Mark is married to Jo and is a 23 year old youth and schools worker based in South Cave (near Hull). Mark spent 4 years as a youth worker in Peterborough whilst studying for a degree in youth work & ministry with Oasis.
As those of you who are my friend on Facebook or follow me on Twitter will have noticed the last 2 days tweets/status updates have revolved around heat and my lack of.
I awoke yesterday morning colder than I had hoped to wake up and putting it down to my inability to tweak my heating timers properly I forced myself out of bed only to find cold radiators throughout the house and no hot water.
I checked my boiler and it was on and humming away nicely…so I went to my meeting and when I got back still no hot water or heat so I phoned the heating type people who informed me that they would be able to turn up next on Thursday because the cold weather meant they were in demand and the snow meant they were moving around slower than usual.
So before the real meaning of my post here’s the catch 22 I find myself in…
1 – I figure there must be a frozen pipe between the water tank and the boiler
2 – In order to unfreeze my house must be warm
3 – In order for my house to be warm I must have a working central heating system
4 – In order to have a working central heating system all pipes but be unfrozen
Tricky huh?
Anyway the real meaning of this post is my lack of heat, increase in fan heaters and addition of hot water bottle has meant that although I’ve been moaning a bit about it I’m actually not especially annoyed about it (there are a couple of things annoying me at the moment and heating is not one of them!), infact as a whole I’d say I’m pretty happy and have been the last few days…I’ve had a couple coffees with friends and really enjoyed their company (I’ve done work too!).
This got me thinking…when we have problems we can either moan and be miserable or we can not let it get us down…we can choose to make the best or moan that it isn’t the best and the former has really worked for me!
Secondly in my everyday life to meaning type blog post I’ve experienced a lot of warmth in my coolness. Some good friends have offered me a warm bed, shower, food and even a gas heater (which is due to be dropped off as I type this) and so actually knowing that there’s people around me who will happily do that makes the cold worthwhile…but I’d like my heating fixed tomorrow please!
make sure you bill the landlord for the cost of leccy for thouse heaters
really?