Just the two of us this year. The tower is lovely and warm, helped by a sudden 20 degree C rise in temperature of recent days. Here's a cosy corner of the main room, complete with catalytic flue gas fire. On full blast it quickly warms that entire vast space. It is also a comforting stand-by in the event of an electric power cut which would take-out all other heat sources:
Daughter Lorna did a most welcome parental welfare visit before Christmas. It's a heck of a drive from Gerrards Cross and back. Here she is with her mum(my) tucking in at The Talbot, of course.
Meanwhile grandsons James and Ben are spending Christmas in Pittsburgh PA where, like most of the USA is under the Arctic 'weather bomb'. An experience about which they can tell the tale. Here's Pittsburgh PA:
One of Alan's 'furnaces' has chosen the coldest winter weather in recent history to fail just to add to the festive fun.
The boys fly back (unaccompanied) on Thursday by which time the US should have warmed up and Pittsburgh airport should be back in full swing. Hopefully BA 171 to Heathrow will be warm.
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