2020/21 - What's made you happy today?

That's fairly serious, being without heating for 5 weeks, Mark, that must have been dreadful.

It wasn't too bad. We had a room heater in the living room and a continental quilt each.

The problem was caused by mice. We have an old outbuilding next to the house where we had a heatpump installed in 2012. A mouse must have got inside and bit through a couple of the sensor wires which put it out of action. Replacements had to come from Sweden. I've spent a bit of time since making the building rodent proof (hopefully).

It made me realise how economical heatpumps can be. We used about the same amount of electricity barely heating the living room as it takes to comfortably heat 3 rooms and the hot water with a heatpump.