A different looking blog today !!

Good Morning Ladies,

I wasn't able to upload a photograph to the blog today because the 'Blogger' Server wasn't allowing me to upload any kind of image!!
I was tearing my hair out trying to get any kind of image to upload, so I apologise for that, you'll just have to imagine the pretty 'Berry Burst' stamped floral card I had lined up to share with you today.
I used the Stampin'Up! 'Beautiful Bouquet' stamp set to create this card, I stamped straight onto the white card base making it a cheaper card for posting, I finished the card with a piece of 'Berry Burst' seam Binding ribbon and faceted Gem.
I hope you can picture it in your mind.  It will be a great test to see if it was anything like you imagined when I eventually get to share it with you!!

We had a frustrating day yesterday, I called to report the boiler not working at 9am, we were Goldman engineer would be with us within 3 hours, they class it as an emergency as we have no other source of hot water and because I am disabled it's not advisable for me to be carrying kettles of boiling water around!   After 4 hours and a couple more calls he turned up looked at the boiler, told us he wasn't suprised it had failed as it was a rubbish boiler!! It apparently needs a new 'Control' board.
He has ordered it but it can take from a few days to a couple of weeks, so I asked what we were to do for washing up etc, explaining that I can't carry kettle etc, he said there was nothing he could do, he instructed me to call the Carillion Amey Office again and get them to send an electrician to fix the Immersion Heater that has been out of order for years, another 3 hour wait and the chap arrives and does manage to fix it, even though many others have tried and failed! So that's our only source of hot water for now.
It took me back to my childhood and teenage years at home, the fuss that was made if you wanted a bath, because my parents had a coin meter, once the dreaded Immersion was switched on I can still see my dad watching the meter whizzing around!! There was always a debate as to whether it was better to leave it on all the time or just switch it on before you needed it, which if you wanted a bath seemed to take ages!  I think Mum and Dad would have preferred us to still have the communal Sunday night bath right into our teens.
So tonight when the girls came home from school I found myself sounding just like my mother, telling them that baths were a 'no go' for the next few days, I will add that wedding have two showers that they can use, that heat their own hot water, a luxury that we never had as children.  The girls wanted to know how we washed our hair without a shower, I think they thought I was joking when I said we used a jug and a sink of hot water, oh how times have changed, we didn't know any different back then.
It's the same with not having any heating too, the girls complained that their rooms were freezing last night, outraged at having no heating, yet this was another thing that we didn't have upstairs growing up, in fact I'm pretty sure we had Matt and Becca by the time my parents got central heating installed and had radiators upstairs!
We survived though, I also think that we weren't bothered with nearly as many illnesses!
That's my rant and trip down memory lane over for today!  I look forward to hearing your stories too.

Lilian, I hope you aren't suffering too much my lovely XXX



Have a lovely day ladies,

Love and hugs

Sandra
xxxxxxx