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Knit_Witch

Guess who has a boiler replacement happening next week

When we arranged it the weather was slowly getting warmer :rotfl:

Hard_Up_Hester

I sleep nekkid, no surprise there then, so I don't have a problem finding pyjama bottoms to fit, it's day wear I have problems with. Living on a boat means trousers are best, I end up wearing maternity leggings, not glamorous but they are at least comfortable.

ivyleaf

Hester i was thinking of getting some maternity jeans!

Softstuff I hadn't thought of men's pj trousers! Thanks. I do have a pair of men's bootee slippers = I only bought them because i couldn't find any women's slippers in our local M & S - realised afterwards that they must have been upstairs but I'm pleased with the men's ones, much wider than the women's would have been, I'm sure. They're a bit tartan, but rather that than baby pink or powder blue.

monnagran I hope you are keeping warm. I read today that the room you are in (as in "one is in" should be at least 18 degrees.)
I took the thermostat upstairs this afternoon (it's a "wireless" one which can be moved around) as it was on the mantelpiece in the sun and showing 24 degrees, so the heating had gone off. The upper floor was very cold though. I put the thermostat on the landing and it quickly went down to 15 degrees! I brought it back down 6 hours later, by which time the landing had reached the dizzy heights of 18 degrees. in the meantime i'd got my hair washed, once the heating had come back on and the bathroom had got warm enough to face taking my jumper off. (I know, I know, I'm a wuss.)

mardatha

Our bathroom is colder than half of Siberia. I have to run the bath, shut the door, and leave the steam to heat the place up before I go in.

karcher

NM I am so sorry you are enduring such a nightmare with your neighbours. I feel for your DS. It's so wrong you are having to try and carry on living and working on no sleep.

I do hope it is resolved soon, you've had some good advice which I hope helps. So sorry you are suffering so much. All the best to your DS. Poor lad, he is trying to earn a living and working hard under awful circumstances. xx

Ivy my bedroom is 12 degrees ...positively tropical but I prefer a cold bedroom and like Hester, I sleep in my birthday suit! Can't be doing with clothes on in bed.

Knitwitch they should be able to replace the boiler within hours so hopefully you'll barely notice being without it

Hope you are all having a good evening x

Softstuff

I would say I'm jealous of all you folk being a bit chilly, but I have good airconditioning so I'm fine The humidity has really gone up a notch here, it's rained a fair bit this week (and when I say a fair bit, I mean a fair bit). The rainiest place in the UK is apparently Cardiff, with 1152mm a year. We got 230mm in 4 days, we don't mince around when we're in this particular climate cycle. So it means we run the AC so we don't get mouldy.

Winter gets as low as 8-10 degrees, but frankly a jumper usually suffices. And I'm too busy enjoying not being sweaty to notice.

I sleep in pjs, however if I could be 'arrised to change the sheets each day, I'd go without. In fact, you'd probably find me making little nude bed angels on the sheets

Sleep device mark II stopped me turning my body over but I woke up at one stage seeming straining my neck to face up to the ceiling.... not ideal. I can see I'm going to be needing that straitjacket at this rate.

monnagran

softstuff, I'm not sure that Amazon supplies straitjackets but it's worth having a go.

As for the climate you have my sympathy. I found it far too much in Greece when the temperature went above 30. My fellow holidaymakers used to laugh as they and their sunbeds moved round in the sun and I and my books followed the shade.
Mind you, I can't stand the cold either. I must be a very temperate person. Sort of lukewarm. Tepid, even.

I had a few interruptions today, as in a couple of long phone calls, so I didn't get much tidying up done and didn't get as far as making the bread and the brownies. However, 8 dozen sausage rolls and a coffee and walnut cake have joined the cheese scones in the freezer.
Today is going to be racing the clock as I want everything spit and polished before I drag my weary carcass into bed tonight.

Yesterday's missed cooking will have to join today's.

"Oh day of rest and gladness?" I think not. It's a bit early for thinking, but there may not be time later on, so here goes............

THOUGHT FOR SUNDAY

God loves everyone, but probably prefers 'fruits of the spirit' to 'religious nuts.'

VJsmum

VJsmum wrote: »

I know it's cold but the sun is out and the sky is blue so a good day to wash some curtains.
Have a good day all

I did wash the curtains

I should not have washed the curtains

I have shrunk the curtains

:rotfl:

Elona_2

vjsmum

Could you add a false hem or else change the curtain tape?

monnagran

VJsmum, serves you right for being such a goody, goody.
Who else looks out of the window, sees blue sky, sees sunshine and immediately thinks, "Aha! I must find some curtains to wash."