Good thoughts needed

My Mum is in hospital with a broken ankle after slipping on ice outside her hairdressers. She's a couple of weeks short of 82 so this is definitely not a good thing. Any healing thoughts directed towards Kingston will be gratefully received.

In other news, our boiler has broken down and murphys_lawyer has just gone into town to pick up what seems to be about the last heater in Argos.

Mum

Spoke to Mum this evening, she's sounding tired and fed up but not too bad apart from that. She says they've tried setting the ankle but it's not worked so they will probably operate to fix it tomorrow. She's really sorry that her trip to see us for Christmas has had to be put off but as she said "there's always next year" and with the trains the way they are we may have had to say that anyway.

Thanks for all the good thoughts people both from us and from Mum. It always helps to know that someone is thinking of you.

As for the boiler, 2 hours on hold to British Gas followed by 20 minutes work with a kettle and a hairdryer on the condensation pipe outlet got it going again. It's now had lagging put on inside and out and the oil filled radiator we bought to keep us from freezing in the meantime is going in the cellar on frost-guard setting.