We had another glorious start to the day. Diane went to Zoe's to escort them on the school run and I stayed home ready for Ross, the heating engineer, to arrive. I used the time to refine the shopping list for today's exciting excursion to Sainsbury's.
Ross arrived soon after 09:00 and set straight to work. Today's focus was pipework in the garage (where the boiler is situated) and then into the utility room. We left him a key and the garage door remote controller before heading off to the shops. Sainsbury's seemed very quiet but it occurred to me that shopping there was either good training for a SAGA excursion, or a SAGA excursion was good training for Sainsbury's.
We arrived home to find Ross had gone. It was a good job that I had left him the keys. When he returned he explained that the builders had put a plastic pipe in the walls to feed to the garden tap. This could not be detected by his scanner. It could, however, be punctured by his drill - and was. The water was switched off and he had gone for a replacement joint. Oops.
We collected Ellie at 16:00, after the "Craft Club". She is staying with us overnight. As time wore on, it was clear that Ross would not finish today. Whilst this is no problem for us, he has the gas switched off, and we cook on gas. Ellie was getting hungry and wanted pasta with her burger. The burger could be cooked in the Air Fryer, but how was I going to cook pasta? It finally dawned on me that I could do it in the Instant Pot pressure cooker. I managed Ellie's dinner and, with a bit of lateral thinking, I managed to use the Air Fryer for the Manzo Piccante I had planned for our dinner. In fact, it worked quite well.
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