Christmas

The evidenceThe fact that there is no chimney at the Tall House has been the subject of many bedtime chats between myself and our little Superhero. Little Superhero: What if HE can't make it in, Mummmyyyyy? Mummmyyyyy: Well, then he'll use the door. Little Superhero (shaking his head vehemently with panic in his voice): No, nooo cause that...

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Frozen Pipes

Well, what I saw coming a mile away sadly happened. No amount of panic on my part, seemed to imprint on Manu the importance of getting heat to the basement. -The pipes are going to freeze. - No they won't. Manu, having wisely preferred to live at home during his early adulthood rather than rough it in student apartment squalor, was sadly oblivious to the facility with which pipes in northern climes freeze. The fact that I had...

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