miraculously back online. Then I (38) sorted out three notebooks of to do lists into one, caught up on LJ and found that (39) two friends are back from civilmoon and appearing online for my amusement and edification again, and had my very own (40) hot hot bath.
We left the birthday party slightly earlier than everyone else because (35) my friend Ellie, with whom I used to work, was coming! She came home from the US for Christmas and was in Reading today driving her brother to his flat. Rob had made (36) a delicious spaghetti bolognese, and we had the fresh bread, and were too full for dessert but did have tea. After she left the children had a bath and I (37) ordered Rob's Christmas gift, because the website I most wanted to use was miraculously back online. Then I (38) sorted out three notebooks of to do lists into one, caught up on LJ and found that (39) two friends are back from civilmoon and appearing online for my amusement and edification again, and had my very own (40) hot hot bath.