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On 15/01/12 19:17, Eskimo Will wrote:
Col, it's not about a competition it's about comfort. I and my wife are perfectly comfortable with a bedroom below 10C at night and the fresh air we need too. How do you keep your head warm? I find that for me this is the limiting factor for me in how cool the bedroom can go before it starts to become uncomfortable. There was one year when my boiler broke down whilst I was away for Christmas and when I got back the temperature in the house was 9C. As it was New Years day I couldn't get anyone out to repair the boiler so had to sleep in that air temperature. I managed it but needed an extra layer, socks and a fleece hat, which was not ideal as a fleece hat is an awkward thing to wear when sleeping. |
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On 15/01/12 20:50, David Allan wrote:
The Met Office weather warnings, such as they, serve to remind us of just how soft we have become. We didn't have people telling us to wrap up warm in years gone by, no one to advise on filling a hot-water bottle, or how it might be a good idea to put an extra overcoat on the bed. You have to wonder just how we all coped! Yes I wonder as well, given that these are the same people that seem to be the first to succumb whenever it does get cold. It is terrible sometimes in the bridge club, some of them wail in protest if you dare open the window for a few minutes, and that is in the summer as well. |
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On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:25:21 +0000, John Hall wrote:
I'm sure I can remember chipping the ice off the inside of the bedroom window when I was a kid. Sucking proper pennies and pressing them against the frost to make a spy hole through it. You don't get nice Jack Frost patterns on the windows if it's +18oC inside. I did and I'm glad I don't have to now! I miss the beautiful frost flowers on the inside of the window, Me to, has some lovely ones on the car windscreen the other morning brought back childhood memories. but I'm not prepared to have a frigid bedroom so that I can experience them again. The double glazing puts paid to them anyway. Though with two sets of curtains, one set near the window the other set about 15" away over the reveal condenstation is present. -- Cheers Dave. Nr Garrigill, Cumbria. 421m ASL. |
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On Jan 15, 6:36*pm, "Col" wrote:
There is more than just a little but of 'The Four Yorkshiremen' about all this, people vying with one another to see who is the toughest. I sleeep with my window open all winter and the snow builds up on my windowsill! Window? You're lucky, I just have a hole in the wall and I use a snowdrift as a pillow! Seriously though, you never get anybody coming on here in early September saying they had to knock the heating on for a couple of hours because it was a bit parky when they got up, no it's all a macho competition as to who can survive the longest without central heating..... -- Col Bolton, Lancashire 160m asl- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I think the Red Rose trumps the White here. As for other matters, well, none of my business. Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey. |
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On Jan 15, 8:18*pm, Richard Dixon wrote:
"Tony Kenyon" wrote : I guess what really annoys me is that we are paying for all this ludicrous crap at a time when living standards are dropping back to the levels last seen when we had, occasionally, genuinely severe winters. This is where the warnings service goes unfortunately into Nanny State mode. I file it alongside the "Surfaces may be slippery" on stations (especially those on the southeastern network) after frost/rain. Richard In the pedestrian subway at Oxted it says "Caution - steps" - at the bottom! But nowhere do I see "Do not urinate on the third rail" and I think this negligent omission should be rectified, like the voltage. Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey. |
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![]() "Eskimo Will" wrote in message ... "Col" wrote in message ... Seriously though, you never get anybody coming on here in early September saying they had to knock the heating on for a couple of hours because it was a bit parky when they got up, no it's all a macho competition as to who can survive the longest without central heating..... Col, it's not about a competition it's about comfort. I and my wife are perfectly comfortable with a bedroom below 10C at night and the fresh air we need too. I guess we talk about cooling rather than warming because we live in a warm centrally heated country by and large, where you get blasted with hot air in the chain stores in winter, the workplace is kept at 21-23C minimum to meet somebody else's idea of comfort, hotels are dreadfully hot normally. If one is too cold you can always put on another layer, what if you are too warm - go naked? I know it's not really a competition, it just seems that way as when one person mentions how cold they like to keep their house, several others come into the conversation, seemingly attempting to out-do one another with tales of hardship and austerity ![]() 21-23C at work? Chance would be a fine thing. That's not due to somebody's else's idea of comfort, it's due tothe antiquated heating system. It regulary reaches 25C (or even higher).We have fans going and windows open, even in winter. Burning fossil fuels to heat the place up, then burning more to cool it down agaim. Madness. -- Col Bolton, Lancashire 160m asl |
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On Jan 16, 5:57*am, "Col" wrote:
"Eskimo Will" wrote in message ... "Col" wrote in message ... Seriously though, you never get anybody coming on here in early September saying they had to knock the heating on for a couple of hours because it was a bit parky when they got up, no it's all a macho competition as to who can survive the longest without central heating..... Col, it's not about a competition it's about comfort. I and my wife are perfectly comfortable with a bedroom below 10C at night and the fresh air we need too. I guess we talk about cooling rather than warming because we live in a warm centrally heated country by and large, where you get blasted with hot air in the chain stores in winter, the workplace is kept at 21-23C minimum to meet somebody else's idea of comfort, hotels are dreadfully hot normally. If one is too cold you can always put on another layer, what if you are too warm - go naked? I know it's not really a competition, it just seems that way as when one person mentions how cold they like to keep their house, several others come into the conversation, seemingly attempting to out-do one another with tales of hardship and austerity ![]() 21-23C at work? Chance would be a fine thing. That's not due to somebody's else's idea of comfort, it's due tothe antiquated heating system. It regulary reaches 25C (or even higher).We have fans going and windows open, even in winter. Burning fossil fuels to heat the place up, then burning more to cool it down agaim. Madness. -- Col Bolton, Lancashire 160m asl I like the "how cold is my workplace" occasional newsgroup competition! yesterday I worked all afternoon in my office, on the pc, and the best it got was 6 C Nae bother brian aberfeldy -6 C at 0800 |
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On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:48:25 -0800 (PST), olivia blair wrote:
I like the "how cold is my workplace" occasional newsgroup competition! Don't have a thermometer but fairly often at this time of year my workplace will be around freezing, as is the same for anybody else who works outside... B-) -- Cheers Dave. Nr Garrigill, Cumbria. 421m ASL. |
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Tudor Hughes wrote:
On Jan 15, 6:36 pm, "Col" wrote: There is more than just a little but of 'The Four Yorkshiremen' about all this, people vying with one another to see who is the toughest. I sleeep with my window open all winter and the snow builds up on my windowsill! Window? You're lucky, I just have a hole in the wall and I use a snowdrift as a pillow! Seriously though, you never get anybody coming on here in early September saying they had to knock the heating on for a couple of hours because it was a bit parky when they got up, no it's all a macho competition as to who can survive the longest without central heating..... -- Col Bolton, Lancashire 160m asl- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I think the Red Rose trumps the White here. As for other matters, well, none of my business. Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey. So where does the Tudor Rose stand in this? Roger |
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Adam Lea wrote:
It is terrible sometimes in the bridge club, some of them wail in protest if you dare open the window for a few minutes, and that is in the summer as well. Bridge clubs are another thing altogether. It is difficult even to satisfy some of the people some of the time. An impossible lot to deal with, even off the table. Roger |
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