DVT DAYS 191 & 192

Tuesday and its chaos in the household as the re-pipe crew invade us and continue to drill, solder and amaze with their 3D vision. My partner and daughter go to work and I retreat to the shed to write letters and keep myself busy. On the way to and from the shed I snap a red admiral.

One thing I do is frame a picture sent to me in a letter from a friend in Scotland. I hang it in the shed with her other pictures that she has sent me.

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The odd snack now and then and to keep going until my partner returns home and finds the radiators hot. The miracle has happened our heating system works, never before have all the radiators been hot in every room. The crew need to return to drain the system of the cleaning agent they have flushed through it. I am feeling sore and crap from yesterdays injection so take myself to have a bath and read. I wake up naked on the bed with a book laying on my chest, I take the hint and go to bed.

I wake on Wednesday alone, everyone else is up and either working or going to work, the re-pipe crew have just arrived. So I scrabble to dress and retreat immediately to the shed. I take a call from a friend and settle into writing more letters. At least the re-pipe means I am catching up with my correspondence. To my surprise the crew have finished by mid morning. They show me the set up and leave.

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The system is hot from the test and I cannot resist going round the house feeling the radiators. The crew said they had left the system on the program, which was news to me so I googled the program panel and found a video demonstrating the use of the programmer. Its really clever and has loads of options so at some point I need to re-programme the system to meet our household needs as economically as possible. But with time pressing I change into my training gear and hop aboard the exercise bike for 40 minutes. I have very little time before I have to log onto to todays Open Forum. No one turned up except the host and the person doing the technology. We chatted for a while and reflected on the possible reasons for the zero turn out and how the world works. In the middle of the discussion the guy who does some work in our garden turned up meaning that I had to end the season and tell my guy what needed doing in the garden. While he toiled in the garden I tested out the shower that had been acting up for a while. I hoped the work done on the system had corrected the fault and to my surprise it had. It started inauspiciously with a lot of spluttering and upping and downing of the temperature and then it got going. A real pleasure to take a comfortable shower fro a change, it remains to be seen if it will continue to work as well. My partner returned saying that her mother had committed to have a stair lift in stalled. So the visit to the mobility shop had paid off.

I put the lounge back to some sort of order so that we could spend the evening in relative comfort after which I started to write the blog while tea was cooked and continued till it was time to watch more Heroes. Tomorrow the car goes to be serviced and MOT’d and hopefully the nasty rattle at start up will be sorted. My injection is still sore despite exercise and a hot shower, its taking longer this month to ease, it maybe something or nothing I will wait and see.