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It&#8217;s 10 outside.<\/p>\n<p>Bloody miserable cold winter.<\/p>\n<p>I almost feel like getting in my car where the heater works and working from there (wireless signal should be strong enough).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year our heating breaks. Every darn year. Aparrently the way to get a reliable central heating system is to have one that&#8217;s 15 years old. Ours is a bit newer and part of the series of heaters (aparrently all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/11\/ministry-for-crap-design\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-life-the-universe-and-everything","category-work-et-al"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-6T","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":430,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/12\/heater-woes\/","url_meta":{"origin":427,"position":0},"title":"Heater woes&#8230;.","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2005-07-12","format":false,"excerpt":"Aparrently they're only meant to last 10 years. 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