To be fucking freezing

[antelopevalley]

I work full-time. I am at home trying to work and only putting the heating on for a few hours, but I am fucking freezing. It is bitter outside. So fed up of this already. Fucking Merry Christmas.

I'm on holiday in South of France. It is cold here too but my heart is sinking looking at the amount of money I'm spending at home - smart meter. I set all my thermostats to 15 c

Burtst of cardio are amazing for heat

www.towler-staines.co.uk/shop/mobile-heating/1832-lifestyle-heatforce-black-42kw-heater.html

We have a Calor gas heater as above. We use it to spot heat our study, which is a small room. It gets too hot quite quickly so we have it on a few times a day for half an hour.

I laugh at the Global Warming and Climate Change frenzy. I would have thought our winters would be mild and wet, not this, and it is the same every year.

That's why the term global warming isn't in use really anymore.
It's the two extremes. So for uk a proper summer and proper winter.

Haven't put heating on yet - managing with fluffy booties, thick socks, fleece jacket, 2 dressing gowns and in the evening another dressing gown over my legs and a hot water bottle. Thinking of buying USB heated mittens whilst I work at home as my hands get frozen. DH doesn't think it's too bad yet and would put the heating on if I asked but I'm facing the challenge and will hold out until essential. (We've been running a dehumidifer so can't afford to run that and the heating!).

No amount of layers can compensate for minus temperatures .

I'm warm but God knows what I look like.

I've got thermal base layer, long sleeve t-shirt, sweater and scarf. Tights, ankle length skirt, woolly socks just to wfh.

Now ds is back from school, I've lit the log burner in the sitting room. I'll stick the heating on for half an hour before we go to bed to take the chill off upstairs. That and a hot water bottle each, we'll be warm.

Honestly, I can't believe I'm doing the same as my parents did in the 70s. 🙄

We don't have heating on yet. It's so so cold. We have to be pretty stationary all day, people suggest sit stand desks or bike desks but I can't concentrate on my work if I'm cycling away under the desk!

Get a Snoodie from Primark. Mine has completely eliminated my freezing-ness!

I don’t care how hideous that blanket looks, I want one! I’ve been wearing my coat indoors and sitting under a duvet. Crap rented house that has heating that basically doesn’t heat. I left it on almost 8 hours continuously yesterday and it didn’t get above 14. So cold. I’m basically counting down the time until I can go to bed, but last night it was so cold my teeth were chattering in the bed.

Trollsintheforest · Today 18:09

@SinnerBoy Hammerfest would probably be lovely in July though!

It often is, clear sky, not much wind and warm. I was working there 4 weeks on, 4 weeks off, one year, from late March until December. The midnight sun was amazing. I got some really good photos of the Northern lights, too.

There was one day, June or July, when we had to go into port for a few days, because of bad weather (we do seabed surveys). It was about -5° and snowing, I rang my wife as I shivered 3km into town and told her it was snowing.

"Don't be stupid!" she said, "I'm at my sister's, it's 27° and we're having a barbecue!"

"Well, I'm well up in the Artic here..."

I went in my sons flat today and it was boiling
hot .

he’s got underfloor heating that is run off the hot water so very cheap to run I think it’s about a £20 -£30 a month extra a month on his water bill when he has it on

if it didn’t mean ripping up all my lovely new flooring in my house I would have installed tomorrow 😂

Wow, outside sat still for 12 hours typing and answering calls, or other fine motorskills without moving your body, and you stay warm.

Oh no wait, you mean you work outside doing something physical that means your body heats itself up...

Lots of us don't do that. Some of us because we can't.

My house was 13degrees at midday, which is when i caved and put it on for 2hrs.
Its on in the evening as i wont have my 2yr old freezing, but when its just me WFH i try to not have it on.

That's what I was going to say. Active housework or music on and dance every hour helped keep me warm today. Plus all the other things mentioned.

Got myself a long hot water bottle. Put it at the base of my back. Blanket over my knees. Toasty.

As someone who grew up with winters, yes they do (for a while)
But you can't just be still as well. Movement is also needed.

PP's idea if working in local library would be great (not for me for confidentiality reasons) if there were any! There is one for our city and all outlying villages - it costs a fortune to park anywhere near it.

"Wow, outside sat still for 12 hours typing and answering calls, or other fine motorskills without moving your body, and you stay warm.

Oh no wait, you mean you work outside doing something physical that means your body heats itself up...

Lots of us don't do that. Some of us because we can't."*
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Actually no, I'm standing still for 80% of the time. Everyone is different and people's tolerance of cold varies. But it is possible to acclimatise and just get used to it to a degree.

Doing same. Merry fucking Christmas to you too @antelopevalley 😂it's shit. Today was bitter, first time I've walked outside and felt like it hurt to breathe in the cold air.

That advertisement for the wearable blanket from Amazon is really annoying.

Surely, if your house was so cold you have to wear something that hideous to keep warm you'd be putting something warm on your feet as well not prancing around with bare feet.

It's old school but natural fibres make such a difference. Yesterday in a huge thick fleece and other layers I was still cold. Today in a 20 year old chunky 100% woollen jumper I've been fine.

Definitely. Some kind of bottoms with thick socks.

They may be hideous but so warm.

Kept my bobble hat on when I came back from walking my dog this morning - will be wearing hats every day from now on!