to think sleeping with open windows in January is only Right And Proper?

[RevoltingPeasant]

Seriously, surely this is normal? DH just made his 'pained face' when I popped up to air the bedroom prior to retiring. Over Christmas I opened all the windows in my mum's and PILs' insanely overheated windows before going to sleep. I almost always have open windows to get fresh air whilst we sleep.

I don't know how anyone can sleep in a stuffy room with the windows shut all day and all night! DH keeps saying 'But it's December'. Apart from the fact that it's now January, isn't he BU??

I do think one tap is far more sensible.
You can still have hot or cold, or put them on together and have water at the correct temperature.

Yes, what's with the two taps! You end up with either very cold or very hot water. Why doesn't everyone want a tap that mixes both to the right temperature?

usualsuspect3 yes it's an odd british thing to have two taps. There's something called a mixer tap in other parts of the world.

i hate being cold so would nevernopen the windows in my bedroom while im asleep,my nan used to,is it an old people thing?

Like LadyBeagleEyes say if you want just cold or hot water you turn the tap to one or the other end. Simples.

Two taps mean you are washing your face and brushing your teeth with either freezing cold or boiling hot water. Why??

I see you've still got your bollocks, Usual.
I thought MN were going to remove them in the NY?

CoteDAzur, we will never know. It's like Mars or something. :)

lottiegarbanzo, I don't know about sleeping babies as Scandinavians put their babies outside to sleep in winter all the time (even on balconies in apartment buildings), but I think your idea about coal fires may have something to do with it. As far as I can think now, all northern European countries, except Britain, tended to use closed-type stoves for heating instead of open fires. The Dutch tiled stoves are famous and the Russian stove is a brilliant piece of heating engineering. These devices are much more energy-efficient and produce much less soot and smoke than open fires.

Is it only us brits that have the 2 tap system?

Yep.

Agree about the two tap thing, autumn.

And perhaps I should give apologies to dh... I thought he was telling porkers when he said everyone in his country sleeps with the windows closed.

In my defence, I cannot understand how someone who lived within spitting distance to the arctic circle can be so namby-pamby about a touch of cold air.

My neighbour does it. It may depend if one has central heating or not.
I am using royal terminology. So I will tell you the Queen sleeps with 4 corgis guarding her bedroom door

yep, two taps is very british.
as is having no electrical sockets in the bathroom.

Mousey, there must be electrical sockets for shaving and water pik thingies?

yes, but what about the hairdryer.
annoys me no end that I have to go to a different room to blow dry my hair.

sorry for highjack

Oh the socket thing drives me batshit. My bathroom doesn't even have a razor socket. My parents' bathroom back home has a number of ordinary (earthed, of course, we're not suicidal!) sockets and no one's dead yet.

Don't get me started on carpet in bathrooms.

Carpet in bathrooms? Is that british? I haven't seen anyone with a bathroom like that! Or maybe it's just the ensuite so I'm spared the horror .

And yes yes what's with the pull cord in bathroom. Seriously I have lived 30 years before coming to the UK and I've not heard a single person died because they've flicked the bathroom switch. (That's what the brits told me when I asked why the strange cord. You might get electrocuted).

And those country with bathroom switches aren't backwards third world either. Just saying.

Naok we don't have bathroom sockets either. We are charging the electrical toothbrushes in our bedroom. Very inconvenient.

I mean we don't have it in the UK. We have it when we were in Auckland, obviously.

What an interesting thread.

Have to sleep with a window open, even if it's only slightly ajar.

Always use a summer duvet and load up with blankets if necessary.

I also hate sleeping with the bedroom door closed,.......!