We were left, cut off from the mains, at 2am, snow outside, and the doors and windows having been open for an hour to stop us being asphyxiated!
What to do?
1) HEAT - run around looking for my little electric heater that I used to use in my two, previous, very cold, houses. I found it! We shut the door and cranked up the heat. Fortunately, it being a well insulated house, it only took about 10 minutes before we could take off our skiing jackets! Brrrrr.
2) EXTRA BEDDING - nick Dan's old (15 tog) quilt from the spare room to supplement the 12 tog one we already had on the bed. Done. Result was one cozy night's sleep!
3) SLEEP - it was after 2am. ZZZZZZzzzzzzZZZZZZzzzzzz!
The next morning we put out a call to Gordon - our friendly Corgi/Gas Safe guy. He's the chap who did our two fab bathrooms, and a family friend of the Aldridges.
It was one of the worst slippy-snow days and it turns out he'd already cancelled the job he'd been planning to do that day - because of its location, his van wasn't going to get up the hill to the place where it was.
Anyway, even with a sore throat, and a killer cough, he said, give me an hour to come to (it was 8am) and I'll be over to see what I can do.
An hour and a half later we get a call from him.
"I am coming" he said. "I've been trying to get off our estate for the last hour"
As with our road, their estate was unvisited by the gritters and snow plough.
He got here eventually, and found us sat in the lounge - cardies and jumpers and scarves on - with our little heater now moved in there, so we could work!
After a brief investigation he capped the pipe to the hob and got the supply turned back on at the mains. The heating was restored to us by about midday.
It was a matter of another couple of hours for him to replace the hob with a new silver one! It's lovely!
Thank-you Gordon - you're our hero!
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