We are warm again! A delivery of 850 litres of oil was delivered on Monday morning, not filling the 1300 litre tank, but enough for quite a while. I’ll be keeping an eye on it this time! Unfortunately we had to have the boiler maintenance company out to “bleed” the boiler to get the air out of the pipes and other bits and pieces (it seems that we have one of the few modern oil boilers that doesn’t bleed itself), which incurred a callout charge, and I won’t tell you what our revised monthly oil payment is now. Ouch. Thank goodness Chantal is feeling better, and we think will be returning to work next week – her illness has been costly! Good job she’s worth it.
Makes you realise how a sudden illness that turns out to be long term can cause financial problems to families who are in less fortunate circumstances than we are.
Technically we live in Oaktree House, but sadly the tree had to go.
We now have a thriving Oakstump at the front of the house.
