It is nice to have a week of peace and quiet, with no builders around.

But it will be nice to have them back, too. Then they can look at our water heater, which is not doing its job well any more. We used to think that perhaps it was too small: there wasn’t enough hot water for two showers back to back. Now it’s almost worthless. Something seems to have happened when our pipes froze, or perhaps it has just broken independently of the cold. In any case, I can now get barely one shower out of it – and that’s assuming I turn off the water while I’m shampooing and soaping, and don’t turn on the full flow. Even then the tail end of the shower is less than hot. Today I wanted to give Adrian a bath and ran out of hot water after filling the tub a quarter of the way up.

I actually managed to combine dinner and Adrian’s bedtime. Bean stew. I kept Adrian awake while I did all the steps that required actual human intervention at the stove, then left it on low heat while I put him to bed, counting on him falling asleep in less than half an hour. The stew was pretty much done when I came down. Perfect!

Optimistically offered my help to the developer behind One Hundred Pushups, because I think the site lacks some essential features. It remains to be seen whether I will actually find the time for it.