In this small little village that I live in we have general lack of facilities; shops, buses, and most relevant of all, natural gas. So all our heating is from oil. The tanker arrived yesterday to fill up my tank, which is alarmingly low, only for the driver to tell me that he can't fill it because it's rusting underneath. "It may last 5 years, who knows" he says in a somewhat offhand manner, "but if it leaks I get blamed.". Gee, thanks for the support. So now I have to get the tank replaced quickly because I've got very little oil left. He won't even put a little in just to keep me going "minimum is 500 litres", and it's only a 1000 litre tank. I love customer service - it's taken them 5 days to get to me. If they'd come when I ordered it I'd have been able to organise a new tank before running out.

So, it looks like it's going to get cold here. And quite possibly smelly without any hot water.