Enough of the riverdance!!

The bird is still alive! Doing a full rendition of the riverdance every morning at around 6am. It might be doing it throughout the day but we're not in the room so don't really know. Surely it must give up soon?

On a positive note the plumber is coming tomorrow to sort out the bathroom taps and hot water is now back on fully...fingers crossed it doesn't break again what with the weather turning to autumn.

The piccalilli has turned out awesome - though we can't eat it for a while as it needs to mature but it's going to be yummy. I now need to find a tasty recipe for scallops. I'm thinking risotto - any other suggestions?

Problems problems

It's one of those days, or couple of days, where everything seems to break. The gas meter got replaced last night which meant yesterday we had no hot water to shower. Even though it was a new meter we still had no hot water which implied the boiler was broken, coincidence? At bed time the boiler seemed to be working again so we thought it just needed resetting and this morning all seemed fine, Daniel had a shower and all looked rosy. That was until i went to have a shower and lo and behold not working again! Then thought I'd go online whilst i waited for it to reset again and the Internet wasn't working either! Turns out, after a gas man spent ages trying to find out the problem, that the pump was broken - so yet another day of no hot water for me.

There also seems to be a bird in the chimney - we don't have a fire place! It will just have to flap in there until it gives up hope as we don't know what else to do!

I'm now going to be more productive and start making a batch of piccalilli ready for Christmas!!