Friday
Ray has been quiet ill with a bad cold and chesty cough that shakes the bed it is so bad.
I said we will stay in and I will have a spring clean in the cupboards while he rested but I noticed water in the airing cupboard and it was dripping from a tap on the boiler and then Ray said that the pressure was in the danger.
I had the central heating on and when I turned it off the marker stayed in the danger zone.
Phoned the plumber and he was out on a job that took longer than he thought so we hung around all day catching the water in a bowl.
I took the dog out for a round walk which was the first time I had been out on my own, that far, but I made it and didn't loose my balance once which was very good.
The plumber finally came at teatime and bleed the radiator to get the pressure down and went but I turned the Heating on and the pressure shot up so we had to quickly get the plumber back.
He bleed the radiator again and turned the tap to stop the water filling up as it seems the tap is very sensitive.
That was the end of a very eventful day and thank goodness I had decided to clean the cupboards out or it would have done a lot of damage.
Saturday
The plumber came back to check again this morning but everything is calm and dry so he will change the fill up valve on Monday and normality will reign again.
Ray though work up and frightened the life out of me this morning as his face was swollen--his cheek and lip on one side had all gone numb.
With that stroke advert on telly we did wonder about a stroke but he was able to walk about and then it has gone down since so we don't know what it was.
I took the dog out on my own as I said Ray couldn't come with me as he would frighten the children.
We have watched a DVD about The March of the Penguins which was very good
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB_GisVFboU&feature=related
We had a Vegetable casserole in red wine sauce that i had slow cooked all day so the taste was wonderful as well as the aroma.
Louis had a pot of Chicken Livers as a treat and he is knocked out and fast asleep as a Lion is after its feed.
Well we are settling down now to watch a bit of Saturday night telly if there isn't much on we can put another DVD on.
