Heating.

You know what I don't get? Our landlords used to live here, and they decided to cut off all the gas pipes (for heating) because they "didn't need them". Get this. This house is on a hill exposed to the wind, has large bay windows and skylights and no insulation. No seals on the windows, no pink batts. The wind sometimes whistles through the gaps under the windows.
It's colder inside than it is outside.
Incidentally, these people have three small children, including a baby.

What were they thinking?

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There are two awful new sculptures at school.

I suspected as much when C-boi in assembly was talking about "inaugurating" the general landscaping". With what I pictured a tiny, fat man in a bowler hat with a walrus mustache gesturing dramatically towards a flowerbed surrounding a hideous fountain of a peeing gnome. (I remember now why I couldn't stop giggling.)

One of them is a totem pole covered in kiwiwana/maori stuff. I can alread see the graffiti drawing itself all over it. Their futile attempt to incorporate the supposed "national culture" pretty much serves to exacerbate (thanks riz) the slow death of maori culture as it gets swamped by the Western Joke.

The second one looks like lots of clear acrylic plates glued into a pile.