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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Several years ago our furnace decided that it was going to stop working over the Christmas holidays, while we had out-of-town friends staying with us. Spouse was off visiting his family in New Jersey (he does this every year), and the friends were staying with us because her sister who lives in town had just had a baby and was not up for guests.

I set up electric heaters which kept the house at what for ME was a little chilly (but I also have an electric blanket) but for them, who live in Durham (yes, the one up north, she's a professor at the University), it was Just Right.

It was, however, not the first time I have wished that we had a pellet stove in the basement.