Elderly OStylers please keep warm

lostinrates

sonastin wrote: »

It does feel a whole lot colder this year than we had last winter, even though its still much warmer outside. We're still getting into double figures during the day and yet our house feels much colder than it was when it was below freezing last winter. I know some of the work we've done to the house over the winter will becontributing to that (insulation nicked out of the loft to insulate the kitchen walls and floors - will be replaced in the loft when the refurb gets that far!) but that can't be the whole story. Maybe I've just gotten soft over the summer! Last year I was perfectly comfortable when the living room was around 18deg but this year I'm grabbing extra layers and blankets at that temp.

I have to say that my grandma went the opposite way with heating. I'm grateful that she never feared putting the heating on but when she was in her own home (in nursing care now), it was uncomfortable visiting her. The living room was always hotter than the surface of the sun. You'd make sure you could strip down to shorts and a vest top while she was sat there in a fleece! My OH could only be in there long enough to say hello & goodbye because it was so hot. Thankfully the nursing home keep the place at a much more bearable temperature - and she seems quite happy with it. As you say, old folks' internal thermometers stop working at some point.

I think it really can make that much difference, the loft insulation. We just put ours in at the weekend and the difference is noticable in upstairs rooms. I didn't think it would be and am now chuckling at our coldness for the last two years could have been prevented a little.:o

Molly41

Errata wrote: »

Crittal windows? Cold, condensation and rust are my memories of them. But one could get dressed in the morning whilst admiring all the different shapes of ice on the inside.

My parents still have them:eek:
They coo at the birds sitting on the window ledges on a cold frosty day - I have tried explaining that the birds are keeping warm:eek::eek::eek:

Justamum

vanoonoo wrote: »

lmao @ ELDERLY OYSTERS heehee!

we had louvre windows where I lived in the 80's and no heating upstairs only two gas fires downstairs, so we often had ice leaves on the windows when I woke up. Fairly sure I slept with a hat on more often than not!

This was in the days that my duvet was refered to as a continental quilt - are they different?

My parents used to run a small hotel, which hadn't been updated since it was built in 1899 I don't think, so it had single glazed, badly fitting, sash windows. A delight in the winter, but the patterns on the inside were quite pretty :rotfl:

For bed I wore tights and a t-shirt, followed by a tracksuit - one of those nice thick ones which used to be available before the hideous shellsuit came in. Sheets, and blankets (this is before duvets) topped by an eiderdown.

Continental quilts was the name duvets used to be called when they first came to Britain. I think it was used to make them sound more exotic :rotfl:Wasn't is Habitat who first sold them in the UK?

LameWolf

LameWolf wrote: »

I must admit, I first read the thread title as "Elderly Oysters" - I wonder if I'm due a trip to the optician.:rotfl:

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

I KNOW this is a serious thread, I KNOW this.

It's the correct information. I KNOW this.



But I just keep reading the title as 'Elderly Oysters please keep warm'.

[Suppose they'd do that with the Walrus and the Carpenter]

:rotfl: You and me both then, Jojo.

I remember those windows that were mentioned - my grandmother had them. If I stayed with her, I used to drag my clothes under the bedsheets to warm before I dressed in the morning!:eek: Then I used to sit and look at the lovely patterns Jack Frost had drawn for me.:D

I'm "only" 52, and my internal thermometer is most definitely broken; luckily I have a lovely DH who insists that the heating is on for me, and *crosses fingers* has a good job so that we can pay for it. I know we're very lucky from that point of view.

I shall literally weep if I read in the news of yet another pensioner dying of hypothermia because they couldn't afford heating.:(

hunnisbunnis

my internal thermometer is broken too LameWolf, it sucks doesnt it
if everybody keeps an eye out for each other it helps
i read thread title as elderly oysters too - overdue for a trip to specsavers i thimk

Popperwell

vanoonoo wrote: »

This was in the days that my duvet was refered to as a continental quilt - are they different?

I always wondered that too...

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

I think - it was a long time ago and I was but an infant - that continental quilts were made of patterned fabric (usually purple or orange/brown flowered nylon, but hey, it was modern; itching, sweating and static making your nightie cling to your knickers were fashionable) and didn't have covers put on them.

Dunroamin

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

I think - it was a long time ago and I was but an infant - that continental quilts were made of patterned fabric (usually purple or orange/brown flowered nylon, but hey, it was modern; itching, sweating and static making your nightie cling to your knickers were fashionable) and didn't have covers put on them.

Sounds like an eiderdown to me.

Duvets used to be called continental quilts when they were introduced in the UK.

Errata

I bought my first continental quilt around 1976 and M&S sold covers for them. I still have one of the covers

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Dunroamin wrote: »

Sounds like an eiderdown to me.

Duvets used to be called continental quilts when they were introduced in the UK.

Did eiderdowns not have - down from Eiders in them?

The ones I am thinking of were nylon filled with nylon wadding. Scratchy, tended to melt when too near the fire, went bobbly after the first wash, would cause friction burns or a firework show of static if you turned over a bit too sharpish in bed and your hair would stand on end.