Well Oiled

For once the oil tank was low at the optimum time of year, allowing a big order at summer prices that should see us through to the new-year, and today the convoluted delivery arrangements worked like a well-oiled machine: clear the tiled hall of furniture, cover the carpeted area with old curtains (that probably cost more than the carpet), put in place the home-made buffers to protect the walls and doors as the oil pipe snakes through the house, clear a route in the garden and barn to get to the tanks, and afterwards do it all in reverse – such hassle being another reason why it makes sense to fill the tank and get us well-oiled for the winter.