Published on 14 May 2007 in Life, house, Merton
As we wheeled our suitcases back towards our little house after spending time up north at Christmas, I suddenly realised something about the area we live in. To make sure, I looked up and down the street. Yep, I was right. There was something distinctly missing from almost every house. A burglar alarm.
Published on 1 May 2007 in Life, house
For some reason, being off work ill makes me do the funniest of things.
Published on 29 January 2007 in House, central heating, house
So on Saturday night the pilot light started going out again. Sunday morning I re-lit it in order to warm up the house. But before that, I blew away some dust from the front of the heating unit. Since then, the heating pilot light has remained on and we've had a warm house. Go figure.
Published on 28 January 2007 in House, central heating, house
I know reading about problems with my central heating isn't the most exciting thing in the world. Indeed it's nowhere near exciting. So I'll allow you to ignore this post if you like. I'm posting it mainly because it's good therapy to get it off my chest.
Published on 26 January 2007 in House, central heating, house
It's funny - when I was talking to people at work about the fact that I'd be working from home today waiting for the engineer to come and look at the hot water (he's been now and hopefully all will be fine) everyone seemed very surprised that our heating system was merrily away chugging along after 23 years of service.
Published on 24 January 2007 in House, central heating, house
Ever get that feeling that a hint is being dropped? Now do you ever get it from an inanimate object?
Published on 7 December 2006 in House, house
I know you’ve all been on tenterhooks since Wednesday, so here goes. Yes, the lights now work. I popped in a new fuse (the only one in stock at Maplin’s Queensway branch) and lo, all the lights did start to work again. Hurrah.
Published on 5 December 2006 in House, house
I'm sat here typing this in relative gloom. There's a reason for this. This evening I came home, turned on the kitchen lights and ZAP! Darkness descended.
Published on 11 October 2006 in House, house
Got through a water bill the other day. This is not a particularly earth shattering event given people get bills all the time, but I was interested to see what difference our water saving measures had made to our bill. As we have a water meter, it was easy to find out.
Published on 1 August 2006 in Life, house, London
Tucked away in a corner of the BBC News website recently was a little story about how Thames Water were thanking people for saving water during the current water problems. Apparently demand dropped by 176 million litres a day in June.