Yes, I shall think about it lots during the night as it clunks and rattles. Saves on wasting time being asleep, eh?
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Instead of a throw, why not have a fire blanket on top of your quilt instead. Both warm and fire retardant. You know it makes sense!
Dragon’s Den, here you come lol
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Don’t waste your time listening for clunks and rattles; you probably won’t even hear the one that matters. 
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How about I just swap the living room and bedroom over and be done with it? That way I don’t have to worry about anything apart from getting to sleep.
But then the place is so tiny, if the boiler explodes, it will take everything with it, including me!
Exactly!
Because everything is in the one room, I’ll get electrocuted too.
It’ll be quick and painless. 
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Exactly. Just think of the money you’d save in terms of fuel bills if you did pop your clogs. You know it makes fiscal sense!
Erm…I think I’m done with talking about my imminent death, thanks 
Although having handsome firemen in the room to rescue me is quite a pleasant thought 
Talk about smouldering 
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You still have meter readers over there? We have to do our own, unless we give in to the smart meter lobby.
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Ah, but have you considered using a mattress topper which would be a bit like a water bed but filled with an accelerant such as petrol. This means that you’d have also arranged your own simple cremation and could chuckle to yourself whenever that advert popped up on TV knowing you’ve already got it covered.
You know it makes crematorial sense.
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Good heavens! They look like they’ve come out of the ark!
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Anyone who wants to do that needs their head examining! Go electric - pay double!
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My husband has tried using the hammer action on his drill to make some aeration holes in the lawn and immediately tried pushing some bottles over them in case he managed to frack some and hence capture gas out which we could use for a bbq. Not been very successful if truth be told.
I think that gas boilers are going to be phased out in new buildings over the next few decades. Not sure that centralised systems really are that efficient.
I think this silly government must live on a different planet. They want to stop the use not only of gas but also of petrol and diesel.
If we’re all going to have electric heating and drive electric vehicles, where on earth do they think all the electricity is going to come from? Their wonderful wind turbines and solar panels?
Well, I suppose that as we voted them in, it’s obvious who we should blame!
Do we have any politicians who are actually compos mentis?
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The short answer to that one is - No!
Trouble is that as we are all to well aware that oil and gas seems to be placed in areas which are ruled by people with not necessarily the same values as us and it’s not satisfactory that we have to deal with them. Also, leaving aside the usual argument about climate change for the time being, there’s a chance that these fuels won’t last indefinitely.
So we’ve got to find alternatives.
Nuclear power.
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Until something else long term and reliable turns up, I agree.
Governments need to think about what needs to be achieved, what is within their power to do about it, and what they need to say about it in order to win public support. The compatibility of these elements is sometimes such that the government is actually in an impossible position, but no government is going to be foolish enough to actually say that. This even applies to competent governments, not just “silly” ones.
It must be a Northern hemisphere thing. My meters are also located outside…
Mine are located outside, but they’re a bit more modern than the picture above!
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They probably did, my house was built in1925. None of that namby pamby, pooftah, ground fault circuit breaker here.
Actually the meters themselves are only a few decades old because there used to be one for each phase but then they changed one for a two phase meter so they could fit in the off peak meter.