Störung

If the plumber has managed to sort out the little problem of producing hot running water from our sophisticated German condensing boiler we might be in the Maison Camy tomorrow. The boiler has a very complicated control panel, lots of buttons symbols and lights and gauges. We’re told, in a rather chauvinistic manner by The Plumber, that its liquid crystal display screen will only speak German to us. Inferring that we would have been much wiser choosing a French boiler. Luckily it has a very limited vocabulary. For the last three weeks it’s been flashing the word Störung at us. No need for The Architect to go back to the Institut Goethe, a phone call confirms the obvious, the boiler is out of order.