Warmth

posted by Jaitu at 21:12

Last night we huddled together on the sofa under a duvet before deciding to get an early night and climbing under two duvets and a waffle blanket and basking in the cold glow of the bedroom telly.
Waking this morning the thermastat read ten degrees in the house. I tried to re-fire the boiler but, as I had already known, it failed.
I left work a little earlier than normal in order to get home with a few minutes of daylight to work in. Expecting to have to climb a ladder and thaw the external pipe a somewhat hopeful ignition attempt of the boiler was thankfully met with unexpected success. The heating has been on for five hours now and the temperature in the house has just reached a balmy eighteen degrees. I'm leaving the heating on all night tonight in the hope that come the morning we will still have hot water.