Gas dilemma
May 5, 2008 by revruth
My central heating has died. You would think this wasn’t such a problem, it being such a mild weekend. But these stone houses seem to really keep the heat out and it has been pretty chilly. We’ve been smelling gas too in my study, which is where the back boiler is, ever since it was serviced a few weeks ago. I have one of those Carbon Monoxide Detectors but its been twinkling away with no beeps so I assumed I wasn’t dying or anything like that. So today I am going to have to phone the Gas Board which you’d think wasn’t a big deal.
But… I don’t ever use the gas fire in my study. This means that my desk is up against it along with the computer and all its wires and hubs. The top of it contains my scanner and all the reference books I use. Next to the fire is my tower of CDs and on the fireplace are my computer CDs. Then there are two printers, a guillotine, a laminator, and my Stanley stapler (the best stapler in the world for booklets).
So phoning the Gas Board means moving all of that to the other end of the room and I hate doing that. (Which is why I never reported the gas smell in the first place.) And things are never the same when they get moved back. Grr.
You have gas up there, in Scotland, now?
So what do you do with all the cow pats you don’t need any longer?
>So what do you do with all the cow pats you don’t need any longer?
Fling them at Geordies.
Thanks Kelvin. You took the words right out my mouth.
And an update on the gas man saga… he didn’t come when he said he would so poor wee Son #2 had to get up out of his pit at 9.30am when I departed for the Parish Trip (more later) and wait in on the hottest day of the year until 4pm.
For those on the Vestry reading this - and I know you do! - the boiler has had it. RIP the boiler. The tens of thousands needed for the organ, boundary wall, redecorating the interior are all going to have to wait!
Apply for a Dunderdale grant to help with the boiler.
Thanks - would never have thought of that.