new radiator arrived

Work was fairly hectic today, and will probably stay that way for a while. However, my radiator has arrived! (Albeit rather late: the delivery time was supposed to be between 5 - 8pm, it turned up at 8.40pm, and I suppose I should be grateful I'd only just finished chopping up the vegetables and hadn't started the stirfry at that point.)

I haven't done more than take it out of the box and put the castors on yet, as it needs to be run for 2 hours at maximum in a room with the windows open in order to work off the "new radiator" smell, and I didn't feel like doing that tonight. Tomorrow after work, perhaps.

It does look compact and efficient. Whee!

(Of course, it's now mild enough that I don't need it for the moment, but how should I have expected it to be anything else?)

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Bavarian Gentians

Not every man has gentians in his house
in soft September, at slow, sad Michaelmas.

Bavarian gentians, big and dark, only dark
darkening the daytime, torch-like, with the smoking blueness of Pluto's gloom,
ribbed and torch-like, with their blaze of darkness spread blue
down flattening into points, flattened under the sweep of white day
torch-flower of the blue-smoking darkness, Pluto's dark-blue daze,
black lamps from the halls of Dis, burning dark blue,
giving off darkness, blue darkness, as Demeter's pale lamps give off light,
lead me then, lead the way.

Reach me a gentian, give me a torch!
let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of this flower
down the darker and darker stairs, where blue is darkened on blueness
even where Persephone goes, just now, from the frosted September
to the sightless realm where darkness is awake upon the dark
and Persephone herself is but a voice
or a darkness invisible enfolded in the deeper dark
of the arms Plutonic, and pierced with the passion of dense gloom,
among the splendor of torches of darkness, shedding darkness on
the lost bride and her groom.

-- D. H. Lawrence