Thanks

[DTCwordfan]

Thanks to all of you who posted Birthday greetings yesterday - it's much appreciated.

By a stroke of plumbing genius known as luck, I think, I solved the water issue and the Aga. I drew off two to three bath-loads of hot tap water and I think it pulled through whatever blockage or air-lock was there as I could feel the connecting copper pipe between the Aga and the immersion heater warming. After a wee trip for a birthday lunch in a lovely country pub on the Roseland peninsula and then on to St Mawes for a "shufty" around, I came back to a warm, snuggly tank under its jacket - and have luxuriated in hot water since and this morning!

So thanks again for your greetings and it wasn't a bad day, the only downer that the big fat steak for the bbq has had to wait as we were hit with a huge storm as I came to light the pit. Still opened the wine though!

[murraymints]

Good stuff ! Xx

[Prudie]

Sorry I missed that DT, many happy returns for yesterday. Funnily enough we had a plumber in all day yesterday fitting a new immersion because ours had sprung a sneaky leak at the bottom and we didn't know until a huge brown wet patch appeared on the kitchen ceiling, what a messy pain. Anyway glad you had a fun day.

[Tilly2]

Your Aga saga was better than a Joanna Trollope, dt.

[DTCwordfan]

Wait to you see the 1000 words on the inside of a table tennis ball essay, or the one on the uses of marmalade in a nuclear war, tilly. Did you ever get essays like that at school? They warp the mind!

Prudie - went through that one last year and, yes, it is a nice mess. A rotten radiator adding to the problem. And then there was the blocked flue a couple of months ago - unbelievable what was in there and, guess what, the 50 year old Aga now purrs like ASBO and its oil consumption must have halved as it can work efficiently.

[Tilly2]

DT, did the table tennis ball one but not the marmalade. Marmalade equals Paddington.

[Sharingan]

You know you're a real country person when you know how to mend your own Aga :)
Glad you had a great day xx

[Psybbo]

Big fat steak today, then. Enjoy! xx