Gas

[poliphilo]

Our gas supplier is raising the price of its product by some ridiculous percentage.  Time to get out the woolies.

I refuse to feed their shareholders' hunger.

Because central heating is very nice and all, but I lived the first ten years of my life without it.  Later, as a young married, I spent three years in a draughty, decaying, unheated, Victorian vicarage in Cambridge- and If you can survive a fenland winter without buffering you can survive anything.

Ailz says we can go sit in the public library if it gets really cold. 

Comments

[richenda.livejournal.com]

Addition to my previous commemnt.
The gas system isn't on mains gas, so she can't even switch to a cheaper supplier - it's supplied to a dozen houses from a communal tank, property of the supplier.
To be fair, this system was presumably installed ata time when this was cheaper than electricity - there's also the problem that the area is subject to longish power cuts, owing to overhead cables and a windy salty environment.
My guess is that the lack of radiator adjustment was designed to circumvent their being turned off or up by accident or in confusion.