Oh, Come On, It's Unheard Of

 End of September and I had to put the wood burner on yesterday! Unheard of.

I have this continual argument with Hay about opening the French doors - if it's hotter outside than in, the doors shouldn't be opened, but she insists on opening them; "Because there's a breeze." Ignorance of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.

Similarly, if there's the merest hint of sunshine on the back patio, once again she'll fling the doors open, regardless of the fact it's 20 degrees inside and 13 degrees outside. "But it's warm," is her generic response - yes, maybe on her skin, but the air coming into the house is cold.

This is what happened on Saturday, resulting in us losing whatever heat had been conserved and necessitating me lighting the fire on Sunday afternoon.

Just a quick PS - the bloke who offered to take some of my koi came yesterday but couldn't catch a single one - they were too skittish. He additionally identified what I thought were koi as shibunkin - a relative of the goldfish and not the carp and hence poor man's koi. The give-away, apparently, is a lack of barbels around the mouths. I will have to get at least one genuine koi. As shibunkin and koi don't interbreed, there's no danger of a koi explosion.