We switched our central heating on yesterday.
It’s one of those inevitable things you have to do as summer changes into winter, the next step after closing most of the windows and putting on a jumper, but I still don’t like it. I prefer the house to be cool and airy, rather than cosy and stuffy, but there’s such a thing as too cold, so I have to put up with the stuffy nose I always get when the heating’s on.
Still, at least we’ve been able to hold out longer this year… I’m sure we switched it on sometime in late October last year. This autumn has been late and slow in coming, and despite the predictions of impressive leaf displays to rival even New England, it all seems a bit half-hearted even now. I’ve taken the camera out on two occasions just recently, but have only managed to take pictures that were predominantly… GREEN!