From freezing to sweltering

After freezing yesterday, today I’m preparing to be sweltered.

The man came to sort out the boiler yesterday afternoon. He’s made a temporary repair which means we now have heating. However, the thermostat doesn’t work. The only way we can control the heating is literally to switch off the boiler from time to time, or to adjust the timer to come on & off more often. Still, I think that is preferable to being as cold as we were yesterday.

As a result we didn’t get the food shop done. That delight awaits us today. I just hope we don’t find the bedlam of the Monday before Christmas when we get there. If necessary we’ll just get the essentials i.e. some spuds & onions, & abandon the shop. We’ll just have to continue using up stuff from the freezer in that case.

One thing that we did achieve during our wait yesterday was solve part of our holiday plans for 2015. We’ve managed to find a very comfortable looking converted barn in Burgundy. It looks as though we’ll see Beaune yet.

Now we just have to organise some transport. After our successful train trip to Tours & Paris, we’re thinking of going by train again. We’re also thinking of extending our one week now booked self-catering holiday with a one week hotel stay, possibly in Beaune or Dijon, maybe even another couple of days in Paris, or a mixture of them all. I’ll get on to that come the weekend. It’s already sounding exciting to us.