Although I have been quiet on the blogging front, it has been fairly busy in real life.
We have just had a wood-burning stove fitted into our cold front room.
Although very frugal with our central heating, we have just had a gas bill in for £196 for the last quarter. It hasn`t even been that cold here.
Ouch, ouch, and more ouch....... And still the wretched front room was freezing cold.
The wood stove was a major capital investment, and involved two solid days of building work to get it professionally fitted, but it is up and running and boy, is it hot !
Once fully stoked up, it is impossible to wear a jumper in the same room as the stove. Yesterday it reached 94 degrees before it was severely banked down and left to tick over gently at a very pleasant 70 degrees. It is nice to be warm, and not have to worry about horrendous bills coming in at the end of the quarter.
We have bought in three cubic metres of wood, which is taking up a huge amount of room in the garage, and we have been offered free wood from the salvage yard where we bought the old Blue Pennant flagstones on which the stove rests.
All good stuff.
DD4 had a hospital appt on Friday to see Professor C, who is delighted with her little mouth and the new teeth which have arrived seem to be in good shape. X rays have been done of the tooth that needed a root canal last year, and that is looking good too.
She even has new teeth moving through the bone into the gum adjacent to that tooth, so she may , with luck, have new front teeth in about 9 to 12 months.
The recent bad storms have destroyed the boundary fence with the neighbours, so we have contacted their letting agents and asked that a message be sent to the landlord asking that the fence be fixed - we cannot take the dog into the garden at all unless he is on a lead, and frequent toilet trips are a bit of a chore.
This has been going on for ten days so far, with no sign of the fence being fixed.
Actually, if it just needed fixing, DH would have done it himself, but the whole things is in such bad repair it needs complete replacement. And we certainly are not paying for that when it isn`t legally our fence........
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