Still freezing....

No word about the part for the boiler. With the little electric heater on, plus everything else that gives out heat (TV, computer, all the lights etc) we are just about able to get the living room temperature up to 17 degrees (18 if we have the oven on in the kitchen for hours - but this is only practical if we are cooking casseroles - not something we do every day). It is ridiculous that I am typing this wearing a fleecy jacket, a scarf and fingerless gloves in my living room.

My cheer-up note for today: the new pouffe has arrived: beautiful gold metallic leather, and while trying to crop the photograph, I discovered by accident that I have Microsoft picture manager already installed on the computer. (Up till now when I have tried to edit a picture, it has always by default opened in Paint - which is useless for what I need (generally cropping and sharpening / brightening)). I have now reset the default so that photographs open in a useful programme, but its only taken me a year or so to work this problem out. Shame on me.