Re radiators: can you tape the switch in the on position with so much tape/so complicatedly that your dad will refrain from tinkering? Ie would the taping be a message he would get? It can get damn cold, and it sounds as if you're well into the 'orrible weather there. (I'm enjoying spring in NZ, which is ... cool. When not straight cold.)
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Date: 2010-10-22 05:31 am (UTC)