Jo and I were discussing the energy situation last night, following the posts on my previous blog about our home fuel bills (ours was the top line in each of the graphs - three or four times the level of comparable houses). Although we put our heating on for a couple of days a few weeks ago, it's been back off again since then - although we think we'll have to put it on again pretty soon.
Our back sitting room, where we watch the big TV, is always pretty warm, but it sits immediately above the utility room, which has the boiler in it. We're baffled however, by how cold our kitchen has become since we got the new one installed. It used to be the warmest room in the house, but it's pretty cold now. Jo thinks there's a draft getting in under the new skirting boards - but where can the draft come from? There's no external wall opening behind our kitchen units. Baffled of Banchory.
Jo, in conversation with Ross, has come up with a plan - insulate the garage wall and ceiling that are adjacent to and underneath our hall and front lounge respectively. Sounds fairly sensible, but who do you get to do it? It would be really good to get a second opinion on this, but all the companies that contact you under the Government's Green Deal (https://www.gov.uk/green-deal-energy-saving-measures/how-the-green-deal-works) just seem to want to sell you Solar Panels. We've looked at them and rejected the idea - too many tall trees in front of us.
Anyway, on to other matters. Just 3 weeks today until my knee op. I spoke to BUPA about it to get the authorisation number and they advised me to check out their web site on this subject - http://clinic.bupa.co.uk/. I completed the self assessments on this site and they worked out I didn't need the operation yet! They don't feel what I feel. I know I do.
Despite - or perhaps because of - the imminent operation, I was determined to fit in my last ever games of squash and we finally managed a game of doubles last night. It was great fun - I'm going to really miss this. We're all getting older together and squash is nowhere near as intense as it used to be, but it's still very enjoyable. It does hurt today, however, and I'll probably struggle this afternoon at golf, but hey ho. We've got our Headbang tonight to look forward to as well - no effort required there.
To close, it was 4 years ago today that Dad passed. Although I didn't know him then - he was only 20 in this photo - I thought it best to show a photo of his younger days, rather than towards the end:
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