After a brief panic on the part of the deliveryman, we received a full tank of oil today. The operator couldn’t initially get his machine to work,
so he spent some time, whilst we trembled in trepidation, tinkering with dials.
Before the rain set in, I cut the grass and Jackie carried on clearing and tidying the rest of the garden.
Having spotted that a number of birds have been tearing strips off our roofing insulation for nest building, she has netted up the entrances in continuing the avian warfare begun yesterday against the greenfinches.
Whilst she was at it, she also blocked the route to last year’s starling nest.
She cleaned out the Waterboy feature and set it going again.
Back inside, as feared, we found the boiler wasn’t working. This, we discovered, seemed to be because Jackie had turned the living room wall thermostat to zero when we ran out of fuel. She turned it up. The light came on on the reset button. When it was depressed, as the instruction book suggested, we had lift-off. We will be having the device serviced anyway, just to be on the safe side.
This afternoon the rain desisted and we continued weeding and tidying.
This evening we dined on Jackie’s lemon chicken; sweet potatoes; and sautéed leeks, mushrooms, broccoli, and bacon; followed by apple strudel and custard. She drank Hoegaarden and I drank Reserve des Tuguets madiran 2012.