I HAVE EMAILLED A PLUMBER

[bunn]

Yes, the boiler has died again! As usual, I am glad we have a gas fire and an electrically heated shower. I have sent an email to Artifice Plumbing, the nom de guerre of our current Boiler Man, and live in hope.

It's actually surprisingly warm for March, with primroses and daffodils everywhere, gardens full of flowering magnolias and camellias, the hedges full of flowering blackthorn and even the odd bluebell showing. Probably a good thing, considering the whole boiler thing.

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[topum.livejournal.com]

I wonder what are the chances of a Romanian or Moldovan plumber in Cornwall these days?

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Honestly, the only reason that I know where Moldova is, is reading your LJ. I'm pretty sure I've never met anyone from there!

If I remember rightly, the bloke that did our shower room was Romanian... I remember a chap I met while walking Rosie last year asked to stroke her, and said that dogs in Britain seemed very different to dogs in Romania. Mind you, Rosie's pretty different to most dogs...

I suspect small rural communities are probably less attractive to people who come to the UK to work than the cities in general though.

[topum.livejournal.com]

The only reason we got to know where Moldova is was my one second decision to take an unplanned turn in the end of our road trip through Romania to take a quick peek at Moldova. That turn changed our live more than we could have ever imagined.