There was such a hard frost last night that the frost-stat on the ch boiler
came on for a short time. There was thick ice on all the open water in the
garden and all roofs were white.

But it's been sunny today (although cold) and I did three machine loads of
washing and we still have a cylinder full of water at just short of 60C.

Scoffers can scoff away but we're very happy -it's just a foretaste of
what's to come :-)

Mary