The Boiler Man Cometh

After a two-day wait and the emergence of clothing articles that hadn't seen the use since ... oh probably student days - I'm thinking of thermal long johns - the Boiler Man arrived today. A few minutes later he started cursing.

It seems a two day respite and associated freeze had induced a water leak in the boiler, but of course that was wholly unrelated to the original problem. So we'll need a visit from a plummer tomorrow to fix the leak. In the meantime Boiler Man, in the absence of a sound or sensible diagnosis, changed almost every electrical component he could find, dredged up a few more unused curses until, two hours later, he declared the problem fixed. What that problem was he couldn't say.

Needless to say, our confidence in the Boiler Man has waned.

And outside there's a thick layer of cloud and no sun to speak of. People, I'm sure, will be relieved to know that there'll be no Solstice adventures on this 21st December.