During the really cold spell we had a few weeks ago, our central heating broke down. It was like watching an episode of House as they tried to diagnose the problem. First it was a something circuit board, next it was a pipe leading from the boiler, then the little blue box in the airing cupboard followed by a visit from an electrician who said it was the thermostat. Each time they thought they had sorted it the boiler had other ideas. Fortunately we have a few electric heaters and a neighbour lent us their calor gas fire. Any way by last Friday they finally sorted it and we thought it would be the last we saw of the gas men.

At the weekend we decided to finish the hallway. Gary decided not to use the holes already drilled from the previous threshold as they were not central so he drilled a couple of new ones followed by the shout "MELISSA. TURN THE GAS OFF"!!!! The photo is showing how clever he is at finding the pipe in an inch of concrete and drilling through it right in the middle!