Bike crime in our city

The city of Wells is not a notorious crime hot-spot, but bad stuff still happens.

Clare and Alex had a little bike ride out on Sunday. While they were in Morrison's, near the Glastonbury roundabout, someone tried to steal Clare's bike, not noticing the chain. Frustrated, they then took a knife to the back tyre.

I retrieved Clare and her bike in the car.

This morning, the bike was ferried to the Bike Shop in town. The bike guy told us that over the last week, three bikes have been stolen from Halfords and the other day someone came into his very shop and walked out with one of his bikes.

I know this isn't Syria, but still ..

Our central heating redux

This has been a long saga - amazing how many hits this post has received (91 as of today).

The central heating engineer, Ian Hosegood, came this morning. It turns out the problem was indeed with the Siemens wireless base station (wall-mounted next to the boiler). It was showing the radio link to the living room thermostat as active, but the relay to the boiler/pump had not tripped. This is the bug in the device highlighted in the post I mentioned. Ian switched it out for the Honeywell CM927 wireless programmable room thermostat and upstairs relay box.

Finally, the central heating is working again.

In passing, Ian observed that I seemed to have a flat rear tyre (my car parked on the drive outside the front door). At the garage they found the screw causing a slow puncture - fixable; the other rear tyre was low-tread so had to be replaced. With the water pump failure last Friday, this has been an expensive few days.

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Clare and myself visited my mother this afternoon - here's one I took with her while Clare was at the cafe getting us all hot drinks.