BB...

If you think I'm talking about Blackberries then think again...It's Winter...I'm talking about Boiler Breakdowns...dum dum dum (*horror music*)

That sentence - shouted from the shower at the top of your lungs - "Mum, the waters gone cold!" will most likely be uttered in the presence of close to freezing temperatures, never on a balmy summer afternoon or a fresh, mild spring day, nuh-uh has to be Winter.

The boiler ticks away just fine until you actually need it to do it's job annnnnnnnnndddddddddd 'poof' its out-like a light, for the full 10 seconds, KO. Story of my life I was going to say then I thought it'd be more apt to say story of everyone's life!

As you can imagine the inspiration for this piece of revolutionary writing, *ahem ahem* (me coughing at my ranting (raving) self, incredulously) was our own faithful (yeah right!) - the boiler.

Fortunately for us it was repaired pretty quick - accounting for the fact that it was xmas (2 days-ish) and we are now all warm and toasty.

It actually makes us very grateful for the things that we take for granted or even complain about, makes us realise that there are far too many who go without-not because they want to but because there's no other choice for them.

So despite our temperamental boilers lets all raise our hands and give a word of shukr...Alhamdulillah...