Still laughing....................

Who'd have thought that being without heating could be such a useful exercise.  I'd prefer to be warm without thought going into it of course but this is turning out to be a great shared experience.  We've reminisced about our first house where, after a couple of months, we removed the one and only gas fire and opened up the fireplace.  No checking of the chimney, no thought of how long it had been left unused, just take the gas fire out, buy a grate, pile up sticks and coal, add a match and there you have it, instant heat.  We also had thick brown sludge coming out of the taps as the unsuspected back boiler leaped into action but that also meant we were creating our own hot water so what's to dislike?  We were 21 and 22 years old without a care in the world and relishing the fact that, through our own efforts, we had a house with (just the) one very warm room.  So shared adversity has it's advantages and this morning when we woke up and started laughing as we watched our breath on the cold air Ash actually reached for my hand and held it properly for the first time in a long while.  Not only that but when I came back upstairs with the morning tea he'd had his legs across my side of the bed to keep it warm, again something he hasn't done for a very, very long time.  I don't want this to go on for ever of course but as I keep saying, life is never all bad.

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