heat! gas! rain!

from which you'll gather that our new boiler is in and running, the minor (exceedingly minor) gas leak has been found and fixed - but that it rained all day- heavily, horribly, ponds everywhere and roads into rivers type of rain. kept the horses in to give the field a break, they'll have to go out tomorrow irrespective as, inter alia, Charlie's back legs don't like the standing in. so just as well the skys were clearing and you could even see some blue sky just before it got dark...