Weather....

We were out on the road today.

Yesterday was one of those bizarre days.

Me out for much of it doing university type things and pretending to be clever.

Management at home doing work type things.

The stove was working well, keeping the house ticking over. Management decided to take 5 minutes out.

Sat there minding her own business and - ding.

Half the glass fell out of the stove door - just like that.

This was a bit bizzare.

Later, with me at home there was a strange noise from the central heating; detailed investigation found a pipe off and water pouring out into the bathroom.

Now just remaking the push connection was not of course that simple as the water was on the hot side of scalding and not conducive to keeping flesh on the hands.

Use of fire gloves helped and eventually I got it all back together.

So this morning it was out to the bank to get euros for little D's trip to Paris then over to the Urdd centre to drop them off. Not before we went up county to pick up a new door glass for the stove, for a whole "HOW MUCH!!!!".

Then home to effect repairs.

Well OK maybe it was lunchtime and we did stop but anyway early after noon saw us home and the door being dismantled, well it would have been, had the screws holding the glass in had been done up a good few years back and done up was what they liked to be.

It would have been easier had the screw drivers been findable.

But anyway we were eventually in business.

Just needed to change the joint in the central heating.

I had every sort of connector bar the one I needed so swearing with enthusiasm and feeling I went off into town and got more of the right one.

With the right bit available I was able to get the original joint to take again meaning I had bought a load of joints without needing to.

But the aftermath has still been there, there has been an obstinate battle to budge a bubble of air that is currently slowing the central heating to nothing.

We are sort of getting there.

Then to put the tin hat on it all.

Tomorrow the guy who bought my yellow fire engine will be here to collect Taff (sob) but of course he is driving back to Liverpool and will arrive here at a time I would much prefer to be in bed of a Saturday morning.

Meaning I will of course need to be up and at them before dawn.

GGRROOANNN

Still they do seem to be promising snow next week, the weather is bloody awful again though.

We were chatting to someone in the pub over lunch who has lived here for 26 years. She had also recorded the rainfall. Last year was the wettest she had recorded and since the last cold spell had broken she had recorded a whopping 7.5 inches of rain.

Now of course, lets go live, as I was writing this. We had finished bleeding up the system, the last of the air was out, the heat was building up when: the system lost pressure and air bubbles were roaring through the upstairs.

Rush to the bathroom and it was awash again. In we went and this time I changed the joint properly but it was square one again. Prime the system and exclude the air.

Still we have managed to get it running now, well sort of. Need to let the pump run for about 45 minutes to get the air to settle in the upstairs radiators, bleed it all through and then we can risk going to bed.

This is turning into a standard fun day....

R