Plan B

We woke up this morning to a strange smell and for once it wasn't Maddy. After a bit of investigation we discovered that the pilot light in the boiler was acting up. Instead of the usual Blue flame the flame had gone orange and was flickering fairly erratically. The smell certainly seemed to be emanating from there. Since it's not really something to take a chance with we switched it straight off and called a heating engineer.

He can come round and look at it tomorrow. I just hope a service will get it up and running as the expense of a replacement coupled with no heating or hot water for a few days at this time of year doesn't really bear thinking about.

So we're huddled round one of these in the Living room at the moment.