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To have my fire on in August.

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Mitmoo · 30/08/2011 17:44

Has "God" conspired with British Gas to keep the heating bills as high as possible?

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Alibabaandthe80nappies · 30/08/2011 23:17

I put the heating on today Blush

We have still got the summer duvet on - need not have bothered!! Really need to swap it over tomorrow, it is feeling really chilly at 5am when DS2 wakes up for a feed!

JajasWolef · 31/08/2011 10:24

I posted on here yesterday and I have yet another layer on today! It is so depressing and yes I wholeheartedly agree with the poster who said who cares which month it says on the calendar, if it is cold it is cold!

Coldest summer since 1993 - it's official so there.

wannabesybil · 31/08/2011 10:40

For me it isn't the cold so much - it is so clammy here in Yorkshire. I have put the heating or fire on for half hour bursts, just to try and get the edge off. I feel the cold, as does my 80yr old father who lives with us, but my son and OH seem indifferent.

I'm digging out the woolies etc as it just feels so cold! But I am definitely rationing the heating, I think the bills are going to be horrific later on.

CurlyhairedAssassin · 31/08/2011 10:42

I'm layered up today (northwest) as I refuse to put the heating on yet even though it's only 18 degrees in kids' bedroom. (coldest room in house). The problem occurs when you go to someone's house who dresses in t-shirts, shorts and flip-flops all year round in their house so have the heating on to compensate. They look at you like you're a freak for dressing for the weather outside, and you end up sweating cobs in your jumpers.

It is depressing though, just to actually SEE some sunshine would be nice, and feel it warm my body. Haven't had any for weeks, it's been overcast just about every day here and any breeze is distinctly cool. I don't know what's going on. Seems to be a trend the past few summers here. Have given up growing tomatoes on our south facing patio now, a few years ago they grew brilliantly. We don't even need to cut the grass very often as it just doesn't grow. A few years ago it had to be done every week during the summer. Its once a month now...

Is this how the dinosaurs died out?!

CurlyhairedAssassin · 31/08/2011 10:44

AND I've hardly seen any bees or wasps, no wonder the poor buggers are decreasing in numbers.....

The new ice age is coming, I tells ya!

wannabesybil · 31/08/2011 10:46

I remember one cold winter, possibly 1993, and my fil was in hospital. I was the one who did most evening visits as I worked right next to the hospital in a warm office. So I would finish work wearing a skirt and top, then I would add a thicker top and a sweater, followed by a heavy coat, change my shoes for boots and add a scarf and hat. I would stagger out into the frost and then I would do the reverse, off came all the layers as the hospital was so over heated (for us healthy ones!). Then at chucking out time on would go all the layers again.

Today is a 'sorting out clothes and getting out woolies' day, definitely.

wannabesybil · 31/08/2011 10:47

Bees - we have had a regular bees nest for the last few years - in our chimney. The heat coming up from our gas fire has probably helped. They are going fine at the moment and swarmed earlier on this year.

CurlyhairedAssassin · 31/08/2011 11:39

Where in the country are you, wannabesybil?

Re: the temp of invalids' rooms, we visited an old nationalntrust house recently and I noticed an old room thermometer in one of the rooms. It had different things written along the gauge and I was surprised to see that the recommended temp for a sick person's room was only 18 degrees. Maybe we are all just a bunch of overheated wusses these days.

virgiltracey · 31/08/2011 11:50

Its freezing here (midlands) In fact its colder in the house than outside (more so it seems since we had cavity wall insulation installed in the summer). I am in full winter preparation mode and have put up the heavier curtains, taken out the winter quilts to be aired, bought fleeces to interline the curtains in the DC's rooms and have started making heated wheat packs and a new draft excluder! This is partly because of the weather but also partly because today is my last day off until end October Sad

wannabesybil · 31/08/2011 11:52

CurlyhairedAssassin - I am in West Yorkshire, so a bit cooler usually than the northwest (I used to live in Lancaster and before that Cheshire) but drier.

We actually have a warm house, south facing, double glazing, terraced, sheltered by slopes and trees, the wind directed by the geography so that it practically never hits the house... And it is still feeling like autumn.

Last year we had a holiday in North Yorkshire at the end of November. We had to come home a day early before the snow really settled in. This year we have a holiday booked at the end of October in the same place (but more expensive because we now need term time). If we have to leave early again because of snow I am going to cry!

The room thermometers are saying @20 degrees here, but there just feels a damp in the air. I have had the heating on for half an hour (no more!) and it has helped, and we all have sweaters on.

May I recommend the cosypod throws. They are superb at keeping the warm in. I wouldn't trade mine at all! They are all sort of technical but reflect huge percentage of the body heat back to the person under it - or in DS's case, on it. I use his as an underblanket for him. cosypod

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