Evening colour

We're still learning to appropriately control our heating.  Before leaving on 20th Dec, I turned all the room thermostats on to "frost" setting.  Despite this, W was aware from the electricity consumption (visible on an app) that we were using quite a lot of night time electricity (our geothermal pump is set to only run at night).

So on Monday, when we walked in the house, it was cold, but warmer than we might have expected.  We have underfloor heating, so any change in room thermostat requested temperature takes a while to be fulfilled.  I turned all the thermostats on, turned the heating to "on 24 hrs".  And it was definitely getting warmer in the house by Tuesday morning.  On Tuesday, I upped all the thermostats around the house to try to improve the ambient temperature, and when we went to bed, it seemed to have warmed up appropriately, and I changed the setting on the overall controller to only run the geothermal pump at night (cheap electricity).

On waking this morning, it was clear that we had a problem.  The whole house was colder than the night before.

W contacted T, who replaced the distributor pump for the ground floor heating just a few weeks ago, and at the same time serviced the geothermal pump.  "Leave is with me" he said, as we saw cold, cold, cold forecast for the next few days.  Fortunately, the electric fire heats the lounge to a comfortable temperature, so we're mainly living in there.

W went food shopping.  I did some more sewing. 

Blip is the evening sky - "red sky at night, shepherd's delight" - but I think this saying is largely to do with rain, not temperature - sheep are well insulated.