This is not an environmental activism post.
This post is about hot water.
Specifically hot water from a heater of hot water that delivers said hot water directly into one's bathtub. Or shower. As JRR Tolkien tells us:
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is a noble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
So Friday I discover that my water heater has stopped heating water. There is nothing for it, I will have to call a plumber - but! The hell if I'm going to call a plumber on Friday night - because there's no way I want to spend "emergency call" type money on what is probably a simple repair.
So I would have called on Monday, but the CPA was in, so I called on Tuesday and the guy came out yesterday. No. I did not go from Friday to Wednesday without washing, you gits. I hotted up water on my stove, poured it into a bucket and took it up to the bathtub. It was soooooo very 18th century...
No wonder they had servants back then.
Anyhow - the hot water heater is again working (something about a clogged filter and some other plumbery-talk stuff I didn't understand) - and I had a lovely, lovely long hot shower last night - and another this morning - and will probably do again tonite just because I CAN!!!
O! Water Hot is a noble thing!
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My boiler would never dare to do that to me.
In the morning I have a hot shower.
It is not negotiable.
No hot shower I ain't getting up. End of.
Actually...my boiler would never dare to do that to the wifey...;-)
Urrrrggh, Sewmouse, I feel your pain. Our boiler went on the blink in December for eleven whole days: no hot water, no heating. In December. In winter. It was horrific. I used to have to boil kettlefuls of water and stand in the bathtub and somehow have a wash in it. It was vile. Washing hair was vile. Being constantly cold was even viler. Yes, I feel your pain because life without hot showers is just miserable!
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