Hello!

 

Hello!

Hello! (Waves tentatively from the sidelines.)

Apologies for my absence – overtaken by events, so to speak.

Writing is rather like exercising. It can be satisfying if you keep going, but difficult to start again when you stop.  Anyway, nothing ventured, nothing gained, (such a useless platitude) after several false starts I have resumed.

Our house has filled up again for the time being, with Susannah, Frankie, Arthur and the three cats, Solomon, Lenny, and Zula. They will stay with us until their London flat is sold and a house bought locally.

Yesterday, the chimney sweep came to sweep our sitting room burner. It has been a long time since our chimney received any professional attention and that became evident the longer he worked. He spent a couple of hours vacuuming, filling his machine with the quantity of soot he normally collects in sweepings from several houses. Next time, he will look at the conservatory fire, but that is rarely used, and easier to deal with. It has a straight flue, unlike the sitting room, whose flue is kinked. It’s the original chimney from when the house was built seventy years ago. Anyway, all is well now and we have celebrated with the first fire of the season.

Today, the boiler is being serviced. Winter fast approaches, though to listen to *Weatherlink, one would be fooled into thinking it is still high summer, since we were informed that today the temperature would reach 35º C (95º F)!  Weatherlink needs to be adjusted, obviously.

                                                                                             

From AI:  *WeatherLink is a cloud-based weather platform, mobile app, and hardware ecosystem created by Davis Instruments that lets you view, store, share, and analyse live and historical data from personal weather stations.

I shall now go for a wander round blogworld!