Get it while its hot...

... water that is.
Plumbers have come and gone, one of the logo'ed emergency kind and two of the regular suck-in-air-through-the-teeth kind.
The long and short of it is that we need a new hot water tank.
Of course nothing is simple and our rural idyll comes complete with olde worlde plumbing so we can't expect a tank off-the-shelf.
The good news is that it won't be much more expensive than a regular modern one, the bad news is that it'll take 10-14 working days to get here.
What's worse is that we can't use the RayBurn (no sadly its not a fancy new one like those ones it's well past its sell-by date) while we're waiting for it either, so two weeks of cold kitchen and cold water.
Ho Hum.