The gas man came!
The problem was with the electrics and he spent a good hour or two finding where it was shorting and sorting it all out. However it was all done by 11.00.
Then we went to look at Nic's horse box. It is old and the exhaust is going. Actually, once Brian had crawled under it, he discovered it has gone. It is so old that you can't just buy a new exhaust for it, so Brian has bought some zinc and we have to go and buy some other bits to fix it till the MOT in March (not very hopeful on that one)
After that we went to the tip to get rid of the fridge and freezer which were surplus to requirements plus some other stuff.
The I sorted out all the stuff from the airing cupboard on the basis that as I had emptied it for the gas man I might as well sort it out. So we now have a bin bag full of old towels etc for the dogs home.
I went to work today for a bit of a rest!
Monday, August 9, 2010
Sunday, August 8, 2010
No hot water
I came down yesterday morning to find a note from Adam saying 'no hot water'.
Our boiler has been cranky and not always turned itself on by itself when it should, but the new controller which was fitted 6 months or so seemed to have solved that problem. However I went upstairs assuming that was it, and switching the thermostat on the boiler would trip it into action.
No.
There were no lights on the controller at all.
It is a deceased controller.
No hot water in the forseeable future then! Thinking of no shower and no hair wash, this was dismaying. However, phoned British Gas to get them to come and fix it and they said they would come in the afternoon.
The boiler is in the airing cupboard, which is fine, except when you need the gas man to look at it, when you then have to empty the airing cupboard for him.
I did a quick tidy of Nic's room, which hasn't yet got untidy from the major overhaul she gave it before she went on holiday, and put everything from the airing cupboard onto her bed because that is where the door to the airing cupboard is.
During this Brian had a good look and found the plug for the immersion heater ( I wasn't sure if we had one or not) and plugged it in.
Hurray for shower and hair wash.
However the gas man didn't come yesterday afternoon, and the phone call I got said he would come first thing this morning , hence I have been up and dressed since 8.00 waiting for him (hasn't come yet at 8.45).
But there is something a bit strange with the electrics for the immersion heater because when we plugged it in again last night so Nic could get a hot shower it blew the trip switch. Task for Brian today - look at immersion heater. Also she couldn't get at her bed so had to sleep in the spare room.
The unexpected keeps you on your toes doesn't it?
Our boiler has been cranky and not always turned itself on by itself when it should, but the new controller which was fitted 6 months or so seemed to have solved that problem. However I went upstairs assuming that was it, and switching the thermostat on the boiler would trip it into action.
No.
There were no lights on the controller at all.
It is a deceased controller.
No hot water in the forseeable future then! Thinking of no shower and no hair wash, this was dismaying. However, phoned British Gas to get them to come and fix it and they said they would come in the afternoon.
The boiler is in the airing cupboard, which is fine, except when you need the gas man to look at it, when you then have to empty the airing cupboard for him.
I did a quick tidy of Nic's room, which hasn't yet got untidy from the major overhaul she gave it before she went on holiday, and put everything from the airing cupboard onto her bed because that is where the door to the airing cupboard is.
During this Brian had a good look and found the plug for the immersion heater ( I wasn't sure if we had one or not) and plugged it in.
Hurray for shower and hair wash.
However the gas man didn't come yesterday afternoon, and the phone call I got said he would come first thing this morning , hence I have been up and dressed since 8.00 waiting for him (hasn't come yet at 8.45).
But there is something a bit strange with the electrics for the immersion heater because when we plugged it in again last night so Nic could get a hot shower it blew the trip switch. Task for Brian today - look at immersion heater. Also she couldn't get at her bed so had to sleep in the spare room.
The unexpected keeps you on your toes doesn't it?
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Poorly laptop
I have come to the conclusion that my laptop is poorly because the internet problems go away when I stick the ethernet cable in (like now) so I may have to take it to be looked at. Ouch.
This is a picture I took on Sunday of Nic riding a headless horse. Clever of him to jump the fence with no head, eh?
I took some proper pics which are on Nic's facebook page, but this one made me laugh after I saw it.
B is back in Llantwit and here for August until his official retirement. I have had to make room for him to put piles of shirts etc into the wardrobe, which has been a challenge, but which has been achieved.
One of my colleagues has her daughter's wedding on Saturday and we are going along to the church to see and sing. I am looking forward to it. Everyone is hoping for sunshine for them.
This is a picture I took on Sunday of Nic riding a headless horse. Clever of him to jump the fence with no head, eh?
I took some proper pics which are on Nic's facebook page, but this one made me laugh after I saw it.
B is back in Llantwit and here for August until his official retirement. I have had to make room for him to put piles of shirts etc into the wardrobe, which has been a challenge, but which has been achieved.
One of my colleagues has her daughter's wedding on Saturday and we are going along to the church to see and sing. I am looking forward to it. Everyone is hoping for sunshine for them.
Friday, July 30, 2010
Weekend hurray
It is Friday - Hurray.
I am back on the diet to get rid of the extra holiday weight. Poop.
However roast chicken is in the diet so tonight is roast chicken, courgettes and brocolli. Very nice.
Tomorrow I am getting my hair cut, thank the lord. I always find it odd that your hair is fine, fine, fine and then suddenly it is much too long, the fringe is in your eyes, it looks like crap and it all seems to happen overnight. It is very strange.
We are redoing Brian's website and making it more complete and more up to date. The web host we have already unfortunately only works with Internet Explorer and our computers are Macs so we can't do the upgrade using their own system. As we want Brian to be able to keep it up to date we decided against rewriting it in Kompozer because I think we would find it difficult to do what we want, and for Brian to use it easily. So we have opted for iWeb which is an Apple thing and is quite easy to use.
We found a brilliant website called iWeb for Musicians which tells us loads of useful stuff and what he says works really well, so we are doing well on the design and structure of it.
I am having problems getting the pages loaded - well, no, I can load them using Cyberduck. They are appearing in the list of pages, but they aren't displaying properly or else they have a really long url which is no use. I spent a couple of hours this week fiddling with it all, but haven't got it right yet, so I think I will have a concentrated attack on it tomorrow when I have the time and I'm not tired at the end of the day.
Fingers crossed.
Then once I get that sorted I need to work out how to load pdfs so he can put some sample pages of scores onto the site.
I think I will be keeping pretty busy for the next few weeks.
I am back on the diet to get rid of the extra holiday weight. Poop.
However roast chicken is in the diet so tonight is roast chicken, courgettes and brocolli. Very nice.
Tomorrow I am getting my hair cut, thank the lord. I always find it odd that your hair is fine, fine, fine and then suddenly it is much too long, the fringe is in your eyes, it looks like crap and it all seems to happen overnight. It is very strange.
We are redoing Brian's website and making it more complete and more up to date. The web host we have already unfortunately only works with Internet Explorer and our computers are Macs so we can't do the upgrade using their own system. As we want Brian to be able to keep it up to date we decided against rewriting it in Kompozer because I think we would find it difficult to do what we want, and for Brian to use it easily. So we have opted for iWeb which is an Apple thing and is quite easy to use.
We found a brilliant website called iWeb for Musicians which tells us loads of useful stuff and what he says works really well, so we are doing well on the design and structure of it.
I am having problems getting the pages loaded - well, no, I can load them using Cyberduck. They are appearing in the list of pages, but they aren't displaying properly or else they have a really long url which is no use. I spent a couple of hours this week fiddling with it all, but haven't got it right yet, so I think I will have a concentrated attack on it tomorrow when I have the time and I'm not tired at the end of the day.
Fingers crossed.
Then once I get that sorted I need to work out how to load pdfs so he can put some sample pages of scores onto the site.
I think I will be keeping pretty busy for the next few weeks.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Happy Birthday
Today is my birthday and a very nice day it has been.
B & I went out for a lovely meal on Saturday because he is in Pembs and I am in Llantwit.
Today I got tea and a toasted muffin in bed from Nic. I had 2 presents to open in bed.
I had card and cake and a nice chatty phone call with a friend at work.
I had a sung happy birthday from Kate and a long chat later in the day.
I had lots of cards when I got home.
I had presents from Adam and Nic, Chinese take away and wine and cake for dinner.
I had a nice Skype chat with B.
I am now very mellow
B & I went out for a lovely meal on Saturday because he is in Pembs and I am in Llantwit.
Today I got tea and a toasted muffin in bed from Nic. I had 2 presents to open in bed.
I had card and cake and a nice chatty phone call with a friend at work.
I had a sung happy birthday from Kate and a long chat later in the day.
I had lots of cards when I got home.
I had presents from Adam and Nic, Chinese take away and wine and cake for dinner.
I had a nice Skype chat with B.
I am now very mellow
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Art Gallery
The sun has done a bunk round here today and it is grey and drizzling, so no beach.
Instead we went to a really good art gallery where over the last few years B has bought something most years. The Arts Council do an easy payment scheme which means you pay over 10 months and pay no interest, which makes it much easier. Quite a few people may be able to find£50 per month who can't find £500 just like that.
As he is retiring next month we were just supposed to be looking.
However......
The new picture is called Preseli and we have spent the hour or so moving things around to decide where best to put it, and it is now on the wall. B is looking at is so it is behind my head which is a shame.
There were some lovely things there. I would love to buy some of the bronzes they have, there was a beautiful one of a wren standing on a twig - come on lottery win! (more than £10 anyway - one year we should at least get back what we spend on the lottery in work)
We are going out for my birthday dinner tonight, to The Shed in Porthgain, which we haven't been to before for a meal, but has lots of prizes. We had coffee and tea cake there the other day and the tea cake was home made which is very unusual.
Then home tomorrow and work on Monday!
Instead we went to a really good art gallery where over the last few years B has bought something most years. The Arts Council do an easy payment scheme which means you pay over 10 months and pay no interest, which makes it much easier. Quite a few people may be able to find£50 per month who can't find £500 just like that.
As he is retiring next month we were just supposed to be looking.
However......
The new picture is called Preseli and we have spent the hour or so moving things around to decide where best to put it, and it is now on the wall. B is looking at is so it is behind my head which is a shame.
There were some lovely things there. I would love to buy some of the bronzes they have, there was a beautiful one of a wren standing on a twig - come on lottery win! (more than £10 anyway - one year we should at least get back what we spend on the lottery in work)
We are going out for my birthday dinner tonight, to The Shed in Porthgain, which we haven't been to before for a meal, but has lots of prizes. We had coffee and tea cake there the other day and the tea cake was home made which is very unusual.
Then home tomorrow and work on Monday!
Friday, July 23, 2010
Sunny walk in Pembs
We went for a walk around Dinas Head today. We left home and half way there had a wonderful view of the Preseli hills covered in mist, just the direction we were aiming. We dithered a bit but went on anyway.
As it happened the hills did stay covered in mist, but the coast turned lovely by mid morning.
We had taken our camping stove, kettle etc and brewed up a coffee before setting off. It is a nice walk. About 3-4 mile I suppose and took us about 2.5 hours. We are not get-there-quick walkers. We are standing-admiring-the view, look-at-that-bird, what-a-view etc walkers so we tend to take a while to get places, but we have a nice time while doing so.
The beach we started from is one where we had a number of holidays when the children were small and has very happy memories too. In your imagination you can people the beach with the adults as they were when small, gappy teeth and all. Nice sentimental moment.
There was an ice cream van at the other side of the headland so we had a lovely ice cream then finished the walk back to the car.
Then we cooked our lunch in the open on the camping stove, with sausages, bacon and eggs and tea. It was great.
By this time the sun was shining so I spent the rest of the afternoon in the garden with a book.
Last day of actual holiday today, but what a lovely end
As it happened the hills did stay covered in mist, but the coast turned lovely by mid morning.
We had taken our camping stove, kettle etc and brewed up a coffee before setting off. It is a nice walk. About 3-4 mile I suppose and took us about 2.5 hours. We are not get-there-quick walkers. We are standing-admiring-the view, look-at-that-bird, what-a-view etc walkers so we tend to take a while to get places, but we have a nice time while doing so.
The beach we started from is one where we had a number of holidays when the children were small and has very happy memories too. In your imagination you can people the beach with the adults as they were when small, gappy teeth and all. Nice sentimental moment.
There was an ice cream van at the other side of the headland so we had a lovely ice cream then finished the walk back to the car.
Then we cooked our lunch in the open on the camping stove, with sausages, bacon and eggs and tea. It was great.
By this time the sun was shining so I spent the rest of the afternoon in the garden with a book.
Last day of actual holiday today, but what a lovely end
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