Moan, whinge, grump, irk
The central heating and the hot water went out on Saturday morning.
British Gas HomeCare, with whom we have cover, can't come out until Wednesday, as we have alternative sources of heating and are not an Emergency.
We did call out a local tradesperson to come and look at it, on the grounds that if it was something really simple to fix, it was worth their call-out fee.
Unfortunately, it turned out to be the pump. They said they could get one, but it might take until Monday, and would cost.
As replacing pump is including under the HomeCare agreement, we decided to leave it until then.
Yesterday we bought an additional fan-heater from Argos. I wish to note here that there was a certain amount of clicking around on the Argos site until I found a model that was in stock at the nearest branch...
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In more cerebral and pedantic causes of irk, the perennial theme of, newspaper columnists and a little learning is a dangerous thing:
David Mitchell: My whole life, the culture has been pushing various versions of a “designed” environment in which it is advocated that we should live. To me, it always looks broadly the same, from the 1950s to the present day - all part of a massive and relentless reaction to the dark clutteredness of the Victorian era. There breathes a man who has never heard of Syrie Maugham, never mind all those other interwar (and even earlier) ideas of simpler interiors.
Please not to be citing as example some novel you have obviously never read, Catherine Bennett: the BBC’s revision of Cat Person is just the first in a series correcting women writers. Emma: What Mr Knightley (probably) thought. Middlemarch: what Mr Casaubon (probably) thought. Of all the examples she might have chosen, Middlemarch, which gives Casaubon, if not entirely equal time, a fair amount of narrative space and sympathy (along with other male characters) is so not the one you should be citing. Sigh. This entry was originally posted at https://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2701712.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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