A winter of discontent

How can we continue to heat every home in the country?

It got cold, suddenly. You’ll have to forgive me for the lateness of this week’s edition of Urban Nature Diary, because some unfortunate timing means my flat is without heating or hot water for the foreseeable.

When we moved in a couple of years ago, one of the last things the previous owners did was install a new gas boiler. Clearly they went cheap, kno…