Week one without hot water....

My group of friends has split into two groups: the haves and the have-nots (hot water). The have-nots are split again into the subgroups of haves and have-nots (boilers). The have-nots who have boilers are the most self satisfied of the whole group while the the have-nots who have not share battle stories about hilarious scrapes with transporting boiling water from kitchen to bathroom, wearing copious amounts of perfume and always wearing their hair tied up. (for some reason all of my guy friends here have access to a boiler for when their hot water gets turned off so their little selves don't get too cold, it's a Russian conspiracy I tells ya!) Home in two days for a proper shower...yay!

Other things are actually happening in my life apart from the inadequate plumbing. Summer arrived very suddenly yesterday, it had been cold and rainy all week and then yesterday the temperature got up to 30 degrees and it was beeyootiful. We had amazing thunderstorms all last night as well. Went to a jazz festival with a minigarch (not quite an oligarch but well on his way) yesterday too, found out where all the Russians with fashion sense were hiding...