the rain it raineth every day…
…and the howling wind keeps blowing out the pilot light on the gas boiler thingy therefore it’s bloody freezing in the flat. We’re not yet reduced to burning the chairs; which is just as well because we still haven’t replaced the ones we burnt the last time the heating went on the blink (who says Ikea furniture isn’t functional? It makes excellent firewood) but we are wearing three jumpers each and fighting over the bright red Hawkshead hiking socks (Just in case anyone has any doubts - they’re mine, all mine, even the pair mum gave F for Christmas).
These gale force winds are getting a bit annoying. I can’t help but think that they have some personal vendetta against my kitchen window and I’m trying to spend as little time in here as possible for fear of being impaled on the flying shards of glass as it (the window) finally shatters under their force.
So until it’s safe to go back in the kitchen… here’s a photo of it. I know you’ve all been wondering what it looks like.
Yes, Edinburgh really is that dark at 3pm..
January 16th, 2007 at 5:05 am
Ooh, looks wonderful and spooky. Fix some hot cocoa and go curl up with the real HC and the collected short stories of Edgar Allen Poe.
January 16th, 2007 at 5:51 am
Funnily enough I rescued Poe (and host of other good reads) from the pile of books herebe was chucking out at Christmas.
January 16th, 2007 at 6:12 am
*gasps!* Herebe was chucking away books?!?!?!?! And not just any books, but the work of EA Poe??? The horror, the horror!
*rests back of hand against forehead*
*faints dramatically*
January 16th, 2007 at 6:35 am
Yep. He was getting rid of Conrad too.
Can’t understand it myself - as far as I’m concerned throwing out books is tantamount to burning them. I never get rid of books, just cannot bring myself to do it.
January 16th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
Do they sell those crappy plastic liners for your windows in the UK, as they do here, that you tape and then blow dry in place to keep out drafts. Ugly as hell, but helpful. Indeed if it ever stops the freakish warm spells here I will end up purchasing them for all our windows.
January 16th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
have no idea what has been going on out doors today I@m still doing hand to hand combat with blueyonder broadband even the lodger as abandoned the field of battle.
January 17th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
Christine - They do indeed sell that stuff here though for the life of me I can’t remember what its called. Its not so much the drafts though - just that the wind’s so strong that when it buffets against the (Closed) window - you hear a loud Bang! as the wind hits the glass and the whole damn pane moves. ( suppose that stuff would stop it shattering should the wind break the window though.
M. Not so bad today but more gales forecast for tomorrow. Hope you prove victorious against the evil spectre of broadband!
January 17th, 2007 at 5:51 pm
I detect Withnailish undercurrents of despair.
Buy a Nintendo Wii.
That’ll sort you out.
January 17th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
Grafer. Strangely enough, I do (still) have the right sort of overcoat. But you’re right. I really need a Nintendo Wii and then I can get really really good at the golf game and beat the shit out of my cousins and bro next time I see them.
January 18th, 2007 at 7:32 am
your kitchen looks like a window
January 18th, 2007 at 11:30 am
It’s in disguise
January 18th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
i think i live down the street from there. are the seagulls flying as hard as they can in place? are there children frozen to the pavement singing folksongs? yeah.
roll up paper towels into tight strings, run them under the faucet and then stuff them into the gap between the frame and the sashes with a screwdriver. no more whamming windows! sorted!
i so need a life.
January 18th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
FN. I think you must live down the street. Yes, the seagulls are flying as hard as they can in place. Yes, there are children frozen to the pavement (although not singing folksongs, at least none that I know).
I’d give you’re an idea a try except for the fact that there are no gaps between sash and frame, the windows are hermetically sealed UPVC (urgh yes I know but its not our flat)units. It’s the strength of the wind that’s smashing against the glass!
January 21st, 2007 at 1:32 pm
well if it’s any comfort at all, it is -3°C outside here, but as there is no individual thermostat control in the apartments, they just turn up the heat past Warm, past Hot, straight to Hellfire&Brimstone, so we end up having to sleep with the window open, which sort of defeats the purpose of heating in the first place…