Is it that time?

“Is it that time yet?” seems to be all I’m hearing at the moment. Is it time to put the central heating on? Personally I think central heating should be on September to June inclusive, but then again I am generally the one still wearing three layers in July.  

I’m not sure if I am noticing it more this year because it’s something I now have control over, or if the question is just being asking more because it’s been unseasonably warm for October. I imagine it is usually perfectly acceptable to have the central heating on in October, but since September decided to go out in a blaze of glory this year*, folk are confused.

As I mentioned I am newly in control of my own central heating having moved out of my parents place recently, and as such I’m rapidly discovering a problem with conventional central heating systens. Cleverly you can get a nice, compact control panel which allows you to tell your boiler when you would like it to come on do its thing. Very useful, well it would be very useful if you could program it more than twice a day. TWICE a day, seriously what use is twice a day? Admittedly the reason it is a problem for me is that I live with a shift worker, but I hardly think they are that much of a minority.

My other half works for the Ambulance service, and as such gets up at silly time of the day and night to go and save the world one fallen, little, old lady at a time. As such I have no idea how to set the heating to fit with his ridiculousness? If he is getting up at 5am, I hardly want to be sleeping through 3 hours of heating, even I would roast, but then again nor does he want to be getting up in the freezing cold. However the chances of finding a system to cope with him, is only slight more likely than get struck by lightening, twice and marginally less so than me finding a sink with a half bowl the opposite side from the draining board.  I never knew how many traumas there were when becoming a homeowner!

However having said that October may not be living up to the legacy left by September, but it’s hardly chilly so you never know maybe these musings will turn out to entirely academic. (cue a mid-October freeze!)

* Since I mentioned it, no that was not an Indian summer, that was a freaky week.