Up and down

Ullet Road is so quiet,  the buses going up and down are almost empty, there are a lot less police cars and ambulances rushing up and down.


I fell asleep last night over my hot chocolate , and was rudely awakened by four neighbours looking over me; as I had not gone to bed my door was unlocked and they were able to come in.

My boiler was making a terrifying noise, like it might explode, they all heard it from their apartments upstairs and across the landing.

I managed to stop the noise eventually, by frantically pressing everything in sight. I really thought it might explode.

I rang the person who fitted it less that a year ago, but he did not answer last night, and this morning his phone just rang out, I had no heat or hot water,yet I felt remarkably calm as I realised I have more than many folk on the planet

Finally my engineer text to say , he was self isolating as he has a very sick child, so what to do in the time of Covid ?

My brother in law talked me through a few steps from Glasgow... sadly  to no avail.
I then rang safe gas, and a very good man .listened carefully, got me to do a few more tests and hey presto I had hot water; thanks to what I had done with H, and he has assured me my boiler will never blow up, and my radiators need bled. My neighbour tried to help with that , two wonderful young woman with huge responsibilities at work , but we did not have the correct tools, which we have now ordered for communal use. I have good neighbours, hot water and heating coming soon, very grateful.

Another wonderful your friend dropped off some shopping through my window and we had a brief chat I am so grateful.


I did my first telephone counselling session, for a long time, and it was good, felt really OK.

I also had a sing along with our singing teacher Su, on facebook,she  is a total star , it was great fun.

I feel filled with gratitude tonight , the virus is very serious, and we are scared, yet we are all holding the fear and not letting it paralyse us.

Blessing on all our hearts !