it's sunday and i got out of bed well before noon! i may have crawled back after doing some tidying but that's because the house is freezing. by the way, i'm normally more of a: sleeping in means up by 8.30 kind of girl, so this is out-of ordinary behaviour.
now my theory is that getting warm by snuggling up in bed counts as survival, not as sleeping/being lazy/whatever.
why so cold? i really like the house (scary at night) that we're in, but there's something wrong with the heating system. okay, okay, a rather consistent complaint, but i'm just sayin' is all. we ran out of oil a while ago... not my favourite part, but i see now that there is a certain level that needs to be maintained, it's not like: oh, there's still oil in the tank, we'll be fine. it's more like, huh, who knew it has to be that full to work? now i will freeze. as a result of that incident, we had to reset the tank (and therefore wait for the landlord to come to show us (by us, i mean gerry) where the reset button/switch/whatever is. then the heaters needed to be drained... because the heat wasn't on, they fill with air and they don't heat up fully, leaving the house, you guessed it, cold. okay, so things were grand for a while. we had lots of coal, turf, and firelogs to use in the meantime (this means, if the fire was going for a while, there would be lukewarm water, if it wasn't, we had to boil the kettle and do dishes super old-school. basically i was freezing and not very happy about no hot water. but as i said, it did get sorted, and we were happy as clams in our heated little (scary at night) house.
then we went to canada.
we came back, fully exhausted because it takes the same amount of time to get to ... ummm... really far away places as it did to get back here, and the flight was an f'ing nightmare. more on that later. anyway, the house was cold. and damp. guess we didn't leave the heat on enough. or! how about this? all the radiators needed draining again. grr. but things could be worse, so the next day we drained them. things were fine until yesterday. at some point the stupid heating stopped working. AGAIN. when i got back from shopping the house was freezing, and there was, surprise, no hot water. i don't know where the reset button is, and to be honest, i don't really even know where the boiler or whatever is. i do know how to make a fire though. (gerry went diving for the weekend, so it's just me.) we are rather rapidly running out of the fun fire products... FIRELIGHTERS (this are saturated little blocks that light very easily, used to get a good flame and light the STICKS (kindling). sometimes i put extra sticks on, so i can get a really good flame going. we only have two firelogs left, and i'm about to light one of them, and only one instant fire in a bag (you light the bag on fire and whoot! there's a fire). i have to admit, i don't really know the coal situation, cause gerry filled up the COAL BUCKET ( a galvanized bucket with a narrow end and two hands on one side that's ideal for pouring coal onto a fire... unlike the cardboard box that kept catching on fire).
i guess my point is, it's cold at my house again, i'm getting the black lung and it took me an hour to do a hand full of dishes because i had to heat the kettle 5 times to get a sink of warm water, and some water to rinse the dishes. burrrn. i guess i'd better clean the fireplace before i have a shower... which makes way more sense to be electric now...otherwise i couldn't bathe at all.
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