Last winter the oil for the oil heating system had lasted right through the winter until almost the end of autumn. The oil was refilled in July. When we got back in December from India, I found that the oil had been consumed and the tank was already empty. So we got it refilled in December, hoping that we be able to get the next refill in the middle of summer.
Yesterday, I went to check the oil storage level and found that we were almost down to zero, so we have to call in the tanker by next week. The oil price has hit a high, so I am holding off till the lastmoment hoping I see some small respite.
Annikki, in preparation, has cleared the path from the gate to where the tank is filled, as the amount of snow was so much that the tanker guy would have had to wade through waist deep snow to get to the pipe.
I have turned down the heating considerably, but the weather is still cold as the hard winter continues - so much so that I was looking for my fur cap yesterday, one I have used for almost 20 years. I could never have imagined that i would use a fur cap as late as mid March!
My guess is that the Arctic Circle has moved down 200 km because of "global warming". May be they will shift the Santa Village here, and save a lot of tourists going to the middle of nowhere.
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| From Jacob's Blog |
After all, the real Santa lives here! :-)
1 comment:
Hello Jacob.
Just following up on our brief breakfast meeting in Cochin.
I had a fantastic trip. It was really nice travelling around and sampling Malayalee cuisine. By the time I got home I had gained 10kg. No worries, they are gone now...but I miss the food terribly. Curries here just don't taste as good! Looking forward to going back soon again.
I think you may want to consider changing your mode of heating. Oil is in my opinion way too expensive. I switched from oilburning to a heatpump in 2003 and have never looked back since. I have reduced heating costs by two thirds. However I did at the same time change windows and added more insulation. There are several very good heat pumps / exchangers on the market nowdays.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pump
http://www.euronom.se/101_Home
http://www.nibe.eu/
http://en.ivt.se/
Cheers
Philip
Lund, Sweden
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