Day 261. Steady, aim....no fire here.

A couple of weeks into the new house and this beautiful fire's days are numbered. Having moved from a house were we had three open fires to one were the previous owners have removed both fires I'm already worrying about how we'll manage in Winter. Where will sit to drink a bottle of red? How will we manage on Christmas Day? Where will we throw our rubbish? To make things worse this isn't just a rather unattractive electric fire. It's the front of a back boiler. Yep, our boiler is in the chimney. Well that will certainly make it easy to reinstate a working fireplace. Welcome to the money pit.

Day 256. Lucky escapes.

Friday 13th is just another day. What could possibly go wrong? An exploding shower? Yep that just about covers it.

I switched the shower on and was just about to get in when I realised I'd forgotten something. As I turned around to the bathroom cabinet there was a loud bang and I saw a bright flash out of the corner of my eye (love that expression) as the shower hose had exploded out of the bottom of the shower unit. I'm not sure what would have happened if I'd been in there at the time but the end of this pipe is quite sharp, it could have had my eye out (it's all about eyes in our house at the moment).

Not the best welcome to a new home but at least it happened with me in the bathroom and not Bea or a guest. Let's hope we're not about to star in a real life version of The Money Pit*.

Happy Friday 13th.

*Starting quote from electrician £200 then we need to look at the fuse box and go from there...oh dear.