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The Gasman cometh not
The special offer half-price boiler service offered by British Gas earlier this year ("you can go on enjoying the summer, knowing you're all prepped for when cold weather comes") that turned out not to be actually scheduled, due to high demand, until October 21st, has just been rescheduled, "due to a high number of breakdowns", for January 13th -- the middle of winter! Let's hope the boiler doesn't actually need urgent servicing... :-O
(Also, the big and very heavy antique clock on the wall in here has stopped, and sadly I'm not in a position to gently invert it in order to magically bring it back to life; it is all I can do to lift it down off the wall, and I had to hastily replace it since the top of the pendulum was bending alarmingly when held in anything other than a vertical position. Probably it just needs oiling, but the mechanism, although much larger and cruder than the little mantel clock, is a bit inaccessible.)
(Also, the big and very heavy antique clock on the wall in here has stopped, and sadly I'm not in a position to gently invert it in order to magically bring it back to life; it is all I can do to lift it down off the wall, and I had to hastily replace it since the top of the pendulum was bending alarmingly when held in anything other than a vertical position. Probably it just needs oiling, but the mechanism, although much larger and cruder than the little mantel clock, is a bit inaccessible.)