The Importance of Being Idle

Heating Problems

Our heating has been a bit erratic for a while now, and Wednesday (when it was absolutely perishing) it resolutely refused to heat up the living room even a little bit. So Ronnie called our landlord, who sent the engineers round today to try and fix it. Needless to say, it's working just FINE now, much as it did last night. They footled around for 45 minutes to an hour, tried various things, chatted about Star Wars and phoned their boss up alot, but ultimately they concluded that it's working now and let's hope it stays that way.
To be fair fixing an intermittent fault is an absolute nightmare, 'cos if the thing isn't mis-behaving when you're looking at it, how the hell are you supposed to tell what's wrong? You might have an idea, but if it's all working as it should then how do you know what to replace?
They were nice enough lads, although I thought they seemed too young to drive for themselves, let alone fix people's heating, but I suppose that's just me getting older.
Archie was very scared of them though. He ran off, and even after they'd gone it took me ages to even find him, he was being so quiet. He still won't come out from behind the chair either, soppy little article that he is. Hopefully he'll chill out soon.
I want to watch a comedy (or two!) this evening, something that's gonna make me laugh until coke dribbles out of my nose. That'd be good, not seen anything like that in a long while and right now I think I need it.

posted by BadMonkey @ 3:40 PM