Games, puddings, and insulation

It will just be a short post today as I have been majorly distracted by GTA V, Spelunky (or The Wee Man Game as it is known in our house), a vat of rice pudding made by my boyfriend, and The Great British Bake Off. 

It was announced today that Comhairle nan Eilean Siar and Tighean Innse Gall have secured up to £3.5 million funding to deliver energy efficiency measures for private home in the Western Isles. The scheme will initially target homes with electric or solid fuel heating that require external wall insulation.

I was delighted to read this and we will be phoning our landlords tomorrow to beg them to sign up. Our current abode has no insulation, single glazed windows, draughty doors, and the radiators are heated by the back boiler, which is heated by the fire. We don’t even have radiators upstairs! And as anybody who has ever lived or worked with me will know, I am always cold, even when everyone else is warm. In this house everyone else feels the cold and I have to wear a dressing gown over my clothes and wrap myself in a blanket.

Hebridean Housing Partnership has been upgrading the houses they own so that they meet the Scottish Housing Quality Standard by 2015. At the end of last year the houses HHP owns on our street got air source heat pump systems, including new boilers and radiators (even upstairs), and this year they got cavity wall insulation for the external walls. They are nice and warm now. 

I have two hot water bottles though so I am sure I can cope.