In which she shivers
May. 30th, 2008 05:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zeborahLast night the nice warm flames in my gas fire stopped. It was nearly bedtime anyway so I resolved to wait until today to switch the tanks over and phone the gas company.
This evening I got home, flicked the switch from one tank to another, and phoned the company to order a new tank. Turned the gas fire on and it flamed happily for about, oh, 1 minute.
On closer inspection it appears that both tanks are empty.
(I swear I've never switched the tanks over without phoning for a new bottle.)
Also it's a long weekend and I don't know if they deliver on Saturdays.
At least I do have a portable electric heater; and, for that matter, a night-store heater that I don't usually use because it cunningly releases all its heat during the day when I'm not *here*, but that will work for the weekend. So I won't freeze. But... gah!
(Now, if I phone the gas company's automated ordering system and tell it I want 1 gas tank, will it give me that in addition to or instead of the 1 gas tank I've already ordered? I may have to go to bed early tonight so I can get up in the morning instead of sleeping in, and phone a real person if they chance to have such a thing of a Saturday morning.)
This evening I got home, flicked the switch from one tank to another, and phoned the company to order a new tank. Turned the gas fire on and it flamed happily for about, oh, 1 minute.
On closer inspection it appears that both tanks are empty.
(I swear I've never switched the tanks over without phoning for a new bottle.)
Also it's a long weekend and I don't know if they deliver on Saturdays.
At least I do have a portable electric heater; and, for that matter, a night-store heater that I don't usually use because it cunningly releases all its heat during the day when I'm not *here*, but that will work for the weekend. So I won't freeze. But... gah!
(Now, if I phone the gas company's automated ordering system and tell it I want 1 gas tank, will it give me that in addition to or instead of the 1 gas tank I've already ordered? I may have to go to bed early tonight so I can get up in the morning instead of sleeping in, and phone a real person if they chance to have such a thing of a Saturday morning.)
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Date: 2008-05-30 08:17 am (UTC)I believe there was a day in Jan or Feb or March or some such when I resorted to the heater... Christchurch weather is fickle.