....and what else?...my mobile was to receive a call from a 'withheld' number, this morning...i then had a look, to find a message upon the ansaphone....8.52am a message from adrian Goodwin, apparently - from CHP...

...who was to tell me that lee from aaron services ltd, would be round today, at some point....to have another look at the boiler....well, that's no good, is it?...he didn't know what to do about it, the last time...what's the point in sending him round again?

....hmmm....my sixth sense is working overtime, here....it is halloween after all - and the ill will be up to their old tricks....and kidnapping would be the least of it etc etc...and so i rang up aaron services ltd to be given what they called their chelmsford number - although it is a southend upon sea number (I've dialled it before):

01702 415 890

i rang the above number...to have a chat with an operative - who was to tell me that he couldn't tell me the name of the plumber who would call - nor the time of day....i therefore explained that the boiler hadn't actually broken down and that it was simply a fault with the living room radiator and not an actual 'emergency'...the operative then rebooked my appointment for the morning of Tuesday the 6th of october (next week)....and hopefully it won't be scarlett's lee...it will be somebody who can actually identify the real problem and repair it.

i asked if i could have confirmation of the above and was told that i would be notified the day before i.e. i would receive a text or email upon monday the 5th of October....(although my sixth sense was to pick up on something connected - in relation to the 10th of October)...go figure.

anyway, it being halloween and all that...if anybody rings my intercom today... i will not be answering it - just to be upon the safe side, you understand....honestly, the lengths i have to go, to keep safe.