After resisting for a couple of days the house has now cooled to winter
temperatures. With it being 11.8C outside, dark and much colder than
December I have allowed the radiator to come on in the living room to
get it up to a more comfortable 19C.
........ cue Will ;-)

Dave

On Wed, 1 Jun 2016 12:51:53 +0100, Dave Cornwell
wrote:

After resisting for a couple of days the house has now cooled to winter
temperatures. With it being 11.8C outside, dark and much colder than
December I have allowed the radiator to come on in the living room to
get it up to a more comfortable 19C.
....... cue Will ;-)

Dave

Our house is currently 1.5 deg colder than we keep it in winter but I'm b******d
if I'm putting the heating on. The outside temperature reached the dizzy heights
of 11.6C an hour ago but it's dropped back to 10.8C now. Our lowest June 09-09z
max is 10.2C which occurred in 2009 and again in 2012 so today is nowhere near
challenging that. Nevertheless, it's a far cry from 'flaming June'.

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
http://peakdistrictweather.org

On Wednesday, June 1, 2016 at 1:28:52 PM UTC+1, Norman Lynagh wrote:
On Wed, 1 Jun 2016 12:51:53 +0100, Dave Cornwell
wrote:

After resisting for a couple of days the house has now cooled to winter
temperatures. With it being 11.8C outside, dark and much colder than
December I have allowed the radiator to come on in the living room to
get it up to a more comfortable 19C.
....... cue Will ;-)

Dave

Our house is currently 1.5 deg colder than we keep it in winter but I'm b******d
if I'm putting the heating on. The outside temperature reached the dizzy heights
of 11.6C an hour ago but it's dropped back to 10.8C now. Our lowest June 09-09z
max is 10.2C which occurred in 2009 and again in 2012 so today is nowhere near
challenging that. Nevertheless, it's a far cry from 'flaming June'.

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
http://peakdistrictweather.org

Our CH timer has a button to switch it on for 1 hr, something I have used occasionally during the last few days :-(

Alastair,
East Dorset.

"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message
...
After resisting for a couple of days the house has now cooled to winter
temperatures. With it being 11.8C outside, dark and much colder than
December I have allowed the radiator to come on in the living room to get
it up to a more comfortable 19C.
....... cue Will ;-)


Inside temperature 16.6C with no heating. Plenty warm enough in a tee-shirt.
19C would be hot for me, it only gets over 20C with a log fire on.
Outside 15.2C, so quite warm. I really hate going into warm houses they
always feel so stuffy.

Will
--
" Some sects believe that the world was created 5000 years ago. Another sect
believes that it was created in 1910 "
http://www.lyneside.demon.co.uk/Hayt...antage_Pro.htm
Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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On Wed, 1 Jun 2016 15:38:45 +0100
"Eskimo Will" wrote:

"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message
...
After resisting for a couple of days the house has now cooled to
winter temperatures. With it being 11.8C outside, dark and much
colder than December I have allowed the radiator to come on in the
living room to get it up to a more comfortable 19C.
....... cue Will ;-)


Inside temperature 16.6C with no heating. Plenty warm enough in a
tee-shirt. 19C would be hot for me, it only gets over 20C with a log
fire on. Outside 15.2C, so quite warm. I really hate going into warm
houses they always feel so stuffy.


Yes, Will, we all know you're weird but I reckon 21C is what is regarded
as a comfortable temperature for normal people. Perhaps you'd be happier
with the conditions as described by Thoreau in his journal on February 7
1855:

"The coldest night for a long, long time. Sheets froze stiff about the
face. . . . People dreaded to go to bed. . . . The latches are white
with frost, and every nail-head in entries, etc., has a white head."
"My pail of water was frozen in the morning so that I could not break
it. . . . Bread, meat, milk, cheese, etc., all frozen."

And in January the following year:
"You lie with your feet or legs curled up, waiting for the morning, the
sheets shining with frost about your mouth. Water left by the stove is
frozen thick, and what you sprinkle in bathing falls on the floor, ice.
The house plants are all frozen, and soon droop and turn black."

Next winter:
"Ink froze; had to break the ice in my pail with a hammer."


Happy days.

--
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks. [Retd meteorologist/programmer]
http://www.scarlet-jade.com/
I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.
Posted with Claws: http://www.claws-mail.org/

On 01/06/2016 14:13, Alastair wrote:
Our CH timer has a button to switch it on for 1 hr, something I have used occasionally during the last few days :-(
Alastair,
East Dorset.

Blimey, you're not that far away and yet you've suffered over there.

The Davis VP2 is currently showing a temperature of 24.2C inside (one of
the rear upstairs rooms), this is pretty representative of the whole
house. Shorts and vest temperature.

Heating hasn't come on since April but I do live in a well insulated
reasonably modern house.

Only a maximum of 18.3C today. Coldest day since the 25th May.

--
Nick Gardner
Otter Valley, Devon
20 m amsl
http://www.ottervalleyweather.me.uk

"Nick Gardner" wrote in message
...
On 01/06/2016 14:13, Alastair wrote:
Our CH timer has a button to switch it on for 1 hr, something I have used
occasionally during the last few days :-(
Alastair,
East Dorset.

Blimey, you're not that far away and yet you've suffered over there.

The Davis VP2 is currently showing a temperature of 24.2C inside (one of
the rear upstairs rooms), this is pretty representative of the whole
house. Shorts and vest temperature.


Vile. I@d be permanently sweating in those temperatures. How on earth do you
sleep at night?
Not had my heating on last month either with windows wide open to let in the
lovely fresh country air directly!

Will
--
" Some sects believe that the world was created 5000 years ago. Another sect
believes that it was created in 1910 "
http://www.lyneside.demon.co.uk/Hayt...antage_Pro.htm
Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
---------------------------------------------

On Thursday, 2 June 2016 07:35:19 UTC+1, wrote:
"Nick Gardner" wrote in message
...
On 01/06/2016 14:13, Alastair wrote:
Our CH timer has a button to switch it on for 1 hr, something I have used
occasionally during the last few days :-(
Alastair,
East Dorset.

Blimey, you're not that far away and yet you've suffered over there.

The Davis VP2 is currently showing a temperature of 24.2C inside (one of
the rear upstairs rooms), this is pretty representative of the whole
house. Shorts and vest temperature.


Vile. I@d be permanently sweating in those temperatures. How on earth do you
sleep at night?
Not had my heating on last month either with windows wide open to let in the
lovely fresh country air directly!

Will
--
" Some sects believe that the world was created 5000 years ago. Another sect
believes that it was created in 1910 "
http://www.lyneside.demon.co.uk/Hayt...antage_Pro.htm
Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
---------------------------------------------

We're all different. I can sleep in any temperature my bedroom has ever reached (about 29°). Cold is far worse. We gentlemen of a certain age need to "get up in the night" once or twice and I see no virtue in throwing back the bedclothes and exposing myself (sic) to the inside of a fridge.. A reasonable temperature (say 18°) also makes getting out of bed in the morning that much easier. My bedroom is my living room anyway for much of the time.
I have no problem with cold outside and probably wrap up less than most people of my age. Outside is outside but inside is the comfort zone.

Tudor Hughes