Thanks, it's back on now, the worst thing was not to be able to take a
shower or bath, by the time I'd filled up the bath from an electric
kettle it would have got cold again, plus there's no heating in the
bathroom and it's freezing at the best of times, til we get the
radiator fixed.  I don't actually possess any blankets, I'm a duvet
girl.  They gave us one tiny fan heater for the whole house but it
wasn't really worth bothering with, plus they cost a fortune to run.
We got take out food for the 2 nights.  I've spokent to one of the
lawyers at work who says that under their charter I should get (a
little) compensation for them leaving me with no gas for over 24 hours,
you don't realise how dependant you are until you don't have it,
especially in January.  I was soooo angry because I lost out on
overtime and DH lost a day's pay as they insisted they had to come in
the house to "purge the system" at around 4pm, which they didn't then
they buggered off and left us overnight with no gas.  When they did
come in the house, all they had to do was re-start the boiler, which I
know how to do anyway.  The whole exercise has been so badly managed
from start to finish, I wouldn't care, but it's not even something I
requested, they're laying new mains throughout the street, "forgot" to
even send out the letters telling us they were doing it.  I ended up
getting up too early this morning (Saturday) as they're still banging
away out there, next door now.  G-d I could so do with a full nights
sleep, what with my dad in hospital next week, overtime that I couldn't
get out of doing, and this, I feel like I'm going to flop if I don't
catch up on some shut eye.

Marcia