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.

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.

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.

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
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I think the Red Rose trumps the White here. As for other
matters, well, none of my business.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

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.

"Eskimo Will" wrote in message
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"Col" wrote in message
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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

On Jan 16, 5:57*am, "Col" wrote:
"Eskimo Will" wrote in message

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"Col" wrote in message
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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

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.

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
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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

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