Even during the great freeze of Dec 2010? You must be made of tough stuff.
Bolier packed in 2 years ago we’ve never replaced it, we use the immersion heater for the water. We have a log burner and use that it keeps the house warm enough. I think people rely too much on CH now, not that’s a bad thing, but I grew up in a house that just had a coal fire that only heated the one room.
Aaah, so you do have at least some sort of heat source in your house then.
I remember that picture you posted of the snowfall with the ruler in it back in Nov or Dec 2010 and I think I know roughly what part of the country you live in and it wasn’t the warmest, or should I say least cold, during that time.
I grew up in Plymouth and then a little place down in Cornwall and we did not have central heating (in Plymouth we had some of those rubbish 70s storage heaters), but luckily the winters were never that bad down there.