Blog H3

Reality check; here in Europe, where there is no sense of environmental awareness AT ALL, we've had our thermostat not control the central heating for the last four weeks. The result; we've been forced to open windows to keep the temperature down to bearable, while warming the poor old universe again; now, do we pay for the two hundred litres of fuel we've used in one month? Figure another four months of winter.... we've asked, as the technician said on his second visit, 'it's all fixed', for the system to be shut down. That happened tonight. The building is cold in a matter of minutes. This apartment is owned by an electrician; there is one power plug in any room max; one in the kitchen, behind the fridge, one in the bedroom, behind the wardrobe, and our floors are criss-crossed by power boxes and leads trying to get electricity to where we need it. We also have a thousand bucks worth of perishable building materials which need storage at 19.5 - 20°C, and there is, so help me, no insulation anywhere in the structure. Welcome to YOUR reality; ours too. Forget the idea of care/education/values for the environment; you can be camped out where you like; we're on the same planet. Do you think it is worth going to the local council and asking who sets the standards for heating? Duh? Nuff said.