I arrived home this evening with thoughts of cooking this evening’s dinner and plans for the weekend ahead. I had only been home a few minutes when Mr C came to sit with me, after a few minutes he started to study a piece of paper. I enquired about what he was looking at and [...]
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Shrove Tuesday
Pancake Day, or Shrove Tuesday, is the traditional feast day before the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday. Lent – the 40 days leading up to Easter – was traditionally a time of fasting and on Shrove Tuesday, Anglo-Saxon Christians went to confession and were “shriven” (absolved from their sins). A bell would be rung to call [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 28th 2017
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An Update on the Heating
After checking our system this morning the engineer declared the system was working perfectly and that it was operator failure our thermostat was set too low. I wondered about this diagnosis as I originally thought that was the problem too. After we had our new door fitted Mr C had turned the thermostat down a [...]
20 Comments CherryPie on Feb 27th 2017
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The Heating Saga Continues!
Our heating system hasn’t been right since it was drained after a radiator pipe was broken whilst our ‘smallest room in the house‘ was being refitted in December last year. After the refit our heating system was full of air; the radiators required bleeding for several weeks and some rooms were cooler than they should [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Feb 25th 2017
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Storm Doris
When I got up this morning Mr C was peering out of one of the back bedroom windows and I wondered what he was doing. He informed me that one of next doors fence panels had blown out. A little while later he announced that two more panels had blown out. Storm Doris was swirling [...]
22 Comments CherryPie on Feb 23rd 2017
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One of Those Weeks…
The week started well with our old backdoor being replaced. The previous door had warped and was letting in cold air much like the front door which we also replaced recently. The new backdoor was left with a blank panel at the top so that they could measure and align the georgian bars to the [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Feb 11th 2017
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2017 Calendar
You will recall from a previous post that over the past few years I have created a personalised calendar as a Christmas present for Mr C. For 2016 a fellow blogger sent me a lovely calendar in PDF format that I was able to print off hang on the wall above my computer. I [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Jan 18th 2017
