Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

LydiaJ

Wet and windy here too. Glad I got my boots reheeled and resoled last week or I'd be about to have wet feet!

lostinrates

Yorkie1 wrote: »

I agree with Lydia. First minimise the heat loss through extremities. If I'm feeling particularly cold I've worn bedsocks and a hoody to bed on top of regular nightwear (plus the obligatory hot water bottle).

But if I'm tired or anxious, I'm far more prone to feeling cold irrespective of the heat in the room. It then becomes a vicious circle, that I feel cold and thus tense up, which makes me feel more cold. Adding heat into the equation relaxes the muscles and undoes the vicious circle, so to speak.

For this reason I have one of those wheat microwaveable heat packs at work to put on my legs if I'm feeling tense.

And I put extra layers on my bed because that too helps me feel warmer.

This really is the best year I've had for ages for weight of bedding. Not sure if is meds, or weather or a mixture of both or something else or what.

I do have flannel sheets on now, not all the time, and I am under winter weight duvet.

Duvet is a change. In spring we 'splashed out' on a silk duvet. Its the nicest thing I've slept under. Very different from best Down, and not quite as light and cloudy ( but cheaper) and it does something else remarkable, it drapes around the body so draughts don't get in.


The light weight one is really light, like a sheet, never coped in summer under something so light, the two ( all seasons) to gather feel noticeable, but warm, really warm, quickly.

The aesthetic is odd, neater more blanket like than normal, but not perfectly so, but mean compared to normal duvets. I think its something one has to get used to.

Cats stay warm all night .

Electric blankets still rule.

Spirit_2

lostinrates wrote: »

FINALLY its here. Autumn. Leaves all over the grass, cold dark morning, no chance of avoiding boots when doing chickens and station run this morning. Thoughts of proper bonfires, heady marsala spiked mushroom sauces, squash, squash, squash, soups and more soups. Pumpkin pie, game, pecan pie, toffee apples, fireworks, more nuts. Chestnuts. Dark nights for snuggling up under beautiful smelling warm things, misty mornings, for being excited by how amazing the world can look...and for being forced to slow down a little.

I'll have to rehang my too short kitchen curtains, but we've decided on the stuff for the permanent ones, so I have to see if I can get it at a better price, and decide how I want the doors dressed ( just having roman blinds for the windows......no pelmets.....

Oh, and I have a cold and a realLy bad back. I think the bad back is fro. Longer on motorbility lawn mower and the cold is just one of those things.

Throats raging, don't know what I can take because of my meds.

Sorry you are off colour. I usually love this change of season oh has his first shoot next week

hjd

Spirit wrote: »

Sorry you are off colour. I usually love this change of season oh has his first shoot next week

I like autumn too, if only it was light for a bit longer..
DS had his first shoot of the season (as a beater) on Sat.
This morning he has gone on a practice run to work. He starts his first proper full time job (he graduated this summer) next Monday so is doing a trial commute today. Hope nobody from the employer spots him as he isn't dressed in work clothes..

lostinrates

Spirit wrote: »

Sorry you are off colour. I usually love this change of season oh has his first shoot next week

I'll live.

How are you feeling? They still hoping to spring you next week? ( this week?)

I was reassured when you first texted you were eating normal food. That's really positive. I was a bit worried they might have you on gruel so you couldn't choke on it.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Electric blankets still rule.

Needless to say that's something I've never had/used. We never had them when I was growing up, but I was aware they existed.

I'd be petrified that the weight of my body on the tiny electrical thingies inside the blanket would, over time, cause them to break - and then a hot end would set fire to the blanket

PasturesNew

Just had to dash outside - one of my bins blew over .... it's not good out there - it's wet - and so are my PJs now

Also, I must get my front door fitted properly - whoever fitted the extra secure (multi locking point) thingy did a shoddy job and I can see daylight round the door. Daylight = draughts in winter.

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

Needless to say that's something I've never had/used. We never had them when I was growing up, but I was aware they existed.

I'd be petrified that the weight of my body on the tiny electrical thingies inside the blanket would, over time, cause them to break - and then a hot end would set fire to the blanket

i also have a fear of electric blankets catching fire.

PasturesNew

Spirit wrote: »

...oh has his first shoot next week

hjd wrote: »

... DS had his first shoot of the season (as a beater) on Sat.

Do many people do shoots? That's a posh alert isn't it.....


I've never been to a shoot, never been aware of them, never known anybody to go, never heard anybody speaking about them.... only ever seen them on the telly programmes.

lostinrates

I used to have a jade stone electric blanket.


It got REALLY hot. I think I might actually have started cooking myself on it. ( before I was unwell)


Iirc , I used to sweat buckets on it ( lovely huh?) and electrocute myself and I realised this addictive thing risked not ending well so I got rid of it.


I'd like another one. I think they are pricey and hard to find in uk.