I am very used to my husband ‘sounding a note of caution’ on some of my wildest ideas, and either starting a gentle attrition action to get my way or, quietly abandonning the notion which does not stand the test of time. So imagine, when faced with a troublesome lack of a feature in our sitting room, my husband acquiesces straightaway. I don’t know how to make a quick purchase which seems reckless and lacking the usual scrutiny and I was having doubts right from the start.
The gas fire in the photo above has now gone – disconnected with the rest of the gas in the house and leaving a hole that Rob temporarily patched up with cardboard and packing tape. The economic option was to put another white pannelled far-infrared heater but that was not going to cut it as the focal point of the room. I really did not want to purchase something that was trying to kid you that it was a real fire. So I was proposing what was, in effect, a screen playing flames behind a backdrop of real pebbles. With no TV it was quite exciting to have a remote again and you can select 9 different flame effects. Even now it has arrived, I can’t decide if it was £99 well-spent or a hideous bit of tat. I don’t think I will use most of the flame effects though the totally red one my friend Jane thinks is romantic – might try it sometime! It also has a flashing day of the week and a digital temperature in red – so, so annoying but the instructions, translated from perhaps the original Mandarin, do not suggest that we can get rid of them.
The good thing is, that in this house, just about anything we do looks better than it did before – and we might even turn on the heat occasionally!
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