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Diary - Tuesday 19 June 2007

19 June 2007

The slow-burning saga of Town's 2007-08 fixture changes inches infinitesimally forward again. Today, the official website informs us, the club is looking to rearrange some matches to avoid clashes not with low-key family entertainment events at nearby minor tourist attractions, but "with any England Euro qualifying games". A quick check on these matches reveals only two clashes: the visit to Accrington on Saturday 8 September, which coincides with the national team's narrow home win over Israel, and the home game against Rochdale on Saturday 13 October, the same day England struggle to overcome tenacious Estonia at Wembley. The two games against Lincoln, meanwhile, are to move forward by two hours, to one o'clock in the afternoon. This is because, while the average distance between GTFC and their opponents in the fourth division is 140 miles, Lincoln is only 40 miles away, which means people will want to have a fight with them, and they are less likely to do so at one o'clock in the afternoon than three o'clock in the afternoon. Do you ever get the sudden feeling that the workings of the entire world are a perfect mystery?

Well, there's no bloody news, so I might as well see if anyone can help with the Diary plumbing. My central heating/hot water boiler turns itself off quite a bit. Sometimes this is just the pilot light: the red warning light comes on and you relight the pilot and the red light goes off, and everything's fine. But sometimes the red warning light flashes and nothing will work - even turning the whole system off and back on again. I noticed that the pressure was a bit low - it was down to 1, whatever the unit is - pounds per square foot? So I let some more water into it, or whatever it does that puts the pressure back up, and it worked OK for a week. But now the pressure is 2 and there's hardly anything coming out of the hot tap and it's not even hot because the red warning light's flashing. I'm really skint so I don't wanna call out a plumber in case it's anything dead simple. Can anyone help? Email diary@codalmighty.com and share your plumbskillz!