Have you ever tried to photograph central heating? It is ridiculous. One plain, boring little control panel and some little vents in the ceiling trying to be invisible. That is not interesting or attractive. Absolutely no styling potential there. So instead, I pulled this image of a lovely warm room out of the files in my tumblr.ANYWAY, the point of this is that we now have central heating. We've struggled through the past 2 winters of no heating after our 20 year old heater died and couldn't be repaired. Our lovely new heater has a little digital control panel and I've programed it to turn on and off every morning and night, Monday - Friday and Saturday - Sunday. It is absolute luxury and makes me feel like the luckiest lady in the world.
I got a bit carried away for the first few days and might have had it set tropically high. Which inspired me to list to Beck's Tropicalia non-stop. And then I fell in love with these summery sandals which made me ache for summer. But if it was summer we couldn't use our amazing new heating. So I'm embracing the winter of 2011 by sitting on the couch drinking tea under on of the unphotogenic heating vents and appreciating how fortunate we really are.
Beck - Tropicalia
I'm jealous! Gas ducted heating is on my to-do / wish list. As are as many solar panels as I can fit on the roof!
ReplyDeleteOh central heating is the BEST! I moved from an ice box to a house with central heating when I was 18 (a rental) and felt like a very warm princess! It was so hard to adjust back to no central heating when I had to move on...
ReplyDeleteI do love the 'ondol' (under floor heating) we have here in Korea but it's not as responsive as central heating - a definite must for our house when we eventually make it back to oz