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On Friday we are getting our sitting room chimney swept. Of course I have visions of consumptive Victorian urchins in rags shinning up my chimney stack but in reality it will probably be a corpulent balding man in blue overalls with a hoover.
The chimney is also being surveyed to see what state our flue is [...]

Well I have been glued to the Olympics in HD. You can see every wrinkle in the presenters faces and every bead of sweat, marvellous! As for ’stro-mo’ in the gymnastics, it’s a revelation.
Going back to normal telly after watching something in HD looks weird, kind of fuzzy. Then you realise that is normal. [...]

Another reason that M and I are so well suited is that we’ve spent as least two hours today taking over email about radiators and radiator placement.
He said “We’d just need to know maximum sizes of radiators and BTU/kW needed for the room. We can mock it up in SketchUp tonight? We need to mock [...]

We now have the luxury of hot water at Bobble Towers courtesy of our new condensing boiler - the gas pressure hungry condensing boiler - and a long length of fat copper pipe. Surface mounted pipe is very ugly to be sure but it was the only way. I am now shopping for off white [...]

Well the boiler doesn’t work. It sits on the wall looking at me all shiny and gleaming and white. The very model of modern sleek efficiency. But yet, no hot water.
Apparently when they converted the building in flats way back when they didn’t run an appropriate size diameter gas pipe from where it enters the [...]