On 12/03/13 19:17, Col wrote:
Graham P Davis wrote:
On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:57:16 +0000
John wrote:

In ,
Adam writes:
I also don't know how he manages to have an east facing
bedroom window open in these conditions and still manages to
sleep comfortably. It must get well down into single figures in his
bedroom. I would suspect this would put him close to a nationwide
record in terms of cold tolerance :-).

He would have been well suited to the 19th and earlier centuries,
when poorer standards of heating and insulation meant that in severe
winters bedrooms would get so cold that the contents of chamber pots
would occasionally freeze. I suppose a lot depends on how warm your
bedclothes and pyjamas are.

No need to go that far back. I had snow lying on the window-ledge in
my bedroom for three days in '61-2 winter and temperature in that room
dropped to -10C the following winter. Our house only had a single room
heated and that only during the day; that was typical for those times.
Mind you, we were luckier than many in having an indoor toilet so
frozen chamberpots was not a problem, though frozen water pipes
occurred most winters when I was a child. Central heating was only
installed in '75.

This is all going a bit 'Four Yorkshiremen' isn't it?

-10C? You were lucky, we had to sleep outside in a snowdrift......

It is worth pointing out that there is a world of difference between
having to deal with those conditions with no choice, and dealing with
those conditions voluntarily. That is why I think Will is likely
exceptional in voluntarily sleeping in single digit temperatures (yes I
KNOW some people go camping in winter, it should be obvious that is not
the same thing).