It's getting tough out there. Feeling the pinch?

sammyjammy

@London_1 hope your daughter had a lovely birthday and nobody bought her a pair of jeans

I considered the sleeping bag idea this winter, haven't had to succumb to it yet but if it keeps getting chillier it will have to come out.  Mine even has a hood, I could probably live in it until March!

RobM99

sammyjammy said:

@London_1 hope your daughter had a lovely birthday and nobody bought her a pair of jeans

I considered the sleeping bag idea this winter, haven't had to succumb to it yet but if it keeps getting chillier it will have to come out.  Mine even has a hood, I could probably live in it until March

Good practice for a sack race too!

annieb64

DS lives on Mersea. I find it pretty bleak even in the summer.

London_1

Brambling said:

London_1 said:.

Throws are good, but sometimes you still get draughts getting in. I may dig out the sleeping bag from the spare room tomorrow night and give it a go,and put the throw around my shoulders,  

Just don't forget your feet is tucked into it and go A over T   

My sister was given a giant fleecy hoodie (I'm sure there's a name for it 🙂) she said it's better than being wrapped in a throw, I have teased that it's not very flattering and she looks like Friar Tuck but she tells me it's very warm and her thermostat is set to 17 rather than the normal 22 she used to have it as she really feels the cold. 

I was thinking for those who perhapshaven't got or can't afford to buy an electric throw it might be helpful. I think once zipped in you shouldn't forget to climb out when you unzip  want to go and make a cuppa or to the loo, bit of body draughtproofing

JackieO xx  

London_1

Rosa_Damascena said:

London_1 said:

I think my eldest takes after her Father in the 'No Jeans rule',its her birthday today and she is 55 and even as a teenager she didn't like or wore jeans . She still doesn't wear them ,unlike her ancient Mum who owns several pairs, even a pair my youngest bought me last year 'skinny leg ' ones and I am looking 80 up the rear  but I've never been one for formality, and I wear what I am confortable in and if its jeans, a tee shirt and trainers then that's what I shall wear ,definitely not the 'twinset and tweeds' type at all  

Re heating the body not the house.
 I was washing up tonight and suddenly remembered back in the mists of time when my late OH and I lived and a freezing cottage on Mersea Island off the coast of Essex (circa 1965/6). We had virtually no heating, and boy with only a field between us and the sea it got pretty nippy when watching our tiny black and white tv (the reception wasn't great either ,but then we only had a bent wire coat hanger for an arial) we were seriously broke at the time  and that was before we started a family Well I hit on the idea as we had a couple of nylon quilted sleeping bags we could use them in the evening.
So we would sit on the sofa zipped into our £4.00 sleeping bags and were really warm ,no draughts around your ankles and if I popped a hot water bottle into the bottom it was really toasty on ones toes .

Throws are good, but sometimes you still get draughts getting in. I may dig out the sleeping bag from the spare room tomorrow night and give it a go,and put the throw around my shoulders, (I'm allowed as I am a great granny so it won't look odd, anyway there's only me to see myself and as long as I am warm its what matters 

Have a good weekend chums and onwards and upwards  

JackieO xx

Mersey Island bring back memories, I always think of it as a summer destination but living there I appreciate is a different matter.

Yes it is definitely chillier now and we'll be getting a good blast of cold air next week. MSE Martin recommended the sleeping bag as a means of staving off the cold, I wonder if he was inspired by you JackieO? Worked for me last year (sleeping bag a chazzer purchase of course) so its high time I took mine out of its storage bag! 

Golly I didn't know that !, I was doing this back in 1965 were seemed to be permanatly cold and broke back then.We had a tiny cottage that cost us £2.7s.6d a week, the only heating we had was a tiny electric one bar fire, and no hot water at all, and a chemical loo at the bottom of the garden, which I loathed as it seemed to hold every gigantic spider in Essex that didn't manage to get into our cottage.

We used to go to a friends house once a week for a bath as there was no indoor bath at all (no hot water system or toilet )

The upside was it was gorgeous in the summer and on warm nights you could sit in the garden and see a fantastic array of stars in the sky (no light pollution).My late husband wrote to Sir Patrick Moore to ask him whats the best things to look for as he loved stargazing and we had a lovely letter in return from him with a map and diagrams of what to look out for from our edge of the sea Island home.
Sadly in our several moves over the years it got lost ,but it was so kind of him to make the effort for two young stargazers. I 1969 when we were by then living back in London we were glued to the moon landings on tv.

Mersea Island was nice, but so remote from Colchester that when I was finally carrying my eldest daughter in 1967 we moved back to the city and London to live, where we had street light and buses and flushing loos ,but no longer gorgeous stars to watch anymore    I had misscarried one baby and my OH was worried incase I would lose this one as we were 9 miles from the town and I had no phone at the cottage either. That little baby was 55 yesterday

JackieO xx 

 

RobM99

Luxury! Our loo was inside t'Arctic circle full of polar bears. Well, I say 'loo', t'were more like 'ole in t'ground...

elsien

Ole in’t ground? You were lucky to have……
 

dreaming

When my exH and I were first married (1976) we used to lay in bed on a Sunday with the papers and they always had a catalogue of "useful" items. Oh, how we laughed about the giant foot muff! I wonder if you can still get them? I actually can't abide having hot feet and although I do wear the fleecy slipper socks for padding round in the day in winter (more often barefoot in Spring/Summer) they invariably get ripped off at some point. I was in hospital for a couple of nights the other week and although I understand the reasons why the wards have to be warm I found it almost impossible to sleep and the fan by my bed wasn't working.

Auntycaz

London_1 said:

Re heating the body not the house.
 I was washing up tonight and suddenly remembered back in the mists of time when my late OH and I lived and a freezing cottage on Mersea Island off the coast of Essex (circa 1965/6). We had virtually no heating, and boy with only a field between us and the sea it got pretty nippy when watching our tiny black and white tv (the reception wasn't great either ,but then we only had a bent wire coat hanger for an arial) we were seriously broke at the time  and that was before we started a family Well I hit on the idea as we had a couple of nylon quilted sleeping bags we could use them in the evening.
So we would sit on the sofa zipped into our £4.00 sleeping bags and were really warm ,no draughts around your ankles and if I popped a hot water bottle into the bottom it was really toasty on ones toes .

Throws are good, but sometimes you still get draughts getting in. I may dig out the sleeping bag from the spare room tomorrow night and give it a go,and put the throw around my shoulders, (I'm allowed as I am a great granny so it won't look odd, anyway there's only me to see myself and as long as I am warm its what matters 

Have a good weekend chums and onwards and upwards  

JackieO xx

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Re the sleeping bags I donated mine to the ukrain appeal when my daughter's works were sending lorries over with warm clothes and camping stuff but I have a lovely waffle throw from Wilko's that keeps me toasty and less chance of me tripping over if i forget I have my legs in it. I also put my dressing gown on over my clothes to keep my shoulders warm and a water bottle for my feet.
I still have a couple of the old stone pig water bottles in the shed but can't use them as the washers have perished and i don't know where i can get replacements.

cdm

Yes, dreaming, you can still get them! I’m looking at two of them right now,  in the corner of our lounge. One was my late mum’s. I use one sometimes, and youngest DD sometimes too, as she has Raynauds. I think Argos still sell them?