Is your heating ON or OFF?

shegar

katholicos wrote: »

I'm getting in to the habit of entering my meter readings each Friday evening on my energy suppliers website, so it will be interesting to see tomorrow evening, how much more electric I have used with all the baking i have done today and how much it has cost me this week for both Gas and Electricity usage. I don't know why i'd never thought of doing this before, but it is really helping me to see whether or not i can afford to put the heating on for longer on cold days. I overpaid the energy Direct Debits during the months when the central heating was turned off so even though i was overpaying and out of pocket them, it has meant that i can now be a bit more relaxed about having the heating on a little longer during very cold days/evenings.

I also phone my gas and elec metre readings through about every 4 to 5 weeks, just to keep on top of things, cant bear the thought of owing money....

I have built up a lot DD credit on both accounts too, so when I want heat I will have heat......:D The last thing I want to worry over is whether I can keep warm this winter, I put the heating on about an hour ago, its been quite nice here today , weve lost those horrible cold winds that weve had nearly all this week, thank god for that.......:D

pollys

marmiterulesok wrote: »

Sciatica is horrible,I've had this too.

I hope you don't mind me saying,but sitting is the worst thing you can do if you have sciatica,though I realise that you were maybe just saying that as a turn of phrase!If that is the case then I apologise for being an interfering so-and-so.

It's best either to lie flat on your back with a pillow under your knees,so that your legs are 'bent' and not flat,or lie on your side with a pillow between your legs.

Difficult to get things done of course,and too easy to keep dozing off,but miles better for the dreaded sciatica.

Hope you feel better soon.

Hi thank you for your reply. I've been given another sicknote, I've seen a specialist and will be having an mri scan soon. I'm doing what I can to get comfy and getting up when I can. Walking is very difficult as is sleeping. I'm putting a pillow between my knees and this does help, for a while. Sciatica is awful, I've had it before on and off but never this bad. Specialist promises me it will get better.

I really appreciate your reply thank you.

Pollys x

shegar

pollys wrote: »

Hi thank you for your reply. I've been given another sicknote, I've seen a specialist and will be having an mri scan soon. I'm doing what I can to get comfy and getting up when I can. Walking is very difficult as is sleeping. I'm putting a pillow between my knees and this does help, for a while. Sciatica is awful, I've had it before on and off but never this bad. Specialist promises me it will get better.

I really appreciate your reply thank you.

Pollys x

Sciatica not nice at all, :mad:but your dr is right it will get better, I was always better standing, sitting and lying down was terrible, it comes and goes still......

marmiterulesok

pollys wrote: »

Hi thank you for your reply. I've been given another sicknote, I've seen a specialist and will be having an mri scan soon. I'm doing what I can to get comfy and getting up when I can. Walking is very difficult as is sleeping. I'm putting a pillow between my knees and this does help, for a while. Sciatica is awful, I've had it before on and off but never this bad. Specialist promises me it will get better.

I really appreciate your reply thank you.

Pollys x

Hi,
Sorry to read that you're having such a tough time.Back pain/sciatica is horrible.I hope that the MRI shows what's up.Are you on any drugs?

I developed sciatica a few weeks after hurting my lower back when lifting a heavy patient.My GP signed me off for about 6 weeks in all.She prescribed valium (a muscle relaxant) and diclofenac (an anti-inflammatory),and this combination of drugs plus resting did the trick.This happenened over 10 years ago,and since then it has sometimes briefly reappeared.I do try to be 'back-conscious'.

I remember that I was chatting with a colleague about being signed off work,and she was horrified to learn that I had not been advised NOT to sit.

The only drawback at the time was that I was totally zonked because of the valium.Laying down instead of sitting meant that I was always dozing off and my sleep patterns got totally mixed up.

Hope that my ramblings might be off some use.Take care x


PS Heating on yesterday for 4 hours.It's still pretty mild here.

freakyogre

suki1964 wrote: »

Are there no launderettes near you or to and from work?

When I was growing uo we used to put the wet clothes in the shopping trolley and take it down the launderette to dry, done all my good reading back then. Now as an adult I still wouldn't put on a tumbler, right now I have clothes on an airer near the fire but believe me if there was such thing as a launderette Id be there ( no such thing here )

Hiya,

Sorry I haven't replied sooner, I tend to dip in and out of this thread. I actually went into our launderette at lunchtime to check you could use the dryers without having to use the washing machines too (as I hear a lot of places do this). You can use the dryers, so I took 3 loads of washing down later this afternoon and used them. They were good (not sure how long it took, but I put £1.60 in which is cheaper than I expected it to be).

I decided to walk down as it's only 10-15 minutes away and thought i'd risk not taking my umbrella...silly me. As i'd finished it started pouring down so I got absolutely drenched walking home (I could do with tumble drying my clothes ) Only 2 items didn't dry fully, but I didn't want to wait around any longer so i've put them on the radiator for now. I was a bit surprised that things came out creased though, although I think that may have been me putting them straight from my washing machine into a bag rather than the tumber dryer creasing it.

So! I probably will use it again as it's handy, and might keep my eye out for a tumble dryer if I can find a bargain.

mrsr

Still off ,apart from the odd day when needed to keep grandchildren warm .Next week is surposed to be getting colder i'm still hoping to hold out till dec ,will have wait and see just how cold it gets.

cocolgooh

My heating is still off, mostly because the landlord refuses to get it fixed, even though it was broken before we even moved in. He keeps saying we broke it. It was broken by the previous tenants, along with the carpet which was ripped, the lino which was ripped and the taps that didnt work. Sigh.

Doingmybest2bgoodhurrah

Ours is still off, but its certainly turned chillier today. We've got a blanket of fog here which seems to be keeping the temperature down. I was out with my hound very early this morning & there was a frost. By the time we were heading for home the hedgerows were only just beginning to thaw. Picked a good few sloes for my HM sloe gin.

Got one of my step sons coming over today. He has no meat on him whatsoever & doesn't seem to have heard of jumpers, so might just treat us (woohoooooooo!) to a few hours of warmth. No doubt he will be walking around with one of our wooky blankets draped round him doing a theatrical " I'm so cold, can I have a hot chocolate?"

One of my slippers seems to have made a break for freedom over night. Either that or the hound has stashed it somewhere so it can be devoured when we're all out. I therefore have cold trotters & am feeling quite put out about it. I've considered doing a hopalong cassidy impression with one on & one off, but decided beat not. Instead I've managed to dig out a pair of OH's prized hand knitted socks so am wearing those while he's out.

Am spending a chunk of the day trying out our new slow cooker. Got it yesterday from Argos - £14.99 reduced from £29.99 and paid for it with nectar points. It has a 6.2 litre capacity, so I'm going to try out a chilli recipe (lots of reduced mince already defrosted).

A warm & cozy day is wished to all x

jcr16

i guess we can now offically say the heating is on.


it comes on for an hour in morning. 5.30 am to 6.30 am. just to warm the house and give us all chance to get up washed and dressed in the warm.

and in the evening 6pm till 8pm. so kids bathes etc and into bed while the heating on and it nice and snuggly. then if hubby and i are cold we keep each other warm or get a blanket etc.

i'm hoping it stays as warm as it is. had our gas and elec bill's in. were in credit by quite a bit on gas. so gonna keep it on the account incase of a bad winter again.

Gothicfairy

Still off here...and I think it is quite warm really today so we be able to manage the whole winter if it carries on like this.