Update

[lexin]

I want my friends and family to visit, but they all seem a bit wary. I can understand that, but it doesn’t make the desire go away.

Good news: the guys who are installing my stair lift have been in touch and they will be carrying out the changes to the stairs next week. Go me! Go them! When they’ll install the stair lift, I don’t know.

In other good news, I have been fighting the good fight to get Hive Heating installed. I bought it in January, and while I could understand that from January to May, installation was not going to happen because of Covid, I’ve been trying since May to get an installation date. This week I gave up and tried their chat thingy. The first three people couldn’t help, but the final one gave me a phone number. The first two of the people on the phone couldn’t help, but I finally got someone who knew what the were doing. So I have an installation date: 24 August. Modified rapture. And I’m leery about that date, but we’ll see what happens.

Smokey is a good kitty and at the moment is ignoring her dinner. Strange cat.

Comments

[kotturinn]

Hope the stair lift modifications and installation go smoothly. It will be interesting to hear about your experiences with Hive Heating. Fingers crossed for you seeing friends and family soon.

Smokey, eat your dinner!

[lexin]

I know Hive Heating is good because I had it in my previous home. So I do want it as soon as possible.

Smokey is now running from room to room like a mad thing. Cats, eh?

[kotturinn]

Cats will cat 😸

[emrinalexander]

What is hive heating?

[lexin]

It's a system which allows you to control your heating and hot water using an app on your phone.

[watervole]

Can it work with a heat pump? The ap we were sold our underfloor heating turned out to be really poor. Only works with really recent tablets/phones.

[lexin]

I have no idea - you'd have to ring the people who run it, which is British Gas/Centrica. Their website is: Hivehome.com

[sollers]

I shall be very happy to visit you - not the coming week or the week after (Welsh summer school online) but any time after that. What’s the parking like?

[lexin]

Excellent!

I have parking right outside my house - there's a paved area just outside my front door with space for two cars. And I don't have even one car.

There's also a bus stop 100m from my front door, with buses directly from Llandudno.

End of July is fine by me. My preference is for early in the week, Tuesday or Wednesday, or on a Saturday.

[sollers]

Very excellent indeed! Tuesdays are good for me at the moment.